Foundations

Vedic Astrology Foundations — Zodiac, Grahas & Lagna

The first class, from scratch: the zodiac as a 360° plane centred on Earth and cut into 12 rasis, the nine grahas, Rahu and Ketu as the two points where the Moon’s orbit crosses that plane, and Lagna as the point rising in the east. How long each graha takes to go round the zodiac, Sade Sati, retrograde (vakri) motion, and the three ways of drawing a chart. Why a Sun sign or a Rasi chart alone cannot tell twins apart, how the sixteen divisional charts and the Nadi amsa can, and why a given birth time is never trusted without rectification. Ends with how Lagna moves through the day and why Abhijit Muhurta puts the Sun in the 10th house.

Philosophy, Parampara & Purpose of Jyotiṣa

The “why” of the first class. The opening mantras — Ganesha, the parampara mantra Hare Rama Krishna and its hidden meaning of Lagna, Sun and Moon, the Jyotir-Brahma mantra and the Medha-Dakshinamurti mantra against confusion — and the lineage from Sri Achyutananda through Pandit Sanjay Rath, with Brihat Parasara Hora Shastram as the text. The picture in which dvaita and advaita are both right: the gods exist outside us in dimensions we cannot perceive, and each person is a microcosm holding them within. Brihaspati as the judgment that builds the good qualities and Shukracharya as the spirit of enjoyment that keeps the bad ones within limits — the method for deriving every planet’s signification from the Puranas. Closes with what prediction is for: likelihood, preparation, self-knowledge and remedies.

Planetary Significations — Derived from Puranic Mythology

Why Jupiter shows intelligence and Venus shows enjoyment, derived instead of memorised. The universe is Nārāyaṇa, of which we perceive one-eighth; every god, demon and teacher of the Purāṇas exists outside us and also within us as a microcosm. Jupiter, teacher of the gods, is the discrimination that builds our good qualities. Venus, teacher of the demons, is the spirit of enjoyment that keeps our bad qualities within limits. The class works these two examples and gives the method for the rest, then answers how Western astrology, without the Purāṇas, has similar meanings. From the published class notes: Sun as king of our existence, the Moon and its 16 kalās, Mars as Mahī-suta born of the sweat of Śiva, Mercury born of the Moon and Tārā and adopted by Jupiter, the avatāra of Viṣṇu behind each graha, combustion, and the krūra and saumya grahas, bhūtas, gender and guṇas.

Vedic vs Western Astrology — Tripod of Life & Birth Time

Why Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are left out, and why nobody knows how the grahas act on us. The tripod of life: Sun for the soul (a month per sign), Moon for the mind (2½ days), lagna for the body (2 hours). A Sun-sign reading fixes only the month and an ascendant only a two-hour window, so twins born five minutes apart get one chart; the divisional charts, down to the two-minute ṣaṣṭyāṁśa, tell them apart. Why a stated birth time is never to be trusted, which moment counts as birth, and how rectification works. Ends with where lagna stands through the day, Abhijit muhūrta, and what prediction is for.

Signs, Houses & Planetary Dignities

The axiom behind every house list: the 12 houses are four triangles of Dharma (how), Artha (what), Kama (why) and Moksha (freedom), and in each triangle the three houses are the seed, the activity and the culmination. Kendras are Vishnu’s houses of doing, Trikonas are Lakshmi’s houses of blessing, and their lords joining is Raja Yoga; the Dusthanas are not to be feared on the Rasi chart alone. Natural, temporary and compound relationships are worked on the Moon of Sri Rama’s chart. Sign ownership, Moolatrikona, exaltation and debilitation follow, with Jupiter’s and Venus’s dignities derived from the house meanings of the natural zodiac. The class opens with the inner reading of the Parashurama (Venus) and Varaha (Rahu) avataras.

Graha Drishti — Planetary Aspects

Graha Drishti is the desire of a planet: the houses it wants to get involved in. Every planet aspects the 7th from itself, because the 7th is the house of desire. Jupiter also aspects the 5th and 9th, Mars the 4th and 8th, Saturn the 3rd and 10th, each for a reason that follows from what the planet is; Rahu’s 5th, 9th and 2nd aspects come from other classics, not from Parasara. Rashi Drishti, which Parasara taught first, is the influence a planet has because of the sign it sits in. It is only previewed here.

Rashi Drishti — Sign-Based Aspects

Rashi Drishti is the aspect of a sign, and of every planet placed in it: dual signs aspect the other dual signs, movable signs aspect fixed signs and fixed signs aspect movable signs, except the adjacent one. Graha Drishti shows what a planet desires and acts in its dasha; Rashi Drishti is an influence by placement and is there throughout life. The page also covers the questions that opened the class: relationships and colours of Rahu and Ketu, whether gods have horoscopes, why each rashi is one bhava, the own/exaltation/moolatrikona states, and the Trimurti rulership of movable, fixed and dual signs.

Argala — Planetary Intervention

Argala is the bolt on a door: planets in the 2nd, 4th and 11th from a house intervene conclusively in its matters, and planets in the 12th, 10th and 3rd oppose them as Virodha Argala; the side with more planets prevails. Sri Rama’s chart is worked through: exalted 8th lord Saturn’s Argala and Graha Drishti on the Lagna give the vanavasa, the Sun in the 10th ends it, Saturn and Mars aspecting Jupiter form Brahmana Shapa, and the Argalas of Sun, Mars, Mercury and Ketu on the 9th house show his dharmas. Graha Drishti and Argala act in a dasha; with Rashi Drishti the result is lifelong. The class ends with karakas and the project-manager analogy.

Hora, Digbala & the Indian Calendar Systems

How the weekday order is derived: 24 Horas from sunrise, ruled in turn by the planets from slowest to fastest, so each day opens with the 4th planet from the previous day's lord. Houses 1, 4, 7 and 10 as the bases of the four Purusharthas, and Digbala as a planet's nearness to its own base. The civil (Savana), solar and soli-lunar calendars: tithis of 12°, the two Pakshas, Amanta and Shuklanta months, how the months get their names from the Purnima nakshatra, and why an Adhika Masa comes. Finding a festival day abroad from the tithi at sunrise, why lagna alone depends on the place, and why Chitrapaksha (Lahiri) ayanamsa is advised for divisional charts.

Divisional Charts — What They Are & How D10 Is Derived

What divisional charts (Varga Chakras) are: each Rasi is cut into N equal parts and each part is mapped back to one of the 12 signs. The D10 (Dasamsa) rule — count from the sign itself for odd signs, from the 9th for even signs — with two worked examples (Sun at 17° Leo, Mars at 22° Scorpio). The Rasi chart is strictly the body and what it physically does; a businessman and a construction worker can share it. The divisional charts show the environment the body works in.

Divisional Chart Classification — Four Planes of Existence

The 16 divisional charts of Parashara sorted by the plane they show: physical (D1–D12), consciousness (D13–D24), subconscious (D25–D36) and supraconscious or karmic (D40, D45, D60), with what each chart is read for. Dasavargas for ordinary horoscopes and Shodasavargas for kings, and why D40 and D45 matter for rulers. D60 Shashtiamsa as the chart of the past life: the 3rd from Arudha Lagna and present-life phobias, Mula Dasha, and the warning that its lagna changes every two minutes, so the birth time must be fixed first. Navamsa as the chart of dharma, marriage and abilities.

Chart Analysis Methodology — Varga, House, Influences

How to read any matter in a chart: pick the divisional chart for the matter, pick the house, then see who influences that house — its owner, its occupants, and the planets with Graha Drishti (desire), Rasi Drishti (permanent presence) and Argala (decisive intervention). The Rasi chart shows only the physical fact; the reason is found in the corresponding divisional chart. Also covered: why the 8th house, not the 4th, is the house of occult learning in D-24, the nature of each planet, whether Rahu makes one cheat or be cheated, and where Rahu and Ketu sit together (D-20, D-24) or opposite (Rasi, D-10).

Amsha Rulers — How Planets Work in Divisional Charts

Parashara gave every division of a varga a sign and also a presiding deity — the Amsa Ruler. The sign, house and planet give the matter; the deity gives the kind of activity and the manner in which the planet does it, read from what that god stands for in the Puranas. Worked on Pandit Sanjay Rath’s D-24: Jupiter in the 10th in Vishwakarma amsa builds an institution of Vedic knowledge; Mars, 6th lord in the 12th, in Parashurama amsa overcomes obstacles in learning with rajasic determination. Also taught here: malefics in the 3rd and 6th, sign as circumstance and planet as effort, Vipareeta Raja Yoga, and a review of lord, occupants, Drishti, Argala and Karaka.

Arudha Padas — Satya vs Maya

The fifth pillar of chart analysis: Arudha Padas, taught by Parashara as well as Jaimini. A house is the hidden truth (Satya), its lord is the mirror, and the Arudha is the image the world sees (Maya) — vahana sukha against the vehicle, intelligence against marks, karma against the job. How to compute an Arudha, why it cannot fall in the house or its 7th, the two lords of Scorpio and Aquarius, and the three layers of any matter: the house, its Arudha, and that house from Arudha Lagna. Worked on PVNR’s own D-10 (AL, a second AL through Parivartana, A3 and his books, Neecha Bhanga of a retrograde Jupiter), his D-60 and Rasi chart, with the fasting remedy for a weak Arudha. The 3rd and 6th from Arudha Lagna are read for Aishwarya Rai, Swami Vivekananda and PVNR.

D20 Vimshamsa — Spirituality Chart & Three-Level Framework

D-20 is the chart of spiritual growth, and the ability it asks for is bhakti. The 5th from lagna is the devotion itself, A5 is the pujas and mantras by which it becomes visible, and the 5th from Arudha Lagna is whether people take the person for a bhakta. Houses counted from an arudha show the fortunes of that trophy or puja, not the person; Arudha Lagna is the exception. Debilitated planets are the strongest in D-20 because they show submission to the deity. PVNR's own D-20 shows it: debilitated Venus in the 5th aspects A5 in Sagittarius, and in Guru antardasha — Jupiter owning A5 and having argala on it from a sign of Venus — he began reciting Lakshmi's 108 names every Friday, on 28 January 1994.

The Three-Level Framework

A house counted from Lagna shows the hidden truth, the Arudha of that house shows the tangible thing the world can measure, and the same house from Arudha Lagna shows the image. The class works this through devotion and mantras in D20, communication and weapons for the 3rd house, and awards in D10, and insists the three must not be used interchangeably. It then sets out the Dharma, Artha and Kama trikonas as seed, process and result, and separates the Rashi chart (the body) from the divisional charts (environments) and from D60 (karma, read without Arudhas).

DKMT Trikonas, Dasha Systems & the Subtle Charts

The review that opens the class: pick the right divisional chart, the Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha trikonas, lagna versus arudha, and karaka, rasi drishti, argala and graha drishti as roles in a project. Then what each dasha traces: Moola the past-life root, Drig the blessings of guru and God, Sudasha the travel of Lakshmi from Sri Lagna, Narayana the effort of the true self, and Vimshottari the mind, the one dasha to use in Kali Yuga. Dashas reset at birth; the womb has its own Vimshottari started from the Sun's nakshatra and compressed to nine months (Adhana Chakra). The Punya Chakra is the chart of the moment of death, and the Ajna Chakra, ruled by Jupiter, is the seat of intuition.

Marana Karaka Sthana — Where Planets Lose Power

For every planet there is one house which is really bad, its Marana Karaka Sthana: Sun in the 12th, Moon in the 8th, Mars and Mercury in the 7th, Jupiter in the 3rd, Venus in the 6th, Saturn in the 1st, Rahu in the 9th. A planet placed there destroys the house. The rule is taught on Sanjay Gandhi's chart, where Moon, the 7th lord, sits in the 8th: marital happiness suffers on that count, and the same Moon is the maraka of the chart. The Navamsa then decides what the damaged 7th means.

Parents Analysis — Sanjay Gandhi's Dvadasamsa (D12)

The Dvadasamsa is the chart of parents and everything above them. The house is only the situation, what the native gets from that parent; the house lord is the parent in truth, so the sign holding the 4th lord is taken as the mother's lagna and the sign holding the 9th lord as the father's. Indira Gandhi, Feroze Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru are read this way, and their mutual relations judged by the 2-12 (Dviradvadasa) and 6-8 (Shadashtaka) rule. Then the Drekkanas: Parasara's Drekkana for siblings, counted forward from an odd lagna and backward from an even one, with the elder brother Rajiv Gandhi read from it; and the Parivritti Traya Drekkana, which shows where a person's determination is applied.

Atmakaraka, Karakamsha & Mahapurusha Yoga

Pandit Sanjay Rath, as guest teacher, on the Atmakaraka: the planet with the highest degree in its sign (Rahu counted from the end of the sign), because it has taken the most light from that sign’s the native. Its flaws are stamped on the person: Sun gives ego, Moon cannot stand alone, Rahu gives shocks and makes either a saint or a criminal. Planets in trine to the Karakamsha show the trigger, and two malefics there make a Mantrika. Whether the shock makes a saint is read from the Arudha Lagna: the 3rd from it is what is in the hand, the 6th what is renounced, and the lord of that sign gives the deity. Worked on Prabhupada (Rahu AK, tea as the trigger, Krishna) and Vivekananda (Sun AK in lagna, marriage as the trigger, Kali).

Vargottama, Gandanta & House Philosophy

Count from a planet’s rasi sign to its navamsa sign: that house is the planet’s inner effect and cannot be escaped in its period. A Vargottama planet counts 1, so it acts on the lagna itself and its abilities are in you — Sun the administrator, Mars the soldier, Mercury the learner and teacher (of spiritual knowledge when in a fire sign), Jupiter the priest or banker. A Vargottama Atmakaraka is an ability carried from the last birth with a task left unfinished. Gandanta, the border of a water sign and a fire sign, is bad no matter what, and Vargottama makes it worse: an exalted Vargottama Sun there, a maraka in the 3rd house, broke a baby’s arm at birth. Also: the death chart and the seven lokas, the 4th house as the conscious mind and the house of cure, and why the 5th and 9th are lineage and not harmony.

Naisargika Karakas & Pranapada Lagna

A review of the fundamentals — signs vs planets, Arudha Lagna, the D60 — and the natural significators (Naisargika Karakas) with the project-manager analogy: karaka, house lord, occupants, rasi drishti, graha drishti and argala. Pranapada Lagna: Moon in a trine or the 7th from it in Navamsa is necessary for a human chart, and it moves 5° for one minute of birth time. All of it is then applied to one chart, an astrologer born in 1931: spiritual by the 12H and the D60 amsas, quarrelsome by the 3rd and 6th from Arudha Lagna, a bachelor despite Venus in lagna, and a high government accounts officer by the 2H and 6H of the Dasamsa though known only for the research shown by its 10H.

Charakarakas — The Three Classes of Karakas

Three classes of karakas: Naisargika (Brahma — creation, physical relatives), Chara (Vishnu — the sustenance and journey of the individual soul) and Sthira (Shiva — destruction, the timing of a relative's death). The 8 Charakarakas are ranked by how far each planet has advanced in its sign and show souls, not bodies: counsellors, guru and godbrothers, motherly and fatherly souls, followers, rivals, spouse. The Atmakaraka is the king and carries the hidden agenda of the life. Ketu is never a karaka: he wants every soul to merge back into the Paramatma and refuses to be a separate soul.

AK Placement — Rashi Chart & Navamsa Relationships

Take the Atmakaraka as the reference point and see where the other karakas fall from it: together is best, mutual quadrants promote each other, the 6th, 8th and 12th show opposition or giving up. The Rashi chart shows this at the level of physical existence, the Navamsa at the level of ideology — whether those souls share your dharma. The rule is only a thumb rule: between natural enemies such as Sun and Saturn the 6th is the good placement. Read on George Bush Sr., George W. Bush and Vivekananda, whose guru (Saturn, Bhratrikaraka) is in the 6th from the Sun in Navamsa.

Charakaraka Replacement, AK Sign & Ishta Devata

When two planets are in the same degree the higher becomes the karaka, and later in life the Atmakaraka can be replaced by the next planet — a spiritual transformation that changes all the dynamics. How to read the AK in navamsa: its house from lagna, its sign (Taurus does its duty and is done; Aquarius keeps pondering), the planet it joins, and the argala on it. Ishta Devata from the 12th from AK and Dharma Devata from the 9th from AK, both in navamsa, always from the original AK; lagna in the 12th from AK marks a spiritual person. Also: physical features used to choose between two rasi lagnas.

Birth Time Rectification & Narayana Dasha Introduction

How to rectify a birth time: pick the divisional chart whose lagna sits nearest a border, start with the higher charts (D-9, D-10) where only two or three lagnas are possible, and test each against known events. For a Virgo lagna at 19°53' the navamsa lagna changes from Gemini to Cancer 28 seconds after the given time. The marriage of May 1997 in Mercury–Saturn decides it: Saturn is 8th lord from Gemini but 7th lord in lagna from Cancer, and the Narayana dasha of navamsa then running, Capricorn, is the 8th from Gemini and the 7th from Cancer. Also taught: Vimshottari shows the mind's outlook while Narayana dasha shows what happens on the ground, the mahadasha is judged loosely and the antardasha strictly, and the 1997 Tithi Pravesha chart with Venus as ruler of the year.

D3 Drekkana — Siblings Analysis with Arudha

A full Drekkana reading of the native's siblings. Younger siblings are counted from the 3rd and elder from the 11th, backward when the lagna is even; the sign holding the lord of the sibling's sign becomes that sibling's lagna. The sibling's spouse is read from the Upapada counted from that lagna, and the sibling's children from the 9th from that Upapada. Worked on the younger sister, her husband and daughters, and on the elder brother, his wife and son — including a miscarriage shown by Rahu that shifts the count, the rule for choosing the stronger of Saturn and Rahu, the badhakasthana, and the predictions that failed and why. Sex of siblings is less reliable in D-3 than sex of children in D-7.

Curses from Past Life — Afflictions as Karmic Debts

When someone is out of work or blocked for a long time, check whether a curse from a past life has become active. A curse is read from the karaka, the house and its lord all being afflicted by Mars, Saturn, Rahu or Ketu through occupation or graha drishti: Venus and the 7th for the wife, Moon and the 4th for the mother, Sun and the 9th for the father, Mercury and the 6th for the maternal uncle, and Jupiter under two malefics for a learned person. Mars shows a curse given in anger, Saturn in sorrow, Rahu or Ketu in shock. It bears fruit when the Moola dasha of the afflicting planet runs, and the Shashtyamsha of that planet shows the karma it carries. These notes come from the previous class and its chart; the page ends with the principles of this lesson.

D3 Extension — Mother-in-Law & Graha Malika Yoga

A sibling's mother-in-law in the Drekkana: find the sibling's lagna, take the Upapada from it for the spouse, and the 4th sign from that Upapada is the spouse's mother. In the example Sun sits in the sister-in-law's sign and Saturn in her mother's, which shows friction between the two. Graha Malika Yoga in the same Rashi chart runs from Venus, the Atmakaraka and 9th lord, to Moon, lord of A9 and A8: the Atmakaraka's dasha is hard on material pursuits and good for spiritual growth. Then the conditional nakshatra dashas: when one applies use it in place of Vimshottari, prefer the rarer condition, and how the hora of the lagna and day or night birth are decided — worked on John Kerry's chart, where Dwisaptati Sama Dasha applies.

John Kerry — D7 Children & D12 Father's Career

Saptamsha: Mercury and Saturn, the napumsaka planets, in trines from D7 lagna can deny children, and here they exchange signs — yet Sun and Ketu in lagna override them, and Kerry's two daughters were born in Sun dasha, in Mercury and Saturn antardashas. Why the 5th house is children (11th from the 7th), and where children of a second spouse are seen. Dwadasamsha: the 9th house itself is the father's lagna. From Aries, Sun and Jupiter in the 6th give respected government service, Rahu in Capricorn in the 10th with argala from Venus and Moon gives diplomacy, and Sun under Ketu's argala gives the pilot. Kerry's father was a wartime fighter pilot and then a career diplomat.

Foreign Travel Analysis — D4 Chaturthamsha

D-4 (Chaturthamsha) is the chart of residence. Going far away is read from the 9th, 12th and 7th houses, the Badhakasthana, the watery signs and Rahu (with Saturn and Ketu as secondary karakas). A malefic in the 4th of D-4 makes the person leave where he is. The 1985 move to the USA is timed as Rahu–Venus–Jupiter: the mahadasha lord is only one candidate, the antardasha lord must make more sense, and the pratyantardasha lord must fit exactly. The 9th house matters most, and for a fixed lagna it is also the Badhakasthana. Ends with the rule for returning home: the 1st, 4th and 5th take over from the 7th, 9th and 12th.

Marana Karaka Sthana — Full Table & Dasha Effects

The house in which each planet is most uncomfortable, in any chart: Sun 12th, Moon 8th, Mars 7th, Mercury 4th, Jupiter 3rd, Venus 6th, Saturn 1st, Rahu 9th; Ketu has none. PVNR gives a picture for each, such as the priest handed the weapons and the cheat put in charge of a temple. In the dasha of a planet in its Marana Karaka Sthana, the houses it owns and the house it sits in both suffer. Applied to the student's Saturn in lagna of the Rashi chart, and to Jupiter, 7th lord of his Dasamsa, in the 3rd, which makes success in business unlikely.

Muhurta Charts, Ghatika Lagna, Yogada & Special Yogas

When a leader's birth data is hidden or doubtful, the moment he files or accepts a nomination is public: that moment and place are the birth of the candidacy. Read only the Rasi chart, with the usual house meanings applied to the candidacy and the 5th as the house of power. Vajpayee's nomination had Moon in the 8th; Kerry's has the lagna lord in the 2nd from the 5th; Bush's has lagna lord Mars with 5th lord Sun in the 5th, and Moon passing Rahu on its way to the lagna — a setback, then recovery. The page then teaches Ghatika Lagna, Yogada, Graha Malika Yoga, Kala Sarpa and Kala Amrita Yoga, and Sarpa and Mala Yoga, each checked in the Bush chart.

Identifying a Saint's Chart — Moola Dasha & AK Kendradhi Dasha

How to tell a saint from a materially inclined person: the 3rd and 6th from Arudha Lagna show the manifested fighting nature — the 3rd the first instinct, the 6th the finishing off — and a saint has only benefics there. Worked on Swami Jayendra Saraswati's chart days after his arrest in November 2004: AL in Pisces, Taurus empty, Venus in Leo, Mars the only malefic influence, so the murder charge is against his nature. Then the 9th lord's ṣaṣṭyaṁśa (Deva against Rākṣasa) and Moola Dasha, which shows when past-life karma gives its result: Mercury's Moola Dasha, 1967–1981, and the 0-or-12-years option. Atmakaraka Kendradi Graha Dasha is named as the dasha of the soul's evolution and left for a later class.

Vimshottari from Lagna vs Moon — Tribhagi & TP Dashas

Lagna is the door through which you act in the world, Moon the door through which you react to it. Count the planets in kendras from each; the one with more is the stronger seed for Vimshottari, and a stronger Lagna marks an individualistic person. Sun-based Vimshottari is kept for the conception chart. Tribhagi Vimshottari runs 27 dashas of one-third length through the whole zodiac and shows when a Sahama is activated: here the second-cycle Venus dasha (July 2001 – March 2008) reaches Bandhana Sahama in Purva Phalguni in September–November 2004, the time of the arrest. For the Tithi Praveśa chart the dasha is Tithi Ashtottari — tithi is of jala tattva, so Venus rules — in which the dasha lord's own antardasha comes last. The natal chart still takes precedence; the annual chart times.

Result Exchange Rule, Vipreeta Raja Yoga & Arudha Pada Analysis

The 2004–05 Tithi Praveśa chart of Swami Jayendra Saraswati, read for the arrest. When planets are together, the most benefic and the most malefic exchange results: Jupiter, Mercury and Mars sit in the 12th, so Jupiter's dasha gave the result of Mars, the 8th lord. That Mars is not a Vipreeta Raja Yoga — a dusthana lord in a dusthana gives it only when alone or with another dusthana lord, and here he spoils all four kendra lords. Arudha rules for the year: A4 is the physical home, and with A4 in the 8th and its lord in the 12th the home is lost; a malefic in the 2nd from AL feeds a violent image; Rahu in the 10th from AL makes one look like a schemer; lordships are never reckoned from Arudha Lagna. Venus, Hora Lord and lord of A10 and A6 in a kendra, with a Raja Yoga and Tapasya Yoga, shows the way out.

Parivrajya Yoga, Saturn/Rahu AL Rules & Mahapurusha Priority

Parivrajya Yoga makes a genuine renunciate: Moon in a navāṁśa of Mars, together with Saturn or aspected by him in the rāśi chart. Swami Jayendra Saraswati has it at its strongest, Moon and Saturn joined in Saturn's own Aquarius. The same Saturn sits in the 12th from Arudha Lagna — a Raj Yoga for Saturn and Rahu — so he is seen as powerful and, by some, as a sanyasi who has given up giving up. The class then opens Jayalalithaa's chart and settles which of two Mahapurusha Yogas dominates: the trikona comes first (Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha), then exaltation over Moolatrikona over own sign. K.N. Rao is the example for Malavya over Hamsa, and Jupiter, not Venus, is the planet of diplomacy.

Bhoga Formula, Yogada & Retrograde Planets

Rahu dasha read in Jayalalithaa's daśāṁśa. Conjoined planets give each other's results, so Rahu gives Jupiter's and Rahu–Jupiter antardasha gives Rahu's — the 1999 withdrawal of support that cost her everything. A Yogada is a planet that owns, occupies or has rāśi dṛṣṭi on both lagna and Ghatika Lagna (power), or lagna and Hora Lagna (money); a Maha Yogada connects lagna, Ghatika Lagna and Hora Lagna together. The Bhoga rule: count from dasha lord to antardasha lord, count the same again, and read that sign's house from lagna — it is what is experienced, while Paka, the antardasha lord's own sign, is where the effort goes. Retrogression matters only in exaltation or debilitation, where it reverses the dignity.

D30 Trimshamsa — Chart of Sins & Two Types of Dharma

Is Jayalalithaa doing her duty or committing a sin? Her navāṁśa and daśāṁśa are read first: marriage, the dictum on Mercury and Saturn in the navāṁśa, an entertainment career, and the dikpāla aṁśas — Venus and Moon in Yama aṁśa, Sun in Nirṛti aṁśa in the house of power. Then the two dharmas: the navāṁśa shows the dharma that comes from who you are, the 9th house of the daśāṁśa the duty set by your work and your boss. Her 9th lord in the 6th from the 9th means making enemies while following that duty, which proves nothing either way. The navāṁśa Bhoga of Rahu–Mercury falls in the 6th, and in the D-30 — the chart of the Pāpa Puruṣa — she runs the dasha of a planet in lagna and the antardasha of the lagna lord.

Annual TP Power Analysis in Democracy & Papakatariyan on Lagna

Will Jayalalithaa's government fall? K.N. Rao predicted a fall in December 2004 or January 2005; the class reads her Tithi Praveśa charts for 2004, 2005 and 2006 and disagrees. Each year is judged from the hora lord, the lagna lord and the 5th house of power in the annual daśāṁśa. 2004 and 2005 hold. In 2006 the 5th lord is in the 6th, the lagna lord in the bādhakasthāna, Ketu on the rāśi lagna, and Moon — the masses, who decide power in a democracy — is in the 12th from lagna and the 8th from the 5th: an election after that birthday is likely lost. The class closes on the Swami's one flaw: Saturn and Rahu hemming his lagna, active in Saturn–Rahu antardasha, a lapse of judgment that let wrong people near him.

How to Approach a Chart — D4 Residence, Foreign Travel & Lagna Leeway

There is no fixed order for reading a chart: what you look at first depends on the question, the way a doctor orders tests from the symptoms. The one check that always comes first is how far the varga lagna is from changing sign, set against the possible birth-time error; with an hour of uncertainty, start from D-3 and the siblings, not D-10. Foreign travel is read from the 7th (desire), 9th (fortune abroad) and 12th (displacement) houses, the Badhakasthana lord, and D-4, the chart of residence. A student's move to the US in August 1995 is traced through his Rasi and D-4, and then through the 1995 annual chart — Hora Lord, Paradesa and Jalapatana Sahamas — where Saturn's Tithi Ashtottari daśā gave the journey although Mars was the stronger candidate. The lesson drawn: give two or three candidate periods, not one.

D16 Shodasamsa — Vehicles & Accidents, D6 Shashthamsa — Health

D-16 shows happiness from vehicles and accidents with them: the 6th and 8th are the accident houses, the 4th is the vehicle, and any link between the 6th and 8th raises the chance of an accident — it is not read as a Vipareeta Raja Yoga here. Three accidents of one native (1989, 1999, 2004) are timed from the natal D-16 by counting from the mahadaśā lord, and from the D-16 of the annual charts. Jupiter with Rahu in one house is Manushya Hatya and wrecks that house, above all in an annual chart. D-6 is read with the Rasi for health: a herniated disc in 2004 is traced to a Rahu mahadaśā with Rahu in his own sign in the 8th of D-6, and the 2004 annual chart is read daśā by daśā to say when treatment will go wrong and when relief comes.

Remedial Measures — Gems, Mantras, Pujas & Sura/Asura Planet Groups

Pujas and mantras are a sattvic remedy; gems are a rajasic one — a bigger loan taken to pay off a loan — and the gem of the 6th or 8th lord should not be worn, though praying to those lords is fine. Mantras themselves are sattvic, rajasic or tamasic by the intent behind them. For gems the class covers the metal for each planet, following the Sura group (Sun, Moon, Mars, Jupiter — gold) and the Asura group (Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu — silver); the finger, chosen by purushartha and not by the mounts of palmistry; the two views on right and left hand; and when to prescribe by the chart, by the daśā, or to have a ring taken off. It opens with what āvāhana means when a deity is invoked in a lamp or idol, and closes with the deities for the student's health: Durga for the Rahu daśā and Dakshinamurti for Jupiter in Sun's sign in the 9th.

M.S. Subbalakshmi — Rasi Yogas, Singer's Navamsa & Spouse Analysis

The Rasi yogas of M.S. Subbalakshmi: Gajakesari in the 7th aspecting lagna for lasting fame, Tapasya Yoga of Saturn, Venus and Ketu together in the 10th, and the Raj Yoga of lagna lord Venus with Saturn, lord of the 4th and 5th. The singer's combination in Navamsa: Sun or Moon in a trine — Sun for rhythm, Moon for melody; she has Moon and Venus in watery Scorpio in the 9th. The husband read from the 7th of Navamsa taken as lagna: lagna lord in the 12th makes a giver, Venus and Moon in the 3rd a composer or poet, Sun and Mars in the 5th with Rahu a man with connections but no high office. The house the lagna lord occupies is where a person's intelligence is focused.

Conditional Dashas for Death — Dwisaptati Sama Dasha & Ethics

She died in Vimshottari Mercury–Rahu, and neither planet is a maraka: by Parashara the houses of death are the 2nd and 7th, which point to Mars, Jupiter and Moon. Roundabout chains of dispositors can justify any dasha after the fact and predict nothing. A conditional dasha is read exactly like Vimshottari once its condition is met: her 7th lord Mars is in lagna, so Dwisaptati Sama dasha (72 years) applies, and it gives Jupiter–Moon, the two planets in her 7th. The annual Tithi Pravesha chart then fixes the time to within hours: its Venus dasha, a maraka of that chart, began three days before her death. The class closes on how to speak about death: never say "you will die"; say the period is critical and prescribe Mrityunjaya mantra.

D12/D9 Relations in Divisional Charts & D6 Three-Level Disease

Which starting point to use for a relative: in D-7 and D-3 take the lord (pada) of the house for a particular child or sibling; in D-12 and D-9 take the house itself for mother, father and spouse. Then disease. The 6th and 8th of the Rasi chart show what a person suffers from; the Shashtamsa (D-6) shows the root — which body tissue is weak. In Subbalakshmi's D-6 the badhaka lord Venus sits in the 6th and the 6th lord Jupiter aspects it: Jupiter is fat and sweetness, and she had diabetes. Each planet builds one tissue — Sun bones, Moon blood, Mars nerve marrow, Mercury skin, Jupiter fat, Venus reproductive tissue, Saturn muscle — and Rahu and Ketu deplete whatever they afflict. The teacher reads his own D-6 as the example.

D30 Trimshamsa — Subconscious Disease, D7 Children & Jupiter's Signs

Disease is a three-step process: D-30 shows the subconscious root, D-6 the weak tissue, the Rasi chart what is suffered. D-30 works on the subconscious plane and shows the Shadripus — kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya — each defined as the teacher defines it; mada is fanaticism, not alcohol. Then her Saptamsa (D-7): Venus, Mercury and Saturn all in trines deny children, one or two only make it difficult. The 5th lord of the Rasi chart is judged in D-7, and where a sign has two lords the one sitting in it gives way to the other — so Rahu, in the 6th, rules her Aquarius. Jupiter in the 5th of D-7 would bless, but as 6th lord of the Rasi chart he owns the 2nd from the 5th and denies. The page ends with Jupiter's two signs: Sagittarius, fiery dharma on duty; Pisces, the Maharshi at peace.

Conditional Dashas — Complete Taxonomy & Chart Rectification Methodology

A student presents his own rectified birth time and the class tests it. First, which dasha to use: the conditional nakshatra dashas Parashara gives, how common each one is, and the ranking — rarest first, longest second; a dasha half the people qualify for gets no priority over Vimshottari. In this chart only the two common ones apply, so Vimshottari is used. Then the rectification itself: list the navamsa lagnas inside the birth window, test the marriage in Jupiter–Ketu on each, confirm it in the Tithi Pravesha chart of the marriage year, and narrow the window with each division that passes. The Bhoga formula shows what an antardasha delivers — marriage in Jupiter–Ketu, astrology in Jupiter–Rahu.

D7 Children (Complete), D3 Siblings & Marana Karaka Sthana Table

Saptamsa (D7) worked through for three children. First the fortune with children: the 5th lord of the Rasi chart placed in D7, then the 5th lord of D7. Then the count — backward for an even lagna, the 5th for the first child and every 3rd after it — and the sex of each child from the sign the lord sits in, the planets with him, and the lord as tiebreaker, never rasi drishti. What it takes to jump over Rahu, and how to choose between the two lords of Scorpio. Drekkana (D3): each sibling’s lagna is the sign of the lord of the 3rd or 11th; sex from D3 is not dependable but events are. A sibling’s spouse is read from the Upapada. The Marana Karaka Sthana table, and why the lord placed there destroys the house it owns.

D20 Spiritual, Physical Appearance, D6 Health During Dashas & D2 Hora

One rectified chart read through five divisions. D20 (Vimsamsa): Atmakaraka Moon in the lagna with lagna lord Jupiter opposite — effortless spiritual growth; the 5th shows the deity of personal attachment (Krishna), the 2nd the Kula Devata (Veerabhadra). D10: planets counted from the Arudha Lagna and the Dikpala amsha of the dasha lord — why Jupiter Dasha looks unambitious and Saturn Dasha brings a rise. Body and Ayurvedic constitution from the lagna: a Mars-ruled lagna aspected by the Sun is about 90% Pitta; Prakriti against Vikriti; planets that link a dusthana to the lagna bring disease. D6 for health in each dasha, including low blood pressure from Saturn on the Moon. D2 (Kashinatha Hora) for money: lords in Marana Karaka Sthana and the Badhaka lord in the 12th. Ends with PVNR's definition of sunrise.

D10 Career — Planet Archetypes, Mercury vs Venus, Argala & Reference Points

The court analogy for career: Sun is the king, Moon the minister, Mercury the prince or scholar, Jupiter the priest, Venus the dancing girl, Saturn the workers. Mercury is a Bhu tattva planet and shows prose, communication and media; Venus is a Jala tattva planet and shows poetry and entertainment — so a television producer is read from Mercury, not Venus. Argala on the 10th-house planet: the 2nd shows resources, the 4th comfort, the 11th motivation, the 5th abilities (obstructed by the 9th), and only planets in those houses count, never their lords. The Moon creates contacts, the Sun uses them. Then Vimshottari from the Moon by default, and the reference to use at each of the six daśā levels — Sun, Moon, lagna, Chara Ātmakāraka, Prāṇapada lagna, lagna — shown on PVNR's own chart.

Navamsa Marriage Principles, Graha Arudhas & Second Husband Analysis

A marriage read from the Rasi upapada and the Navamsa together. The 7th lord in the 8th still gives marriage, because his agenda is the 7th. Venus, the 5th house and the Darapada linked show a person who falls in love; marrying that person needs a link to the Upapada as well. A two-year committed relationship counts as the first upapada even without a ceremony, so the husband is read from the 8th from the 7th of the Navamsa — the 2nd house — and the marriage from the 8th from the Rasi upapada. Her own marital life is read from the Navamsa lagna: Moon and Saturn there give sadness. Graha arudhas are then introduced — house lords are the one intelligence (Satya), their arudhas are separate persons (Maya) — and L1 in Saturn's sign against L2 in the Sun's sign explains the strain.

D24 Siddhamsa — Learning and Conditional Dashas Applied to the native

A student asks for a mantra to help him retain what he hears in class; the answer is to look at charts, make predictions and be wrong. The rare conditional nakshatra dashas and their conditions — Chaturaseeti Sama (84 years) applies when the 10th lord is in the 10th — and why they are read exactly like Vimshottari. In D-24 the houses of occult knowledge are the 8th (the knowledge), 11th (learning it), 5th (scholarship) and 2nd (prediction); the Rasi 4th lord shows grasping and the 5th lord retention. The student's D-24 is then read: Atmakaraka Sun with the 11th lord in the 5th, a Raj Yoga on the 2nd–8th axis, the antardashas in which his predictions will come right, and which form of Krishna to pray to.

Rajiv Gandhi — Political Power, Love Marriage & D12 Knowledge Lineage

Rajiv Gandhi's chart read blind. Sun, the planet of political power, is the 9th lord in the 10th of D-10; Vimshottari gives Rahu dasha for 1984, but Sun in lagna makes Shashtihayani dasha apply, and its Sun dasha began in March 1984, months before he became Prime Minister. Why Ketu, sitting with Sun, does not give Sun's results, and how antardasha bhoga in the 8th of D-10 marks the 1989 defeat. Love marriage is read from Moon, Venus, the 5th house and A7; the 7th from Venus shows who brings the marriage and from how far — worked on four charts, one of which proves the teacher wrong. His D-12 shows political power with the mother and maternal grandfather and not the father; Sanjay Rath's D-12 and D-24 show astrology coming from grandfather and uncle.

D12 Within Saptamsa, D7 Parivartana Rule & Reading Child's Own Chart

Children in the Saptamsa, worked on two charts. In Rajiv Gandhi's D-7 the sign showing the daughter gives Sagittarius as her lagna; Sun in the 9th from it gives political blessings but not the seat of power. In Sanjay Rath's D-7 the first pregnancy is lost — Venus is the maraka from that sign and does not save it — and the second child, expected to be a girl, is a boy because the lord of the sign is in a parivartana. The child's paka sign is then taken as lagna and the D-7 read as his own chart: Jupiter in the 5th, a Duryoga between lagna lord and 8th lord, the 9th lord Moon in the 8th, and Rahu in the 2nd giving intuitive predictions. The class closes with the method of correlating D-7 and D-12 with D-10 and D-24 to see from whom a power or a knowledge comes.

Sanjay Rath — D24 Astrological Knowledge in Practice

Where a person's astrological knowledge comes from, read by correlating D-24 with D-12. In Sanjay Rath's D-24 the 4th house of learning is Virgo, ruled by lagna lord Mercury. In his D-12, Virgo is the 10th house of karma from the paternal grandfather's lagna and the 4th from the uncle's lagna, and both have Jupiter and Mercury in the 2nd or 8th — two astrologers who taught him. From the father's lagna Virgo is the 6th house of obstruction: the father burnt his astrology books.

Narayana Dasha — Rasi Dasha Foundation, Cosmic Framework & Calculations

Narayana Dasha is a Rasi dasha: the progression of lagna, showing what happens on the ground, where Vimshottari shows how the mind takes it. Brahma lives in lagna, Shiva in the 7th house, and Narayana is with the stronger of the two — five rules, applied in order, decide which. The order of the dashas follows Brahma's, Shiva's or Vishnu's progression (movable, fixed or dual starting sign), forward or backward by whether the 9th from the starting sign is odd-footed or even-footed. The length of each dasha is the count from the sign to its lord minus one, with the exceptions for a lord in the sign itself, exalted or debilitated. All of it is worked on the teacher's own chart.

Narayana Dasha — Three Angles of Interpretation & Effort vs Fruits

Three angles for reading a Narayana Dasha, to be mixed: (1) the dasha sign seen from the natal lagna — the house, planets and yogas Narayana activates; (2) the progressed lagna — the dasha sign itself, or the 7th from it when the dashas began from the 7th house — from which the whole chart is read afresh; (3) the Dasha Pravesha Chakra, the chart of the moment the dasha begins, which shows which antardasha delivers. Narayana is effort and Lakshmi is the fruit: Sri Lagna and Sudasha show where she sits. Used with Vimshottari, the overlap of the two dashas narrows the window; Narayana Dasha itself is read only down to antardasha.

Example Chart — Puzzle Chart: Devastating Event Through Narayana Dasha

A puzzle from a mailing list: the native reports a devastating event "last Tuesday" and asks which area of life it was. The class works it out step by step. Narayana Dasha (Aries dasha, Pisces antardasha) from the natal chart and from the entry chart points to career or children: the combust 10th lord joins the 8th lord, Khara. The nakshatra dasha (Shashtihayani, since the Sun is in lagna) puts the bhoga of the sub-period in the 7th of the D-10 — loss of service. The annual Tithi Pravesha chart shows a 5th–6th lord Duryoga with the ruler of the year and the dasha lord in the 3rd of the D-10 and 12th from Arudha Lagna: a job lost, a short break, a fall in image. PVNR then reads when a job returns, the next year's chart (a Raja Yoga with the ruler of the year, a protecting boss) and the next Narayana Dasha. Includes the Marana Karaka Sthana list and the Arudha Lagna rules for image.

Key Principles — Sign vs Lord, Venus-Rahu Pull & Parivartana Rules

The general rules stated in this class. Sign and lord: the sign is the inanimate circumstance, the lord is the consciousness that copes with it — so an antardasha sign shows what you face and its lord shows how you face it. Venus with Rahu: Rahu does not weaken Venus, they are friends; he turns Venus to the materialistic side, as Ketu would turn him to moksha, and a conjunction outweighs a 7th aspect. Jupiter helps a Sun afflicted by Rahu, and the Sun helps Jupiter. Parivartana: kendra and kona lords exchanging is a Raja Yoga, a dusthana lord exchanging with a kendra or kona lord is a Duryoga, and friendship between the two planets sets the strength. An exalted 6th lord means strong enemies and a long fight, not easy victory. Also: lagna lord in the 8th makes a karma yogi, and the 6th lord in lagna is bad.

Tithi Pravesha Mechanics, Border Chart Rule & Owning vs Occupying

Questions on Tithi Pravesha: the annual nakshatra can be up to three nakshatras from the birth nakshatra; when the tithi comes twice in the sign, tradition takes the second; a birth in an adhika masa makes no difference. Paka and Bhoga in the same house need no special rule. The border rule: a birth time is a window, so check the leeway of the lagna on both sides, every year and in every divisional chart — one Tithi Pravesha in this class sits 21 seconds from the next sign. The close of the class: the houses a planet owns are his agenda, the house he occupies is his resources. Mix the two, never treat them as the same.

Michael Jackson — D10 Career Analysis & D9 Musical/Artistic Talent

A blind reading of a dasamsa: Leo lagna, the empty 10th, and 10th lord Venus with 5th lord Jupiter in the 4th aspecting the 10th — a Raja Yoga that makes Venus the career planet and points to an entertainer. The 5th lord against the 10th lord (following against achievement), compared with Aishwarya Rai's D-10. Exalted Mars in the 6th as 9th lord: lucky breaks. Ketu in the Arudha Lagna of the D-10, and the dasamsa Narayana Dasha that times his rise (Sagittarius, 1986–1997). The navamsa shows the ability: Sun in a Cancer lagna with the lagna lord Moon exalted — rhythm and melody. The page opens with a question on Rahu and foreign travel in Narayana Dasha and the time-zone check on this chart.

Narayana Dasha — Three-Parts Rule: Theory, Avasthas & Sirshodaya Signs

The three parts rule for Narayana Dasha: how to find when, inside one mahadasha, each of its 5–10 possible results is felt. The dasha is cut into three equal parts — one for the sign, one for its lord, one for the planets occupying or aspecting the sign by rasi drishti. The sign chooses first (Sirshodaya = first third, Prishtodaya = last, Ubhayodaya = middle); the lord takes the first or last part still free according to the sign he sits in; the associations get what is left and share it equally in order of advancement in sign. The lord’s third splits into four quarters — house occupied, houses owned, yogas, avastha for a natural benefic, the reverse for a malefic. Also: how to weigh a planet’s state (friend or enemy sign, Uchcha Bala, Sayanadi avastha), and why a divisional-chart dasha sign is not read as a lagna.

D12 Narayana Dasha — Relationship with Parents & Parents' Individual Fortunes

Three Narayana Dashas from one D-12. The default one, from the 12th lord of the rasi chart, shows the native's relationship with her parents — friction in Capricorn dasha, a reunion and a parting in Taurus dasha. Starting instead from the 4th house of D-12 (or its 7th, whichever is stronger) gives the mother's own fortune: foreign travel in the 9th-house dasha and a broken ankle under the aspect of the 8th lord Sun, the significator of bones. Starting from the 9th house gives the father's: his nature and career read with the 9th as lagna, retirement with a promotion from the exalted 8th lord, and advice against starting a business. Also why a dasha can be 0 years under Parashara's rule.

D12 Narayana Dasha (Three Uses) & Avasthas — Complete Table

Three Narayana daśās from the Dvādaśāṁśa. The default one, seeded by the 12th lord of the rāśi chart, shows relations with parents — the give and take. Started from the 9th house of D-12 it shows what happens to the father; from the 4th house, the mother. Before that PVNR insists the father is not to be read from the rāśi chart, and the class guesses the father’s nature and profession from D-12 with its 9th as lagna. Pisces daśā of the default system is read by the three parts, which brings the rule on a benefic in the 6th: from lagna it gives peace, from ārūḍha lagna defeat, and exalted-retrograde counts as debilitated. The father’s Scorpio and Sagittarius daśās are checked against his career. The page ends with the avasthas PVNR explains in this class: the five by age, the three by alertness, and Śayanādi.

Narayana Dasha — Final Q&A: Saturn/Ketu Exceptions & Parivartana Rules

Closing questions on Narayana Dasha. Jaimini’s two exceptions for a planet in the sign from which the dashas start: Saturn there means Brahma’s sign-by-sign progression, always forward, whatever the sign; Ketu there means the sign’s own progression run in reverse; with both, the stronger one decides. How to judge Rahu against Ketu: dignity cannot separate them in the rasi chart, in a divisional chart Virgo favours Rahu and Pisces favours Ketu, count the planets with each, and if nothing decides take Rahu. In the three-parts rule a Parivartana is ignored when placing the planet by Sirshodaya or Prishtodaya sign, but counts as a yoga when the planet gives its yoga results. Sahamas in Narayana Dasha are untested, and a principle needs 50 or more charts.

Mundane Astrology — Calendars, Chart Types & Live Analysis (US + India)

Introduction to mundane astrology. A country’s birth moment is often disputed, so New Year charts cast for the capital are used instead, each for its own purpose: Mesha Sankranti for high-level politics, Makara Sankranti for politics at the level of the masses and elections, Ardra Pravesha for rains, Chaitra Shukla Pratipada for general events, Kartika Shukla Pratipada for finance, Ashadha Shukla Pratipada for weather extremities, Vaishakha Purnima for spiritual matters. House meanings for a country: lagna = its existence, 2H = resources, 3H = initiative, 6H = war, 7H = foreign policy, 8H = anxiety and borrowing, 9H = judiciary and religion, 10H = the administration and its lord the administrator, 11H = friends. Worked charts: the US lunar New Year of 2004, the 2004 election from the Makara Sankranti chart, the financial New Year for the US and India, the 2004 Full Moon chart, and the eclipse New Year of April 8, 2005. Ends with the choice of Vimshottari seed in mundane charts.

Moon vs Venus — Critical Distinction in Chart Analysis

Moon and Venus are often taken for similar planets. They are poles apart: Moon is compassionate, Venus is passionate. Moon has no enemies in the planetary cabinet, holds no strong opinions and is always relaxed, yet feels disturbed when he sees unhappiness in the world. Venus, when he wants something, feels strongly about it and goes after it. The point is made on the US Lunar New Year chart for 2005, where Venus is the 10th lord: a 10th lord Venus makes the year’s administration passionate, a 9th lord Venus makes the judiciary passionate.

Mundane US Lunar New Year Chart 2005 & Ashtakavarga Introduction

The US Lunar New Year chart for April 8, 2005 has Leo rising with lagna lord Sun in the 8th, hemmed by Rahu in gandanta and beaten by a strong 10th lord Venus: an anxious year in which a passionate administration compromises the country’s ideals. Navamsa is read for foreign relations, Hora for finances, and D-10 for activity within the country — Saturn and Ketu in D-10 lagna put the downtrodden and the old (Social Security) at the centre of debate. Ashtakavarga is then introduced: houses are counted from each planet, scored 0 (terrible) to 8 (superb) with 4 as average, giving eight Bhinna Ashtakavargas and their sum, the Sarva Ashtakavarga. The published class notes add a score guide for the Sarva Ashtakavarga: below 25 weak, above 30 good, maximum 64, and a strong 9th, 10th and 11th in an annual chart marks an auspicious year. Taking Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Sun in turn as lagna in the D-10 Ashtakavarga shows how blue-collar workers, the judiciary and religious wing, entertainers and politicians fare under the year’s policies.

Ashtakavarga Philosophy — Planets as Dimensions of Self & SAV Score

Lagna is only one of eight reference points. In Ashtakavarga each planet is taken as a lagna for one quality inside the person — Saturn the discipline, Mars the fire, Mercury the learner (buddhi), Jupiter the wisdom (medha), Venus the spirit of enjoyment — and the houses counted from it qualify that quality. The score in the planet’s own sign is the basic test; the 9th, 10th and 11th from it strong is a blessing. Read on K.L. Saigal’s chart: Jupiter’s 3rd and 10th, Mercury’s 11th, 8th and 2nd, and the chain medha → buddhi → mana. Then the Sarvashtakavarga scale (above 30 strong, 25–30 normal, below 25 weak), the 9+10+11 against 6+8+12 test, the 47 in King Abdullah of Jordan’s 11th house, and why PVNR does not use the Lagna Ashtakavarga as Rahu’s.

Transits (Gochara) — Philosophy, Murti System & Vedha Obstruction

Gochara is planetary movement judged against the natal positions. Dasha has priority, the annual chart narrows it and the transit confirms it — a transit alone repeats too often to predict from. Moon is the first reference, then lagna and Arudha Lagna. From Moon, Jupiter is good in 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11; Mars, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu in 3, 6, 11; the 12th is bad for all but Venus; and PVNR explains why Jupiter in the 10th is bad. The Murti system: where the transiting Moon is from the natal Moon when a planet enters a sign makes it Swarna (1, 6, 11), Rajata (2, 5, 9), Tamra (3, 7, 10) or Loha (4, 8, 12) for its whole stay — worked for Saturn’s entry into Cancer on May 25, 2005. Vedha: a planet in a certain house obstructs a good transit; the table is in Dr. Raman’s Ashtakavarga book.

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

A zero in a planet's Ashtakavarga, and PVNR's house-based Sarvashtakavarga: add the score of the same house number from each of the eight references instead of the same sign. He says plainly that this is his own research, not parampara. Transits are then read on Bill Gates: the references are natal, the area affected comes from the natal chart, and good or bad comes from the transit. The same Saturn and Jupiter are judged from the Moon of the D-10, from Arudha Lagna (different rules, and no Ashtakavarga) and from Mars in the D-10 and D-9. The page ends with the rules for the 7th and 10th from Arudha Lagna, the difference between the 10th from lagna, the 10th from AL and A10, and the 11th house of navamsa.

D4 Chaturthamsa — Residence & Bhagya, Guru-Chandala Yoga in D4 Context

A student asks when he will get his green card. Parasara calls the D-4 the chart of bhagya, and PVNR uses it as the chart of residence. Rahu is the karaka for settling far away; the 9th, 12th and 3rd houses and the badhakesha take a person from the homeland. In this D-4 the badhakesha Jupiter joins Rahu, a 9th lord, in the 3rd house: Guru-Chandala yoga, bad in rasi, navamsa and dasamsa, but no bar here because going abroad is a matter of bhagya, not dharma. He came to the US in Jupiter–Mercury of Shatabdika dasha. The green card is seen from A9, the tangible form of fortune, not from A8 or A4 — and never from A9 alone. Saturn in the 4th with argala and graha drishti on A9 points to Mars–Saturn.

Mundane Vimshottari Seeds — Pranapada Lagna & Multiple Classical Sources

Which daśā to run for a nation, and from which seed. The conditional daśās are checked first; Pakistan qualifies only for Dwadasottari, which the teacher does not trust, so Vimshottari is used. Moon or Lagna as the seed: count planets in quadrants from each (Moon himself excluded, Moon breaks a tie). Human charts favour Moon because Moon is the kāraka of human beings — in the navāṁśa Moon must be in a trine or the 7th from Pranapada Lagna, as Ketu is for fish, Sun for birds and Venus for horses. Mundane charts carry no such bias: whichever is stronger is used. Also taught: the other Vimshottari seeds in the classics (4th, 5th and 8th star from Moon, Lagna, Mandi), the teacher’s nakshatra-pada method of comparing them, Surya Vimshottari for yogis and for the conception chart, and why a 120-year daśā for a nation remains unproven.

Dasha Varga Schemes, D40/D45 & Annual TP Lagna Karmic Theme

The four varga schemes — Shad Varga (6 charts), Sapta Varga (7), Dasa Varga (10, recommended for the horoscopy of human beings) and Shodasa Varga (16, for royal horoscopy). D-40 and D-45 are in the 16-chart scheme only: they show karma inherited from the maternal and paternal lines, small beside one’s own past-life karma, but a terrible combination there is a family curse that runs up to seven generations. Three kinds of strength are separated: Vimsopaka Bala is the planet’s overall tendency to do good to you, Ashtakavarga is the cooperation it gets from the other planets, Shad Bala decides which planet delivers a Raja Yoga. Last, the house of the annual Tithi Praveśa lagna from the natal lagna shows the karmic theme of the year: the 8th is a year of pain and paying for sins, the 9th a year of reaping past good.

Jaimini Upadesha Sutras — Kathapayadi Encryption & Swamsa (Navamsa Lagna)

An introduction to the Jaimini Upadesha Sutras. Jaimini went deeper into parts of Parashara's teaching — Arudhas, Navamsa, sign-based dasas — and coded his key words with the Kathapayadi Varga: letters become digits, the digits are reversed and divided by 12, so "labha" (34 → 43 → remainder 7) means the 7th house. Navamsa is the Dharmamsa: it carries past dharma and abilities forward. Swamsa is mostly the Navamsa Lagna, sometimes the Karakamsa; only planets in it, in its trines, or aspecting it by rasi drishti count, and planets on both sides of it (kartari) act almost as if in it. Also covered: a parivartana needs a dasa–antardasa trigger, Saturn in the 9th, Sri Lagna against Navamsa Lagna, and why Jaimini must be used with more caution than Parashara.

Swamsa Analysis Applied — PVNR, Gates, Example chart — education and career (1988) & Pope

The Swamsa rules read on four Navamsas. PVNR: Sun and Ketu in trine to a Taurus Navamsa Lagna, Sun in exchange with Saturn, and Mercury, Moon and Venus in kartari — administration, hard work, computers, tradition, the teacher. A boy born in 1988, known to be artistic: Venus, Ketu and Jupiter in a Scorpio Navamsa Lagna, with about seven of the nine planets influencing it. Bill Gates: Jupiter in the Navamsa Lagna and Sun in trine — judgment and administration, with Mercury for business. Pope John Paul II: Mercury in the lagna, Saturn and Moon in trines, Jupiter, Venus and Ketu in kartari — and why his Tapasvi Yoga is "not exactly" formed.

Dasha System Roles, Bhava vs Pada & Marriage Timing Puzzle

Each dasha has its own focus: Narayana Dasha shows the effort, what the person is actually doing; Sudasa shows where the blessings come from; Vimshottari shows what the mind experiences. Houses (bhava) are the intangible meaning and arudha padas are the tangible symbol, so a marriage ceremony is seen from UL and A7, not from the 7th house. The class then solves a puzzle: a man born in 1968 married on one of four dates (January 26, 1997; May 9, 1997; August 17, 1998; August 22, 1999). Dwisaptati Sama Dasha, the Narayana Dasha of the Navamsa with the three-parts rule, and the pratyantardasha each point to a different date; the Tithi Pravesha chart of 1997, with hora lord Venus in the 7th house, settles it as May 9, 1997. Also why Venus and Ketu are the two givers of marriage, and what kind of marriage each gives.

D2 Hora Chart — Kashinath Hora, House Meanings & Financial Narayana Dasha

The common D-2 puts every planet in Leo or Cancer and cannot be read. In PVNR’s tradition Sun and Moon own two halves of the zodiac, which gives a twelve-sign Hora chart; Sanjay Rath named it Kashinath Hora after his guru. D-2 shows sampada: not just money but every resource — wealth, speech, connections, influence. The page gives the meaning of each house from lagna, the houses from arudha lagna, and the arudha padas (A2 the bank balance, A3 the company founded, A8 the risk actually taken, UL the money let go). The karyesha of D-2 is the 2nd lord of the Rasi chart; an exalted or debilitated planet in D-2 accomplishes much; HL is actual money and GL is power. Two charts are read with the Narayana Dasha of the Hora chart: a student’s tight period and coming peak, and Ramakrishna Dalmia’s rise and his financial death in Taurus dasha, where a maraka sits in the 8th house.

Two Enemy Planets in AL (Close vs Far), 4-Part Subdivision of Planetary Periods & Avasthas

Two enemy planets in the Arudha Lagna: if they sit close together they fight and both images show to the world; if they are far apart in the sign the stronger one dominates and the other may not be seen. The planet in his own sign wins over a visitor, even one of higher longitude. Then the four quarters of a planet's one-third of a Narayana Dasha: a benefic gives place, lordship, yoga and avastha in that order; a malefic gives them in reverse; Mercury takes the nature of his company. In the yoga quarter a planet grants the wish of whoever is with him — Venus with Ketu is the worked example. Last, the avasthas: Netrapani means vigilance and effort, not blessing.

Student Chart — D2 Hora Financial Analysis, Viparita Raja Yoga & Ghatika Lagna in D2

The same student's finances from the Narayana Dasha of the Hora chart. A trine dasha brings money easily, a quadrant brings it with effort, the 3rd, 6th and 8th mean swimming against the stream, and the 8th from Arudha Lagna is a sudden change of status. Sagittarius dasha was a sudden rise; Taurus brought setbacks because the 10th and 12th lords exchange signs (a duryoga); Libra, the 3rd with exalted Saturn, is tight until 2007, best from 2007 to 2010, and weak after. Viparita Raja Yoga is extended to the 3rd house, with the reason. Investment is read from the Upapada, not the 12th house; Ghatika Lagna in D-2 is financial influence. The page ends with Devalokamsa and the choice between Lagna and Moon Vimshottari.

Chart Accuracy, Divisional Sensitivity & Planets as Extended Reference Points

How far a birth-time error moves the divisional lagnas: in a 9-minute window the D-24 lagna crosses about three signs, D-20 changes every 6 minutes and D-60 every 2, so you find the highest division whose lagna changes and test both lagnas against events and dashas. Rasi chart versus Janma Rasi, and why Lagna and Moon are only the two most popular references: every planet is a lagna for the matter it signifies, which is the philosophy of Ashtakavarga. A planet is judged by ownership (his agenda), occupancy (what he is told to do) and state, with Sarala and Harsha Yoga as the cases of a dusthana lord in his own house. Parasara’s rule of the house counted from the karaka: 8th from Saturn for hard work, 5th from Sun for power, 4th from Moon for mental peace, above all in Navamsa. The 8th from Lagna shows the problems of the whole existence, the 8th from Saturn the ability to labour through them, and A8 the setback the world sees.

Arudha Padas Deep Reading, Parivartana Yoga Rules & Mahapurusha Triggers

How to read an Arudha pada. The house shows whether a result exists; its Arudha shows the tangible form the world sees. Three things are read: the sign and house the pada falls in, the planets with rasi drishti on it, and its lord with his yogas. Worked on a student’s A9: exalted 9th lord Mars combust in the 6th, A9 in the 12th aspected by Venus, and the lords of AL and A9 together with Ketu. Transits from Arudha Lagna: Saturn on AL runs the image down, Jupiter protects it from a quadrant but gives a reality check from a trine, and Rahu and Ketu bless it from a trine. Parivartana is always a yoga, good or a duryoga by the houses exchanged. A Mahapurusha Yoga needs a dasha or transit to trigger it and then lasts for life.

Spirituality in D20, 4H from AK, Gem Remedies & Drig Dasha Introduction

No single planet makes a spiritual person: Jupiter gives the jnani, Sun the atma-jnani, Saturn the yogi and ascetic, Moon compassion, Mars the forceful sadhaka, Ketu the one close to moksha. The Moon–Saturn combination runs from simplicity and vairagya to depression, decided by closeness, Jupiter’s aspect, Saturn’s lordship and D-30. In D-20, the chart of upasana, the planet in the 4th from Atmakaraka shows the marga the soul wants (Jupiter or Sun: Vedic jnana; Moon, Mercury or Venus: bhakti; Saturn: yoga and kriya), while the 5th and 9th from Lagna show what the person actually practises. PVNR offers this as his own finding from 20–25 charts. A first mention of Drig Dasa, which starts from the 9th house and is auspicious in a sign holding or aspected by Ketu. Gems are a rajasic loan and prayer is risk-free: which lords’ gems to avoid and which may be worn.

LMT vs Standard Time & Graha Arudha — Deep Philosophy

A student brings two birth times nine minutes apart — 8:16 PM "local" and 8:25 PM GMT — and PVNR shows they are one chart: local mean time and standard time for a place 2°13′ west of Greenwich. Enter the time the way it was noted; neither is "more accurate", and for old charts try both. The second half is the philosophy of graha arudhas. Houses are the inanimate limbs of Kalapurusha and house lords are the intelligence of Narayana, both at the level of satya; the house arudha (A7) and the arudha of the house lord (L7) are their manifestations in maya. The page gives the calculation, the five reference points for a quality such as ability, and the warning not to use them interchangeably.

Muhurtha — Panchanga Elements, Nava Taras & Special Tithis

No day is good or bad in itself: a muhurtha is chosen for a purpose. The five panchanga elements and their tattvas — Tithi is water (well-being, prosperity), Vara is fire (vitality and longevity of the venture), Nakshatra is air (strength), Yoga is ether (what holds the forces together), Karana is earth (the solid achievement) — and which of them comes first for a medicine, a marriage or a house. Each element is tested three ways: good by nature, good for the native, and its lord well placed in the muhurtha chart. Then the Nava Taras counted from the natal Moon, the twelve special tithis (with tithi sandhi and the Amavasya rule) worked on PVNR’s own chart, and why Guru Purnima can fall with Moon in Capricorn.

Abhijit Muhurtha, Transit Analysis in Muhurtha Charts & Amavasya Rules

Abhijit Muhurtha is Sun in the 10th house, exact when Sun is at the lagna’s own degree. PVNR does not accept that it wipes out every other dosha: his book muhurtha was within one degree of exact Abhijit, yet a weak Vāreśa left the fire low and the book took three years. That muhurtha (May 13, 1997) is judged element by element — vara, nakshatra, tithi, karana, yoga, the 11th house — and then read through Jupiter’s transits: Pisces brought the guru, Aries the writing, Taurus the publication. Also: the first muhurtha of a kind rules the later ones, prayer before starting, the panchanga lords in a Tithi Pravesha chart, and the rule for Amavasya — Rahu must be well placed.

D60 Shashtiamsha — Four Levels of Karma, Past Life & Moola Dasha

A gemstone or any rajasic remedy only postpones karma, like paying a debt with a bank loan; sattvic remedies and penance burn it. Karma works at four levels — individual, family, society, universal — in decreasing order of importance. The Rasi chart is the physical existence, the other divisional charts are the environments around it, and the Shashtiamsa (D-60) is the karma from all past lives that is discharged through them, which is why it outweighs Rasi and Navamsa combined in Dasavarga Vimsopaka. The Arudha Lagna of D-60 is read as the lagna of the immediately previous life, and Moola Dasha times the karma shown from the D-60 lagna. D-60 lagna changes every two minutes of birth time, so it is the last step, used only after the other charts are rectified.

Shashtiamsha Amsha Names, Past-Life Phobias & Vimsopaka Bala

The 3rd house from the Arudha Lagna of D-60 shows the death in the past life: the sign gives the place, and the planets in it or having rasi drishti on it give the manner — Mars weapons and blood, Saturn a long illness, Sun the king's order or fire, exalted Moon drowning, Ketu a mistake. That death leaves a phobia in this life, which is the one thing about a past life that can be verified. The six Shashtiamsa names met in the class — Indu, Mrityu, Davagni, Bhrashta, Dandayudha, Kulaghna — say what kind of karma a planet carries, and the amsa is blended with the planet's place in the chart. In Dasavarga Vimsopaka Bala the Shashtiamsa is weighted above Rasi and Navamsa together.

Purusharthas, Digbala & Shadbala — The Complete Strength Framework

Which planets want to influence which Purushartha: Mercury and Jupiter the dharma trikona, Sun and Mars artha, Saturn kama, Moon and Venus moksha. These are not karakas — it is the planet's desire, not its job. Digbala is built on this: Mercury and Jupiter get the full 60 on the cusp of the 1st house, Sun and Mars in the 10th, Saturn in the 7th, Moon and Venus in the 4th, and it is read in every divisional chart. Then the six parts of Shadbala and the parts of Kala Bala, where the hour counts four times the year. Shadbala has one purpose: among the planets of a yoga, it shows which one delivers the result. It does not say a planet is good or bad.

Ashtakavarga Bala vs Vimsopaka Bala — Correct Usage & D60 Verification

Ashtakavarga Bala shows how much cooperation a planet gets from the other planets for its agenda. It changes from varga to varga and matters for dashas and antardashas. Vimsopaka Bala — the most important bala according to Parashara — is the planet's overall strength across the vargas (Dasavarga for human charts). Strong and weak are not good and bad: ownership and placement decide whether a planet is good, the bala only scales the result, and affliction provokes a strong bad planet. The page ends with the D-60 check on the example chart: Leo or Virgo Shashtyamsa lagna half a minute apart, each read from the Arudha Lagna, and Jupiter's Moola Dasha.

Young Woman Chart (1980) — Sanyasa Indicators & Spiritual Path Analysis

A 24-year-old woman wants to renounce the world; her family asks whether she will undo it later. The chart has no pravrajya yoga, yet rasi, navamsa, D-20 and D-10 agree on a spiritual life: Ketu in the 12th, lagna lord in the 8th with Sun and Jupiter, Ruchaka Yoga, Dhimanta Yoga, the 8th–12th exchange in D-20, Gajakesari and Lakshmi Yoga in the 12th of D-10. The page teaches the D-20 Narayana Dasha from the 8th lord and how to read the dasha sign from the Atmakaraka. It then reads marriage (Shatabdika Dasha, Upapada), children (Saptamsa) and the spouse (7th lord and his graha arudha). The verdict: she goes down the spiritual path, and later marries and has one child. Narasimha is the deity advised.

Annual TP Analysis — Methodology, Multiple-Planet Exchange & Gandanta Warning

A student sets a puzzle: his father’s chart and a date, January 14, 1980. PVNR reads the annual Tithi Pravesha chart of 1979 step by step — Rasi, Dasamsa, Navamsa, Saptamsa — and concludes "a good year overall, but no peace of mind": a Raj yoga of lagna lord Mercury and 5th lord Venus against Saturn in the 4th and Rahu on Moon and Jupiter. He applies the exchange rule for several planets in one sign (arrange by natural beneficence, pair from both ends) and its limit: Jupiter, Moon and Sun never exchange with Rahu unless a planet like Mercury mediates. A yoga in the annual chart gives its result when the Hora lord is involved in it. The natal Vimshottari then points at Jupiter, the 6th lord sitting 9 arc-minutes from the Cancer–Leo border: a planet in Gandanta must never be ignored.

D6 Health, D16 Vehicles & D30 Trimshamsa — Three Variations, Five Tattvas + Body Part Rules

Three divisional charts for trouble to the body, read in the annual chart of the puzzle year. D-6 (Shashthamsa) shows ill health, accidents and fights; its bad houses are the 6th and 8th, and Viparita yogas do not turn good there — the 8th lord in the 8th is bad. D-16 (Shodasamsa) shows what happens to your own vehicle; another vehicle hitting you does not show in it, and PVNR sets his own 1996 accident beside it. D-30 (Trimshamsa) comes in three variations — Parashara’s for vulnerabilities, Parivritti for evils being done now, Shashtyamsa-like for suffering due from past evils. In Parashara’s D-30 no planet falls in Cancer or Leo, Rahu and Ketu are the key, and the sign ruler gives the tattva: Mercury earth and bones, Venus water and blood, Mars fire and digestion, Saturn air and breathing, Jupiter Akasha, the worst. Body part rule: for the 8th lord take the sign he occupies in the natural zodiac, for the 6th lord the house he occupies from lagna.

Puzzle Answer: Jan 14 1980 Accident; Shoola Dasha (9-yr/sign); Sthira Karakas; D-12 Relative Events

The answer: a vehicular accident on January 14, 1980 — another vehicle hit him. The natal Vimshottari, Venus–Jupiter, showed it far more strongly than the annual chart. Jupiter is the 6th lord in Gandanta; Venus is the 8th lord in the 3rd from Arudha Lagna, the place of death-like experiences. Jupiter is also the Atmakaraka, and in an Atmakaraka’s dasha or antardasha death is unlikely: he gives a life-changing accident, not the end. Shoola Dasha is then introduced: start from the stronger of lagna and the 7th, 9 years a sign; danger when the sign is a trine or the 3rd from Arudha Lagna and is aspected by the 6th lord, 8th lord, badhakesha, marakas or a Gandanta planet. For a relative, start from that relative’s house, use A9 in place of AL, and watch the sign of the sthira karaka (father: stronger of Sun and Venus). The same accident is then read from the son’s chart, in Pitru Shoola Dasha and in D-12 from the 9th house and from L9. The class ends with the father’s career from D-10.

Q&A — Parivartana + Conjunction Order & Software Location Issues

A student asks which rule applies first when two planets share a house and one of them is also in parivartana with a third. PVNR says no rule is given anywhere and he sees no pattern in practice; test it on known events. An exchange is not active from birth — a dasha or antardasha triggers it — and it happens only between planets friendly to each other, whether they are benefic or malefic. Exchange works even from the two ends of a sign, but a Raja Yoga needs the planets close. Then: two towns of the same name in the software's atlas, villages missing from it, and why exact coordinates mean little if the birth time is loose. The closing question of the class — is any lagna the best? — is answered here too.

Daily Tithi Pravesha (TP) Chart — Theory, Hora Lord & Hierarchical Reading

A new day in a person's life starts each time the Sun–Moon differential has advanced 12° over its value at birth; a chart cast for that moment at the birthplace is the daily Tithi Pravesha chart. Tradition says only that such a chart can be made — reading it through the Hora Lord as ruler of the day is PVNR's own extrapolation from the annual chart. He works three of his own days: the day of the class (Mercury, writing), a job offer on 1 July 2003 (Saturn as Yogakaraka with all three trine lords in one house) and a layoff on 12 August 2002 (Jupiter, lagna lord, in the 8th). The layoff is then traced in that year's annual chart through Moon–Moon antardasha and the arudhas of D-10. The rule throughout: a daily chart cannot give what the annual chart does not show.

Hierarchical Chart Reading, Ashtakavarga in Kali Yuga & Fine Dasha Subdivisions

Which chart for which time scale: the natal chart and its dashas for years, the annual Tithi Pravesha chart for weeks and months, the daily chart for a day — each read inside the one above it. PVNR says the links between these levels are still missing from what he has taught. Ashtakavarga, by Parashara's own account, is the mechanical technique fit for the people of Kali Yuga because it needs the least discrimination. Vimshottari can be subdivided to six levels, but the dates are off by about m × n / 4 days for m minutes of birth-time error and a first dasha of n years, so periods of a few hours are useless without rectification to a fraction of a second. Also here: the four definitions of the moment of birth, and how Prasna differs from natal astrology and is used with it.

Worked Example — Rectification via Divisional Windows, Marriage & Childbirth

A student brings the chart of a young woman who asks whether an HR job is right for her. Before answering, PVNR tests the birth time against two dated events. No conditional dasha applies, so Vimshottari is used: marriage came in Jupiter–Sun, which the natal Navamsa explains, and the 2001 annual Tithi Pravesha chart shows the marriage year through its ruler Mars, the Upapada, Vivaha Sahama and a Saturn–Moon exchange. The 2003 annual Saptamsa does not show the child born in March 2004 until the birth time is moved forward 4 minutes, from 4:28 to 4:32 PM. The natal Saptamsa then gives the first child's lagna, the sex of the child and the dasha. For each divisional chart he notes how many minutes would change its lagna, and narrows the window from those.

Example Chart — Sickness Analysis & Functional Malefic Rules (Parashara)

A young man is laid up with body pains for a day, and the daily Tithi Pravesha chart is read for it. The Hora lord Moon, ruler of the day, does not explain the sickness. Physical vitality is Agni, and Agni is the Vara of the panchanga, so the weekday lord is the planet to read: Jupiter, 3rd and 6th lord in the 12th with the neutral 2nd lord Ketu — no Vipareeta Raja Yoga — and in D6 the 6th lord in a crowded 8th house with the nodes. In D6 Vipareeta Raja Yoga does not apply at all. Along the way Parashara's rules for functional nature: trine lords benefic, 2-8-12 neutral, 3-6-11 malefic, kendra lordship malefic for natural benefics and neutral for natural malefics, how to add two lordships, and Mercury's changing nature.

Muhurtha as Guidelines, 3rd from AL in D60 for Death & Nasthajatakam

In muhūrta the names of yogas and karaṇas are only guidelines: the placement of the lord in the natal chart and in the muhūrta chart decides, so Saturn’s Viṣṭi karaṇa can be the best choice for one person and Jupiter’s Garija a bad one for another. When the time cannot be chosen, go with the flow and pray to the deity of the weak planet. The class then covers how errors of birth place and birth time act on the lagna and the Moon, and why a birth time cannot be found reliably from the day alone. The 3rd from Āruḍha Lagna shows the kind of death — Mars or Rahu a violent weapon, Jupiter a death known in advance; the same combination in D-60 speaks of the previous life — tested on Ramana Maharshi. Also Naṣṭa Jātaka (the lost horoscope, a special praśna) and how to convince skeptics with hard-to-guess, objective predictions.

Example chart — spiritual practice (1966) Chart, Physical Features by Lagna & Sign

An example chart of a spiritual practitioner born in 1966. Navāṁśa: Ātmakāraka Sun in Gemini with Ketu in the 12th from him, aspected only by Saturn — close to liberation, with lives still to go. Rāśi: Scorpio lagna, lagna lord Ketu in the 12th with the 8th lord Mercury — strong spiritual experiences, which the student confirmed. Deity from the influences on Ketu (Saturn in Cancer): Vishnu as Veda Nārāyaṇa. The Nārāyaṇa daśā of D-20 times the experiences, the 3rd from Āruḍha Lagna and A8 show the loss of ego in samādhi, and Lakṣmī Yoga from two exalted trine lords is the biggest yoga. The second half gives the looks and attitude of the lagna signs and of planets in lagna as discussed in class, and shows where they help in rectification: choosing between two neighbouring lagnas, not finding a lagna from nothing.

Sudarshan Chakra Dasha — Introduction, Three-Chakra Tripod & Thumb Rules

Parāśara names two techniques for Kali Yuga: Ashtakavarga and Sudarshana Chakra Dasha. The chakra is three wheels of twelve houses, counted from Lagna, Moon and Sun — what you do, what you feel, and the long-term agenda of the soul with the opportunities the world gives for it. The planet that owns, occupies or aspects a house from all three references dominates that house. The daśā gives one house per year in a 12-year cycle (the Lagna-chakra sign is the Tājika Munthā), with monthly antardaśās counted from the daśā lord's natal sign, and it is judged from the entry chart of the year or month, not from the natal chart. Thumb rules: benefics are good in quadrants, trines, the 2nd, 8th and 11th and bad in the 3rd and 6th; malefics are good only in the 3rd, 6th and 11th; Sun is a benefic only when exalted or in the sign of a planet he regards as a friend. The published class notes add Mercury's rule, the bad pairs (Mars with Rahu, Sun with Moon, the 7th and 8th lords) and the yogas to look for from the daśā sign.

Sudarshan Chakra Mechanics — Benefic/Malefic Rules & Three Dasha Signs Interpretation

Recap of Sudarshan Chakra Dasha: one house a year, three dasha signs (from Lagna, Moon and Sun), judged from the planets at the start of the year. Parashara's natural benefic/malefic rules — when Sun, Moon and Mercury turn benefic, Rahu destroying the house he sits in — and the good houses: 3, 6, 11 for malefics; kendras, konas and the 8th for benefics, with only the 6th and 12th named as bad. The count of well-placed planets is a thumb rule; yogas from the dasha sign override it. The teacher's own reading of the three signs: Lagna-chakra shows what you do, Chandra-chakra how you feel the world is treating you, Surya-chakra how the world is actually treating you — so elections are read from Sun.

The Four Elements of Any House — Deep Framework & Divisional Chart Selection

A house, its lord, the arudha of the house and the arudha of the lord show four different things. The house is inanimate and the lord animate; both are intangible, and their arudhas are the tangible side. With the 9th house: the house is the guidance received from father, the lord is the intelligence behind it, A9 is how the world sees the fathering, and L9 is the father as a person — so for real people use the arudha of the house lord. The page also covers which divisional chart shows a relative's accident (D-12 directly, D-6 indirectly, D-16 only if the native's own vehicle comfort is hit), why real matters mix several divisional charts, and the same four elements applied to friends.

Father's Accident — D12 Sudarshan Chakra Dasha + TP Chart Analysis

A student's father had a vehicular accident in March 1996. The class checks it in D-12 three ways: the Tithi Pravesha chart of 1995–96 read from L9, the natal Shatabdika Dasha (Saturn/Mercury/Sun) read from the natal L9, and Sudarshana Chakra Dasha read from the 9th house of the progressed Surya lagna. All three give the same warning of a sudden mishap. On the way it teaches how to choose between two conditional dashas that both qualify — longer cycle, lower probability, and the strength of the planet fulfilling the condition — why an annual chart must be read against the natal chart, and the dictum that Rahu in lagna in Leo or Virgo gives rajyam.

Sudarshan Chakra Dasha — Mother's Illness & Indira Gandhi's Death Analysis

A homework review. A student's mother was seriously ill for two months in 2005. PVNR opens the Sudarshana Chakra Dasha of D-12, takes the 4th from the Surya Chakra sign as the mother's lagna, and reads the entry chart of the year: the lagna lord Rahu in the 6th with the 6th lord Moon, and a debilitated Jupiter with Ketu in the 12th — sickness, confinement, and a helper who works by intuition without much hope. The Moon in the 12th from the Chandra Chakra is a sense of loss, not death. Death needs a māraka combination, which he shows in Rajiv Gandhi's D-12 for the year his mother was assassinated: the 2nd and 7th lord Venus in the mother's lagna, Mars and Ketu aspecting from the bādhaka sthāna, and a Saturn–Mars exchange. The month of the illness is then read the same way, with its Ashtakavarga. The page opens with two questions from the class: atheism in a chart, and Rahu in the 2nd house.

Arudha Significance in Lagna, Badhakesha & Graha Arudha (Substitute Class)

A substitute class taken by a senior student, built on the students' questions. An arudha in the lagna influences the person's life, and the sign it sits in colours it: A9 in the lagna keeps the person fortunate as time passes, A3 gives a communicator, A10 (Rajya Pada) an action-oriented person who rises; A9 in the 7th makes fortune rise after marriage. Two arudhas in one sign do not give together — one gives at a time, and with AL and UL together it is image or marriage. Badhakesha is read from the lagna (11th lord for movable signs, 9th for fixed, 7th for dual) and works on the mind, so the obstacle cannot be traced; if it is also the Atmakaraka the obstacle is tied to the past life. Graha arudha is about relationship, not impression: it shows how people of a given lagna are disposed towards the native.

D12 Parents Analysis — Mother from the 4th Lord, Father from the 9th Lord

How to read the parents from the native's D-12, worked on a student's chart with his own confirmations. In this class the mother is read from the sign where the 4th lord sits and the father from the sign where the 9th lord sits — the lord, not the house, because a graha represents the person and the house only the surroundings. The lagna lord's place from those two lords shows the native's side: in a dusthana from them it can mean physical distance, not a bad relationship. The mother, from Saturn in Aquarius: Tapasvi Yoga, a sharp mind without schooling, and health harmed by Saturn in Marana Karaka Sthana. The father, from retrograde Mercury in Gemini with Mars: intelligent and assertive, the badhakesha in the 4th giving a life on the move, and the 10th lord Jupiter in Virgo — he teaches farmers. What the lords do not show — success, health, results — is left to the arudhas A4 and A9.

Tapasvi Yoga, Retrograde Planets, A4+A9 Together & AL in D24

Four points from a substitute class, three of them out of one student's D-12. Tapasvi Yoga is Saturn, Venus and Ketu in combination — hard work, passion and detachment — named from Bhrigu's penance hanging upside down; the person works on regardless of weather or situation, and Saturn with Ketu gives vairagya. A retrograde planet is as strong as an exalted one: cheshta bala means to try, so it does not give up and stands on its own beside another planet. A4 and A9 in the same sign link the parents' destinies closely, so that what one goes through the other feels; here both fall in Pisces, the 6th from the D-12 lagna. The arudha lagna in D-24 shows how a person manifests in learning — benefics give a knowledgeable person, tamasic planets a leaning to tantra — but character cannot be judged from D-24 alone.

Mundane Charts & Arudha Padas — Bhava vs. Pada, A8 Mrityupada, 3rd from AL

For a country, read the annual Tithi Pravesha chart with Tithi Ashtottari daśā: Vimshottari assumes a 120-year life and no paramāyu is given for countries. A house (bhāva) is the intangible meaning; its ārūḍha (pada) is the tangible event. A8, the Mrityupada, shows deaths that make the news — or a sudden gain, so it cannot be read alone. The 3rd from Arudha Lagna shows how death comes: the sign gives the place, the planets on it the manner. In India's 2005 annual chart Libra holds A8, is the 3rd from AL and holds the Apamrityu Sahama, and its lord Venus was running his daśā during the floods and blasts; the Rudramsa (D-11) and Trimsamsa (D-30) confirm it.

Mahatma Gandhi & Indira Gandhi Death Analysis — 3rd from AL, Dasha Selection

Gandhi: Arudha Lagna in Cancer with Moon in own sign and Rahu — the compassionate saint dominates, with a scandalous image in some circles. Jupiter in Aries in the 10th from AL is a peaceful war. Two conditional daśās apply (Dwisaptati Sama: 7th lord in lagna; Chaturashiti Sama: 10th lord in the 10th); take the longer and the rarer one — Chaturashiti Sama. His Dasamsa: A10 with A8 in the 6th, Jivanta Yoga of the 5th and 6th lords, A4 in the 12th in a martial sign; struggle in Venus daśā (1919–31), the desire fulfilled in Sun daśā (1943–55). Sun in the 3rd from AL: death by firearms. Indira Gandhi: AL in Aries, the Durga image; Ketu and Mandi in Gemini, the 3rd from AL, with Rahu aspecting — a far more violent death.

Lunar New Year Comparison (1900 vs 2005) — Hora Lord, Multiple Calendars & Mundane Patterns

The US Lunar New Year charts of 1900 (Galveston hurricane) and 2005 (Hurricane Katrina), cast for Washington DC, share Leo rising, lagna lord Sun and Moon in a watery 8th house, A4 in the 12th, and Moon as Hora Lord. Moon in the 8th is in Marana Karaka Sthana; a watery planet helpless in a watery sign points to destruction by water. The Rudramsha (D-11) of both years puts the marakas in watery signs. The teacher argues that the ruler of the year is the hora lord at the exact New Year moment, and that taking the next sunrise's weekday lord is a later corruption made for the civil celebration. Each New Year has its own matter: the Pisces new moon shows the general mood of the people, the Libra new moon (Kartika Shukla Pratipada) the finances, the Gemini one the weather, the Cancer one rains and crops. The national chart does not give the place of a disaster; a town's own incorporation chart does.

Marana Karaka Sthana Complete Table & 1930 Financial Chart (Great Depression)

Marana Karaka Sthana is the one house where a planet is helpless: Sun in the 12th, Moon in the 8th, Mars and Mercury in the 7th, Jupiter in the 3rd, Venus in the 6th, Saturn in the 1st, Rahu in the 9th. Ketu has none, because he only wants to give moksha. Mercury, unlike other benefics, is happy in the 6th and 8th, as he is in the 3rd and 4th. The 2nd and 7th are the maraka sthanas because they are the 12th from the 3rd (vitality) and the 8th (longevity); accidents are seen from the 6th and 8th. In the hora chart of the 1930 Financial New Year (Sun–Moon conjunction in Libra, Washington DC), four of the eight planets are in Marana Karaka Sthana and Sun and Moon sit in the 8th eclipsed by Ketu: a terrible year. For mundane dashas, compress to the year, use a conditional dasha when its condition applies, and choose the Vimshottari variant by the planets in kendras.

Example Chart — topher Reeve Horse Accident — Animal Karakas, Matrsulya Shapa & Rasi vs. Graha Drishti

Graha dṛṣṭi is a planet's desire and may or may not be fulfilled; rāśi dṛṣṭi is permanent access from where the planet sits, and is the more important. A maraka with both is the one that kills. Parashara and Jaimini are one astrology, not two systems. In Christopher Reeve's chart (Cancer lagna) the two marakas, 2nd lord Sun and 7th lord Saturn, sit with Mercury in Virgo, the 3rd house and the 7th from Arudha Lagna. Rahu's 9th aspect makes three malefics on Mercury: the maternal uncle's curse. In D-6 Mercury is the 7th lord with 6th lord Sun and A6; in D-30 he is the 8th lord in the 11th. The riding accident came in Sun mahadasha: Sun, lord of A6, gives his own results while Mercury and Saturn exchange theirs. Animals belong to planets — Moon humans, Sun birds, Saturn dogs, Jupiter elephants, Rahu tigers and boars, Ketu fish, Mercury horses — and a person should keep away from the animal of his maraka.

Rahu-Ketu Deep Philosophy, 4-Level House Doctrine & Advisors in a Leader's Chart

Parashara gives raja yoga to Saturn or Rahu in the 12th from Arudha Lagna: the person is seen giving up suffering and malice, while benefics belong in the 1st or 2nd from AL. Rahu loves Cancer, Leo and Virgo — Cancer most — because he is bhoga and wants to eclipse Moon, the mind; Ketu is moksha and wants to eclipse Sun, the atma. The page then shows how to find a leader’s people in the chart: followers from the 5th, servants from the 6th from Saturn, advisers from the 2nd from the planet of their kind (Moon and Mercury for political advisers). The four factors — house, house lord, arudha of the house, arudha of the house lord — separate the advice from the advisers. Bush’s advisers are read for 2005–06 from L12 in the annual dasamsa: Rahu in their badhakasthana, debilitated Saturn in the 6th, and a Gajakesari in the 12th that makes even imprisonment pay.

Dick Cheney Natal — Rasi vs D10 Distinction, Karyesha Doctrine & Raj Yogas in Dasamsa

Rasi is the chart of physical existence; Dasamsa is the professional environment around it — Rasi shows a man working hard, only D10 shows whether he pulls a rickshaw or runs a country. A8 in Rasi is bodily suffering, A8 in D10 the end of a career. The Karyesha is taken from Rasi: 10th lord for career (Venus here), 4th for learning, 7th for marriage, 9th for dharma, 8th for tapas. In Cheney’s D10 (Scorpio lagna) Mars forms Raj Yogas with Saturn and Venus on the 5th/11th axis, Jupiter–Rahu is a weaker one, and the main ones are Jupiter with lagna lord Ketu and Jupiter with 10th lord Sun, all within a 5° arc; the Sun’s part gives political power of the highest grade. Lagna lord in the 5th of D10 is attachment to power, Mars in Agni’s dasamsa makes a strategist and policy-maker, 9th lord in lagna makes him his own boss, and fixed signs rising in Rasi and D10 (Leo, Scorpio) make him rigid.

Project Manager Analogy, Libby as Advisor via Graha Arudha & 3H Malefic Argala

How to find a particular person in a chart. The boss is the Graha Arudha of the 9th lord of D10 (Pisces here). An adviser is a resource, not a follower: take the 2nd house from the planet that fits his role (Mercury for scholarly advisers and the media face, Jupiter for counsel, Sun for fellow politicians), then the Graha Arudha of its lord. For Libby that is Aries, from where Mercury is 6th lord in Badhakasthana (litigation that grows) and Ketu is 8th lord there with 5th lord Sun, which cancels any Raj Yoga and eclipses his power. The project-manager analogy, worked on the 2000 annual Dasamsa: the karaka is only the project manager; a planet acting on the house delivers if it stands well with the karaka and with its own dispositor, the group manager. Two malefics alone in the 3rd from a house give it a strong Argala — the result is won by bravery.

Panchanga 5 Tattvas, Nakshatra Suktam & Special Nakshatras from Moon

The five limbs of the panchanga stand for the five elements: tithi is water (prosperity, happiness, connectedness), vara is fire (life force, longevity), nakshatra is air (kinetic energy), yoga is ether (binds the other four), karana is earth. Space was created first and Vayu next, so a disturbed Vayu — tension, anxiety, things that will not get moving — is treated through the nakshatra, ahead of tithi and karana. The remedy is the Nakshatra Suktam: 28 Vedic mantras, one for the deity of each nakshatra (Abhijit included), running from Krittika to Bharani; the class reads Krittika (Agni) and Rohini (Prajapati). Which nakshatra to propitiate: one of the special nakshatras counted from natal Moon on the 28-nakshatra scheme — Janma, Karma (10th, career), Manasa, Abhisheka (26th, power), Vainashika — or the nakshatra of an important planet, such as a Jupiter in Ashlesha whose Hamsa yoga is not working. A wrong choice still does only good.

Kala vs Hora Distinction, Best Activity per Planet's Kala & True Abhijit Muhurta

Kala is the 1.5-hour division of day and night counted from sunrise. It is generic — the same for everyone in a town — and is read from the planet's general significations: Rahu kalam for puja and meditation only, Surya for the temple, Guru for Vedic knowledge, Shukra for enjoyment, Mangala for a fight, Budha for study and writing, Shani for hard, disciplined work. Hora is the 1-hour division and is read from your own chart; the hora lord at the start of a job, a marriage, a year or the reading of a book is the king of that whole activity, above the five panchanga lords, who are his ministers. For a muhurta pick the hora of a planet that is good for the relevant house in the natal chart. The epoch is sunrise: the clock-based "Mahakala" hora is not for muhurta, and kalas must be recomputed for the place. Also covered: the 5-minute signs of prasna with day and night signs, Yamagandam and Gulika, and Abhijit — not 12 o'clock, but the Sun on the 10th cusp at the same degree, minute and second as the lagna, with its caveats.

Tribhagi Vimshottari Dasha — Introduction & the 27-Nakshatra Cycle

How Tribhagi Vimshottari Dasha is computed. In normal Vimshottari each planet's dasha comes once in 120 years and has to stand for all three of its nakshatras, which lie 120° apart. Tribhagi gives every nakshatra its own dasha: 27 dashas in nakshatra order from Moon's nakshatra, so Ketu, Venus, Sun and the rest each come three times — Ketu for Ashwini, then for Magha, then for Mula. Each dasha is one third of its normal length (Ketu 2 years 4 months, Venus 6 years 8 months), a round of nine takes 40 years and the three rounds 120. A student asks why the three parts of one planet are not run together; that would only reproduce normal Vimshottari and jump around the zodiac, while Tribhagi moves through it in order. The recording stops at the computation. The published class notes carry the rest: read the dasha in the rasi chart first and the navamsa second, alongside normal Vimshottari; spread each dasha over its nakshatra's 13°20′ to get the progressed Moon (8th house turbulence, 9th house protection) and see which sahamas and special lagnas it touches — event-based sahamas (Jalapatana, Labha), duration-based ones (Jada, Roga), Sri Lagna for Lakshmi's blessing, Ghati Lagna for power. Worked on PVNR's own chart: Sun dasha of Krittika, March 1993–March 1995, moving from the 8th house to the 9th; Rahu dasha of Ardra, November 2000–November 2006, with Rudra as the deity to propitiate; Roga sahama at the end of Revati in 1983–84; Ghati Lagna in Uttara Phalguni reached in 2033, in Venus–Saturn of normal Vimshottari.

Tribhagi Vimshottari Deep Philosophy — Nakshatra as Pranavayu & 3 Gunas

A student finds that normal Vimshottari and Tribhagi Vimshottari seem to say different things about a marriage. The teacher’s answer: no dasha answers a questionnaire; each divides life into phases seen from one perspective. Normal Vimshottari shows what the mind experiences, Narayana Dasha shows the circumstances on the ground, and Tribhagi shows the life force behind the mind — because a nakshatra is a station of Pranavayu and the progressed Moon takes its energy. Ardra (Rudra) and Punarvasu (Aditi) are compared, and the three Rahu nakshatras are shown to be totally different. In Tribhagi the nakshatra is primary and the graha secondary: look at what sits in the running nakshatra natally and who transits or aspects it now. The page also covers the three gunas of the trine nakshatras, where the teacher has used this dasha (mundane and Kartika Shukla Pratipada charts), and why conflicting factors are understood, not reconciled.

Lagna vs Moon Deep Teaching — Legislator vs Executive & Sarvatobhadra Chakra Intro

Lagna and Moon are not alternatives. The mind experiences the world, processes it, and forms the action items; all of that is Moon. Lagna is that through which you then act. Moon is the legislator within you and Lagna the executive, so the kind of action a person takes is read from both together. The second half, from the written class notes because the recording stops, introduces the Sarvatobhadra Chakra as a nakshatra chart for transit: Vedha, Latta (bad on the Janma Nakshatra), the special nakshatra aspects of each planet (the 15th common to all; Jupiter 10, 15, 19; Saturn 3, 5, 15, 19; Mars 1, 3, 7, 8, 15; Sun and Moon 14, 15; Mercury and Venus 1, 15), how retrograde, normal and fast motion turn the full aspect, and the upagrahas as sons of the planets.

Sarvatobhadra Chakra & Tribhagi Examples — Pranapada, Agitation & Spiritual Path

Three charts read with Tribhagi Vimshottari and the Sarvatobhadra Chakra, taken from the written class notes (the recording stops as the first chart is opened). Chart 1: Pranapada Lagna in Shravana, Vishnu’s star, during the Moon–Shravana dasha, with the speed check that decides the direction of each planet’s full aspect. Chart 2: a native agitated in the Ardra dasha and again in the Punarvasu dasha — Mrityu, the upagraha that is the son of Mars, sits in Punarvasu and Moon’s 15th-nakshatra aspect falls there; when Kala, Mrityu or Gulika is in the nakshatra, worship its deity, here Aditi. Chart 3: the Vishakha dasha with Ketu transiting Vishakha at the end of 2003 and start of 2004, the time to decide on Vedic learning and detachment. Order of importance: planet in the nakshatra, Vedha, aspect, then Latta.

Parashara's Functional Benefic Rules & Nakshatra Remedies with Transits

Parashara's rules for functional nature: lords of 1, 5, 9 are always benefic; natural benefics owning 4, 7, 10 become inauspicious (a smaller blemish than 3, 6, 11) while natural malefics owning them are neutral; lords of 3, 6, 11 are bad; lords of 2, 8, 12 are neutral. The two lordships of a planet are averaged, and lagna lordship dominates the 6th. Natural nature is separate: Mercury takes the nature of the planets he is with, by numbers first and closeness second. The page also covers using a nakshatra mantra when a planet transits the Karma Nakshatra (the 10th star from the birth star), the end-of-class questions on the father's house and on daśā versus transit, and the Pranapada Lagna homework.

Alcoholism Chart Analysis — Moon in Evil Houses, Chart Rectification & D11 for Weaknesses

A chart posted by the native's child: the father an alcoholic, worse after 1989. Saturn causes alcoholism, but the Moon must be afflicted — tied to the 6th or 8th house — and the 5th house of judgment must be hit. With the given Leo lagna the Moon sits in the 5th under Jupiter’s rāśi dṛṣṭi and nothing fits, so the teacher moves the birth about 26 minutes back to Cancer lagna: Moon as lagna lord in the 6th, Rahu and Saturn in the 5th, 2nd lord Sun in the 8th, Saturn in the 6th and Ātmakāraka Rahu in the 11th of the Rudrāṁśa (D-11). Mars daśā from 1989 and Rahu daśā from 1996 match the life. The page also gives the roles of D-6, D-11 and D-30, why the 6th and 11th are the two most evil houses, and the Moon’s affliction needed for depression and pravrajyā.

Palana Devata, Healing via 4th House & Dasa Mahavidya — 10 Divine Mothers Mapped to Planets

The remedy for the alcoholism chart. Ishta Devata, read from the Ātmakāraka in Navāṁśa, is for moksha; for a trouble of sustenance the teacher takes the Palana Devata — the 6th from the Amātyakāraka in Navāṁśa — and finds Saturn in its own sign there. He cross-checks with the house of healing, the 4th (mother nurses the sick; Moon is its kāraka): the 4th lord Venus is in a sign of Saturn. Saturn is Kali among the Dasa Mahavidyas, so the remedy is prayer to Kali, and Venus in the 4th from the Ātmakāraka in Navāṁśa shows the Mother’s blessing is already there. The page gives the full mapping of the nine planets and lagna to the ten Mahavidyas, sāttvik against tantric worship, how the family should start the remedy, the helpful antardaśās, and the books to trust.

Kali Upasana Indicators, Shadripu & 8th Lord in Trine House

Addiction is a weakness and belongs to the 6th house, the ṣaḍripus; which weakness it is shows in D-30 and D-11 — Venus badly placed in D-11 gives a weakness for women. An 8th lord in the 5th: the 8th house gains, but a malefic in a trine takes that house’s resources for 8th-lord work and pollutes it; the saving factor in the example is a strong 5th lord Mars aspecting the 5th. Kali upasana is shown by Saturn with Moon, or Mars and Saturn aspecting Moon, and the Divine Mother’s blessing by Moon and Venus on the lagna in the rāśi chart and D-20 — both seen in the second example chart.

D10 Career Analysis — Mars vs Ketu in Army, Saturn-Mars Raj Yoga & Foreign Travel

A practical class: a student brings his own career question and the class rectifies and reads his Dasamsha. Ketu shows the foot soldier who takes orders, Mars the planner and commander, Sun the king who delegates; maintaining telecom hardware is Mars and Ketu, not Mercury. Saturn and Mars in mutual aspect are a clash of stability and dynamism and, as lagna lord and 10th lord, also a Raja Yoga; with both in fixed signs stability wins, so this man does not change jobs easily. Mars in own sign in the 10th is Ruchaka Mahapurusha Yoga, and Saturn in the Arudha Lagna of D10 marks a stable man who seldom changes jobs. The class then checks by hand why Saturn and not Rahu lords Aquarius, and reads the Saturn-Venus antardasha that ended his army career through the 4th-12th Parivartana, the bhoga in the 8th, and A8 with AL. Foreign travel is read from the Rashi chart: 9th and 12th houses, the Badhakasthana (11th, 9th, 7th for movable, fixed, dual lagnas) and the Jalapatana Sahama one degree from Saturn.

D7 Saptamsha Children Analysis — Sex Determination, Conception & Birth Timing

Conception and birth are timed from the D-7 of two annual charts. In 2005 the ruler of the year, Mars, is exalted in the D-7 lagna, and Venus — 5th lord and yogakāraka in the 9th — gives the conception and the news in his daśā. In 2006 the first-child sign of the D-7 is Pisces with Jupiter in it, and Jupiter also owns the Putra Sahama, so his daśā (April 26 – June 27) is named for the birth; working nine months back lands on the Venus daśā of 2005, and the conception did come in August 2005. The page then gives the D-7 rule for the sex of the first child — count the 5th forward from an odd lagna, backward from an even one, reversed when a node is in lagna, then judge the lord’s sign and companions. Applied to this chart both counts say girl; the ultrasound showed a boy, and the teacher puts the rule at about 80%.

D7 Counting Corrections, Harsha/Tarala/Vimala Yogas & Satabdika Dasha

A correction to the D7 counting rule: the count of children reverses when Rahu or Ketu is in the 7th house, not in lagna, because the 5th house is the 11th (gains) from the 7th house of marriage. A strong Jupiter or Saturn with Ketu in the 7th may keep the count normal. For a second marriage, first find the house of that marriage (the 2nd) and count 11 houses from it. The page also covers the odd/even sign rule for the sex of a child and why it is not reliable alone, the Harsha, Tarala and Vimala yogas (6th, 8th, 12th lord in own house), and when Śatābdika daśā applies (Navamsa lagna vargottama).

D20 Vimsamsa Spirituality Analysis — Narayana Dasha 3-Part Rule & Internal vs External Karma

D20 shows how you modify yourself; D10 shows how you modify the world, so the wish to spread spirituality in society is a Dasamsa matter. The example is a pediatrician on a spiritual path: D20 lagna lord Saturn in the 12th shows internalized meditation, and Mars (5th and 12th lord of the Rashi chart, the kāryeśa for D20) joins the 9th lord Mercury and both nodes in the 10th of D20. The Narayana daśā three-part rule: a śīrṣodaya sign gives in the first third, a pṛṣṭhodaya sign (Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Sagittarius, Capricorn) in the last third, the lord by the sign he occupies, and aspects and yogas on the sign in the middle third. In D20 the 7th and 8th houses show the end of the inner struggle, not death. The annual D20 for 2006 shows the sādhanā turning into outward activity.

D9 Marriage Analysis — Same Antardasha in Different Mahadashas Gives Different Results

The Navamsa lagna is first fixed from the marriage (1976): Mercury antardaśā fits Sagittarius better than Scorpio, and Śatābdika daśā (Jupiter–Saturn) confirms it. D7 then confirms the time through both daughters. The main lesson: lagna is only half of judging an antardaśā, the Mahādaśā lord is the other half. Saturn, giving the result of Venus, gave marriage in Jupiter Mahādaśā because Venus is the 7th lord in the 7th from Jupiter; in Saturn’s own Mahādaśā the same Venus is read from lagna, in the 6th house of compromise, with Harsha Yoga making the change painless. The annual Navamsa for 2006 (Mars and Ketu in the 12th, 8th lord Jupiter in lagna) shows sudden detachment, and the husband is read from L7, the graha ārūḍha of the 7th lord.

D30 Subconscious Psychology, D6 Physical Disease & Mental Illness Analysis

A woman's mind becomes unstable two months after her second child is born, just as Moon daśā begins. The class reads the Rashi first: debilitated lagna lord Mars with bādhakeśa Saturn in the 4th, Moon in lagna with Ketu and Jupiter, and a waning Moon who, as a natural malefic owning a quadrant, is functionally neutral. D30 is the chart of subconscious weakness: its five pairs of signs stand for the five tattvas, and Moon in a Saturn sign means air — a wandering mind; in a Mars sign, anger; in a Mercury sign, attachment. D6 shows the physical onset of disease: Moon as 12th lord exalted with the nodes in the 12th gives hospitalisation, but a long illness needs the 6th and 8th houses, which Moon barely touches. The page also covers the choice of daśā and when a parivartana takes effect.

Bhoga/Paaka in D6 for Disease Timing & Navamsha as Protection (Purva Punya)

The coming antardaśās of Moon daśā are judged in D6, each lord taken from the D6 lagna and again from the daśā lord. Mars is yogakāraka and bādhakeśa for the Leo lagna of D6; he sits with lagna lord Sun in the 5th and gives Sun's results — recovery through past good karma — but both are in the 8th from Moon, and the bhoga falls in the 12th, so the recovery is partial. In Rahu antardaśā the 12th lord's daśā meets a planet in the 12th, and Rahu, a bādhakeśa, aspects Moon in the Rashi: the trouble may linger. Jupiter antardaśā in 2008 is excellent. Last comes the Navamsa: it shows pūrva puṇya, the protection that decides whether an affliction in Rashi or D30 brings a person down; here Moon, its 9th lord, is in the 8th. The recording ends there. From the published class notes the page adds the Paryāya daśā of D6 — a rāśi daśā for illness, read in thirds, with the daśā lord's Rashi lordship weighed as well — and the annual charts of 2005 to 2008, which put the relief in 2008.

D30 Remedies, Kali Forms & Exchange of Results for Many Planets in One Sign

Moon with Saturn, Rahu or Ketu in D30 shows where the mind is vulnerable, and in D6 and D30 there is no Viparīta Rāja Yoga: the 6th, 8th and 12th lords only give suffering. A debilitated planet calls for a female deity and an exalted one for a male deity, so a debilitated Moon with Saturn points to Kali — worshipped as Mother Kalikamba at any time for relief, never with the Mahavidya mantras, which are for Self-knowledge alone. Sun with Rahu in lagna gives a weak constitution early in life; Jupiter rescues Sun, so Dakshinamurti is the remedy, and the Vāreśa is the protector unless he is himself wrecked. The example chart has five planets in Leo: rank them by beneficence and the first and last, second and second-last exchange results in the nakṣatra daśā, while the middle one keeps his own.

Five Planets in Leo — Narayana Dasha 3-Part Rule, Annual TPs & D10 Rectification

With five planets in Leo, the Leo Narayana Daśā (2014–2019, age 34–39) fires many yogas at once. Leo is śīrṣodaya, so the first third gives the sign itself (5th house: children, recognition), the middle third its lord Sun in the 12th (occult learning — the 12th is the 8th from the 5th), and the last third the six planets in and aspecting Leo. The daśā entry chart shows a strong career, a pull abroad, and the 5th lord Jupiter in the 8th: some trouble over children. The 2017 and 2018 Tithi Praveśa charts confirm a setback and then a turn to the question "Who am I?"; the 2019 chart, from the published class notes, looks good. The D10 is then rectified from Leo to Cancer lagna (6:45 to 6:43 AM) because only Cancer explains a financial analyst rising in Virgo and Libra daśās. Rules taught: Saturn or Rahu in the 7th or 12th from AL give material Rāja Yoga, a benefic in the 8th from AL gives a sudden rise, and Venus in the 7th gives desire that cannot be satisfied.

Next UL Marriage, Rahu-Ketu = Barrier-Breaking, D12 Parents, Sunapha/Anapha & House Buying

A serious relationship of several months counts as a marriage. The Upapada here is in Capricorn, a dry sign, and its 2nd lords Saturn and Rahu sit in the 8th from it, so the first relationship does not become a marriage; the next one is read from the 8th house from the UL (Leo), and in navāṁśa from the 8th from the 7th. Rahu or Ketu on the Upapada or its 2nd lord shows a partner from across a cultural barrier, not necessarily another country; love is a separate matter, shown by Venus, A7, the 5th house and UL. The year's Tithi Praveśa is read for a chance of marriage. The page also covers the D20 (5th and 10th lords in the 7th = spiritual work for society; 9th lord Moon in the 8th = little religiosity; Capricorn daśā 2015–2021 as the turning point), D12 with the 4th house as mother's lagna and the 9th as father's, Sunaphā and Anaphā yogas, house buying from A4, UL and Mars in D4, and why no single chart decides an event.

Multiple Spouses & Children in D7/D9 — Sequential vs Simultaneous, Abortion Indicators

How to find the second and third spouse, and the children of each, in Navamsha and Saptamsha. A relationship that ended is followed by the 8th from its sign (7th, 2nd, 9th, 4th); one added while the earlier continues is the 6th (7th, 12th, 5th) — a rule PVNR gives as untested tradition. The first child of any relationship is the 11th from the sign showing it, counted forward if that sign is odd and backward if even, and every conception counts, born or not. Mars can show a natural miscarriage; the D7 lagna lord involved with Rahu suggests the native chose an abortion, the lord of the marriage sign that the other partner did. The page also carries the class's side topics: the Guru Bindu midpoint progressed inside the annual chart, Ketu in the 8th, the houses of eyes, vision, ears and hearing, and Rahu's aspects.

D10 Career Rectification, A5 Recognition Analysis & Vision Problems from Rahu

A Pisces-lagna chart of a software engineer who began in hardware and feels unrecognised at work. Vision is the 10th house (9th from the 2nd): Rahu at 18°29' Aries throws his 9th aspect on Sagittarius within 4 minutes of the lagna degree, far closer than Saturn's aspect from the lagna, and Rahu in the 2nd puts the trouble in the right eye. The D10 lagna sits on the Aries–Taurus border; Taurus is chosen because Mars and Rahu in the 6th aspect the lagna (the hardware start) and because A5 then falls in Scorpio with Saturn and the debilitated Moon — some recognition, hard-earned, that never satisfies. The 6th is stronger than the 7th and the 7th lord Mars sits in the 6th, so service, not business. The remedy is Kali through the 7th adhyāya of the Chaṇḍīpāṭh, for Moon and Saturn in a Mars sign. Had the pair been in Pisces, a sattvic form — Sarasvatī, Tārā or Tāraṇa Kālī — would fit. The 2006 Tithi Praveśa chart is then read period by period: Mercury in a duryoga (politics at work), Saturn giving Simhasana yoga (relief), Jupiter in the 8th from AL in D10 (a sudden rise).

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

Simhasana yoga is Saturn in Cancer with Cancer as the lagna or the 10th house; in the example's annual chart Saturn gives it from the 10th of Libra lagna, where he is also yogakāraka. Moon and Saturn together are not always sad: when both are strong the pair gives great energy and insensitivity to pain (the published class notes call this Shashi Yoga). Kumari Vav is a ritual marriage gone through and broken when the first UL is too weak to last, so that the marriage which follows is read from the next, stronger sign; PVNR reports that it works and does not claim to know how. He then answers the objection that a remedy is new karma: advise by the stature of the person. The astrologer who believes "my knowledge did this" makes karma; the one who acts as the instrument of the Iṣṭa Devatā does not.

D4 Chaturthamsa Real Estate Framework — Key Arudhas, ND Starting Rule & Multi-Property Acquisition

D4 (Chaturthamsa) is the chart for the home you live in and the properties you own. The 3rd house, being 12th from the 4th, shows investment in property; the 5th and 9th show purva punya and fortune; A4 is the tangible house, A6 the loans and labour, A11 the gain, UL what is given up to acquire, AL the status. The 1968 example has D4 lagna Libra with AL, UL, A6 and A11 all in Sagittarius beside the yogakaraka Saturn: in the Sagittarius–Sagittarius Narayana Dasha of D4 the native bought two plots and two houses between July and September 2005, in the part of the dasha that the three-parts rule gives to Rahu, the 5th lord placed 7th from AL. Vimshottari ran Jupiter–Rahu at the same time. The page also gives the starting sign of the D4 Narayana Dasha — the sign holding the 4th lord of the rasi chart — and a corner case from the 1961 chart where the Saturn exception had to be switched off.

Two House Constructions — Annual Chart Double Link, Conditional Dasa Scope & Benefic vs Malefic Building Dasha

The 1961 example built two houses. The first, in India in 1991, came in Ketu–Saturn of Vimshottari: Ketu is the 3rd lord of D4 in the 6th and in A4, Saturn the 5th lord joined to the 4th lord Jupiter. Chaturaseeti Sama Dasha applies to the chart but shows nothing, which leads to the scope of conditional dasas: each is best in its focus area, and Vimshottari is the character actor who does well in every film. The D4 Narayana Dasha fits only once the Saturn exception is switched off, putting 1991 in Leo dasha — Rahu for the start of construction, the 12th lord Sun in the 9th for moving in. The second house, in the USA in 1999–2000, came in Venus–Mars. A house built in a benefic or good-house dasha gives happiness and a long stay; one built in a malefic or dusthana dasha gives money but little happiness. The 1999 Tithi Pravesha has A4 in the 12th and the 4th lord in UL — a double link between the 4th and 12th that shows a change of residence.

Mars-Rahu Kujasthambhana, Subramanya Remedy & a House Buying Prediction

Two planets together exchange results unless they hate each other. Mars and Rahu do not: like a police officer and an underworld don in one room they open fire, and the house they sit in is damaged. This is Kujasthambhana, and the remedy is Subramanya, who rides the peacock — one prayer weakens Rahu the snake and strengthens Mars the warrior. With the pair in a sign of Venus he is prayed to as the husband of Valli and Devasena. Kuja dosha is taken up briefly and called highly overrated. The 1967 example has Mars and Rahu in the 2nd of D4 and asks when he will buy a house: in Mars mahadasha the Saturn antardasha (November 2006 to December 2007) is picked, because Saturn owns A4, sits in A11 and aspects UL; the D4 Narayana Dasha of Capricorn narrows it to after March 29, 2007; and the 2007–08 Tithi Pravesha, with A4, A9 and A10 in lagna with Venus, points to the Jupiter or Venus period of that year.

D4 Lottery Win — Badhakesha+Rahu = Foreign Fortune, 3 Quadrant Lords in 9H & A8+A9 = Sudden Windfall

A man living in the USA walks into an open house in 2005 and wins a $200,000 concession on the price. The class first checks which daśā applies, then judges his D4 (Scorpio lagna): the lagna lord Mars in the 8th gives a sudden rise in property, three quadrant lords in the 9th are aspected by the debilitated 5th lord Jupiter from the Arudha Lagna, and the 9th and 10th lords Moon and Sun exchange signs. Moon is also the badhakesha and sits with Rahu in Leo — fortune away from the motherland, and little sukha from the house itself. The Narayana daśā of D4 is then split by the three-part rule: Capricorn takes the last third, its lord Saturn the middle, and Jupiter, Moon and Rahu share the first third at eight months each. The win falls in Rahu’s eight months (June 2005 – February 2006), because Rahu alone has graha dṛṣṭi on A4 and A9, and A8 sits with A9.

ND vs VD Vantage Points, Cross-Divisional Chart Links (D4↔D2↔D20) & Annual Chart 2005 Confirmation

The lottery win is checked three more ways. Vimshottari: it came on the border of Sun and Moon daśā, the 10th and 9th lords of D4 who exchange signs. Tithi Praveśa 2005: Moon and Mars join closely in the 6th of the year’s D4, Jupiter aspects them from A9, A8 is again with A9, and the class weighs Jupiter, Rahu and the ruler of the year Venus as the giver. Hora chart: the same event shows in Narayana daśā as a big expense and loan, while Vimshottari shows the fortune he feels — Narayana daśā is what happens on the ground, Vimshottari is the mind. From there the teacher gives the method for linking divisional charts through the signs and planets they share, traces the Capricorn–Cancer axis of D4 into the hora chart, D20 and D10, and corrects the D10 and D20 lagna from the native's profession.

Ishta/Palana/Dharma Devata Calculation, Complete Planet-Deity Table, Vastu Directions & Jyeshtha-Moola Gandanta

Three devatas are read from the navamsa of the example chart: the Ishta devata from the 12th from Atmakaraka (Saturn with Sun in a Mercurial sign — Vishnu, as Rama or Venkateswara), the Palana devata from the 6th from Amatyakaraka (Rahu — Durga), and the Dharma devata from the 9th from Atmakaraka (Mercury in Scorpio — Vishnu, or Narasimha). The teacher gives the general planet-to-devata list, shows how the sign and the planets with Saturn change the form, and picks Raja Ganapati for Ketu in Leo lagna, with advice on the haste of Ketu in lagna and the stubbornness of Leo. He then speaks on the astrologer’s karma: give up doership, or the results of your advice come to you. The page opens with why the Jyeshtha–Moola gandanta is the most critical one, and the planets of the Vastu directions.

Shodasha Varga Complete Reference, Manakaraka Sthana Table & Marriage Obstacles (Multiple Factors)

A revision of what each divisional chart shows, from D1 to D60, with the arithmetic behind D16, D30, D40 and D45 and why Parasara weighs D60 above Rasi and Navamsa together. Then Marana Karaka Sthana — the one house where a planet is like dead: Sun in the 12th, Saturn in the 1st, Jupiter in the 3rd, Rahu in the 9th, Mars and Mercury in the 7th; none for Ketu. The example is a Sagittarius-lagna woman who did not want to marry. The Rasi chart gives four reasons: the 5th lord Mars and 7th lord Mercury both in Marana Karaka Sthana in the 7th, Saturn (Darakaraka and Upapada lord) with Moon in the Arudha Lagna, A7 in the 12th from the Arudha Lagna, and Venus as 6th lord in the 8th.

D24 Rectification via B.Sc. Graduation, Education House Progressions & Navamsha Marriage Analysis

Before reading marriage from the Navamsa, the Navamsa lagna is confirmed: Cancer, or Leo if the birth was 4½ minutes later. The Dasamsa lagna Aries (not Pisces) fits a woman who does not work — Saturn, Mercury and Sun are all in Marana Karaka Sthana there — and rules out an earlier time. The D24 then fixes it: she took her bachelor's degree in 1988 in the last third of Cancer Narayana Dasha, Cancer being the 7th (maraka) from the 9th house Capricorn and holding A7, the arudha of the 11th from the 9th. Education houses run 4th, 9th, 2nd — every 6th, because knowledge is accumulated; what is ended and begun afresh runs every 7th. The confirmed Cancer Navamsa has Sun, exalted Jupiter and Ketu in lagna, the 7th lord Saturn debilitated, Rahu in the 7th and the Rasi 7th lord Mercury in the 8th.

Chaturashiti Sama Dasha, Navamsa Narayana Dasha & Multi-Dasha Convergence for Divorce

A lagna at 29°13' Libra is settled by marriage and divorce, not by looks: Libra brings in Chaturashiti Sama Dasha, Scorpio a different conditional dasha, and only Libra explains both events. Moon–Jupiter gave the marriage in May 1997 — Moon sits in UL in Navamsa with rasi drishti on the 7th and is the 2nd lord from UL in Rasi; Jupiter is the Navamsa 7th lord. Mars–Mars gave the break — Mars is the debilitated 6th lord of Navamsa, with Venus, in A6. Vimshottari (Mercury–Jupiter, Ketu–Rahu) works less clearly, but its Ketu–Mars antardasha of February–July 2004 overlaps Chaturashiti Mars–Mars, so all four lords own the Navamsa 6th house. Navamsa Narayana Dasha agrees: Sagittarius, the 7th house, gave marriage in its own last third, and Capricorn, the 8th house, gave divorce in its own last third. The page also gives the rule that the lord of a house is a weak maraka for it.

Second Marriage Analysis (8th from 7H), Spouse Nature from L7 as Lagna & Children from Second Marriage

After a divorce or the death of a spouse, the second marriage is the 8th from the 7th house in Navamsa — here Cancer — and that sign is read as the lagna of the new relationship; for polygamy the 6th from the 7th is taken instead. Mars, who broke the first marriage as 6th lord, is yogakaraka from Cancer. Timing of the remarriage is worked through Chaturashiti, Navamsa Narayana Dasha (Aquarius is a better candidate than Capricorn) and the Tithi Pravesha charts of 2006 and 2007, where a link between lagna lord and 2nd lord shows a second marriage. The first husband is read from A7 / L7 in Aries: debilitated Saturn in lagna under Mars' argala and Rahu's aspect — suspicious, slow, explosive. Children are read in Saptamsa: the 11th from each marriage's sign, forward for an odd sign and backward for an even one; Rahu sits in the first-child sign of the first marriage, and the lord of the first-child sign of the second is in the 8th from it with Ketu.

Gemstone Selection Methodology, Sattvic vs Rajasic Prayer vs Gemstones & Ghatika Lagna Definition

What could have been done before the divorce period: prayer first — Valli Subrahmanya for the Mars who breaks the marriage, and a fast on the day of the UL lord with prayer to the deity of the 2nd lord from UL, who sustains a marriage. A gemstone must be judged in both Rasi and Navamsa; here both 7th lords fail, Mercury is a very good candidate, and the Sun, exalted in the 7th and in the Navamsa lagna, has no serious blemish. Prayer without desire is sattvic; prayer for a result is rajasic, like a bribe to the officer; a gemstone only strengthens the planet to do what it is destined to do, like a loan on a charge card. People in deep trouble should still be given prayer with a desire. The page ends with ghatika and vighatika as units of time, why Ghatika Lagna stays 24 minutes in a sign, and the depth of the Jyeshtha–Moola gandanta.

D2 Financial Analysis, Speculation Indicators & Karthika Shukla Pratipada Financial New Year Chart

The Hora chart of a stock-market investor. A risk-taker is seen when Mars, karaka of risk, or the 8th house has a role with lagna or lagna lord: here the 8th lord and Mars are in lagna and the lagna lord is in Scorpio. Whether he gains is read from A8 (the tangible gamble) and A11 (the tangible gain) — the yogakaraka Saturn has argala on both. Moon, lord of A11 in the 12th and 12th lord from the dasha lord, marks a window of loss, and the Narayana Dasha of the Hora chart is split into three parts. The page then gives the financial new year chart — the Sun–Moon conjunction in Libra, cast for the capital — with China 2005, India 2005 and the crash the teacher predicted in class from India's 2006 chart: Scorpio lagna in gandanta with the lagna lord and five more planets in the 12th.

Planetary Dhatu (Tissue) Table, Body-Part Disability Rules & D24 MBA Timing

A leg deformity from birth, read in the Rasi chart because a handicap is at the physical level. The dhatus of the planets: Sun bones, Moon blood, Mars nerves (not muscle), Mercury rasa dhatu, Jupiter fat, Venus sexual fluids, Saturn muscle; Rahu and Ketu deplete all tissues. A thumb rule for the body part: the 8th lord by the sign he occupies in the natural zodiac, the 6th lord by the house he occupies from lagna — it does not find the leg here. What does: Rahu, co-lord of the 10th (knee and calf) and Gnati Karaka, in the 6th with a debilitated Sun and Mars; the tissue is bone. The second half fixes the D24 lagna as Leo, not Virgo, from the engineering degree, shows why Sagittarius Narayana Dasha ended that degree, and times a master's: an MBA in engineering management, in the next two and a half years or not at all.

Annual Chart Career Timing, D7 First Child (Putrasaham) & Natal vs Tithi Pravesh Distinction

The natal dashas give a window for going independent — after August 2006, for about 14 months; the Tithi Pravesha charts narrow it. In the year from October 2005 the ruler Saturn shows hard work in the old job and the Dasamsa lagna lord is debilitated: no change. In the year from November 2006 the ruler Venus is the yogakaraka, 4th lord in the 4th of Dasamsa, in Raja Yoga with Mercury in the Rasi; the 7th lord Sun is exalted in the 3rd. Sun's period, October–November 2006, is the time to start consulting, and Mercury's, February–March 2007, brings recognition. The first child, born 28 April 2006, is not explained by the natal Saptamsa dasha but by the annual chart: Putra Saham, the 3rd house of Saptamsa as gain of a child, Moon and Jupiter on the lagna axis. The page closes with the rule on the two charts: predict from either, look for the same combination in both, but pray from the natal chart — except at the moment the year begins.

Katapayadi System — Name-to-Sign Activation, Jaimini's Arudha Exceptions Decoded & 4 Yugas

A guest teacher opens Jaimini's Upadesa Sutras. Jaimini was Parasara's student and his "advisory stanzas" elaborate on Parasara; there is no separate Jaimini system. The four Yugas map to the four quadrants of the Kalapurusha (Aries/Sun, Cancer/Jupiter, Libra/Saturn, Capricorn/Mars with Jupiter debilitated), and foreseeing Kali Yuga, Jaimini encrypted his sutras with the Katapayadi Varga. The page gives the consonant table and the algorithm: write the digits of the syllables, reverse them, divide by 12 for the sign and by 9 for the planet; vowels, halanta consonants and the second half of a conjunct are not counted. The planets in the sign your name gives are activated whenever you are called by it (the lord, if the sign is empty), so the name as people pronounce it is what counts. The same code unlocks the two Arudha exceptions: "svasthe dārāḥ" gives 4 and 4 (lord in the 4th → the 4th is the Arudha) and "sutasthe janma" gives 7 and 10 (lord in the 7th → the 10th is the Arudha).

Chara Karaka Scheme (8 vs 7), Sthira Karakas & 12 Navamsha Sign Trouble Areas

The eight Chara Karakas are Atma, Amatya, Bhratri, Matri, Pitri, Putra, Gnati and Dara. Following Pt. Sanjay Rath, use eight for living beings that reproduce, and seven — Matri and Putra fused — for inanimate and mundane charts such as a rocket launch, an organisation or an election. The Sthira Karakas are the fixed significators of relatives (Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus; Sun and Venus for father, Moon and Mars for mother), used for Shoola Dasa, health and longevity: take the stronger of a pair, or the weaker only if it is badly afflicted. Jaimini then lists an area of trouble for each of the 12 Navamsa signs — Gemini and Virgo skin and weight, Scorpio shortage of mother's milk, Sagittarius a fall from height or position, Capricorn spirits and psychic disorders. One way to apply it: take the Badhaka lord or the most afflicted planet in the rasi chart and read the Navamsa sign it occupies. The class tries this on a child with a skin problem, where Mercury must be afflicted, and the teacher admits the chart is not clear-cut.

Swamsa (Navamsha Lagna) Planet Effects, Navamsha as Past-Life Blessing & Navamsha Rectification

Swamsa here means the Navamsa Lagna, unless Jaimini explicitly means the Karakamsa. The page gives his statement for each planet in Swamsa — Sun government and social service; full Moon with Venus luxuries and an educationist; Mars metals, arms and fire; Mercury trade and legal norms; Jupiter a karma yogi who excels by intelligence; Venus a passionate, virile official; Saturn success in any line through hard work; Rahu a bowman or thief who handles poisons; Ketu elephants, swindling, mathematics — with the teacher's notes, including Rahu as import and Ketu as export. Read planets in the Navamsa Lagna first, then its trines, then planets aspecting it; its lord and a Kartari also count. The Navamsa shows ability because only dharma is carried over from the past life; the Dasamsa shows what the person does with it. The 9th house is the good karma done, the 5th the credit remaining. To check a Navamsa Lagna, match its planets to the person's known character.

Navamsha Architecture (Trikona→Kendra Mapping), Marana Karaka in Varga Charts & Weekday Counting from 10th

Two students' Navamshas are read with last week's Swamsa rules: the nature of the planets in the Navamsha lagna, in its trines, flanking it (kartari) or aspecting it by rāśi dṛṣṭi is imparted to the native, and a Vargottama planet does the same. The second chart is rectified from Sagittarius to Scorpio Navamsha lagna by testing it against the marriage: Venus in the 12th and a marriage begun in the dasha of the 8th lord would not have lasted. Marana Karaka Sthana in a varga is counted from the karya bhava — the 7th in Navamsha, the 10th in Dasamsa — so Venus in the 12th of Navamsha is very bad for marriage, and the 8th lord of Navamsha is the marriage breaker unless Venus is in the 8th. A planet in the 10th of Navamsha gives the results of the planet three steps on in weekday order (Mercury gives Saturn, Jupiter gives Rahu). The trines of each kind map to one Navamsha kendra — 1-5-9 to the lagna, 4-8-12 to the 4th, 3-7-11 to the 7th, 2-6-10 to the 10th — which is why the kendras are the pillars and the 10th of Navamsha is finance.

Jaimini Swamsa Combinations (Sun+Rahu, Tapasya Yoga, Ketu), Spouse from 7H & Place of Mating from 4H

Jaimini's sutras on combinations in Swamsa. Sun and Rahu show danger from snake venom; with benefic aspect the same pair makes a toxicologist; Mars aspecting makes an arsonist, Venus a firefighter, and Jupiter one who burns his own house, because Jupiter expands whatever he touches. Saturn with Rahu gives a seller or user of intoxicants, Moon in the 4th with Venus a sailor, Moon with Gulika stolen wealth, and Ketu on Swamsa ear ailments when malefics join. Ketu turns things from their usual course: with Venus asceticism, with Mercury and Saturn impotency, and Saturn aspecting Venus and Ketu makes a tapasvi while Saturn alone on Ketu makes a false sanyasi. The 7th from Swamsa describes the spouse, and the planets there are found strong in the spouse's own chart; the 4th, being the 10th from the 7th, shows the place of mating; the 2nd shows morals, where Ketu ends the passion of Venus and Mars, Jupiter enlarges it and Rahu ruins wealth through it.

3rd/9th/10th House from Swamsa (Courage/Dharma/Fortune), Construction Materials & Karakamsa vs Swamsa

The 3rd from Swamsa shows courage and the skill of the hands: malefics give a warrior, benefics a docile and diplomatic person, Venus the brush, Mercury the pen, Mars weapons; malefics in the 3rd and 6th give a farmer or a soldier, and Jupiter in the 9th a big landlord. The 9th shows dharma and faith: benefics make one righteous and devoted to teachers, malefics faithless, Saturn with Rahu one who betrays his elders, Sun with Jupiter their confidant — and a malefic must be weak for its worst to show. The 10th of Navamsha is fortune, since the Artha trines map to it: benefics give stable fortune, malefics a fluctuating income, Mercury the results of Saturn, and Sun, Moon and Jupiter a Raja Yoga. The 4th gives the residence and its materials, mainly for prasna: Moon with Venus a palace, Saturn with Rahu stone, Mars with Ketu brick, Jupiter wood, Sun thatch. Karakamsa is the desire carried from the past life and Lagnamsa what has materialised; Jaimini uses the words loosely and usually means the Navamsha lagna.

Marana Karaka Refinement, Navamsha Trikona-Kendra Mathematical Proof & Moksha Indicators from Karakamsa

A planet in Marana Karaka Sthana that sits in its own sign, mūlatrikoṇa or exaltation is neutralised, not cleared: both the trouble and its cancellation are seen. When a good placement is also a Marana Karaka Sthana from the Karya Bhava (Jupiter in the 9th of Navāṁśa), judge the karaka of the varga first — Venus in Navāṁśa. The class then works by hand, from a 16° Aries lagna, why every Rāśi trikona lands on one Navāṁśa kendra: Dharma (1-5-9) on the 1st, Artha (2-6-10) on the 10th, Kama (3-7-11) on the 7th, Moksha (4-8-12) on the 4th. That is why malefics in the 10th of Navāṁśa unsettle finances, and why Jaimini Sutra 1.2.70 names the 4th beside the 12th. Sutras 1.2.67–1.2.71 follow: Jupiter in the 9th gives authority; benefics in the 12th from Karakāṁśa take the soul to an auspicious world; Ketu in the 12th or 4th gives final emancipation; malefics there deny it — with the teacher’s caveat that Sun and Ketu count as benefics on the spiritual plane.

Ishta Devata by 12th from Atmakaraka (Jaimini Sutras 1.2.72–1.2.81), Palana Devata & Mantra/Tantra Indicators

Jaimini Sutras 1.2.72–1.2.81 give the Ishta Devata from the planet in the 12th from Karakāṁśa: Sun with Ketu — Shiva; Moon — Gauri, with the form of the Mother following the Moon’s phase (Kali near Amāvāsyā); Venus — Lakshmi; Mars — Skanda; Mercury or Saturn — Vishnu; Jupiter — Sāmbaśiva or the formless; Rahu — Durga; Ketu — Ganesha; Saturn or Venus in a malefic sign — dark practices, which are not automatically bad if benefics aspect. When the native worships another deity, read the trines to the Navāṁśa Lagna and the 5th house of the Rāśi chart; the Karakāṁśa deity is the shortest path, not the only one. Sutra 1.2.82 reads the same scheme from the 6th from Amatyakaraka for the Palana Devata, the deity of sustenance. Sutras 1.2.83–84 count malefics in trines to Karakāṁśa — one for mantra, two for mantra and its usage, more for yantra and tantra — turned to black magic by malefic aspect and to good use by benefic aspect. The class also matches deities outside the list to planets: Ayyappa as Sun, Mercury and Mars; Guru Nanak as Jupiter.

Moon Profession/Health Combinations, D24 Education Field Guidance (BCS vs Biotech) & Career Indicators

Jaimini’s Moon combinations: Moon in svāṁśa aspected by Venus gives work with liquids and chemicals (chemical engineering); aspected by Mercury, a doctor; Moon in the 4th from svāṁśa aspected by Venus, Mars or Ketu gives leucoderma, white leprosy or bluish leprosy — the teacher admits the logic of the last group is not yet clear to him. The example is a boy choosing between Computer Science and biotechnology after his 12th. The Navāṁśa is confirmed first: Taurus rising, with exalted vargottama Mars in a trine, Jupiter and Mercury aspecting the lagna, and Venus in the 10th giving the effect of Ketu in lagna by the weekday-order rule; Aries rising, two minutes earlier, is tested and dropped. In D-24 three lagnas lie within minutes — Gemini with every malefic in a kendra (Sarpa Yoga), Cancer with the lagna lord in the 8th, Taurus with the 8th lord in lagna — and the class does not settle among them. Mars and Mercury favour computers; the Moon–Jupiter parivartana in Navāṁśa and Rahu with the Moon in D-24 favour biotechnology, which is the suggestion. Rule: a debilitated 9th or 4th lord in D-24 means the native did not get the line of study he wanted.

Disease Indicators from 4th/5th of Swamsa (TB, Ulcers, Poison) & Weapon/Skill Themes from 5th

Jaimini sutras 1.2.91–1.2.101, read by a guest teacher. Disease from the 4th or 5th of Swamsa: Rahu and Mars together show tuberculosis, and the Moon's aspect makes it sure; Mars alone gives boils, ulcers, cuts and gangrene (Agni tattva, pitta); Ketu gives glandular and waterborne disease; Rahu with Gulika gives affliction from poison, turned by the aspect of Mercury or Venus (handles poison medically), Jupiter (consumes it) or Mars (sells it). The sutras are advisory: confirm disease in the D-6, and in the Navamsa use rasi drishti, since graha drishti shows desire. Gulika is the poison we receive from the world, Maandi the poison we give. Then the skills of the 5th: Saturn the archer, Ketu watches and miniaturization, Mercury the ascetic, Rahu the metallurgist, Sun the swordsman, Mars the lancer — read today as logic and the power of execution. The teacher says plainly where he is guessing at the reason and where he does not know it.

Authorship/Knowledge by Planet, House-Position Differentiation, Khemadruma Yoga & Complete MK Sthana List

Jaimini sutras 1.2.102–1.2.119. Moon and Jupiter in Swamsa or the 5th make an excellent author; Venus in Jupiter's place a lesser one, Mercury lesser still. Planet by planet in the 1st or 5th: Venus the poet, speaker and critic; Jupiter the genius and author who is not eloquent; Saturn stage fright; Mercury the Mimamsaka; Mars the logician; Moon Sankhya, Yoga, music and singing; Sun the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita; Ketu mathematics, because mathematics needs intuition. Jupiter's aspect widens any of them, and the results extend to the 2nd house. The house tells how the ability comes: 1st from birth, 5th by abhyasa, 9th from a guru or institution, 2nd inborn plus abhyasa and a source of money. Only planets in these houses or aspecting the Navamsa lagna count, and lordship is ignored. Ketu in the 2nd under malefic aspect gives stammering. Khemadruma Yoga — malefics in the 2nd and 8th — harms health from Lagna, finance and status from Arudha Lagna in the rasi chart, marriage from Navamsa lagna and spiritual life from Karakamsa; the Moon's aspect makes it sure. The page ends with the Marana Karaka Sthana of every planet, counted from the karya bhava.

Addiction Planets, Scorpio Sign Nature (Stagnant Water), Weekday Counting Examples & Chart Applications

Four side-discussions of the class and its two charts. Addiction: Rahu is psychotropic drugs, Saturn purely alcohol — but no house of Saturn does it; Saturn must afflict the Moon, and the same contact that makes a drinker is a main factor for pravrajya in the charts of saints. Scorpio is not ice: it is passionate and vindictive, ruled by Mars and Ketu, both guhya, so what is inside stays hidden; among the water signs Cancer is moving water, Pisces either, Scorpio stagnant and infested. The weekday count from the 10th of Navamsa: Mars there puts Venus on the lagna (a perfectionist), Rahu there puts the Moon on the lagna (pilgrimage). Then a student's chart with Pisces Navamsa lagna is read sutra by sutra and tested for Khemadruma from Arudha Lagna, and a second chart is set as an assignment: which Navamsa lagna fits a self-taught astrologer who loved mathematics?

BPHS Ch.31 Argala — Foundation (Bolt = Certainty), Sthanas, Grades & Rahu/Ketu Reversal Correction

The class begins reading Parāśara śloka by śloka with the Argalādhyāya. Argala is a bolt: it makes the results of houses dṛḍha (solid) and of planets sthira (fixed). Only planets cause argala — from the 4th, 2nd and 11th, and also the 5th — and only planets obstruct it, from the 10th, 12th, 3rd and 9th respectively; weak or fewer obstructors do not count, and an obstructor works only against its own argala sthāna. PVNR corrects the earlier teaching: the reverse count applies only to argala or bādhā caused by Rāhu or Ketu themselves (not Mars or Saturn, and not to every planet on a sign Ketu occupies), so for a node the argala and bādhā sthānas swap. Grades: one planet kaniṣṭha (ignore it), two madhyama, more than two uttama, counted net of obstruction.

Viprita Argala, Nirabhasa, Subhargala vs Papargala, Functional Nature Quality & Argala on All Trines

The rest of the Argalādhyāya. Viparīta argala: more than two malefics obstructing from the 3rd house turn into argala. Argala is of two kinds, working (unobstructed) and fruitless (obstructed) — not auspicious and inauspicious. Nirābhāsa, "genuine", argala on the pada (Āruḍha Lagna, named first), the lagna or the 10th makes the native very famous and fortunate; PVNR gives two readings of "genuine". Śubhārgala and pāpārgala are decided by the house that receives the argala, not by the planet, and a planet that also aspects lagna gives more. The planet's functional nature sets the measure: functional benefics and neutrals give the full result, functional malefics half. Argala on lagna, 5th and 9th together: born a king.

Argala Timing via Narayana Dasha, Bush Presidency Application & Universal Scope (Natal/TP/Varga)

Parāśara times argala by the antardaśā of the sign holding the argala planet in a rāśi daśā (Chara, or Nārāyaṇa as its generalisation); PVNR applies it to navāṁśa, daśāṁśa and Tithi Praveśa charts as well. George W. Bush, Cancer lagna: no significant argala on lagna, a two-planet argala (Moon and Jupiter) on the Āruḍha Lagna in Scorpio, and four planets (Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars) on the 10th house. In the navāṁśa Mars, Jupiter, Moon and Saturn give argala on the 9th house while Rāhu, counted in reverse, obstructs — hence the shaky year before the 2004 election. Six unobstructed planets on A6 show great fortune together with many enemies. In class the events are matched to Jupiter daśā antardaśās of a graha daśā; checking the Nārāyaṇa daśā (Pisces daśā, Cancer antardaśā at the 2000 election) is set as homework.

Argala Clarifications (Rahu/Ketu Reversed Sthanas, Debilitated Badha) & Functional Benefic/Malefic Rules

Follow-up questions on Argala. Rahu and Ketu cause Argala from the 12th, 10th and 3rd (and 9th), so Rahu in the 12th adds to a planet in the 2nd, while Rahu sitting in the 2nd with that planet obstructs it. PVNR gives the grammar behind reading "tamograha" as Rahu and Ketu only — the word is in the dual wherever Parashara uses it outside a compound — and says why Jaimini's sutra cannot settle the matter. A debilitated or weak planet cannot obstruct, and planets in an obstruction place block only the Argala that corresponds to them. The second half restates how functional nature follows from the houses a planet owns: 1/5/9 benefic, 3/6/11 malefic, 2/8/12 neutral, 4/7/10 neutral for natural malefics and malefic for natural benefics, with the combining rule, the kendra-lordship dosha, why it never takes away a Raja yoga, and why trine lords are not all benefic to the same degree.

BPHS Ch.85 — 14 Inauspicious Birth Doshas, Shanti Remedies & Ketu in 2nd House (Voice Quality)

BPHS Chapter 85 (Ashubha Janma) lists the conditions that make a birth inauspicious even when lagna and planets are good: Amavasya, Krishna Chaturdashi, Vishti karana, the nakshatra of a sibling or of the father, Surya Sankranti, Pata, an eclipse, Vyatipata and the other bad Panchanga yogas, the three Gandantas, Yamaghanta, Dagdha yoga, birth after three children of the other sex, and abnormal birth. PVNR reads the verses word by word and marks what is unsettled — what "darsha" means, that only part of Chaturdashi is inauspicious, that Sankranti must be a duration and not the instant of ingress, whether miscarriages count. Shanti is the remedy: best in the first 21 or 41 days, and never too late. The class began the chapter on a Sankranti day with Vishti karana and Atiganda yoga running. The page also carries the answer on Ketu in the 2nd house: he can spoil speech first, with stammering, and gives a very clear voice once that is over.

Argala on UL for Marriage Timing, L7 vs A7 Distinction & Maraka for Husband from L7

A Virgo-lagna woman married at 17 in Mercury–Saturn and widowed in Venus–Mercury. UL is in the 8th house, but its lord Mars sits in the 2nd from it with the lagna lord, and three net Argalas fall on UL — full effect. The navamsha makes the timing convincing: Mercury exalted in the 9th, Saturn in exchange with Venus, and Saturn holding Argala on lagna, on the 7th house and on Venus himself, which introduces Argala on a planet as the promotion of that planet's agenda. Navamsha Narayana dasha and the 1979 Tithi Pravesha chart, where lagna, 7th house and UL carry 3, 5 and 4 Argalas, agree. For the husband's death PVNR sets out house, lord and their Arudhas: the 7th house is the relationship, A7 its visible form, the 7th lord the intelligence guiding it, and L7 — the Arudha of the 7th lord — the husband himself. From L7 in Pisces, Venus is the 8th lord and Mercury the 7th lord in the 7th.

BPHS Ch.87 Krishna Chaturdashi 6-Part Analysis, Shiva Shanti Procedure & Vimshottari Dasha Seed Strength

BPHS Chapter 87: Krishna Chaturdashi is not inauspicious as a whole. Divide the tithi into six parts: the first is auspicious, then come suffering to the father, the mother, the maternal uncle, the whole lineage, and last the loss of wealth or destruction of self. The part is found from the percentage of the tithi left at birth — above 83.33% is the first part and needs no shanti. PVNR works three cases, his own birth among them (85.99% left, first part). The remedy is puja of Shiva: an idol with as much gold as one can afford, crescent on the head, white clothes and garland, three eyes, seated on the bull, hands in vara and abhaya; Tryambakam as the main mantra; graha puja; homa with ghee, sesame, urad and mustard; abhishekam of the child and the feeding of brahmanas with a glad heart. The page ends with the Vimshottari seed comparison: Utpanna, Kshema or Adhana Vimshottari can time death better than the normal one when its seed has more planets in kendras, while results in life stay with the normal Vimshottari.

Matri Shola Dasha, Mother's Cancer Analysis via L4 & Sthira Karaka + Cancer vs Tumor Indicators

A student's mother is in the last stage of cancer, and PVNR reads the son's chart for her. First a sanity check with Matri Shoola Dasha in the rashi chart: the dashas of A4, of its trines and of the trines of mother's Sthira Karaka (the stronger of Mars and Moon) can kill, and Scorpio dasha, running 2004–2013, is A4 itself. Then Vimshottari, read in the Dwadasamsa from L4, the Arudha of the 4th lord: Saturn is 2nd lord in the 3rd with Ketu, Mercury is 7th lord in the 7th, and Moon as 8th lord is hemmed in by Rahu, Saturn and Ketu. Saturn is the one planet that weakens the sign he owns and occupies, because the 1st house is his Marana Karaka Sthana. The Tithi Pravesha Dwadasamsa of the running year shows disease, not death — Mars, ruler of the year, is 8th lord, and Sun and Ketu sit in the 8th — while the next year has strong marakas. Also here: tamasic planets for cancer against Jupiter–Venus for tumours, the 8th house against the 6th for disease, and the remedies PVNR gives.

BPHS Ch.90 — 7 Sankranti Purushas, Dosha Definition (Half-Degree Rule) & Effect on Native

BPHS Chapter 90: birth at Sūrya Saṅkrānti, the moment the Sun changes sign. Parāśara names the Saṅkrānti by the weekday of the exact moment of ingress, not the birth weekday and not the sign entered: Sunday Ghora, Monday Dhwankshi, Tuesday Mahodari, Wednesday Manda, Thursday Mandakini, Friday Mishra, Saturday Rakshasi. The verse gives poverty and sadness until the remedy is done, and PVNR says this is the doṣa he has most often seen bite. He lists the competing definitions (civil day, ±12 hours, first degree) and recommends one: Sun within half a degree of a sign border, 29°30'–30° or 0°–0°30', in the natal chart only — never in a Tithi Praveśa chart. From tradition, not from Parāśara: the lord of the Saṅkrānti weekday, by the signs he owns and occupies, shows where the trouble falls. A student in class turns out to have the doṣa (Sun 29°56' Leo, Saturday Saṅkrānti); the class first reads the Sun by mistake, then corrects to Saturn. The page ends with why the transition harms: the Sun is a different Āditya in each sign, and at the border he is between two forms.

Sankranti Shanti Procedure (Navagraha Homam), Parashara's Actual Mantra Counts & Qualified Priests

The Saṅkrānti śānti of BPHS Chapter 90 is a Navagraha Homam, read verse by verse. East of the house, ground smeared with cow dung; a grain pile of 5 droṇas paddy, 2½ of white rice and 1¼ of sesame with an eight-petalled lotus drawn on it; Puṇyāhavācanam; an ācārya who knows the tattva of the mantra; 9 graha and 12 rāśi kalaśas filled with the sanctified water; the Saṅkrānti devatā in the middle with Sūrya on the right and Chandra on the left. The main idol gets the Tryambaka mantra, 1008, 108 or at least 28 times while touching it; Sūrya gets "Ut Surya", Chandra "Apyayasva". The fire goes west of the kalaśas, with samidh, ghee and charu on the Tryambaka mantra and a sesame homa, then abhiṣeka of the native with all the kalaśa water and feeding of brāhmaṇas. PVNR adds how to ask a priest to follow Parāśara's format, and why a homa feeds every graha alike. Side point: the popular japa count of Vimśottarī years × 1,000 is not Parāśara's. His counts as read in class are Sun 7,000, Moon 11,000, Mercury 9,000, Jupiter 19,000, Venus 15,000, Saturn 23,000, Rāhu 18,000, Ketu 17,000.

Grahas as Consciousness (Why Not Outer Planets), TP Chart Dasha Boundary Rule & Sun in Hasta Worship

The questions from the second half of the class. Why Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are not used: by gravitation alone Uranus has 1/50–1/100 of Saturn's effect and Pluto 1/1,000–1/10,000, but gravitation is not the point. Graha means that which grasps: a consciousness that catches hold of yours at the level of the kāraṇa śarīra. Rāhu and Ketu have no mass at all and still act. The ṛṣis chose to stop at Saturn; those who assign exaltations and results to Pluto are creating, not discovering. Tithi Praveśa daśā at the year boundary: a TP chart is void the day the next Tithi Praveśa arrives, so a daśā that straddles the date is read from the old chart up to that day and from the new chart after it. Sun in Hasta, about 13 days from ten days after the Virgo ingress, is the best time of the year to worship Sūrya, above all with the Sūrya Upaniṣad. The class ends with a navāṁśa rectification on the Leo/Virgo lagna border that PVNR abandons because the second relationship does not fit ("something is fishy"), and a note on his fixed-plane ayanāṁśa experiment.

Marana Karaka from Multiple References, Pilgrimage Indicators in D20, Kula Devata & Marriage Muhurta

Four questions from the class. Marana Karaka Sthana is seen from anything taken as a reference — the lagna, a house, a karaka, the planet's own sign — in the rasi and in the divisional charts; denying it from the lagna of a varga is questionable, and a parivartana between two planets in MKS removes the effect when it is triggered. Pilgrimage is read from the 9th and 10th houses of Rasi, Navamsa and Vimsamsa, with Sun and Jupiter as karakas of dharma and Rahu and Ketu when the journey is into a foreign culture. The family deity is the 2nd house of the Vimsamsa (house, lord or A2); the Rasi only fine-tunes. For a marriage Muhurta the standalone Muhurta chart comes first; Chandrabala, Tarabala, a Hora lord who is not the 6th or 8th lord of either person, and a lagna without a very low Ashtakavarga score are secondary — avoid the terrible, do not chase the best. The page also covers why "functional debilitation" does not hold: debilitation comes from the nature of the sign, not from its lord.

A10+A11+A4 Brilliant Combination, Arudha Parivartana & Karaka Parivartana Concept

The class reads the chart of the moment: Libra lagna with A10, A11 and A4 all in the lagna. A10 is the tangible work, A11 the tangible fulfillment of desires, A4 happiness — together, the person works happily and the work fulfils his desires, provided benefics bless the sign. A10 with A8 means hard labour; A10 with A6 means work that meets tangible enmity. The same chart has an Arudha Parivartana: A9 in the 12th and A12 (the Upapada) in the 9th, a tangible link between the two houses, so marriage increases dharma. A student then asks about parivartana between natural karakas — Jupiter in the 7th and Venus in the 5th. The teacher has never used it but finds it sensible: like two project managers each sitting on the other's project, marriage and children promote each other.

Planetary Avasthas — Age, Alertness & Mood States + Sayanadi 10-State System (Most Important)

Avastha means state. Parashara gives three basic kinds — age (Bāla, Kumāra, Yuva, Vṛddha, Mṛta in 6° steps, reversed in even signs), alertness (awake, dreaming, asleep) and mood — and then the Śayanādi avasthas, based on what the planet is doing, which he calls the most important. The page goes through each Śayanādi state as taught in class: Prakāśana, Sabhā, Nṛtya-lipsā and Kautuka are very auspicious; Gamana, Āgamana and Nidrā are not; Netrapāṇi is active but achieves little; Bhojana is good but hungry. The nature of the planet changes the reading: a malefic lying relaxed in Śayana is a warning, Saturn does not belong on the podium of Sabhā, Mercury may do well in the young avasthas and Saturn in the old one. The avastha gives its result in one quarter of the planet’s period — the last quarter for natural benefics, the first for natural malefics.

Upanayana Muhurtha — Key Rules for Mantra Initiation & Date Selection for a Student's Son (Aug 26, 2007)

A muhūrta for a boy’s upanayana is worked out step by step in class. Jupiter comes first: he must not be retrograde, and his transit should link with the natal Mantrapada (A5) or its lord — here Jupiter in Scorpio passes over the natal Sun, lord of A5 in Leo. The Sun comes next, because Savitri Gayatri is his highest form: Cancer, the 12th from the natal Moon, is rejected and the search moves to Leo. August 26, 2007 is chosen — Sunday, Śukla Trayodaśī, Saubhāgya yoga, Shravana (Sampat tārā) at the muhūrta, Mars hora (the natal 9th lord). Scorpio lagna puts Jupiter in lagna and the Sun in the 10th; each navamsa lagna within it is weighed and Leo wins, with Jupiter in the 4th of navamsa "driving his dharma", giving a window of 12:26–12:40 PM. The muhūrta is the moment the mantra is given, not the start of the rituals.

Mental Retardation Analysis — Moon+Mercury in D30, Ketu Dasha Pattern & Venus Dasha Recovery Window

A three-year-old girl with mental retardation, Libra lagna. Moon with Saturn in D-6 and D-30 shows only "some mental problem" — it could as well be depression; retardation needs Mercury, the learning ability, to be badly afflicted too. In D-30 Mercury is the 8th lord in the bādhaka sthāna, hemmed between Saturn and the nodes and aspected by Mars and Rāhu by graha dṛṣṭi. In rāśi Moon is at 29°30′ Pisces, deep gaṇḍānta, in the 6th and owns A8; Ketu with Mars, A6, Māndi and Gulika in the 2nd times the discovery to the start of Ketu daśā. Prognosis: Ketu daśā is bad throughout, Ketu–Jupiter (Sep 2007 – Aug 2008) is the best window because the Moon–Jupiter parivartana makes Jupiter a 6th lord in the 6th (Harṣa yoga), and Venus daśā from 2010 promises recovery. Also covered: the degree a planet keeps after parivartana, the D-24 reading of her education, and the remedies — Kālī, Lakṣmī Nārāyaṇa, a diamond, Nārāyaṇa Kavacam.

Gemstone Accentuation Philosophy, L9 vs 9th House (Father as Person) & Badhaka Lord in 9th Rule

A gemstone accentuates whatever the planet is doing in the chart; it does not strengthen only its good side. Two Mīna lagna cases: a girl given ruby (6th lord) and diamond (3rd and 8th lord) necklaces at her engagement, which then broke; and a young man with Venus as 8th lord in the 8th whom a swāmi told to wear a diamond on the index finger, the mokṣa finger, and who became a yogi. The rule is to look at the planet’s agenda — promote it if good, otherwise pray to it — and even possessing the stone counts. The second half reads the father from D-12: the 9th house shows his role and guidance, A9 the bond the world sees, and L9 the father as a person. L9 is found by counting from the 9th lord to the 9th house and the same again from the 9th house. From L9 the class reads the bādhaka lord in the 9th ("breaks idols" — does not believe in God), Rāhu in the 3rd aspected by Mars for stubbornness, the 7th under Mars, Rāhu and Saturn for bluntness, and a yogakāraka in the 12th as advice to leave the homeland.

OCD Chart Analysis — Moon+Sun Affliction Pattern, Sun in Moola Gandanta & D24 Medical Education

A high-school senior with obsessive compulsive disorder, Gemini lagna. Lagna lord Mercury is in the 7th, his maraṇa kāraka sthāna and the bādhaka sthāna, with 8th lord Saturn and a Sun at half a degree of Sagittarius — Mūla, deep gaṇḍānta. Moon, lord of A6, is with Rāhu in the 9th. In D-30 an exalted Sun and Mars both aspect Moon: where Saturn and Rāhu on the Moon deplete the mind, Sun gives over-control of the mind and Mars the anger — a reading the teacher gives with the caveat that he is not fully sure. Using Dvisaptati Sama daśā, the trouble starts in Rāhu, recurs through Sun, and Moon and Mars daśās do not promise a cure; only Mercury daśā from 2029 does. The page also covers D-20 as the key to religiousness (A9 in the bādhaka sthāna with A8), the remedies (Śrī Rudram for the Sun, Rāma nāma), the D-24 rectification from Capricorn to Sagittarius lagna with Sun in the 9th for medical study, and the marriage indications.

Boss Analysis in D10 (9H/A9/L9), Gemstone Natal-Only Rule & Secular Remedies for Non-Religious Clients

A woman in trouble with her boss prompts three questions. In the Dashamsa the 9th house shows the guidance received from the boss and the relationship with him, A9 shows the tangible side (the boss unhappy, in a punishing mood), and the 9th lord shows what happens to the boss himself: his promotion, demotion or replacement. A gemstone is chosen from the natal chart only, never from the Tithi Pravesha of the year, and for a planet that is good in both Rasi and Dashamsa and tied without blemish to the 5th and 9th houses, their lords and arudhas. Worship is safe for any planet; a stone can lift the career and spoil the marriage. For a secular client the teacher suggests giving labour or money to a concern the planet represents (school or library for Mercury, nursing home for Moon, the priest for Jupiter, the police for Mars), which pleases the planet without strengthening it.

Jyotishi Yoga (1/3/5/6 Connection), Mahapurusha + Retrograde Rule & Debilitation of Trine vs Kendra vs Dusthana Lords

Three answers from the question session. The yoga of intelligence a student found in Jaimini is perfect when the lagna lord, the 5th lord and the 3rd and 6th lords are all connected (essence, ability, initiative, overcoming obstacles); that is not found in real life, so a connection between any two or three of them is some level of it. A Mahapurusha yoga from an exalted planet that is retrograde is technically present but very weak, because retrogression gives uchcha-bhanga; affliction by a malefic matters little, and retrogression does no harm when the yoga comes from own sign. Debilitation is graded by lordship: best for a dusthana lord, neutral for a quadrant lord, not so good for a trine lord. A debilitated trine lord is still good for the native and only too weak to deliver, so its gemstone is fine, and prayer works best in its dasha or antardasha or when it is strong in transit.

Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga — Three Formation Rules, Dusthana Lord Exception & Timing Application

The teacher gives three basic causes of Neecha Bhanga: the debilitated planet is retrograde; it is exalted in the Navamsa; or the planet exalted in its sign of debilitation, or the lord of that sign, is in a quadrant from lagna or Moon. For Mars in Cancer that means Jupiter or Moon in a kendra from lagna or Moon; conjunction with the sign lord is not one of the rules. Neecha Bhanga of a dusthana lord is the lower grade: in a student’s chart with Sagittarius lagna and Moon in Scorpio, Mars in the 10th breaks the debilitation, but Moon as 8th lord was better off debilitated. The page also carries the timing advice for a debilitated trine lord, and the birth data of a Leo-lagna chart that the class had just entered when the recording stops.

BPHS Ch.92 — Three Types of Gandanta, Opening Shloka & Tithi Gandanta Definition

BPHS Chapter 92 (Santhanam’s numbering), Gandanta Jata Shanti, opens by naming three kinds of Gandanta — of the tithi, of the nakshatra and of the lagna. At birth, at a journey, at a marriage or at any other important time, any of them is nidhana-prada, death-giving; so the rule covers the natal chart and Muhurta alike. Tithi Gandanta is the joint of a Purna tithi and the Nanda tithi after it: Panchami–Shashthi, Dashami–Ekadashi, and Purnima or Amavasya–Pratipada, in either paksha. Its width is four ghatikas, 96 minutes: 48 minutes before the joint and 48 after. The end of any other tithi is only like Rashi Sandhi; PVNR infers that the five kinds of tithis map to the five elements, and says the mapping is not known. The eclipse-birth chapter of the previous class was not recorded and is skipped.

Nakshatra Gandanta — Three Water-Fire Borders (Revati-Ashwini, Ashlesha-Magha, Jyeshtha-Mula) & Half-Degree Measure

Parashara’s verse names three nakshatra joints: Revati–Ashwini (Dasra = Ashwini), Ashlesha–Magha (Sarpa’s nakshatra = Ashlesha) and Jyeshtha–Mula (Shakra = Indra, whose nakshatra is Jyeshtha). The width is again four ghatikas: 48 minutes before the joint and 48 after. It is measured in time; converted for the Moon’s speed, two ghatikas come to about 26 arc-minutes, roughly half a degree on each side. In a Muhurta, Moon at 29°40' Cancer is at the fag end of Ashlesha and inside the Gandanta. The recording ends there: of Lagna Gandanta only a passing remark survives — lagna at the Cancer–Leo border, water to fire, is Gandanta, while Taurus–Gemini is only Rashi Sandhi.

Gandanta in Muhurta (Travel, Marriage), Pancha-Bhuta Hint for Tithis & Gandanta Rules Summary

Parashara’s opening verse names janma, yatra and vivaha: birth is the natal chart, travel and marriage are Muhurta, so Gandanta is to be avoided in both. PVNR sets Gandanta against Rashi Sandhi: lagna at the Taurus–Gemini border is only Sandhi, lagna at the Cancer–Leo border is the joint of water and fire and is Gandanta. He reads the tithi rule the same way — five kinds of tithis hint at the five elements — but says the mapping is not known and needs research. The page ends with the rules of the surviving part of the class in one table, and a list of what the recording does not contain: the Lagna Gandanta definition, the results and the Shanti procedure.

BPHS Ch.93 — Abhukta Mula Shanti: Jyeshtha-Mula as Most Dangerous Gandanta, Full Procedure & Nirriti Idol

The joint of Jyeshtha and Moola is the most dangerous of all the joints, because Indra and the Rakshasa who rule the two stars are great enemies. The chapter says to give up a child born in Abhukta Moola, or the father is not to see its face for eight years; the teacher explains how "giving up" is practised as a ritual adoption and says to do the Shanti instead, which makes both prescriptions void. The page gives the timing (12th day, the return of the birth star, any auspicious day, or the 8th year) and the full procedure: mandapam, the gold idol of Nirriti or plain gold in its place, the three deities, the homam with Indra's mantra and Tryambakam, the abhisheka, the gifts and the verse to recite. If all this cannot be done, a Mahamrityunjaya homam is the crux. A second part settles a Moon at 0°04' Sagittarius: Jyeshtha or Moola, and how to decide.

Accusation Houses (10H from Lagna/AL/Moon), Amala Yoga, D10 Ownership vs Occupation & Vipareeta Rules

An accusation is a blot on conduct and good name, so it is a 10th-house matter; the 5th house is following and power, which is something else. Rahu on the Arudha Lagna or the 10th from it is only an accusation; Rahu on the 10th from Lagna means the person did wrong; affliction to the 10th from Moon is guilt in his own mind. Amala Yoga needs benefics and no malefics in the 10th from both Lagna and Moon. The page also covers when to read from the Moon instead of the Lagna, the amsa rulers of the Dasamsa (the Rasi 10th lord is only the seed), and the rule that the house a planet owns is its agenda while the house it occupies is what it is asked to do — worked through for the 2nd lord in the 12th and the 12th lord in the 2nd. It ends with the 6th lord in the 12th: Vipareeta yoga, spoiled when a 9th or 10th lord joins.

Bone Fracture Chart — Multi-Dasha Analysis, Rahu-Ketu in D30, D20 Deity from 5th House & L7 Spouse

A Leo-lagna native broke a bone on April 6, 2006. The Sun, lagna lord and karaka of bones, is with Ketu in Navamsa and with Rahu and Ketu in Shashthamsa and Trimshamsa, so he cannot protect. In the natal chart Dwisaptati Sama dasha (7th lord in lagna) gives Sun–Mercury, with Mercury delivering the results of Ketu, who has no dasha in that scheme; Vimshottari gives Saturn–Saturn. In the Tithi Pravesha chart of the year, Tithi Ashtottari gives the Sun's period and explains little, while Shashtihayani dasha (Sun in lagna) gives the Moon, placed in the 8th with A6 — the teacher's lesson is to try the conditional dasha when Tithi Ashtottari does not satisfy. Remedies: Mahaganapati and Mahamrityunjaya homams, and care in Sun–Rahu of 2010–11. Before the chart, two questions on another student's Vimshamsha: Saturn in the D20 lagna, and reading the deity from planets aspecting the 5th house when the 5th lord is weak. The page ends with the wife's fears read from the native's own chart.

Guru Chandala Yoga Nuances, Parashara's Graha-Devata Map, Saturn+Ketu in 2nd Remedy & Rahu from AL

Guru Chandala Yoga exists whenever Jupiter and Rahu are together, whatever houses they own: Rahu attacks Jupiter’s natural significations — children, dharma, wisdom. Their lordships can still make them cooperate (Leo lagna: Rahu as 7th lord with Venus his friend, joined to Jupiter the 5th lord), but when Jupiter is the functional malefic and Rahu the 5th lord, 5th-house matters suffer; Rahu dominates unless Jupiter is much stronger. Saturn and Ketu transiting the 2nd from a Cancer Moon are two planets of depletion in the house of resources, with a prayoga possible. The remedies follow Parashara’s graha-devata list — Vishnu as Matsya or Veda Narayana for Saturn with Ketu, a sattvic Ganesha or Kumara Ganapati for Ketu, Rudra and the Mrityunjaya mantra when Saturn in Gandanta threatens the body — and the form of the deity is matched to the purpose. A Rahu transit is then read from lagna, Arudha Lagna and Moon: in the 8th from AL it brings sudden setbacks in image, while in the 11th from the Moon the native takes it well.

Rashi Tulya Navamsa & Navamsa Tulya Rashi — Cross-Chart Transposition Framework & Master Chart Concept

Rashi lagna is the physical self and Navamsa lagna the dharmic self. Placing the Rashi lagna sign in Navamsa shows how the dharmic environment acts on the body; placing the Navamsa lagna sign in Rashi shows what physical activity the sense of dharma produces. The teacher works both on a 1988 chart, then carries planets across as well — Rashi Mars (physical energy), Rashi Venus (physical pleasure), Navamsa Mars (dharmic energy), Arudha Lagna — and says he is not sure which of the two traditional names goes with which direction. All varga positions sit in the same zodiac: 16 vargas × 10 references = 160 positions of one master chart. The page also carries the Q&A that followed: Moon in Arudha Lagna, Saturn in the 3rd house and laziness, a housewife’s 10th house, Gandanta planets read on the body, and Venus controlling Rahu and Ketu.

BPHS Ch.94 — Jyeshtha Gandanta Shanti (Indra Idol), Graduated Cow Donations & Karma Transfer Philosophy

BPHS Chapter 94: one born in Jyeshtha Gandanta brings destruction to the father and to himself. The shanti is the Mula Shanti with Indra as the devata, Agni as adhidevata and Rakshasa as pratyadhidevata — a gold Indra holding vajra and ankusha on the white elephant, over a kumbha set on white rice — with the Indra Sukta and the Mrityunjaya mantra; at the least, the Mrityunjaya mantra 11 or 21 times a day. One who cannot do the ritual gives cows: three for the Mula–Jyeshtha and Ashlesha–Magha Gandantas, two for Revati–Ashwini, one for other gandas, scaled to the giver’s wealth. A girl born in Jyeshtha or in the last pada of Vishakha endangers her husband’s elder or younger brother, a daughter of Ashlesha’s last three padas the mother-in-law, a son of Mula’s first three padas the father-in-law — and if that relative does not exist there is no dosha. The class ends on what a gift does with karma: part burns in the ritual, part goes to the receiver, who must know and must have the caliber to bear it; burning it oneself by sadhana and surrender is best.

BPHS Ch.95 — Tritiya Janma Shanti: Definition, Four-Deity Procedure & Bronze Viewing Rule

Tritiya Janma is the birth of a girl after three boys, or a boy after three girls. BPHS says it brings danger of inauspicious events to both the father's and the mother's family, and PVNR works out why it is almost never met today. The remedy is read verse by verse: timing at the end of sutaka, a Graha Yajna, four gold idols of Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha and Indra on a kalasha, the four Rudra Suktas and Shanti Suktas, the homa with Svishtakrit and Purnahuti, abhisheka of the child with the family, the parents first seeing the child as a reflection in bronze, and gifts to Brahmins, the troubled and orphans. PVNR says plainly which points he does not know (which four Rudra Suktas, why this birth is a dosha) and notes that the remedy chapters may be later additions to the text.

Gandanta Does NOT Weaken Raj Yoga, A9 vs L9 for Father's Death & Adopted Children Framework

Four answers to students' questions. A planet in Gandanta does not give a weaker Raj Yoga; Gandanta shows the planet's inclination to do physical harm, and it augments only a duryoga such as lagna lord with the 6th or 8th lord. For the father, A9 is the inanimate image the world calls "his father" and L9 (arudha of the 9th lord) is the animated person: use A9 for death and accidents with Shula dasha, L9 in D-12, and treat the Pitri Shula dasha link to A9 as confirmation, never prediction. For adoption PVNR knows no traditional rule for seeing individual adopted children; 5th-house weakness shows Datta Putra yoga, and the year of adoption needs good influences on the 5th on a natal chart that allows it. On muhurta, the astrologer serves: give honest advice and leave it there unless the person is your sishya.

BPHS Ch.96 — Prasava Vikara Shanti: Unusual Deliveries, Animal Vikara & Parashara's Closing Philosophy

Chapter 96 of BPHS in Santhanam’s edition: unusual deliveries and their śānti. Parashara lists a pregnancy far too short or far too long (he gives no figure; Santhanam reads 2–4 months off the due date), a child missing a body part (hīnāṅga) or with an extra one (adhikāṅga), born headless or two-headed, a woman delivering an animal-shaped baby, and an animal delivering human-shaped young. They forebode evil for the whole house, family and village, and apply to animals as much as to women. Also covered: the verse that literally says to abandon such a baby or cow, which PVNR is not sure is Parashara’s own; conception or delivery in a woman’s 15th or 16th year; a cow calving with Sun in Leo or a buffalo with Sun in Capricorn, where the calf goes to a brāhmaṇa. The remedy is pūjā of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and the grahas with homa as in the trītara-janma śānti. The class then skips the concluding chapter and restarts BPHS from Chapter 1 as a revision.

BPHS Ch.1 (Restart) — Three Branches of Jyotisha, Maitreya-Parashara Dialogue & Student Qualifications

The opening of BPHS Chapter 1. Maitreya approaches Parashara, calls Jyotisha a secret and auspicious Vedāṅga with three skandhas — Hora (prediction from planetary positions), Ganitam (astronomy) and Samhita (mundane astrology, muhurtas, panchanga and yearly predictions for countries) — says he has heard Hora is the best, and asks how creation arose and ends and what links the bodies in the sky to those on earth. Parashara bows to Brahma, his shakti Bharati and Surya, and calls the subject the eye of the Veda, taught as he heard it from Brahma. The knowledge is to be given to one who is peaceful, devoted to the teacher, always truthful and a believer in God; then good comes to both giver and receiver. Given to a stubborn non-believer, it brings the giver unhappiness every day.

BPHS Ch.1 — Vyuha Cosmology (Vasudeva/Sankarshana/Pradyumna/Aniruddha), Paramatma in Jivas & A9 in Lagna

Parashara’s account of creation in BPHS Chapter 1. The Parama Purusha, expressed and unexpressed, is joined with three shaktis: Śrī (sattva), Bhū (rajas) and Nīla (tamas). Vasudeva arises mainly from Śrī Shakti, Sankarshana from tamas, Pradyumna from rajas and Aniruddha from sattva; each holds all three gunas with one in greater measure. From Sankarshana comes Mahān, from Pradyumna ahaṅkāra — rajas is the cause of I-ness and of every distinction — and from Aniruddha comes Brahma. Vishnu sustains with Śrī Shakti, Brahma creates with Bhū Shakti, Shiva destroys with Nīla Shakti. The Paramātmā is in all jīvas and all is within the Paramātmā; grahas and devatas carry more paramātmāṁśa, other beings more jīvāṁśa. PVNR sets the Devī Rahasyam account beside it and says not to get caught in one account. The page ends with a question on A9 in lagna: manifested fortune in a kendra, acting on the very essence of the person.

BPHS Ch.9 — 14 Balarishta (Infant Death) Yogas, Sandhya Definition & Mahamrityunjaya Remedy

BPHS Chapter 9 (Arishtadhyaya) read verse by verse. An arishta can act until age 24, and while one is present normal longevity methods are not applied. The page goes through the first 16 verses: Moon or a retrograde benefic in a dusthana under malefic aspect, the 5th-house combination for mother or brother, Mars in lagna or the 8th, eclipse births, the Hora-chart verse, planets in the 12th, Sandhya with Gandanta, Scorpio lagna, and Papakartari on lagna — with the places where the teacher reads the verse differently from Santhanam. Sandhya is defined as 3 ghatikas before sunrise or after sunset, counted from the middle of the Sun’s disc. The remedy he recommends is Mrityunjaya Homa, done at once. A short clarification of the same-nakshatra dosha of parent and child follows.

Parivartana Across Mahadasha Levels, Narayana Dasha Sign Analysis (3-Part Rule) & Stronger Rashi Lord Rule

Three questions from students. Two planets that are together exchange their results at Mahadasha level too, not only in antardashas: the exchange is triggered at the latest when the other planet’s antardasha comes, earlier if a dispositor or aspecting planet brings it in, and once triggered it stays; friends exchange early, Moon–Rahu or Jupiter–Rahu late or never. In Narayana Dasha, the part given by the sign itself is read first from the house it is from lagna, Moon, Jupiter, Hora Lagna and Arudha Lagna, then from the nature of the sign (which accentuates the good or bad side of the result), the sign aspects on it and argala. When a sign has two lords, the one joined by more planets is the lord; relationships between the planets do not count. The example leads to Subrahmanya as the deity for Mars with Rahu.

House Robbery (1965) — D4 + D2 + AL Analysis & Job-Seeker (1949) Venus Period Outlook

Two charts read from the Tithi Praveśa chart of the year. A house robbery on August 2, 2006: the year lord Mars is in the 8th with the 2nd lord Saturn, and the event falls in Jupiter–Rahu–Venus of the Tithi Ashtottari dasha. Jupiter and Venus form a duryoga in the Hora chart and the Chaturthamsa, Rahu and Moon eclipse the D-4 lagna, and Jupiter is in the 3rd from Arudha Lagna in the Rashi chart of the year and the 12th from it in D-4. The teacher explains lagna as unmanifested potential and Arudha Lagna as the actual manifestation, says why “robbery” itself is hard to name in advance, and gives the Moon’s period (February 8 – March 28) as the only window for recovery. Then a student’s job question: in the annual Dasamsa, Rahu as 6th lord in the 12th from the 6th ended the contract; Venus, the year lord, sits in the 8th from AL with A6, A7 and UL, and good news is expected between January 4 and March 15.

BPHS Ch.9 Balarishta Verses 17–30 (Complete), Apoklimas Explanation & Viprit Rajayoga + Dignity

Verses 17–30 of the Arishta chapter of BPHS, read from the Sanskrit one by one: what each combination is, where the grammar settles a doubt (dual "papau" = two malefics, "cha" = and), and where the teacher differs from Santhanam. Verses 17–23 concern the child: malefics in lagna and the 7th, waning Moon in lagna, Moon in Papakartari in the 1st, 7th, 8th or 12th, and all planets powerless in apoklimas. Verses 24–29 concern the mother and father, and verse 30 the family. Along the way: why kendras give with effort, panapharas more easily and apoklimas with the most difficulty. The page ends with a student's question on Viprit Rajayoga: it works whatever the planet's dignity as long as the dusthana lord is alone, and exaltation makes both the struggle and the turnaround more extreme.

Baby Chart Analysis (Jan 2007) — Maha Yogada (Sun+Mercury in Lagna), 3 Gandanta Planets & Shashtihayani Dasha

The chart of a day-old girl, Sagittarius lagna, born just after sunrise. 9th lord Sun and 10th lord Mercury sit within half a degree of each other in lagna with Hora Lagna and Ghatika Lagna, so the Dharma-Karma-Adhipati yoga is given by Maha Yogadas. Two conditional dashas qualify, Shashtihayani (Sun in lagna) and Dwisaptati Sama (7th lord in lagna); the teacher explains how to choose and prefers Shashtihayani. Against the promise stand three planets in Gandanta: Saturn deepest, then Mars, who is Atmakaraka and dispositor of the lagna lord, then Moon in the 8th. Mars dasha runs from birth and Moon dasha follows, so the first ten years need care; D6 and D30 confirm it and the D30 elements point to blood. Short readings of D10, D20 and D24 follow.

Three Devata Framework (Palana/Dharma/Ishta), Gandanta Shanti Muhurta & Father's Fortune from Baby's D12

Three deities read from the navamsha: Palana Devata from the 6th from Amatyakaraka (sustenance), Dharma Devata from the 9th from Atmakaraka, Ishta Devata from the 12th from Atmakaraka (moksha). The 5th house of D20 is only the deity one is naturally drawn to. For the newborn of this lesson the teacher chooses the Dharma Devata, because the need is for the chart's yoga to function, and arrives at Lakshmi Narasimha. He then sets out the Gandanta Shanti: Navagraha Homa with the Mrityunjaya Mantra and Ayush Sukta, on the 21st day, with the tithi, weekday, nakshatra and tara of that day checked, and how to tell the parents without frightening them. Last, the child's Dvadashamsha is read with the running dasha for the father's career, the mother's career, and which parent guides her more.

BPHS Ch.9 Balarishta Verses 31–45 (Complete) — Father/Mother Combinations, Final Summary Verse & Karma Philosophy

The class opens with karma: any gift can turn into bad karma for the giver, and the only way out is to give up the sense of doership and hand the act to a devatā, meaning it. Then verses 31–45 finish Balarishta: the combinations for loss of mother (31–33), for loss of father (34–42), and the general rule of reading father from Sun and mother from Moon, including malefics in the 6th, 8th and 4th from the kāraka. The teacher marks which verses are rare and which are common (verses 36 and 38 are found in many charts and must not be read as early death), explains verse 37 from the 9th from Sun, and reads "śatru" in verse 38 by compound relationship against Santhanam. The closing verse governs the whole chapter: weigh the strength of the afflicting and the afflicted planet, then predict death or only trouble.

D24 Formal vs Overall Education Seeds (12th vs 4th Lord), D24 9th House Analysis & Trilochana Yoga via Parivartana

Which seed starts the Narayana daśā of D-24? Technically the 12th lord of the rāśi chart, which shows overall learning; Sanjay Rath uses the 4th lord for formal education and degrees, and the teacher says to look at both. The example is a schoolboy (1990) who wants to study medicine. In his D-24 (Scorpio lagna) Mars, Sun and Mercury sit in Cancer in the 9th; Mercury exchanges signs with 9th lord Moon in the 8th, so it is as though Sun, Moon and Mars are together: results akin to Trilochana yoga for the bachelor’s education. Moon is in maraṇa kāraka sthāna and hemmed by malefics, which gives anxiety and displacement, but a house lord never destroys his own house. Both Narayana daśās are then read: Capricorn daśā from the 12th-lord seed (desire to learn) and Scorpio daśā from the 4th-lord seed (entry into the bachelor’s course).

Saturn Dasha in D24 (A9+A5+A11 Confluence), Exalted vs Debilitated Planet in 3rd/6th from AL & D20 Spiritual Analysis

The Vimshottari Saturn mahādaśā of the same student is judged in D-24. From lagna Saturn is only a functional malefic giving desire; from Arudha Lagna he is a malefic in the 3rd with A9, A5 and A11, which makes it the best daśā for education. Saturn–Sun antardaśā: the bhoga falls in the 11th of D-24, so studies are safe, but in the rāśi chart Sun is 9th lord in maraṇa kāraka sthāna with the 6th lord and the bādhakeśa, and in D-12 he is 8th lord, so the year is risky for the father and for health and a homa is advised. The rule for the 3rd and 6th from Arudha Lagna: a debilitated planet reverses (benefic acts as malefic, malefic as benefic), an exalted planet does not; exaltation accentuates his nature. The class ends with D-20 and its Narayana daśā, the Iṣṭa and Dharma devatā from the navāṁśa, and a first reading of D-10.

BPHS Ch.10 — Arishtabhanga Complete: The Antidote Verses for the Balarishta Combinations

BPHS Chapter 10 gives the antidotes to the evil (arishta) combinations of the chapter before; the whole chapter is read in one sitting. Even one of Mercury, Jupiter or Venus in a kendra from lagna kills all the evil as the Sun kills darkness, and strong Jupiter alone in lagna destroys a collection of evils as a pranam to Shiva destroys sins; both verses are generic, for any lagna, and name natural benefics. The lagna lord, the highest functional benefic, well placed (kendra-samstha) in any quadrant does the same. Then come the Shukla-paksha night birth with a benefic aspecting lagna (reversed in Krishna paksha), Jupiter with Mars or aspecting Mars for the mother, and a malefic in the 4th or 10th hemmed by benefics for the father, which the teacher explains by counting from the 9th house (10th = 2nd from 9th, 4th = 8th from 9th) and extends to the mother. The last verse has malefics between benefics with the benefics in kendras and trikonas; with no malefic at all it is better still.

BPHS Ch.11 — Houses 1–7 Significations per Parashara: Enemies in 2nd, Vision Loss in 7th & Death from 7th

BPHS Chapter 11, Bhava Viveka: Maitreya asks from which house which results are to be judged, and Parashara answers one house per verse. This page covers the 1st to the 7th house, word by word as the teacher glosses them. The 2nd house is named for enemies (amitrakam), and the 6th names enemies again; the teacher reads the 2nd as enemies on account of wealth. The 5th shows losing the kingdom as well as getting it, which leads to the rule that the lack of a thing is seen from the same house as the thing. The 6th shows the mother’s co-wife as the 3rd from the 4th, and the 7th shows long journeys (prayanam, against prayanakam for the 3rd), loss of vision, which the teacher says he cannot explain, and death of one’s own body.

BPHS Ch.11 — Houses 8–12, 8th House as Inter-Life Karmic Link, Father in 10th Puzzle & Avastha for House Results

The 8th to 12th houses of BPHS Chapter 11 and its two closing verses. The 8th shows longevity, forts and hidden things, the wealth of the dead, and gaty-anukam, the past and what is to come, which makes it the connection between lives; enemies are to be seen from the 2nd, 6th and 8th, not just the 6th. The 9th shows the wife’s siblings and the brother’s wife by counting from the 7th and the 3rd. Parashara names the father under the 10th; the teacher says to note it, keep using the 9th and reconcile later. A house prospers when its lord or a benefic occupies or aspects it and the lord is in the middle three avasthas (the middle 18 degrees of the sign) or in the 10th; its results are lost when the lord does not aspect it, is in supta, vriddha or mrita avastha, or is afflicted. The teacher finds vriddha on both lists suspicious and leaves two readings of the 10th-house clause open.

BPHS Ch.12 — 1st House (Tanubhava) Rules: Lagna Lord Conditions, Natural Benefic/Malefic & Special Combinations

BPHS Ch.12 in Santhanam’s edition, Tanubhava Phaladhyaya — the effects of the 1st house, read verse by verse. The lagna lord in the 6th, 8th or 12th destroys bodily comfort only when he is also with a malefic (pāpa — a functional malefic in PVNR’s judgment); in a kendra or koṇa he gives comfort by placement alone. Combust, debilitated or in an inimical sign he gives disease, and benefics in kendras and koṇas are the antidote, with relief timed to their daśā. Natural malefics (krūra) on lagna or Moon without benefic aspect deny bodily happiness; a natural benefic (saumya) in lagna gives good looks and royal charm. Also the twin combination, Sun and Moon in one sign and one navāṁśa (three mothers), the rule that all of this is read from Chandra lagna too, and two class questions: a lagna lord in the 6th, and a bādhakeśa in an inimical sign.

Body Parts Mapped to Houses via Drekkanas — 3 Sets: Head (1st Drekkana), Torso (2nd), Lower Body (3rd)

Parāśara gives three lists of body parts, one for each drekkana the lagna can fall in, used to place wounds, moles and ailments. Lagna in the 1st drekkana (head): 1H top of head, 2H/12H right and left eye, 3H/11H ears, 4H/10H nostrils, 5H/9H cheeks, 6H/8H the two sides of the chin, 7H face. Middle drekkana: 1H neck, 2H/12H hands, 3H/11H shoulders, 4H/10H sides of the trunk, 5H/9H sides of the chest (hṛdaya), 6H/8H sides of the stomach, 7H navel. 3rd drekkana: 1H lower abdomen, 2H genitals, 12H anus, 3H/11H testicles, 4H/10H thighs, 5H/9H knees, 6H/8H calves, 7H both feet. PVNR derives the 12 from the dual and singular words of the verse and corrects Santhanam’s table in several places. How the other two lists are seen in a given chart is debated in class and left open.

Marriage Trouble Case (1979) — Venus Dasha, Sun AD Divorce Risk & Gem vs Prayer Critical Distinction

A woman’s chart (Cancer lagna, 1979) brought to class in 2007: married June 20, 2005 in Venus–Venus, and hardly living with her husband since. In navāṁśa the 7th lord Jupiter is in the 12th and UL is with A6; Sun and Moon sit there with Venus. In the rāśi chart, counted from UL in Virgo, Venus is both 9th and 2nd lord and sits in the 6th with Mars and Ketu, while Sun, Moon and Mercury are in the 7th from UL. The running Sun antardaśā (to September 12) is the danger; the Moon antardaśā after it worries PVNR less. The year’s Tithi Praveśa confirms and narrows it to June 24–August 24. The page also gives the rule on remedies — a gem makes a planet’s indicated result happen, prayer controls it — why Venus is the planet to pray to here, what an astrologer may and may not answer about divorce, and a daśāṁśa reading for independent work.

BPHS Ch.13 — 2nd House Wealth Verses 1–5: 2nd Lord Placement, 2nd–11th Synergy & Extraordinary Wealth Combination

BPHS Ch.13 (Dhanabhava — results of the 2nd house), verses 1–5. Verse 1: the 2nd lord in the 2nd house, or in a kendra, or in a kona, increases wealth (the verse says “va”, or); in the 6th, 8th or 12th he causes loss. Verse 2: a natural benefic occupying the 2nd gives wealth, a malefic destroys it — occupancy is judged by the planet’s nature, while the 2nd lord in the 2nd is good whatever his nature. Verse 3: Jupiter in the 2nd, or owning the 2nd, or simply with Mars, makes one wealthy — a thumb rule resting on Jupiter as dhana karaka; with Mars the money comes the Martian way. Verse 4: 2nd lord in the 11th, or 11th lord in the 2nd, or both in kendras/konas — income is tied to accumulation; the teacher also answers whether a 2nd lord in an upachaya counts. Verse 5: 2nd lord in a kendra, 11th lord in a trine from him, joined or aspected by Jupiter or Venus — a specific combination for great gains, which leads to the rule that the rarer a combination, the bigger its result, and to mutual trines (Lakshmi sthanas, effortless support) versus mutual kendras (Narayana sthanas, support with work).

BPHS Ch.13 Verses 6–11 — Financial Difficulties, Government Loss, Dharmic Wealth (Verse 9) & Vaiseshika Amsa

BPHS Ch.13 verses 6–11. Verse 6: 2nd and 11th lords each in an inimical sign (the teacher argues “ripu bhava” here is not the 6th house) with malefics in or aspecting the 2nd and 11th — no money; he softens it to finances that are not smooth. Verse 7: both lords combust and with malefics — poverty from birth. Verse 8: both lords in the 6th, 8th or 12th, Mars in the 11th and Rahu in the 2nd, all together — wealth lost by the king’s punishment. Verse 9: Jupiter in the 11th, Venus in the 2nd, the 2nd lord with a benefic and benefics in the 12th — money spent on dharmakarya; the teacher explains it through the guṇas (2nd house sattvic, 11th rajasic) and shows how Saturn or Rahu with the 2nd lord colours the attitude to wealth. Verse 10: 2nd lord in own sign or exaltation feeds and helps people; a debilitated 2nd lord shows an unhappy, practical attitude, not selfishness by itself. Verse 11: 2nd lord in Paravatamsa or better (own, exalted or moolatrikona sign in 6 or more of the 10 vargas) with benefics — resources come without effort.

BPHS Ch.13 Verses 12–13 — Eyes (Venus Karaka), Speech+Truthfulness & Key Teaching: 2nd House vs 2nd Lord

The class opens with a follow-up on the previous lesson’s drekkana scheme for body parts: test it on charts by the planets occupying and aspecting a drekkana and their links to the 6th lord, 8th lord and bādhakeśa, in the rāśi chart only; the teacher gives no verdict. BPHS Ch.13 verse 12: a strong 2nd lord gives beautiful eyes, a 2nd lord in the 6th, 8th or 12th gives defective eyes; the 2nd house is the main controller of the eyes and the left eye can sometimes be seen from the 12th. Verse 13: 2nd lord and 2nd house both with malefics make a liar with vāta disease; reversed, benefic influence on both makes a truthful person. Karakas: Jupiter for wealth and truthfulness, Mercury for speech, Sun for vision, Venus for the eyes — and Venus with Ketu alone does not show eye trouble without the 2nd house and lord. The page closes with the chapter’s two foundations: the 2nd house shows what is accumulated while the 2nd lord shows the attitude to accumulating and using it, and dhana means resourcefulness, not currency.

BPHS Ch.14 Verses 1-4: Benefics in/Aspecting 3H=Siblings+GENUINE Boldness(vs Malefics=Arudha Image Only); Verse 2: 3L+Mars Aspecting 3H=Good Siblings; Verse 3: 3L+Mars in Malefic Signs=Destroys; Verse 4: Female Planet in 3H=Sisters; Mrutavastha BOTH=Damage(Exaltation Can Override)

BPHS Chapter 14 (Sahaja Bhava Phaladhyayam), the opening verses. Verse 1: a natural benefic occupying or aspecting the 3rd house gives siblings and actual boldness; the boldness malefics give is the perceived kind, read from the 3rd from Arudha Lagna. Verses 2–3: the 3rd lord with karaka Mars, aspecting or occupying the 3rd (together or separately), gives good results for siblings; the same two with malefic planets or in malefic signs (kshetra = sign, not house) kill siblings. Verse 4: a female planet owning or occupying the 3rd shows a sister, a male sign or planet a brother, so in Drekkana and Saptamsa look at the house itself and its occupants, not only its lord; mixed influences are judged by strength. Last, the 3rd lord and Mars both in Mrutavastha (last 6° of an odd sign, first 6° of an even sign) destroy siblings. PVNR reads “mruta” as the avastha, not Santhanam’s 8th house, and applies it only when affliction backs it.

BPHS Ch.14 Verse 5: 3L or Mars in Kendra/Trikona or Exalted/Own/Friendly Varga=Happiness from Siblings; 3L Exalted in Kendra+Jupiter+Mars in Trine from Him=12 Siblings(Big Family); Specific Combinations(Mercury+Moon+Saturn=Elder Sister+Younger Brother); Verse 14: Sun in 3H=Kills Elder; Saturn=Kills Younger; Mars=Kills BOTH; D3 Maraka Association with Sun/Saturn/Mars=Potency

The rest of BPHS Chapter 14. Verse 5: Mars or the 3rd lord in a kendra or trikona, or in exaltation, own or friendly varga (Rasi, Navamsa and D-3) gives happiness from siblings. Then the specific combinations: Mercury in the 3rd with the 3rd lord joining Moon and Mars joining Saturn (one elder sister, one younger brother, the third dies); Mars with Rahu and the 3rd lord debilitated (three elder siblings, none younger); the 3rd lord exalted in a kendra with Jupiter and Mars in a trine from him (twelve siblings, read today as a big family); Moon in the 3rd for seven siblings and for brothers versus sisters. PVNR calls these too specific to be of much use and possibly later additions. Verse 14 is the useful one: Sun in the 3rd kills the elder sibling, Saturn the younger, Mars both. The same three planets make a sibling’s maraka in Drekkana more potent.

Universal House Rules: Benefics+Lord in Kendra/Trikona=Good; Malefics+Dusthana+Debil+Mrutavastha=Destroys; Lord+Karaka Mutual Kendra/Trine=Support(6-8=Conflict); Manakarksthana: Benefic Blesses Occupied House BUT Owned Houses Suffer(Jupiter in 3H=Good Siblings+Bad 6H)

The principles PVNR draws from the 3rd house chapter for every house. Benefic association is good and malefic association bad; the lord in kendras and trikonas is good, in dusthanas bad; the lord with benefic planets and signs is good, with malefic planets and signs bad; the karaka is judged like the lord. Lord and karaka are two bosses: in mutual kendras or trines they help each other, in 6/8 or 2/12 they do not. Parashara gives no separate combinations for parakrama; similar ones apply. A student’s question brings the Marana Karaka Sthana clarification: the house the planet occupies gets good results, and the houses it owns suffer. Jupiter in the 3rd in Sagittarius for Libra lagna blesses the 3rd and spoils the 6th.

BPHS Ch.15 Verses 1–7 — 4th House: Home Happiness, Vehicles, Relatives, Mother & Multiple Karakas (Moon/Mercury/Venus/Mars/Ketu)

BPHS Chapter 15, the results of the 4th house, verses 1–7. The 4th lord or the lagna lord in the 4th with benefic aspect gives full comfort from the home; the 4th lord in own sign, own amsa (D-4 or D-9) or exaltation gives land, vehicles, a house and musical instruments, and the same placement in D-24 is read for education. The 4th lord joined by the 10th lord in a kendra or kona gives a mansion, because the 10th is the 7th from the 4th: the visible, extrovert side of the house. Verse 5 brings out Parashara’s terms (saumya/krura for natural, shubha/papa for functional benefics and malefics) and the karaka for each 4th-house matter: Mercury for relatives and learning, Moon for happiness and mother, Venus for vehicles and marital happiness, Mars for land, Ketu for the house one lives in. Verses 6–7 give the combinations for the mother, fortifying the house, its lord and the karaka together.

BPHS Ch.15 Verse 8–9 — Profit from Cattle, 3rd/8th from Any House as Vitality/Vulnerability & Bādhaka Sthāna

Verse 8: Sun in the 4th, Moon and Saturn in the 9th and Mars in the 11th give gains from cows and buffaloes. The Sun shows living beings held as property, Saturn in the 9th makes the hard work of lowly creatures the native's fortune, and the 6th and 8th (one’s own hard work) are not involved. Verse 9 on dumbness can be read three ways; the teacher takes the 4th in a movable sign, the 4th lord in the 6th and Mars in the 12th, departing from Santhanam on two points. The 4th matters for speech because it is the 3rd from the 2nd: the 3rd from any house is its vitality and the 8th from any house its longevity and vulnerability, and a movable sign there makes the vitality shaky. Such a secondary factor is a modifier, never the determinant. The page ends with bādhaka sthāna (heard as "Bhadra sthana" on the recording): the 9th from a fixed sign, the 11th from a movable sign, the 7th from a dual sign.

BPHS Ch.15 Verses 10–12 — Vehicle Timing (12th & 24th Year), D16 Shodasamsa & Critical Distinction: 4th House vs 4th Lord vs A4

The 4th-house chapter of BPHS from the 10th sloka: the verses that promise a vehicle in a fixed year. Verse 10 as it stands needs the 4th lord debilitated in the 11th house, Venus in the 12th and a natural-benefic lagna lord; the teacher tests every lagna and finds it possible only for Leo with Ketu, where the lagna lord Sun is no benefic, so the verse is either corrupt or fake. What does make sense is the 4th lord in the 11th: the 8th from the 4th, giving a sudden, early vehicle. The 4th lord with the 10th lord and exalted in Navamsa or Shodasamsa, and the exchange of the 4th and 11th lords, follow, then the closing rule that functional benefic influence on a house gives good results and malefic influence bad. The verses speak of comfort from a vehicle, which leads to the distinction: the 4th house is the comfort, the 4th lord the attitude to it, and A4 the vehicle people see.

Mrityubhaga (Death-Inflicting Degree) — Definition, Controversy, D30 Root & Mundane New Year Charts: Hora Lord vs Vara Lord

Mrityubhaga: in each sign one degree is fatal for a given planet. The nth degree means (n−1)° to n°; K.S. Charak takes it as the point n° with half a degree either side, which the teacher rejects because bhāga means a portion and the degrees are rooted in Trimsamsa (D-30). A planet in Mrityubhaga with a link to the 8th house, the 8th lord or A8 gives a bad daśā in a Tithi Pravesha year, and huge suffering or death-like situations in the natal chart. In mundane work the teacher rejects the traditional planetary cabinet, which takes the weekday lord of the sunrise after the New Year; he takes the Hora lord at the exact moment, cast for the capital, so different countries have different kings. The 2007 Lunar New Year charts of Iran, Iraq and the US are read this way, and each further chart (Sun–Moon in Libra for finance, Sun entering Ardra for rain) has its own ruler and its own year. The class ends with country charts (no Vimshottari for a country) and with when to use the annual chart and when the natal chart.

BPHS Ch.16 Verses 1–11 — 5th House: Children Existence, First Child Death, One Child Combos & Dattaputra (Adoption) Yoga

BPHS Ch.16, the results of the 5th house, verses 1–11. Lagna lord and 5th lord together in the 5th, or in a kendra or trikona, give complete happiness from children; the 5th lord in the 6th, 8th or 12th gives no children or no full happiness from them. A 5th lord who is combust, or with functional malefics, or weak denies a child or loses one early; the 5th lord in the 6th with the lagna lord joining Mars loses the first child, and an abortion counts as that death. Mercury in the 5th with Ketu or Saturn and a debilitated 5th lord gives only one child, unless the 5th lord is strong. The 9th lord in lagna puts A9 in the 5th and brings a child after much difficulty; the teacher finds verse 8 defective. The adoption yogas follow: the 5th in a sign of Mercury or Saturn with Saturn and Mandi joining or aspecting it, and six planets in the 5th with the 5th lord in the 12th, where A5 falls in the 7th. The teacher also shows how to use each verse in Saptamsa for a particular child.

BPHS Ch.16 Verse 12 — Many Children Combo, Gulika vs Mandi Debate (PVNR vs Sanjay Rath) & D7 Saptamsa Application

Verse 12: the 5th house aspected or occupied by a strong Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, with the 5th lord also strong, gives many children. Gulika and Mandi: Parashara (BPHS Ch.3, from verse 66) divides the day and the night into 8 parts ruled in weekday order from the weekday lord (by night from the 5th from him), the 8th part having no lord; the lagna rising when Saturn’s part begins is Gulika. The teacher holds that Mandi and Gulika are two names for one upagraha, because Parashara defines only Gulika and uses both words. Sanjay Rath treats them as two entities and gives the lordless 8th part to Gulika; Jagannatha Hora offers both definitions. The teacher disagrees only because Parashara says otherwise, and admits he has not researched it. Saptamsa: put the lord of the particular child’s house (the 5th counted forward for an odd lagna, backward for an even one) in place of the 5th lord in these verses; that lord in the 2nd from the child’s house is in its maraka sthana.

BPHS Ch.16 Verses 13–17 — Child of Questionable Parentage, Raising Others' Children, Fortune Through Children & Ill-Behaved Child

Five verses of the 5th-house chapter, read word by word. Verse 13 gives a daughter when the 5th lord is with Moon or in Cancer drekkana; PVNR suspects the verse, because a daughter belongs to the Saptamsa, not the Drekkana. Verse 14 (5th lord in a movable sign, Rahu with "vidhu", Saturn in the 5th) gives a child born to someone else: Santhanam reads Rahu with Moon, PVNR reads Rahu in the 9th, and Saturn here is depletion, not necessarily adultery. Verse 15 needs Moon in the 8th, Jupiter in the 3rd and Jupiter afflicted by functional malefics, all three together. Verse 16 gives fortune in children when the 5th lord is exalted or in the 1st, 2nd, 5th or 9th with Jupiter's conjunction or aspect. Verse 17 gives an ill-behaved child when three or four malefics hold the 5th with no benefic and the 5th lord is debilitated.

BPHS Ch.16 Verses 18–23 — Child Timing by Year: Venus (32–33), Jupiter (30/36), the 40th Year, and Child Loss Predictions

Six verses that name a year of life. Jupiter in the 5th with the 5th lord joining Venus gives a child in the 32nd or 33rd year, which PVNR links to the natural years of Venus and generalises to Venus periods. The 5th lord in a kendra with Jupiter gives the 30th or 36th year, the 36th being Jupiter's natural year. Jupiter in the 9th with Venus in the 5th or with the lagna lord gives the 40th year: fortune after a delay. Verses 21–23 give the loss of a child (32nd year; 24th, 33rd or 36th) and grief from children in the 56th year when Mandi and Rahu are in lagna. PVNR's verdict: the reading of strength and weakness works, the stated year often does not — use dasas, transits and Tithi Pravesa, count solar years, and judge a particular child from the Saptamsa.

BPHS Ch.17 — 6th House Disease Indicators: Body Part by Planet, Disease Type by 6th/8th Lord + Planet, Leprosy Combinations

BPHS Ch.17, the results of the 6th house, verse by verse. The body part afflicted goes by planet: Sun head, Moon face, Mars throat, Mercury navel, Jupiter nose, Venus eyes, Saturn feet and legs, Rahu and Ketu stomach. The same holds for a relative when the lord of his house is with his karaka and they are joined by the 6th lord or sit in the 6th or 8th. Then the lagna lord in a Mars or Mercury sign (face), the leprosy combinations around Moon, and the disease shown by the planet that joins the 6th or 8th lord in lagna — fever, blood, pitta, vata, kapha, with Jupiter giving no disease. PVNR treats the list as a hint, not a thumb rule, and says what the chart is for: warning a person before the dasha, so that diet is changed and checks are done early.

Names, Letters & Planetary Rulerships — Vowels=Sun, Ka-varga=Mars, Pa-varga=Saturn; PVNR's Principle: Name the Strongest Yoga Planet

Which planet rules which letters: Sun the vowels, Moon the semi-vowels and sibilants, Mars ka-varga, Venus ca-varga, Mercury the retroflex ṭa-varga, Jupiter the dental ta-varga, Saturn pa-varga. The first letter of the name a person is called by strengthens that planet in the chart; respelling a name in English changes nothing. Naming by nakshatra pada is only a scheme for remembering the nakshatra. PVNR’s rule is to give the first letter of a planet that is strong and gives a yoga. Examples: his own names in Saturn dasha and after, Nagarjuna, Sanjay Rath, and the name of the native whose chart is read in this class.

BPHS Ch.17 Verses 13+ — Chronically Sickly, Mars in 6H (Fever 6th/12th Year), Rahu+Mandi+Lagna-Lord-in-8H (TB Age 26)

The class finishes the 6th house chapter of BPHS from verse 13. A functional malefic in the 6th, the 6th lord with a functional malefic and Saturn with Rahu make a person who is always sick. Mars in the 6th with the 6th lord in the 8th gives fever in the 6th or 12th year; Moon and Jupiter in the 6th give leprosy in the 19th or 22nd; Rahu in the 6th, Mandi in a quadrant and the lagna lord in the 8th give tuberculosis in the 26th; the 6th and 12th lords in exchange give spleen disease in the 29th or 30th; Moon with Saturn in the 6th gives blood leprosy at 55. Along the way: Mars in the 6th is good and still gives hot diseases, a Viprita Raja Yoga has suffering built into it, and a combination found in one chart of 144 is never applied without its modifiers — shown on a student’s Aries-lagna chart.

BPHS Ch.17 — Vata at 59 (Late Disease = Strong Constitution), Animal Attack, Fire Danger, Gland Disorders & Sanskrit Number Encoding

Four more timing verses of the 6th house chapter. Lagna lord in lagna with Saturn in an inimical sign gives vata disease only in the 59th year, which means good health in general; a karaka of a bad matter in an inimical sign makes the bad results worse. The 8th lord in the 6th, the 12th lord in lagna and the Moon with the 6th lord give danger from an animal in the 8th year, and the class works out that A8 then falls in the 4th house of cattle and vehicles. Rahu in the 6th or 8th with Saturn in the 8th from him gives fire in the first two years and trouble from birds in the third. The 8th lord with Rahu in rasi, and in the 8th or a trine of the navamsa, gives gland or urinary disorders in the 18th or 22nd year. The page also explains how Sanskrit texts name numbers by things: Vasus for 8, Vedas for 4, Rudras for 11, Adityas for 12.

BPHS Ch.17 — Son Becomes Enemy, Lagna Lord in 6H + 6th Lord in 6H (Dog Danger), Viprita Raja Yoga's Health Cost & Practical Modifiers

The last verses of the 6th house chapter deal with enemies. The 11th and 6th lords in exchange give loss of money through enemies in the 31st year: from the 11th it is an exchange of lagna lord and 8th lord, from the 6th the lord sits in the 6th from his own house. The 5th lord in the 6th, the 6th lord with Jupiter and the 12th lord in lagna make the son an enemy; the arudha of the 12th falls in the 2nd, a loss in the family. Lagna lord and 6th lord together in the 6th are said to give fear of dogs in the 10th or 19th year, and the teacher doubts the verse because Saturn, the karaka of dogs, is nowhere in it. The page closes with the 6th-12th exchange, a Viprita Raja Yoga that still costs health, and with the rule that no verse is applied without looking for modifiers.

BPHS Ch.18 Verses 1–6 — 7th House: Spouse Happiness, Venus Sthirakaraka, Three Types of Karaka & Affairs by Planet in 7H

The opening verses of BPHS Chapter 18 on the 7th house, read line by line. The 7th lord in own sign or exaltation gives full happiness from the spouse; in the 6th, 8th or 12th without dignity, a sickly wife. Venus in the 7th makes the native full of desire, and Venus afflicted by functional malefics (papa, as against krura for natural malefics) shows death or suffering of the wife — Venus being the sthirakaraka, with Jupiter taking that role for the husband in a woman's chart. A strong 7th lord with functional benefics makes the native wealthy and respected, because the 7th has argala on the 9th, 4th and 6th and shows the circles he moves in; spouse results are read in the Navamsa, wealth in D-2 and D-4. The last verses give the kind of affair shown by each planet in the 7th, with the teacher's warning that a planet there never proves an affair by itself.

7th House as Extrovert Lagna, Karaka-Lord-Occupant Framework & Kendrapati Dosha — Natural Benefic in Kendra = Functional Malefic

Three ideas the teacher draws out while reading the 7th-house verses. Lagna is the introvert self and the 7th house the extrovert self; Jaimini's rules use either, and a native with a stronger 7th can be judged from it. The karaka is the project manager of a matter, the house lord a group manager who owns resources, and a planet in the house a team member with his own agenda: the 7th lord in the 6th only gives setbacks, the 6th lord in the 7th breaks the marriage, and nothing comes before the dasha. Kendradhipati dosha comes from ownership alone — a natural benefic who owns a kendra is a functional malefic wherever he sits — and sitting in that kendra gives relief, not blame. Parashara's table of functional benefics, malefics and neutral lords closes the page.

Muhurta Philosophy — Priority of Factors (Lagna > Tithi/Nakshatra > Month), Un-Used Muhurta Is Not Bad & Bhadrapada Masa

A student’s muhurta in Bhadrapada masa was dropped on a priest’s advice, and he asks what he missed. The teacher rejects the idea of “muhurta balam” — that a good muhurta always gets carried out and an unused one must have been weak. A good muhurta goes unused because of the person’s dashas, or a weakness in the moment the astrologer sat down to choose it; a bad one can be carried out when destiny pulls the person to it. A muhurta is judged by what unfolds after the thing is started. Priority of factors: lagna and planetary positions first, then tithi bala and nakshatra bala, then karana, vara and yoga; a rule that discards a whole month, such as avoiding Bhadrapada, is low, and one that discards a whole year lowest.

Druk Dasha Full Recap, Retrograde = Past-Life Desire (Cheshta Bala) & Combustion vs Retrogression Are Two Orthogonal Factors

Recap of Druk Dasha: it is the progression of the 9th house, so the 5th from the dasha sign is the progressed lagna; read the natal chart and the Dasha Pravesha Chakra from it and trust the themes common to both. The 5th shows bhakti, the 6th service, the 8th sadhana and mystical experiences, the 10th spiritual activity, and a dominant 12th gives sanyasa to one who is meant for it; whom and how to pray is not seen here but from the natal chart. A student's question brings the teaching that no path is ahead of another and progress is a matter of inner attitude. Then two principles: a retrograde planet carries a strong unfinished desire from the past life, with urgency, agitation and Cheshta bala; and combustion is independent of retrogression, depending only on the distance from the Sun (about 7–8 degrees, differing by planet). A student's case of the Sun with exalted Venus shows that which of the two dominates has to be judged from Navamsa and Trimsamsa, not from rasi alone.

Catering Business Chart (1966) — Mars Dasha D10 Analysis, Ketu Argala Debate (PVNR vs Sanjay Ji) & Graha Arudha Introduction

A woman who has not worked for 15 years asks whether to start a catering business. Her rasi lagna is Scorpio; the Dasamsa lagna lies on the Libra/Scorpio border and her career events fix it as Libra (Venus dasha started the career, Sun–Mars broke it). In D10 the 10th lords of both rasi and D10 are in the 12th, which is why no career held. Mars dasha changes that: Mars is the 7th lord in the 3rd with lagna lord Venus and in the 11th from Arudha Lagna — a maraka for service but the karaka for business — so she must run her own business and not work for anyone. The hora chart, the antardashas (Mars–Mercury best), the annual charts for 2007 and 2008, Narayana dasha and the Lakshmi Narasimha remedy follow. The page also covers the argala discussion of this class — what virodhargala does, malefics in the 3rd, and PVNR's difference with Sanjay Ji on Ketu — and the graha arudha, with Sanjay Ji's dual graha arudha worked on this chart.

Narayana Dasha 4-Part Subdivision (Benefic: Occupancy→Yogas→Ownership→Avastha; Malefic: Reversed), Tithi Nityas (15 Forms) & DST in Muhurta

Three short topics from the end of the class. A planet's portion of a Nārāyaṇa daśā divides in four: a natural benefic gives occupancy first, then yogas, ownership and his own state, and a natural malefic gives them in reverse; whether Sun counts as a benefic when the Navāṁśa is read for marriage PVNR answers only as an intuition. The Tithi Nityās are forms of the Divine Mother for well-being and peace of mind, against the Mahāvidyās for spiritual understanding; a Nityā can be chosen from the special tithis (karma, putra, dhana and so on), though readings from those tithis alone are not reliable. Muhūrta and Tithi Praveśa times must be worked in the time zone the person's clock actually shows, with a fortnightly chart as the worked example — which also shows Trilochana yoga, Sun, Moon and Mars in mutual trines.

Child's Chart (2004) — Hyperactivity/Shivering, D30 Root Cause, Dhatu Karakas & Mars (Nerve Tissue) vs Mercury (Nerve Communication)

A three-year-old boy is hyperactive and at times suddenly shivers and shouts; his father asks whether it is a health problem or Kundalini. Sun is in lagna, so Shashtihayani daśā is used, and because the trouble runs through two daśās it is read as lifelong. Rasi: lagna lord Mars in the 12th with Ketu and the 12th lord, 8th lord Mercury in lagna — weak for health, strong for detachment; Moon as 9th lord in the 5th aspected by Jupiter and Saturn in the 9th add orthodox dharma. Trimshamsa is the root of every problem: Mercury, 8th lord in both charts, sits in the D30 lagna in a sign of Mars (fire), and the exalted bādhaka lord Moon with Saturn warns of bouts of depression. The class revises the dhatu karakas and separates Mars, the nerve tissue, from Mercury, the communication in the nerves. The dog attack of June 2007 is read from the D30 and D6 of the previous year’s Tithi Praveśa chart, and the round-figure birth time keeps Vimshamsa in reserve.

BPHS Ch.19 — Ashtama Bhava Longevity Verses: 4 Key Planets (Lagna Lord > Saturn > 8th Lord > 10th Lord), Verse-by-Verse Rules & Kshema Vimshottari

BPHS Ch.19, the 8th house chapter, read verse by verse. Parashara starts loose (8th lord in a Kendra = long life, about a 40% indication alone) and then refines: lagna lord, 8th lord, 10th lord and Saturn in Kendra, Trikona or the 11th; two or three of the four are needed, and with three it is about 90%. Short-life verses: lagna lord and 8th lord with functional malefics in the 8th; 8th lord in a Kendra with a very weak lagna lord (20 years, at most 32); afflicted 8th house and 8th lord with a malefic 12th or 5th; a Moon joined by malefics with no benefic aspect. One verse (8th lord debilitated in Lagna) is impossible for every lagna and is probably corrupt. Jupiter as Jiva in the 8th, Lagna or 10th gives long life, and an extremely strong lagna lord lifts the whole chart. When the planets disagree, find the one that controls the others; in importance: lagna lord, Saturn, 8th lord, 10th lord.

Longevity Case Studies — Kanchi Swami (100 Years: Vargottama Saturn 73%), Example Chart (20 Years: Verse 6 + Jupiter in 6H) & Rahu in Leo/Virgo Raj Yoga

The Chapter 19 rules applied to two charts. Kanchi Swami (Leo lagna, lived about 100 years): lagna lord Sun and 8th lord Jupiter are in the 10th, Saturn is in a friend's sign in the 2nd, and 10th lord Venus, exalted in the 8th, becomes strong through her Parivartana with Jupiter. The "extremely strong lagna lord" verse does not fit the Sun or Venus, but it nearly fits Saturn: Vargottama, 73% in Vimsopaka Bala, aspected by Mars, Sun and Jupiter from Kendras. The second native (Sagittarius lagna, died at about 20): lagna lord Jupiter in the 6th in an enemy's sign, 8th lord Moon in Lagna with the 6th lord, 10th lord Mercury in the 12th; only Saturn, alone in the 8th in Cancer, promises life. The "8th lord in a Kendra, lagna lord very weak = 20 to 32 years" verse fits, and by Kshema Vimshottari he was in the dasha of the weak lagna lord. Also on this page: Rahu in a Leo or Virgo lagna as a Raja Yoga, from Rahu's 108 names.

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

Vimshottari is the Moon's progression through the nakshatras, so in Mercury dasha the progressed Moon is in Mercury's nakshatras. The teacher proposes counting the Tara of the slow transiting planets from the running dasha lord's nakshatra instead of from the birth nakshatra, and offers it as a technique to test. Worked on Kanchi Swami's sannyasa in February 1907 (Mercury dasha): Ketu falls in Kshema, Saturn in Mitra and Rahu in Parama Mitra Tara; only Jupiter is badly placed. Transit rules from the same discussion: a Yogakaraka Saturn in the 8th from the Moon still gives his karaka results, and his yoga results wait for the 3rd, 5th or 11th; a good transit gives only the good that planet holds in the natal chart. Last, a planet debilitated in Rasi with a Raja Yoga in a divisional chart gives the yoga with physical unhappiness, provided the matching Rasi house (10th for D-10, 8th for D-20) is strong.

BPHS Ch.20 — 9th House (Bhagya Bhava): Fortune, Father Wealth/Longevity, Discord with Father & Why D12 is Essential for Father Readings

The twelve verses of the Bhagya Bhava chapter of BPHS, read one by one: 9th lord strong in the 9th, Jupiter or Venus in the 9th, the father's wealth from the 2nd and 4th counted from the 9th, his longevity, the 9th lord in the 7th or 11th making the father a friend, the 2nd–9th exchange giving fortune after the 32nd year, the 6th lord with the lagna lord in the 9th giving hatred between father and son, and the combination for living by begging. The teacher explains the reasoning behind each — Venus is rajasic so fortune comes through the father; the 2nd is movable wealth and the 4th immovable; Mars is only an example of a malefic. He also warns that the verses do not work as they stand: Parasara gave D-4 for bhagya and D-12 for parents, so a father reading needs the Dvadasamsa 9th and the 9th from the Sun, not one Rasi combination.

Three-Parts Rule (Trirāśi Āyuh) for Longevity + Marriage Compatibility: UL Cross-Link, Venus 3-11, Mangalik Dosha (Extremely Overrated)

A full marriage-compatibility reading of two charts. Moon signs (same sign — fine, but both get every transit together), tara both ways, and lagnas in mutual trines. The SJC check: the Upapada of each must link to the lagna of the other — his UL Leo holds Saturn under Venus's aspect and she has a Venus-ruled lagna with Saturn in it; her UL Sagittarius has his Gemini lagna in the 7th and holds his lagna lord Mercury. Venus in mutual 3–11 increases the romance of both. The Three-Parts Rule for longevity is taught from scratch — movable = long, fixed = short, dual = middle; three pairs; two different kinds give the absent kind; majority wins; tie-breaker by Moon/Saturn in lagna or the 7th — and both come out long-lived. Kuja dosha is dismissed: her Mars is exalted, his is protected by an exalted Jupiter. The one concern is Mercury, 2nd lord from his UL, whose dasha starts after 2032; remedies for both are given.

Arudha Lagna vs Arudha of Lagna Lord (Acting Self vs Thinking Self), Nakshatra Discrepancy (3 Causes) & Ayanamsa — Always Trust Lahiri

The class opens with an old astrologer who puts a native's Mercury in Scorpio instead of 2° Sagittarius and insists that Jupiter and Mercury must be together for a chartered accountant. The teacher traces a 2° difference to Vakya Siddhanta or an old ayanamsa, says Lahiri's error is arc-minutes and not degrees, and then shows how the profession is read: the Dasamsa lagna at the given time cannot explain accountancy, and moving the birth seven minutes back gives a Sagittarius D-10 with the 7th and 10th lord Mercury in lagna. The same chart disposes of the thumb rule that Mercury in the 5th delays children. Later questions: Arudha Lagna is the image of the acting self and the arudha of the lagna lord the image of the thinking self; malefics in the 3rd and 6th from AL mean forceful action, not violence. Last, why a family's nakshatra differs from the computed one — an old ayanamsa, or a date changed at sunrise instead of midnight — and how to tell a man firmly that he is Jyeshtha and not Moola.

BPHS Ch.20 — Father's Death Timing (Verses 13–24): Specific Ages (1, 7, 19, 28, 33, 50) & Arudha Analysis (A8/A12 from 9th)

BPHS Ch.20 (Santhanam’s edition) from verse 12 to verse 24, read śloka by śloka. Verse 12 is the begging yoga; verses 13–24 give combinations for the father’s death at stated ages of the native — before birth, 1st year, 3 or 16, 2 or 12, 16 or 18, 7 or 19, 28, 5/31/40, 50, 6 or 25, 21/26/30, 26 or 33. The teacher explains each through the same pattern: a bad ārūḍha (A6, A8, A12), lord or planet such as Rahu in a māraka sthāna from the 9th house or from the 9th from Sun, with the kāraka Sun afflicted. He says where the logic stops — the ages themselves mostly cannot be explained — and where he reads the Sanskrit differently from Santhanam (28 instead of 44; Rahu in the 3rd or 7th; Saturn in the 7th or 8th; 33 instead of 30).

9th House Fortune Combinations — Venus Deeply Exalted + Saturn in 3rd (Stubborn Fortune), Jupiter in 9th from 20th Year, Mercury Deeply Exalted from 36th Year

The fortune verses that follow the father verses in BPHS Ch.20. Venus deeply exalted with the 9th lord and Saturn in the 3rd makes the person very fortunate; Jupiter in the 9th with the 9th lord in a kendra gives a lot of fortune from the 20th year; Mercury deeply exalted with the 9th lord in the 9th gives fortune from the 36th year, his natural year, through livelihood or business; lagna lord and 9th lord in parivartana with Jupiter in the 7th give wealth, vehicles and profits. The teacher explains why Saturn in the 3rd helps (nothing rash, but stubborn and long-lasting initiative turned on the 9th by his aspect) and what happens when Jupiter in the 9th is also the 6th lord: he stays the “project manager” of fortune, and adds struggle or litigation only if Mars and Saturn, the kārakas of the 6th, are strong and well related to him.

D4 (Chaturthamsa) = Primary Bhagya Chart (Not D9), Natural Years of Planets (Saturn=7/19, Mercury=36, Rahu=42-44) & Karaka Bhava Nashaya Controversy

The principles the teacher states while reading the 9th house verses. For Bhāgya the chart to see is the Chaturthamsa (D4): Parāśara named it when he defined the divisional charts, and fortune is measured by house, land and property; D2 is assets and wealth, navāṁśa is for the spouse. The 9th from Moon joins the 9th from lagna and from Sun as a reference for father: it shows the native's thoughts and emotions about father, so Saturn there brings sadness about father in Saturn’s periods. The odd ages in Parāśara’s verses may come from natural years of planets — Saturn 7 and 19, Rahu 16 and 18, Mercury 36, Rahu and Ketu 42–44 — but the list handed down is incomplete and the teacher says so. Kāraka bhāva nāśa is set aside as controversial when Sun sits in the 5th.

BPHS Ch.21 — 10th House Verses 14–21: Great Deeds, Fame (Moon in 10th + Artha Trikona), Handicapped Work (7th Malefic Blocks Partnerships)

BPHS Ch.21 (Karma Bhava) verses 14–21 and the closing verse, each read with its ārūḍha. v14: 10th lord exalted in a kendra or trikona with Jupiter = big deeds. v15: 10th lord with lagna lord in lagna and Moon in a kendra or trikona = deeply involved in good deeds; AL falls in the 10th and A10 in lagna; a student’s Cancer-lagna chart shows the same yoga arising indirectly through a parivartana. v16: Saturn with a debilitated planet in the 10th and a malefic in ‘karma amsa’ = no work; three readings of karma amsa, with no final view given. v17: 10th and 8th lords exchanged with a functional malefic = bad deeds or struggle in work, A10 in the 6th. v18: 10th lord debilitated with malefics in the 10th and 7th = handicapped work. v19–21: the three fame combinations, ending with A10 in the 8th from lagna but the 5th from AL.

BPHS Ch.22 — 11th House Begins: Great Gains (Verse 2), Gains Accumulated (Verse 3), Go-Getter Fortune by 36th Year (Verse 4) & Suryamsa = Leo (Not Combustion)

BPHS Ch.22 (Labha Bhava) begins; the class covers up to what the teacher calls verse 4. The opening verse: by the auspiciousness of the 11th house the native is always happy and comfortable. Great gains when the 11th lord is in the 11th, a kendra or trikona, exalted, or in Suryamsa. Santhanam reads Suryamsa as combustion; the teacher rejects that — ‘ga’ means placed in, ‘vā’ makes it one more alternative — and reads it as Leo amsa, probably in the shodasamsa, the chart of comfort. 11th lord in the 2nd with the 2nd lord in a kendra with Jupiter = large gains that accumulate, because A11 falls in the 2nd itself. 11th lord in the 3rd with benefics = 2000 nishkas in the 36th year: a go-getter with early success, the 11th lord linking two Kama Trikonas. No reason is given for the 36th year, and the combination is easy to find, so apply it with a pinch of salt.

Arudha Placement from Arudha Lagna (More Important than from Lagna), 7th House for Work Partnerships & Artha Trikonas (2-6-10) for Tangible Accomplishment

The working principles drawn from the 10th and 11th house verses of this class. The placement of an ārūḍha from Arudha Lagna is very important, perhaps more important than its placement from lagna: in a trine from AL it blesses the image; in the 8th from AL it upsets the image, or lifts it suddenly when well fortified, especially in the corresponding dasas. The worked case is the 10th lord in the 9th with lagna lord in the 10th — A10 in the 8th from lagna but the 5th from AL. The 7th house, the 10th from the 10th, shows working with others; afflicted, the person is alone. The Artha Trikonas 2-6-10 show work, resources, their use and what gets accomplished; the 10th lord in one of them links two and the person gets something done, just as the 11th lord in the 3rd links two Kama Trikonas. Parashara’s closing verse: from the link between lagna lord and 10th lord, infer the rest.

Child Chart (2001, Libra Lagna) — D24 Siddhamsa for Learning, Pachakadi Samandhas (4 Planet Relationships) & Brahmana Sapa Yoga (AK Involvement)

A full reading of a 7-year-old with asthma, late speech and slow learning (Libra lagna). The D-24 lagna is settled as Taurus, not Aries, because only Taurus puts a functional malefic Jupiter in the 4th of learning; the D-24 Narayana daśā is seeded from the 4th lord of the rāśi chart and shows trouble until 2013. The class introduces the Pachakādi sambandhas (Pāchaka, Bodhaka, Kāraka, Vedhaka) and finds Saturn the key planet. D-30 shows the nodes in a Vāyu rāśi with unobstructed reverse argalā on Mercury; D-6 Paryāya daśā and the Moola daśā explain asthma from birth. Mars is a māraka in gaṇḍānta and in Mṛtyubhāga, and Jupiter carries a Brahmana śāpa with the Ātmakāraka Rāhu. The class ends with a pearl that upset a manager’s career: gems are a rājasic remedy.

BPHS Ch.23 — 12th House (Vyaya Bhava): Moon as 12L (Luxuries), Good/Bad Gati (Naraka vs Moksha), Wandering vs Stable Foreign Settlement & Sinful Earnings

BPHS Chapter 23, verse by verse. Vyaya is expenditure, not necessarily loss: the 12th lord and planets in the 12th show the kind and size of expenses, and a well-supported 12th gives auspicious spending. Moon as 12th lord (Leo lagna) well placed gives fine houses and perfumes; the 12th lord in a kendra or koṇa gives happiness from the spouse, in the 6th or 8th none. Further verses give naraka (Rāhu with malefics in the 12th), moksha (to be applied to the navāṁśa from the Ātmakāraka), wandering versus settling abroad, and sinful earnings — the 12th is the 11th from the 2nd and the 2nd from the 11th, with argalā on both. Each verse is tried on a student’s Sagittarius-lagna chart, and the lagna–12th parivartana verse is then seen at work in a muhūrta for starting a Narasimha mantra.

Punya Chakra (Death Chart) Preview: 12th = Final Gati, 7th = Last Desire (Seed of Next Life) & Visible vs Invisible Half of Zodiac for Obvious vs Subtle Results

The Puṇya Chakra is the chart cast for the moment a person leaves the body. Its 12th house shows one thing only, the final gati; its 7th shows the last desire, which Krishna says decides the next gati and which becomes the seed of the next life. In the birth chart the 12th from lagna shows gati among many other things, and for moksha the navāṁśa from the Ātmakāraka counts for more. The page also gives the two BPHS verses on naraka and moksha, the question of bad karma with a good gati (Arjuna, Rāvaṇa), and the rule of the visible half of the zodiac: planets from the 7th cusp round to the lagna degree give obvious results, the rest subtle ones.

Autism Chart (2002, Cancer Lagna) — Moon Rasi Sandhi + Near-Eclipse by Rahu, D24 Mandi in 5H, Prasna Drekkana = Future & Gemstone vs Prayer Rule

A six-year-old boy with autism who does not yet speak (Jan 25, 2002; Cancer lagna, time not rectified). Lagna lord Moon sits in the first degree of Gemini in the 12th, 20 minutes from 8th lord Rahu, while Jupiter is 13° away and cannot protect him. D30 has Moon with both nodes in a sign of Mars; D24 (Libra lagna) has Mandi and Gulika in the 5th and the 5th co-lord Rahu with Moon in the Badhakasthana, and Rahu dasha runs from 2005 to 2023. The page then covers the remedies: Chandi for Rahu done by the parents themselves, why a gemstone strengthens a planet’s influence and not the planet, why pearl and yellow sapphire are rejected and red coral for yogakaraka Mars is chosen, and how to wear it. A prasna cast in class (Navamsa = past, Rasi = present, Drekkana = future) and the Tithi Pravesha charts of 2008 and 2009 close the reading.

Rasi Sandhi (0° Balayavastha), Bhadakasthana by Lagna Type, Mandi/Gulika (Sons of Saturn), D30 Affliction Sign Quality & Vastu Basics

The working rules drawn from the two cases of this class. A planet in the first degree of a sign is in Rasi Sandhi, deep infancy, and weak. The Badhakasthana is the 11th for movable, the 9th for fixed and the 7th for dual lagnas, and an evil combination there is more evil. Mandi and Gulika, the sons of Saturn, afflict the house they sit in; an affliction in D30 is harder to overcome in a sign of Mars or Saturn than in a benefic’s sign; a strong planet is not thereby a good one. Also the rules for prasna, for prayer against gemstone, and the teacher’s answers on Vastu: the 9 × 9 mandala for the main door, kitchen in the southeast, and why every direction has a good and a bad side.

BPHS Ch.24 — Lagna Lord in Houses 1–3: Intelligence Direction, Arudha Lagna Positions & Argala Synergies (Why LL in 3rd = AL in 5th = Seen as Prosperous)

The lagna lord shows where the person’s intelligence is directed, and BPHS chapter 24 gives the result for each house. This page works through the verses for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses and finds the reason behind every word: Arudha Lagna in the 10th makes the lagna lord in lagna look fickle; the 2nd house has the 11th argala on the 4th (peace), is the 6th from the 9th (fighting for dharma) and the 8th from the 7th (end of the first relationship); the lagna lord in the 3rd sits in the 11th from Arudha Lagna and is seen as prosperous. The results are guidelines to widen thinking, not thumb rules, and they are to be read in every divisional chart for that chart’s matter.

BPHS Ch.24 — Lagna Lord in Houses 4–6 (Parents, Children's Risk, Siddhi-Fighter) & Lagna Vimshottari: 30× More Sensitive, Best for Rectification

Lagna lord in the 4th: attached to mother and, by aspect on the 10th, to father; argala on the 3rd gives siblings and desires; Arudha Lagna falls in the 4th itself, and a planet in Arudha Lagna decides the looks. In the 5th: happiness from children is middling and the first child is at risk, because the lagna lord has argala on the 12th from the 5th, aspects the 11th (maraka of the 5th) and is lord of the 9th from the 5th; it can equally be a doting parent. In the 6th: a fighter with no bodily comfort, whose placement catalyses the 8th house of worry or of sadhana. The second half is Lagna Vimshottari: use it when lagna has more planets in kendras than Moon, remember that it is 30 times more sensitive to birth time (about four months per minute in the example), and test its dates on a known event, here the native's marriage.

BPHS Ch.24 — Lagna Lord in Houses 7–12: AL in 10th/5th/9th, Scholar/King/Renunciant Results & Why 8th = Emotional Instability

BPHS Chapter 24, verses for the lagna lord in the 7th to 12th houses, with the reason behind every result. The reasons come from argala and from the Arudha Lagna: the 8th has the 4th-house argala on the 5th (scholarship, and emotional stability) and the 2nd-house argala on the 7th (desire); the 10th has argala on the 9th but none on the 8th (self-made); the 11th has argala on lagna and is the 5th from the 7th; the 12th is the 8th from the 5th. The teacher works out the Arudha Lagna for the lagna lord in the 7th (AL in the 10th — "a king"), the 9th (AL in the 5th — following, talent, eloquence) and the 11th (AL in the 9th — a dharmic image). He rejects "detached" for the 7th as a possible corruption of the text, answers a student on whether lagna lord in the 8th breaks a marriage, and explains through deśa-kāla-pātra why good character and many wives can both hold for the 11th. Lagna lord in the 12th gives its bad results only without a benefic's aspect or conjunction, and makes a natural renunciant.

BPHS Ch.24 Complete — 2nd Lord in 10th (Scholar/No Children), 11th (All Gains/A2 in 5th = Wealthy Following) & 12th (Bold/Poverty/Jealousy)

The last three verses on the 2nd lord, each result traced to a house relationship. In the 10th: desires and many wives from the 4th-house argala on the 7th, the honour of a scholar because he is the 5th lord from the 10th sitting in the 10th, wealth, but trouble over children — the 10th is the 6th from the 5th and A2 falls in the 6th house, the 2nd from the 5th. In the 11th: all gains, always at work (argala on the 8th), honoured (argala on the 10th), famous (argala on lagna and aspect on the 5th), and A2 in the 5th, so that wealth draws a following. In the 12th: bold because he aspects the 6th, without money, the mind on other people’s fortune, and no comfort from the eldest child — the lord is 8th from the 5th and A2 falls in the 10th, the 6th from the 5th. The page also gives the teacher’s reason why the 12th house, the house of deprivation, is where jealousy is seen.

Shadripu Mapped to D30 (Trimshamsha) Houses 7–12 — PVNR's Original Framework: Kama/Krodha/Lobha/Moha/Madha/Matsarya & Papapurusha in Subtle Body

The teacher’s own idea, which he says is not from any classic: the six inner enemies are read from houses 7 to 12 of the Triṁśāṁśa (D-30), the chart of weaknesses — not the Viṁśāṁśa. The Pāpapuruṣa sits in the stomach of the subtle body, is seen only in yogic vision, and creates the six. The 6th house is the seed; the six houses after it, the visible half of the chart, carry them one by one: 7th kāma, 8th krodha, 9th lobha (being unable to do dharma and charity, wanting everything for oneself), 10th moha (the false pride of accomplishment), 11th mada (wantonness — kāma carried to its end, not alcoholism), 12th mātsarya (not accepting a deprivation and resenting the one who has the thing). The order in which the classics name the six is the order of the houses.

BPHS Ch.24 — 2nd Lord in Houses 1–6: A2 (Dhanarudha) Positions, Harsh Speech (2L in 1H), Bold from Enemy in House (2L in 3H) & Wealth from Enemies (2L in 6H)

Parāśara’s results for the 2nd lord in lagna through the 6th house (chapter 24, verses 13–18 in the Santhanam edition), each one reasoned out. The rule throughout: a lord carries the resources of his own house and is told to do the work of the house he occupies. In lagna he uses wealth on himself, makes the family revolve around him, and with A2 in the 12th is harsh in speech and better at other people’s work. In the 2nd he gives wealth, pride, more than one marriage and may deny children. In the 3rd he gives boldness, intelligence and miserliness, and hostility to religion if malefic. In the 4th A2 falls in a trine from the 2nd for the first time; in the 5th the children grow the family wealth; in the 6th he takes money from enemies, or with malefics brings danger from them and injury to the lower leg, because A2 falls in the 10th.

Aspect Strength Fractions (Full/3-4/Half/Quarter), A2 (Dhanarudha) Calculation Logic & 2nd Lord Results: Why Intelligence Direction + Argala Explains All Verses

The partial strengths of graha dṛṣṭi as stated in class: the 7th aspect is full, the 4th and 8th are three-quarters, the 5th and 9th are half, the 3rd and 10th are a quarter — for all planets. The three-quarter aspect is almost full and is never to be overlooked. Then where A2 falls for the 2nd lord in each of the first six houses (12th, 11th, 4th, 6th, 5th, 10th), with the exception that sends it to the 10th from a result that lands on the house itself or the 7th from it. Last, the tools the teacher applies to every verse: the lord’s own agenda against the house he is placed in, counting from the house concerned, argalā and its obstruction, the position of the ārūḍha, and the planet’s relation with the house lord and kāraka.

BPHS Ch.24 — 3rd Lord in Houses 7–9: Interacts with Powerful People (Not Just Govt Service), No Paternal Happiness (Maraka from 9th) & Fortune Through Wife

BPHS chapter 24, verses 31–33, with the reason for each result found by taking the house concerned as lagna. 3rd lord in the 7th: "serves the king" means he interacts with big, fortunate people (the 9th lord from the 7th sits in the 7th), government service being one form of it; childhood is unhappy (the 2nd lord from the 2nd in the 6th from it) and later life happy (artha trikoṇa lord from the 10th, mokṣa trikoṇa lord from the 4th). 3rd lord in the 8th: initiative aimed at other people's money makes a thief, but the same placement is the karmayogī doing tapas; lowly servant work (6th from the 3rd); death by the king's punishment is a possibility, not a prediction. 3rd lord in the 9th: no happiness from the father (māraka in lagna from the 9th, or friction because energy is spent on him), fortune blooming through the wife (7th lord from the 9th in the 9th), and happiness from children (11th lord from the 5th in the 5th from the 5th).

BPHS Ch.24 — 3rd Lord in Houses 10–12: Self-Made Man (10H), Kama Trikona Synergy = Business Gains (11H) & 3rd House = Fall of Dharma (12H = Adharmic Spending)

BPHS chapter 24, verses 34–36. 3rd lord in the 10th: he spends heavily on comforts (aspects the 4th and is the 12th lord from it), is self-made (initiative placed in career; the 6th lord from the 10th in the 10th), and keeps adharmic company (the 9th lord from the 7th falls in the 8th from his own house, ruining the dharma of relationships — not only with women). 3rd lord in the 11th: one kāma trikoṇa lord in another gives profit in business; a break in education but strong intelligence (12th lord from the 4th in the 8th, 11th lord from the 5th in the 7th); boldness (lord in the 9th from his house); and voluntary service that counts as a social accomplishment (6th lord from the 10th in the 2nd). 3rd lord in the 12th: money spent on bad work, because the 3rd is the 7th from the 9th, the fall of dharma; a cold, ruthless father (10th taken for father: 6th lord in the 3rd); and fortune advanced through loose relationships, not through marriage.

3rd House = Fall of Dharma (Hidden Meaning), 8th House = Tapas AND Theft, Parashara's Methodology: Sampling Result-Space to Expand Student Thinking

The general points behind the six verses on the 3rd lord in houses 7–12. The 3rd house is initiative, the circumstances of death, the seed of desire, and — as the 7th from the 9th — the fall of dharma, a meaning Parashara first uses for the 3rd lord in the 12th. The 8th house is other people's money (2nd from the 7th), but also hard work and tapas, and the punishment for previous karma; the thief and the tapasvī can share the 3rd lord in the 8th. A lord in the 8th from its own house ruins it or gives hard work for it, depending on what the house is read as; a lord in the 9th from its house fortifies it. Parashara gives only two or three results per placement, to widen the student's thinking — they are not thumb rules for prediction.

BPHS Ch.24 — 4th Lord in Lagna: Learning, Good Qualities, Land, Vehicles and Happiness from Mother

The class opens the 4th lord in the twelve houses, from Chapter 24 of Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstram, after finishing the 3rd lord. The verse for the 4th lord in lagna: the native is endowed with learning and good qualities (vidyāguṇa-vibhūṣitaḥ), owns land and vehicles (bhūmi-vāhana-saṃyuktaḥ) and has happiness from the mother (mātuḥ sukha-samanvitaḥ). The teacher catches a misprint in the book, where "lagnage" is printed as "dhanage". He begins the reasoning — every result is a signification of the 4th house itself — and the surviving transcript stops there in mid-sentence. The 4th lord in houses 2–6 is not on the surviving transcript; lesson 136 resumes at the 7th house.

BPHS Ch.24 — 4th Lord in Houses 7–9: Not Talkative (Maraka of 3rd), A4 in 12th = No Comforts, A4 in 2nd = Accumulates & 10th House = Indrasthana/Moha

Parāśara’s results for the 4th lord in the 7th, 8th and 9th, each derived by counting the placement from the house concerned. In the 7th: many kinds of knowledge (argala and a partial aspect on the 4th), gives up inheritance (9th lord from the 8th placed in the 12th from it), silent in an assembly (māraka of the 3rd). In the 8th: no household comforts (A4 falls in the 12th — or the comforts are abroad), little happiness from the father (a Viparīta Rāja Yoga counted from the 9th benefits the father, not the relationship), weak desires (10th lord from the 7th in its māraka-sthāna). In the 9th: liked by all (argala on the 11th), devout, principled, and an accumulator of comforts (6th from the 4th; A4 in the 2nd). The page ends with the teacher’s own deduction that houses 7–12 of the D-30 show the six enemies, the 10th — Indrasthāna — being the field of moha.

BPHS Ch.24 — 4th Lord in Houses 10–12: Enjoyer (A4 in Lagna), Generous Self-Sacrificer (A4 in 6H), Lazy Addict (A4 in 8H) & Complete A4 Position Table

The 4th lord in the 10th, 11th and 12th. In the 10th: honoured by the government, a researcher absorbed in his work (7th from the 4th, and 7th lord in lagna counted from the 10th), an enjoyer who uses what he owns (A4 in lagna), and possibly above the moha of achievement (a māraka of the 10th placed in the 10th). In the 11th: fear of hidden or sexual disease (A4 in the 6th), capable rather than "virtuous" (aspect on the 5th, argala on lagna), and a giver of an unusual kind — he gives up his own gains so that others are happy. In the 12th: no comforts or comforts abroad (A4 in the 8th: anxiety, sudden gains, constant change), bad addictions, no formal schooling, and little initiative (the māraka of the 3rd sits in the 10th from the 3rd). The page closes with the table of where A4 falls for each placement and the D-30 moha discussion the 10th-house reading rests on.

BPHS Ch.24 — 5th Lord in Houses 1–3: Scholar/Crooked (Argala on 10th), Family Patriarch (5L in 2H), Brothers (5L in 3H) & Amala Yoga (Benefics in 10th)

Parāśara’s verses on the 5th lord in the first three houses, each result explained by taking the relevant house as lagna. In lagna: a scholar with fortunate children, yet thrifty (6th lord from the 12th with argala on the 12th), not straightforward (8th lord from the 10th with argala on the 10th) and a gatherer of easy money (10th lord from the 8th in the 6th from the 8th). Amala Yoga, benefics in the 10th from lagna and Moon, is brought in to show that the 10th is the house of conduct. In the 2nd: many children, wealth, the pillar of a big family, good reputation. In the 3rd: close to brothers, miserly, absorbed in his own work.

BPHS Ch.24 — 5th Lord in Houses 4–6: Minister/Guru (5L in 4H), Children in Own House (5L in 5H = Conditional), Son as Enemy (5L in 6H) & Dhimanta Yoga

The 5th lord in the 4th, 5th and 6th houses. In the 4th: happy, wealthy (an upachaya from the 2nd), intelligent, a minister or guru, because he gives his scholarship to others (12th from the 5th) and aspects the 10th. In the 5th: good for children, but if malefics dominate a weak planet both house and lord are hit together and childlessness is possible; from the 10th it is Sarala Yoga, so he is honourable. In the 6th: the son like an enemy, a dead child or an adopted one, since the 6th is the māraka sthāna from the 5th. The class supplies the positives: Dhimanta Yoga, intelligence used to overcome obstacles. Parāśara points out a few results per placement to teach the reasoning, not to list every outcome.

10th House = Character AND Conduct in Society (Not Just Career), 8th House = Other People's Money (2nd from 7th) & Upachaya from Material Houses = Accumulation

The principles behind the 5th-lord verses, collected. Take any house as lagna and see what the planet owns and occupies from there and where he has argala. The 10th house is not only work: it is the basic character and conduct of the person in the world, so the 8th lord from the 10th with argala on it puts spots on behaviour, and benefics in the 10th from lagna and Moon give Amala Yoga. The 8th house is the 2nd from the 7th: other people’s money that becomes yours. The lord of one upachaya in another upachaya shows accumulation, of money when counted from the 2nd, of easy money from the 8th, of work from the 10th.

BPHS Ch.24 — 5th Lord in Houses 7–9: Very Dharmic (9L in 11th from 9H), A5 in 9H = Blessed, Breathing Disorders (5L in 8H = 6th from 3H) & Fortunate Son

PVNR reads Parāśara’s verses for the 5th lord in the 7th, 8th and 9th and derives each result by taking the relevant house as lagna. In the 7th: respected through interaction with people rather than accomplishment (from the 10th it is only the 8th lord in the 10th), very dharmic (9th lord in the 11th from the 9th), happy with children (A5 in the 9th, argala on the 4th) and helpful (11th lord in lagna from the 7th). In the 8th: little happiness from children (A5 falls in the 8th itself), breathing disorders (the planet is 6th from the 3rd), anger and no peace. He then shows the other side from his own chart: Virgo lagna with Saturn in Aries gave him allergic bronchitis and a short temper, and also every academic distinction, because the 5th lord in the 8th has argala on the 5th and joins scholarship to hard work and mantra to sādhana. In the 9th: the son, not the native, is the one "like a king", and the native is famous and the light of his family. The verses are guidelines, never applied in toto.

BPHS Ch.24 — 5th Lord in Houses 10–12: Rajayoga + Accumulated Fame (5L in 10H), Whatever He Touches = Gold (5L in 11H) & Occult Scholarship (5L in 12H)

The last three placements of the 5th lord. In the 10th: "not really a classical Raj Yoga" but like one, a trine lord in a quadrant; he enjoys his comforts because the planet aspects the 4th (Parāśara says bhogī, one who enjoys, not merely one who has); and fame accumulates because from the 5th its lagna lord is in the 6th, an upachaya. A student with Mars as 5th lord in the 10th enjoys the work, not the comforts: Moon and Venus are the kārakas of enjoyment, Mars turns water into steam. In the 11th: scholar, liked by people (7th lord in lagna from the 11th), writer, very capable, many children. The wealth comes from the 11th and not the 2nd: the planet has no argala on the 2nd, only a 3/4 aspect, but A5 falls in the 2nd, so he is known as wealthy and resourceful. In the 12th: no happiness from children, or an adopted child, since from the 5th its lord is in the 8th. The same placement puts the lord of devotion in the house of surrender and gives scholarship in the occult; PVNR’s example is a Pisces-lagna man with Moon in Aquarius, troubled over children and a famous astrologer.

Digbala (Directional Strength) Complete Summary, 5th House = Mantra + Bhakti + Scholarship + Occult, & A5 Position Table for Houses 7–12

Digbala as recalled in class: Mercury and Jupiter in lagna, Moon and Venus in the 4th, Saturn in the 7th, Sun and Mars in the 10th, where the fiery planets of action serve karma. The 5th house as mantra, bhakti, scholarship and fame, and how it reads with the 8th (sādhana, hard work) and the 12th (surrender, the occult), with the A5 positions worked out in the lesson. The rest of the page is the class’s worked example: an Upanayana muhūrta for a Maghā native. PVNR rejects the first choice (Aries lagna, 22 March 2009) because the 5th lord Sun is in the 12th, the bādhaka lord Saturn sits in the 5th and Moon is in mṛtyu bhāga, then walks through tithi and tārā bala day by day to 4 April 2009, 10:10 AM: Taurus lagna, Moon in Āśleṣā, Jupiter’s debility cancelled, a rāja yoga of the lagna, 4th and 5th lords in the 11th, and Ātmakāraka Jupiter in the Leo Navāṁśa lagna. Also covered: why the time zone must be known exactly, what śuddhi means, which vargas to check for a muhūrta, and why the mantra upadeśa itself must fall at the chosen moment.

BPHS Ch.24 — 6th Lord in Houses 1–3: Diseased + Honorable + Atma Satru (1H), Famous in Lineage + Lives Abroad (2H) & Angry Paradox + Enmity with Brothers (3H)

Parāśara’s results for the 6th lord in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses, each derived by taking the house of the matter as lagna. In lagna: diseased and an enemy of himself or his own people (5th lord in the 12th from the 2nd), yet famous (2nd lord in the 9th from the 5th), honourable (9th lord in the 4th from the 10th), brave and virtuous. In the 2nd: weak initiative but fights to the finish (lagna lord in the 9th from the 6th), famous in the family, wants to live abroad, gains comforts, speaks well, has good work ethics. In the 3rd: fire in the belly but no courage (the 4th lord from the 3rd pours water on fire), enmity with brothers, and servants who answer back. The lesson: a planet bad for lagna is not bad for every house.

BPHS Ch.24 — 6th Lord in Houses 4–6: No Maternal Happiness + Rumor-Monger + Super-Rich (4H), Enmity Children + Kind + Selfish (5H) & Enmity Kinsmen + Friendly Strangers (6H)

Parāśara’s results for the 6th lord in the 4th, 5th and 6th houses. In the 4th: no happiness from mother, a shrewd problem-solver (11th from the 6th), a rumour-monger (10th lord in the 8th from the 9th), jealous (the lord of weaknesses has argala on the 12th of humility), fickle, and able and willing to make wealth (5th lord in the 3rd from the 2nd). In the 5th: rich but has to fight to keep it, enmity with children, friendships that break (8th lord in the 7th from the 11th), happy, selfish and kind at once, and not a fighter. In the 6th: enmity with a group of close kinsmen, friendly with everyone else, good wealth but only medium contentment from it.

Contentment = 4th House from Any House (Wealth→5H, Children→8H, Relations→10H) & 6th House = Shadripu Root (7H–12H = Branches: Kama/Krodha/Lobha/Moha/Madha/Matsarya)

Three principles that come out of the 6th-lord verses. Contentment with any matter is seen from the 4th house from its house: wealth from the 5th, children from the 8th, relations from the 10th; a planet must be good for both the 2nd and the 5th to give wealth with contentment, as it must be good for both lagna and the 4th to give happiness. The 6th house is the root of the six inner enemies and the 7th to 12th houses are the branches; the 12th is humility, or jealousy when the lord of weaknesses touches it. And the 2nd from any house is what feeds that house, which is why the same house sustains and kills.

BPHS Ch.24 — 6th Lord in Houses 7–9: No Marital Bliss (12L in Lagna from 7H), Famous + Bold + Wealthy (7H), Diseased + Unclean + Loose Morals (8H) & Deals in Misfortune Articles (9H)

PVNR finishes the 6th lord from the Santhanam edition of BPHS (which he numbers Chapter 24, verse 67 onward) and derives each result by taking the relevant house as lagna. 6th lord in the 7th: no marital bliss, because from the 7th he is the 12th lord of losses in lagna; yet famous (2nd lord in the 3rd from the 5th), virtuous (10th lord in the 11th from the 9th), respected (9th lord in the 10th from the 10th), bold (4th lord in the 5th from the 3rd) and wealthy (5th lord in the 6th from the 2nd). 6th lord in the 8th: diseased, quarrelsome (12th lord in the 2nd from the 7th), after other people's money (11th lord in lagna from the 8th), interested in others' wives (10th lord in the 12th from the 9th, joined to the 7th lord in a trine from the 12th) and unclean (a dusthāna lord in a dusthāna). He warns against reading this mechanically: the Navāṁśa decides the dharma of the person, the 8th is also sādhana, and a saint with the 6th and 8th lords in lagna simply did not care about his dirty clothes. 6th lord in the 9th: trades in wood and stones, meaning articles with a connotation of death and misfortune (12th lord from the 7th of business), with gains and losses alternating (8th lord in the 11th from the 11th).

BPHS Ch.24 — 6th Lord in Houses 10–12: Famous + Good Orator + Happy Abroad (10H), Wealth by Fighting + No Children Happiness (11H) & Spends on Addictions + Harms Living Beings (12H)

The last three placements of the 6th lord, each result derived by counting from the house concerned. In the 10th: famous in his circle (9th lord in lagna from the 10th; 5th lord in the 9th from the 2nd of family), disobedient to father (4th lord in the 8th from the 3rd, which is the 7th from the 9th), a good orator (5th lord in the 9th from the 2nd) and happy abroad (7th lord in the 11th from the 12th). In the 11th: wealth from enemies, which means wealth won after a long fight and not a windfall; virtuous, bold and respected; but no happiness from children, because from the 5th he is the 2nd lord in the 7th, a clear māraka, and from the 11th (relationship with children) he is the 8th lord in lagna. In the 12th: always spending on vices, since the 6th is the enemy within and the 12th is expense; hostile to learning (2nd lord in the 8th from the 5th); and harmful to living beings (12th lord in the 6th from the 7th). PVNR adds that this last placement is also a viparīta yoga and can give good results after suffering.

BPHS Ch.24 — 7th Lord in Houses 1–3: Very Outgoing + Wicked + Clever + Vata Diseases (1H), Multiple Marriages + Wealth from Marriage + Procrastinator (2H) & Children Survival Problems (3H)

Parashara’s results for the 7th lord in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses (Ch.24 verses 73–75 in the Santhanam edition), each derived by taking the house of the result as lagna. In the 1st: outgoing and drawn to others’ spouses, wicked (a Maraka in lagna weakens character), clever (3rd lord in the 9th from the 5th), without fighting spirit (2nd lord in the 8th from the 6th, though the 3rd house view shows he has initiative) and prone to Vata disease. In the 2nd: one marriage ends and he marries again (lord in the 8th from the 7th), wealth comes through marriage, and he procrastinates (the lord of desire in the 12th from the 3rd). In the 3rd: children’s survival is in danger (8th lord in the 4th from the 12th house, with argala), a child who survives is bold, and the Saptamsa must confirm it. The teacher also adds results the verses leave out: speech, and dealings with foreigners.

BPHS Ch.24 — 7th Lord in Houses 4–6: Spouse Independent (Career Woman) + Dharmic + Intelligent + Dental Problems (4H), Honorable + All Virtues + Cheerful + Wealthy (5H) & Wife Sick + Quarrels + Angry (6H)

Parashara’s results for the 7th lord in the 4th, 5th and 6th houses (Ch.24 verses 76–78 in the Santhanam edition), each derived by taking the house of the result as lagna. In the 4th: the spouse has her own career and mind (lagna lord in the 10th from the 7th); he is truthful and dharmic (11th lord in the 8th from the 9th, a Viparita Raja Yoga) and intelligent (3rd lord in the 12th from the 5th); teeth, feet or the left eye suffer (8th lord in the 5th from the 12th). In the 5th: honoured but with ups and downs (10th lord in the 8th from the 10th), virtuous, cheerful (lagna lord in the 11th from the 7th) and wealthy (an upachaya lord in a quadrant from the 2nd with argala). In the 6th: the wife is sick or turns spiritual (the lord in the 12th from his own house), he quarrels with her and with everyone, he is angry (argala on the 8th) and has no happiness (4th lord in the 3rd from the 4th).

BPHS Ch.24 — 7th Lord in Houses 7–9: Marital Bliss + Bold + Applied Intelligence (7H), No Marital Happiness + Sick Wife + Bad Character (8H) & Many Relationships + Attached to Wife + Starts Without Finishing (9H)

Parashara's results for the 7th lord in the 7th, 8th and 9th houses, each derived by taking the relevant house as lagna. In the 7th: marital bliss (lagna lord in lagna from the 7th), boldness (5th lord in the 5th from the 3rd), applied intelligence and judgment (3rd lord in the 3rd from the 5th) and Vata complaints, which the teacher calls an intelligent guess. In the 8th: the lord sits in a Maraka sthana from its own house and in the 8th from lagna, so no marital happiness, a diseased wife, a wife of poor character (5th lord in the 6th from the 3rd) who does not listen. In the 9th: many women (initiative in relations, 3rd from the 7th), yet attached to the wife (7th lord strong in a trine), and many beginnings without completion (12th from the 10th). Also the difference between the 7th lord in lagna, who likes to interact, and in the 7th, who does.

BPHS Ch.24 — 7th Lord in Houses 10–12: Wife Independent + Very Dharmic + Wealthy + Many Children (10H), Wealth from Marriage + Limited Children + Daughters (11H) & Business Losses + Miserly + Wife Spendthrift + Cloth Merchant (12H)

Parashara's results for the 7th lord in the 10th, 11th and 12th houses, each derived by taking the relevant house as lagna. In the 10th: a wife not under his control (from the 7th, lagna lord in the 4th aspecting the 10th — she pursues her own happiness and career), a dharmic native (Argala on the 9th; 11th lord in the 2nd from the 9th), wealth (6th lord in the 9th from the 2nd) and children after early trouble (3rd lord in the 6th from the 5th, a Viparita Raja Yoga). In the 11th: wealth after marriage (9th lord in lagna from the 11th), little happiness from children (3rd lord in the 7th from the 5th) and daughters, where the teacher says the logic for gender is uncertain. In the 12th: big business losses rather than born poverty, miserliness (8th lord in lagna from the 12th), a wife who spends, and a trade in small articles such as cloth (lagna lord in the 6th from the 7th).

BPHS Ch.24 — 8th Lord in Houses 1–3: No Physical Comfort + Irreligious (1H), Physically Weak + Loses Wealth Permanently (2H), No Brother Happiness + Lazy + Independent Servants (3H) & Why 2nd/7th Are Maraka Sthanas

Verses 85–87 of the bhāva-lords chapter, read the teacher’s way: the 8th lord ruins the house he sits in, and each remaining result is explained by counting from another house. In lagna he denies bodily comfort and gives wounds or chronic disease; as 12th lord from the 9th he gives up dharma, though the same placement can give occult insight and understanding beyond the letter of a rule. In the 2nd he is the 7th lord from the 2nd sitting in it, so he kills wealth and what is lost does not return; as 6th lord from the 3rd in the 12th from it he makes the native weak, and his daśā can kill. In the 3rd he gives no happiness from siblings, laziness and weakness, and servants with a mind of their own (3rd lord from the 6th in the 10th from it). The page also gives the reason the 2nd and 7th are māraka sthānas: they are the 12th from the 3rd and 8th, the two houses of life.

BPHS Ch.24 — 8th Lord in Houses 4–6: No Mother/Property + Betrays Friends (4H), Dull Intelligence + Long-Lived + Sudden Wealth A8 in 11H (5H), Victor over Enemies BUT Full of Diseases — Viparita Rajayoga NEVER Applies to Health (6H)

Verses 88–90. The 8th lord in the 4th denies happiness from mother, house and land, though as 5th lord from the 4th he can make the mother herself fortunate; as the planet of sins in the 6th from the 11th he makes the native betray friends. In the 5th he dulls the intelligence and gives long life, and the wealth promised is sudden money, not a steady bank balance: he aspects the 11th, A8 falls in the 11th, and the house of speculation joins the house of pūrva-puṇya. In the 6th he gives victory over enemies by Viparīta Rāja Yoga but a body full of disease, because Viparīta Rāja Yoga never applies to health. Danger from water is traced to A8 in the 4th, a watery house, with the warning not to predict it from this alone; for the snakes the teacher says he can find no reason.

Mundane Astrology Framework: Lunar New Year Chart (Pratipada at Capital), Amavasya Yoga Afflicts Whichever House, Gandanta Lagna = National Instability, 10H vs 3H for Elections & War via 6th House

The chart for a country’s year is the Lunar New Year chart: the moment of Chaitra Śukla Pratipada, cast for the capital. The Hora lord at that moment rules the year. Amavasya yoga is in every such chart and its cancellations do not apply, so the reading turns on which house and which lords it falls on. The page gives the houses the teacher uses (3rd opposition, 6th war, 10th government, 5th judgment and pūrva puṇya), his rules for war, elections and a Gandanta lagna, and which varga answers which question: Navāṁśa for relations with other countries, Daśāṁśa for politics, Triṁśāṁśa for the evils plaguing the country, Hora for finances.

BPHS Ch.24 — 8th Lord in Houses 7–9: Two Wives + Maraka for Native (7H), Long Life + Thief + Blame-Game (8H) & Adharmic + Atheist + Harsh Wife + Takes Others' Money (9H)

Parāśara's verses for the 8th lord in the 7th, 8th and 9th houses, each result derived by counting from the house concerned. In the 7th: two wives, because he is the wife's 2nd lord sitting in her lagna, and because the 8th lord brings change to the house he occupies; he is a māraka for the native too, and business suffers — certain only when a malefic is there. In the 8th: long life (medium even if the planet has no strength), a thief because the 8th is other people's money, blameworthy because the 8th is the 12th from the 9th, and one who blames others because he is the 2nd lord in the 2nd from the 7th. In the 9th: betrays dharma, atheist, takes others' money — and the "wicked wife" is read as a wife of harsh, aggressive speech, her 2nd lord being in her 3rd.

BPHS Ch.24 — 8th Lord in Houses 10–12: No Paternal Happiness + Career Instability (10H), Sad in Youth Happy in Old Age + Long Life if Benefic (11H), Adharmic Spending + Viparita for Tensions + Good for Sadhana (12H) & 8L Argala = Longevity from 6H/9H/11H/12H

Parāśara's verses for the 8th lord in the 10th, 11th and 12th houses. In the 10th: no happiness from father, because the 12th lord from the 9th has argala on the 9th; instability in career when no benefic aspects. In the 11th: no money if malefics join; unhappy in childhood and happy in old age — from the 10th taken as lagna he is the 11th lord in the 2nd; long life with a benefic, because he has argala on the 8th and on lagna, though the life is one of tension. The teacher extends the argala reason to the 8th lord in the 6th and 9th. In the 12th: spending on adharma and a possibility of short life, more so with a malefic; read as Viparīta Yoga it lets tensions go and favours sādhana, and with a benefic the secondary argala on the 8th can give medium or long life.

BPHS Ch.24 — 9th Lord in Houses 7–9: Marriage Unlocks Fortune + Famous (A9 in 5H) (7H), Unfortunate + No Elder Sibling Happiness — Bhavat Bhavam (8H) & Maximum Fortune + Beautiful + Happy with All Siblings (9H) & A9 Bhagyapada General Rule

Verses 103–105 of the chapter on house lords (chapter 24 in the Santhanam edition the teacher reads from). 9th lord in the 7th: marriage unlocks fortune, he brings dharma into his dealings with people, and he is famous because A9 falls in the 5th house of following. 9th lord in the 8th: unfortunate, being 12th from the 9th, and no happiness from elder siblings — the 9th is the 11th from the 11th (bhāvāt bhāvam). 9th lord in the 9th: much fortune, good looks, and happiness with elder and younger siblings; A9 falls in the 6th, the 4th from the 3rd. The page also gives the A9 (Bhāgyapada) rule — people see you as lucky in the matters of the house A9 occupies, even a dusthāna — and the difference between a lord and an ārūḍha.

BPHS Ch.24 — 9th Lord in Houses 10–12: King/Minister Status + Dharma-Karma Link (10H), Daily Profits + A9 in Lagna = Perceived as Dharmic (11H) & Fortune Spent on Dharma + Good for Moksha (12H)

Verses 106–108 (chapter 24 in the Santhanam edition). 9th lord in the 10th: a king, minister or their equal, virtuous and honoured — the most important trine linked to the most important quadrant; not Dharma-Karma Yoga by name but equivalent to it, and probably better than the 9th lord in the 9th. 9th lord in the 11th: gains day after day, and devotion to gurus that takes the form of work, because the planet is in the 3rd from the 9th; he has argala on lagna and A9 falls in lagna, so dharma is part of the personality. 9th lord in the 12th: fortune is lost, money goes on auspicious work and on guests, even to poverty — yet the teacher calls it a good combination for dharma and mokṣa, because being able to give something up is a great thing.

BPHS Ch.24 — 10th Lord in Houses 1–3: Scholar Who Applies Knowledge + "Poet" Lives His Work + Money Grows Daily (1H), Genuinely Wealthy + Socially Graceful + Charitable (2H) & Works with Siblings + Brave from Duty + Eloquent (3H)

The verses on the 10th lord in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses, each result derived by taking the house concerned as lagna. In lagna: a scholar who puts his knowledge to use (the 6th lord from the 5th in a trine from the 5th), famous, with enough resources for his work and the habit of spending them (the 9th lord from the 2nd, in the 12th from the 2nd), a "poet" in the sense of a man who lives his work, sick in childhood, and gaining all his life (the 12th lord from the 11th in the 3rd from it). In the 2nd: actually wealthy, well-mannered and smooth of speech (argalā on lagna, not dharma), honoured by the powerful, a free giver, and happy in his family. In the 3rd: working alongside siblings, lucky with servants, brave out of duty and not desire, and dharmic, eloquent and truthful because he aspects the 9th house.

BPHS Ch.24 — 10th Lord in Houses 4–6: Focus on Mother/Property/Vehicles + Very Wealthy (4H), All-Round Scholar + Children Assist in Work (5H), Clever Fighter + Possible BPHS Textual Error for Wealth (6H) & 12th Lord in 3/6/8 = Viparita-Like Yoga

The verses on the 10th lord in the 4th, 5th and 6th houses. In the 4th the work centres on the mother, vehicles, land and houses; the "virtue" is social polish, from argalā on lagna; and the person is very wealthy, because the 9th lord counted from the 2nd aspects the 9th from the 2nd. In the 5th he is an all-round scholar, cheerful, wealthy, and his children help in his work. In the 6th he is uncomfortable with his father (the 8th lord from the 3rd in the 4th from the 3rd), clever at fighting obstacles (the 5th lord from the 6th in the 6th) and still troubled by enemies. The teacher cannot derive "devoid of wealth" for the 6th and concludes the verse has a wrong word. The page also gives the rule he uses twice: the 12th lord from any house, placed in the 3rd, 6th or 8th from it, is a Viparīta Rāja yoga for that house.

BPHS Ch.24 — 10th Lord in Houses 7–9: Marital Bliss + Compassionate + Implements Dharma (7H), Rocky Career + Long Life + Picks Fights (8H) & King/Minister Status = Peak Dharma-Karma Yoga (9H)

Parāśara’s results for the 10th lord in the 7th, 8th and 9th houses (the teacher reads them from Chapter 24), each explained by counting from the house concerned. In the 7th: marital happiness (4th lord in lagna from the 7th), a compassionate mind, a talker more than an eloquent speaker, and a man who carries out his dharma (2nd lord in the 11th from the 9th). In the 8th: the verse says jobless, but the placement also gives argala on the 10th, so read a rocky career or a workaholic and never tell anyone he will have no job; long life; and a man who picks fights (5th lord in the 3rd from the 6th). In the 9th: a king or the equal of a king — the lord of karma in the house of dharma — with fortune in general, and better still when the 9th and 10th lords are together.

BPHS Ch.24 — 10th Lord in Houses 10–12: Harsha+Sarala Yoga = Master of All Work + Truthful (10H), Wealthy Family + Cheerful + Business Indicator (11H), Skillful but Anxious/Unconfident (12H) & Free Will vs Destiny: Natal = Pre-Birth Karma, Current Action = Completely Yours

The 10th lord in the 10th, 11th and 12th houses. In the 10th he gives Harṣa yoga counted from the 5th house of skills (6th lord in the 6th) and Sarala yoga counted from the 3rd house of valour (8th lord in the 8th): a master of all work, bold, truthful, devoted to gurus. In the 11th the 2nd house flourishes (9th lord in the 10th from it), the man is cheerful because a kendra lord aspects the 5th, and the placement suits business — but his happiness is peace of mind, not 4th-house ease. In the 12th: expenses on account of work or the ruler, constant dealings with enemies, and skill without confidence (6th lord in the 8th from the 5th; 8th lord in the 10th from the 3rd). The page then gives the teacher’s position on free will: the horoscope codes karma up to birth, current action is in your hands and is not in the chart, prasna carries the karma done since birth, and the way to act is to do your best and hand the act to Krishna.

BPHS Ch.24 — 11th Lord in Houses 1–3: Sattvic + Wealthy + Equal Vision (1H), All Wealth + Philanthropic + Fighter for Dharma (2H), Master of Skills + Stomach Problems (3H) & Why 3rd/6th/11th Lords Are Binding (Functional Malefics)

Parāśara's verses on the 11th lord in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses, parsed word by word. The method: take the house of the matter as lagna and see which lord the 11th lord is from there and where it sits. In lagna, "sāttvika" means friendly and gentle, not the guṇa; steady emotions come from the 7th lord in the 9th counted from the 5th; wealth that keeps circulating from the 10th lord in the 12th counted from the 2nd. In the 2nd he is a giver through a Viparīta Rāja Yoga from both the 12th and the 9th house, and a fighter for dharma. In the 3rd the stomach suffers because he is the māraka 7th lord from the 5th with argala on it — and the rule is general for any body part. The page ends with why the 3rd, 6th and 11th lords (not the 8th) are functional malefics: they are houses that bind.

BPHS Ch.24 — 11th Lord in Houses 4–6: Gains from Mother + Owns Property + Sudden Gains (4H), Happy Children + Passionately Dharmic (Dharmarataha) (5H) & Harasthana Yoga = Chronic Disease + Lives Abroad + Tormented by Enemies (6H)

Parāśara's verses on the 11th lord in the 4th, 5th and 6th houses. In the 4th he uses the mother as his resource: the native gains through her, while she herself suffers because he is the 8th lord in lagna counted from the 4th; the same fact gives many houses, frequent moves and sudden gains. In the 5th the children are happy, learned and well-behaved, and the native is dharma-rata — the 3rd lord in the 9th counted from the 9th — though one child can suffer in the daśā because he is a māraka from the 5th. In the 6th the other face of the 11th house shows: it is Hara-sthāna, the 6th from the 6th, so its lord in the house of disease gives disease. The lord of friends in the house of enemies makes a ruthless fighter whose friends turn enemies, and as a māraka to the 5th house of motherland he sends the person abroad.

BPHS Ch.24 — 11th Lord in Houses 7–9: Gains from Wife's Family + Liberal Giver (Viparita from 12H) + Keeps Wife Happy (7H), Long-Lived + Wife Predecease + Windfall Possible (8H) & Fortunate + Dharma Activist + Money in Circulation (9H)

BPHS chapter 24 (Santhanam's edition), verses 127–129: the 11th lord in the 7th, 8th and 9th houses. Each word of the verse is derived by taking the house it belongs to as lagna and seeing which lord the planet is from there. In the 7th: gains through the wife and in business, a giver (12th lord in the 8th from the 12th, a Viparīta Rāja Yoga for giving), many desires (two Kāma trikoṇas linked), and a man who keeps his wife happy rather than one ruled by her. In the 8th: breaks in his works, long life, the wife dying first (the planet sits in the 2nd from the 7th), a possible lottery or inheritance, powerful friends. In the 9th: fortunate, skilful, one who goes to lengths to uphold dharma, famous, and dhanādhipa read as money always in circulation, not a big bank balance.

BPHS Ch.24 — 11th Lord in Houses 10–12: Honored + Religious Activist + Jitendriya/Sense Mastery (10H), Gainful in All + Happiness Increases Daily (11H), Dharmic Spending + Kamuka + Gains from Foreign (12H) & 10th House = Indrasthana (Sense Mastery, NOT Sense Organs)

BPHS chapter 24 (Santhanam's edition), verses 130–132: the 11th lord in the 10th, 11th and 12th houses, each result derived from the house it belongs to. In the 10th: honoured, an activist for his religion (argalā on the 9th, lordship 3rd from the 9th), intelligent in argument (7th lord in the 6th from the 5th), truthful, and jitendriya. In the 11th: gains in everything, scholarship, and happiness that grows daily (8th lord in the 8th from the 4th). In the 12th: spending on dharma or as smart investment, kāmuka, many wives, gains with a foreign element — and the student's question whether a man who pursues many women can still be called dharmic. The page then explains why the 10th house is Indrasthana: it shows the overall relationship with the senses, mastery or succumbing, not the physical sense organs; the 6th, the 9th from the 10th, holds the ariṣaḍvargas.

BPHS Ch.24 — 12th Lord in Houses 1–3: Spendthrift + Weak + Kapha (1H), Wise Spender + Dharmic + Soft-Spoken (2H), Sibling Problems + Many Enemies + Selfish (3H) & Dosha-Planet Table + D16 = Mental State (Not Only Vehicles)

BPHS chapter 24 on the 12th lord in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd houses, each result derived by taking the house concerned as lagna. In lagna: spendthrift by nature, weak, Kapha disease (the natural 12th is Pisces and the feet store water — but check the actual planet), no wealth (11th lord in the 12th from the 2nd) and no learning (8th lord in the 9th from the 5th). In the 2nd: spending that is wise investment, a fighter for dharma because the 2nd is the 6th from the 9th, humble speech, happiness. In the 3rd: trouble with siblings seen from the native's own lagna, many enemies, and humility lost to the fire of the 3rd. The page also gives the doṣa of each planet, how to read the constitution from lagna, lagna lord, 6th and 8th, and why D16 (Kalāṁśa) is the chart of the mental state and not only of vehicles.

BPHS Ch.24 — 12th Lord in Houses 4–6: Losses in Mother/Property/Vehicles (4H), No Children/Learning + Pilgrimages (5H), Angry + Sinner + Emotionally Unstable BUT Viparita Rajayoga — Context Determines Expression (6H)

BPHS chapter 24 on the 12th lord in the 4th, 5th and 6th houses. In the 4th, the most straightforward verse: no happiness from the mother and loss of land, house and vehicles, even though the mother herself may be fortunate. In the 5th: no children or learning, expenses on children, and pilgrimages — long travel as the fruit of pūrva puṇya; Santhanam's "visits shrines to beget a son" wrongly merges two separate results. In the 6th: enmity with his own people (he is the 7th lord from the 6th, sitting in the 6th), anger, sin, unhappiness (8th lord aspecting the 8th from the 5th) and interest in other men's wives. Against all that stands the viparīta rāja yoga: the same placement is good from the 9th and 10th, and the person may be fighting for dharma.

BPHS Ch.24 — 12th Lord in Houses 7–12: Spouse Expenses + Weak (7H), Profits + Soft-Spoken + All Good Qualities (8H), Guru Dissatisfaction + Driven (9H), Career Expenses + Little Father Happiness (10H), Problems in Gains + Others' Money (11H) & Vimala Yoga + Anger (12H)

The second half of the 12th lord in BPHS chapter 24 (Santhanam edition, from verse 139): the 12th lord in houses 7 to 12, each result derived by taking the house in question as lagna. In the 7th: expenses on the spouse, no marital happiness (6th lord in lagna from the 7th), a weak body (he aspects lagna) and no learning — with the teacher's point that Viparīta Rāja Yoga can bring sudden money but never sudden scholarship. In the 8th: gains, soft speech, medium life and all good qualities, with a thumb rule for longevity from planets in the 8th that he calls unreliable for prediction. In the 9th: dissatisfaction with the guru (or humble service to him), enmity with friends, and svārtha-sādhana read as "achieves what he set out to do", not "selfish". In the 10th: a larger share of earnings spent on keeping up one's position at work, and little happiness from the father. In the 11th: gains that leak, and sometimes money a friend or elder brother has saved. In the 12th: expenses, a weak body and open hostility — or Vimala Yoga and humility, when the planet is strong and has no stake in the 6th.

BPHS Ch.24 Final Verses: Strength Calibration (Full→100%, Half→50%, Weak→25%), Dual Ownership — Balanced Cancels + Unbalanced Both Manifest, Shadbala Context-Sensitivity (Digbala for Dharma, Kaalabala for Moon, Placement for a Kshatriya Planet) & Combust = Parashurama Before Rama

The four closing verses of BPHS Chapter 24, after the 144 verses on house lords in houses. Verse 145: judge strength and weakness before using any result — a strong lord works harder for the house he owns, a weak one gives up. Verse 146: a planet owning two houses can be well placed for one and badly for the other (Saturn for Virgo lagna, 5th and 6th lord, in a dusthana); equal and opposite results cancel, unequal ones are both given, and the teacher extends this to opposing combinations anywhere in the chart. Verses 147–148: full strength gives the full result, half strength half, a weak planet a quarter — approximate figures. Parashara has not yet taught Shadbala here; the teacher explains why one automated number does not fit every context (Dig bala for direction in life, Kala bala for Moon, placement for a Kshatriya planet), and the page ends with the lesson's own example of a weak planet: a vargottama yogakaraka Venus made combust by the Sun.

Karaka as Lagna (PVNR Technique): Houses Reckoned from Planet's Exact Longitude in 30° Intervals; Mercury Lagna for Education → Viparita Rajayoga = Struggle then Excellent; D10: 10th Lord in 8th = Rocky Career + Mars 6th Lord in 6th = Very Strong Career

Parashara allows the karaka to be taken as lagna; for learning that is Mercury. The teacher counts houses from a planet by longitude: the planet's longitude starts the 1st house, and each house is the next 30°. In the rasi chart Mercury is at 18°51' Cancer and the dasha lord Jupiter at 17° Leo, so Jupiter falls at the end of the 1st house from Mercury, not in the 2nd. In the D-24 Mercury sits at the very start of Libra, whole signs serve, and Jupiter in the 12th as 3rd and 6th lord gives a Viparita Raja Yoga for education: struggle, then results better than expected. The page also reads the D-24 from its Cancer lagna (4th lord Venus aspected by both 8th lords, lagna lord in the 12th for study abroad, Mars aspecting the 9th lord Jupiter for a technical degree) and the D-10: 10th lord Jupiter debilitated in the 8th with the 3rd lord for a rocky, contract-based career, against Mars as 6th lord in the 6th, strong from every reference.

Bhava Chakra Revised (PVNR): Lagna = START of 1st House (Not Middle); Parashara's 4 Proofs — Aspect Degrees (Mars 4H = 90-120°), Bhava Spanning 2 Signs, Visible/Invisible Rule, Sudarshan Chakra; Bhava ≠ Rasi: Yogas Use Bhava, Exaltation Uses Rasi

The teacher revises how houses are counted: the reference point (lagna, a special lagna or a planet) is the start of the 1st house, and each following 30° is the next house. He argues it from Parashara: a verse on a bhava lying across two signs, the instruction to draw separate bhava koshthas and the Sudarshana Chakra, the aspect formula that applies Mars's 4th-house aspect over 90°–120° from Mars and Jupiter's 5th over 120°–150°, and the rule that houses 1–6 are below the horizon. The page gives the working rule (a planet with fewer degrees than the reference goes back one house), how house lords are found, and what follows for Ashtakavarga, transit murti, Mahapurusha yoga and divisional charts. Exaltation and rasi dṛṣṭi stay with the sign; argala, yogas and "lord of X in house Y" results go by bhava. The Bhava Chakra is not a chart of perception; that is the Arudhas.

Arudha Longitude Debate: Reflect Exact Degrees (Not Just Count Rashis) → AL Unrestricted; Gayatri Attachment Indicators: Sun on Lagna/LL + Hasta Nakshatra + Jupiter-Ketu on Lagna; Gandanta Rule: NO Gemstone — Propitiate Only; Deepam Trataka = Sun Strengthening Without Ritual

Three shorter matters from the class. Arudhas: they can be found by counting signs, as now, or by reflecting the exact distance in longitude from the house to its lord; in the worked example (lagna 8°47' Aquarius, Saturn 29°03' Leo) the Arudha Lagna lands at about 19° Pisces, in the 2nd house, so the Arudha is no longer confined to certain houses and AL–A7 in 6/8 stops being rare. The teacher has tested both and holds back his verdict. Gayatri: the claim that an identical rasi and bhava chart shows her blessing has no basis; look for Jupiter and Ketu and for Sun on lagna, lagna lord or the 5th, and for Hasta holding lagna or Moon, as in the teacher's own chart and Vivekananda's. Remedies for a Sun in gaṇḍānta: no ruby; propitiate with Aditya Hridayam or the Sun mantra, or simply gaze at a lamp.

Prasna Shoulder/Hand Pain (Sep 9 2009): Mars as Nerve Tissue Karaka Lagna — 7th Lord in 8th = Nerve Maraka; Pitta-Nerve Diagnosis (Sun Exalted Badhaka + Mars Maraka); Compressed Dasha 1-Year Timeline; Shankhpushpi+Brahmi in Milk = Pitta-Nerve Remedy

A worked prasna on hand and shoulder pain: Libra lagna 6°42', September 9, 2009. Jupiter aspecting lagna lord Venus almost exactly makes it a genuine prasna. Navamsa shows the background (mixed, not chronic), Rasi the affliction (6th lord Jupiter aspecting Venus on the Rahu-Ketu axis; Badhaka lord Sun in the Badhakasthana with Argala; Gulika in lagna; Maraka Mars with a partial aspect), and Drekkana the future (Mars in lagna, Sun exalted as Badhaka lord in the 7th, Venus aspected by Saturn and Jupiter). The nerve diagnosis comes from the roga pada A6, lorded by Mars, and from taking Mars as lagna: 7th lord Jupiter debilitated in the 8th, and Mercury with 8th lord Saturn. Sun and Mars make it Pitta, not Vata, so the herbs are Shankhpushpi and Brahmi in milk, with Lakshmi and Hanuman as the propitiation. Vimshottari compressed to one year gives improvement till October 3 and an unfavourable stretch till March 22; the added longevity question is refused.

Prasna Modes: 108 (Navamsa Number) vs 249 (KP Sub-Segments) vs Nadi 1800 (All 16 Vargas Fixed); KP = Most Successful Prasna Astrologer (Predicted Bus Times to the Minute); Prasna = Divination NOT Science: Faith + Consistency Determines Accuracy

Three ways to fix a prasna lagna from a number the querent gives. Prasna 108 takes the middle of one of the 108 navamsas (67 = Anuradha 3rd pada), so only Rasi and Navamsa are reliable. Prasna 249 is Krishnamurti's: nakshatra subs, split where they straddle a rasi. Nadi prasna, the teacher's own addition, uses 1800 unequal portions (150 per rasi) in each of which all sixteen divisional charts are fixed. Behind the modes is the teaching that prasna is more divination than science: pick one scheme, keep to it, and ask God to answer through it. Krishnamurti is credited as the most successful prasna astrologer of the last century, though the sub has no rishi behind it, and Prasna Marga in Dr. Raman's translation is the text recommended. The page ends with the 9-9-09 question: Gregorian date numbers mean nothing.

Bhava Chart for Rectification: Taurus D4 (Not Aquarius) = Foreign Travel in Mercury-Rahu Dasha via Bhoga Technique; D10 Venus to 5H (Purva Punya) via Bhava = First Job Explained; Nakshatra-Planet Lordship = Dasha Only (NOT General Spiritual Rulership): Abhijit Cannot Have Vimshottari Lord

Rectify by the house a planet occupies by longitude, not by its sign, in divisional and Tithi Pravesha charts as well. A student's Leo-lagna chart (1983) shows it. He went abroad in Mercury–Rahu. At the recorded time the D4 lagna is 28° Aquarius; a minute and a half later it is Taurus. Taurus fits better: the bhoga of Mercury–Rahu (the 6th from Rahu, Scorpio) falls in the 7th instead of the 10th, and Ketu in the 8th explains five moves of house in Ketu dasha. The D24 lagna shifts with it and mechanical engineering fits either way. The Tithi Pravesha of 2000–01 shows the Hora Lord Sun delivering the journey although he sits in the 11th house of its D4. In D10 Venus, who gave the first job, is in the 6th by sign but the 5th by longitude. The second half is the teacher's objection to planetary nakshatra lords: Vimshottari lordship is a dasha mapping with no rishi precedent as a general rulership, and joining it to the 28-nakshatra scheme with Abhijit is illogical. The devatas of the nakshatras are the sound basis.

Dwisaptati Sama Dasha (Applicable When 7L in 1H): Sun MD = D10 12th Lord Spoils Venus-Saturn Raj Yoga (Raj Yoga Bhanga); 6th House Maraka: Lord of the 2nd from 6H = Lord of Job Loss; Antardasha Constraint: Antardasha Lord Must Find Common Ground with Mahadasha Lord

A student born in 1949, Leo lagna, has been out of a job since February 2009 and asks whether to look for a job or start a business. Saturn, the 7th lord, is in the 1st house, so Dwisaptati Sama Dasha applies alongside Vimshottari (the name is garbled in the recording; it is the 72-year dasha, not a “Jyotsna Samvatsara”). In the Dasamsa (Virgo lagna) Venus and Saturn, 9th and 5th lords, form a Raj yoga in the 2nd house, but the debilitated 12th lord Sun sits with them and breaks it: his dasha (2002 to May 2011) brings losses and compromises, triggered in the antardasha of Jupiter, who is lord of the 2nd from the 6th house of service and in Marana Karaka Sthana. The page also covers why the antardasha lord must find common ground with the mahadasha lord, why Sun’s debility is a blessing here, and why Moon dasha, 11th lord in the 12th house, favours investment and business where Sun dasha does not.

Sade Sati from Divisional Moons: D9 Moon = Marriage Sade Sati, D10 Moon = Career Sade Sati (NOT Only from Rasi Moon); Gemstone Multi-Varga Rule: Check Rasi+Navamsa+Dasamsa Minimum — "Worth Praying To But NOT Wearing"; Diamond (Venus) Best: 10L Rasi + LL D9 + Good D10

Saturn’s transit is judged from the Dasamsa Moon as well as the Rasi Moon. For about three years Saturn was in the 8th from this native’s Rasi Moon at 28° Sagittarius (Aṣṭama Śani) and, after 5° Leo, in the 1st from lagna; in the last two of those years he was also in the 12th from the Dasamsa Moon at 12° Virgo — the seven and a half years of Saturn counted for career. The method: take the transit in the zodiac, take the Navamsa Moon or Dasamsa Moon as the reference; a person does not suffer in every area of life at once. The second half judges gemstones the same way, across Rasi, Dasamsa, Navamsa and Hora: Jupiter’s yellow sapphire, which the native wears, is “worth praying to but not worth wearing”; Saturn’s stone would help career and harm health; ruby and red coral are rejected; diamond for Venus is the choice.

BPHS Ch.29 — Three Layers: Bhava (Inanimate Situation) + Graha (Intelligence Applied) + Arudha/Pada (External Tangible Symbol); Graha Arudha Calculation: Stronger Owned Sign → Exception; ONE Arudha Per Planet (Parashara); Full House Result = All 6 Layers Combined

BPHS chapter 29, verses 1–7. Pada means word, symbol, footprint: a tangible thing that stands for a meaning. A bhava is an inanimate part of the personality that just is; a graha grabs the consciousness and applies intelligence to it; the pada is how either one becomes visible to the world. For the 4th house: the bhava is the ability to move, A4 is the vehicle, the 4th lord is your attitude to moving, and that planet’s graha pada is how the attitude comes across. The page reviews the bhava arudha rule and its 1st/7th exception, then gives Parashara’s graha arudha: count from the planet to the stronger sign it owns and the same count onward, with the same exception applied last. Parashara gives one arudha per planet, not one per house owned (L1, L10), and the full result of a house blends the house, its arudha, its lord, the lord’s arudha, the karaka and the karaka’s arudha.

Pada Rules: 11th from Pada = Fulfillment (All Planets = King), 12th = Loss; Graha Drishti for Padas (11th-Not-12th Condition Is Empty Under Rashi Drishti); Shubha/Papa Counted from the Pada (PVNR’s Take); Example Chart 1989, Libra Lagna — Mercury/Venus/Rahu Graha Arudhas: World Sees an Intelligent, Compassionate Warrior of Dharma

BPHS chapter 29, verses 8–15, and a worked chart. The 11th from any pada is fulfillment in that area and the 12th is giving up: planets joining or aspecting the 11th make the native rich and comfortable, by good means if they are śubha and by bad means if pāpa; all planets doing so make him equal to a king; a planet that aspects the 11th and not the 12th gives gains without obstacles. Śubha and pāpa are functional benefics and malefics, and PVNR counts the lordship from the pada, not from lagna. Rāśi dṛṣṭi is access, graha dṛṣṭi is desire, argala is the conclusive sign-off. Because no planet can aspect two adjacent signs by rāśi dṛṣṭi, the 11th-not-12th condition only makes sense with graha dṛṣṭi. The 1989 Libra-lagna chart then shows Mercury’s and Venus’s graha arudhas in Pisces and Atmakaraka Rahu’s in Scorpio, and Ketu and Venus dashas read from Mercury’s arudha.

Karakamsa = D20 Vimshamsa NOT Navamsa (Parashara: D20 = Upasana, Navamsa = Marriage); Ishta Devata = 12th from AK in D20; Rahu AK = Count Anti-Clockwise; Mahavidyas for Moksha ONLY (NOT Material Goals); 7 vs 8 Charakarakas = Same Degree → Use 8 (Parashara's Criterion)

Parashara reads the Ishta Devata from the 12th from Karakamsa: Sun Shiva, Moon Gauri, Jupiter Sadashiva, Mercury and Saturn Vishnu, Rahu (and Saturn in an evil sign) Durga and tamasik devatas, Ketu Ganesha, Mars Skanda. Tradition takes Karakamsa in Navamsa; PVNR takes it in Vimshamsa (D-20), because Parashara assigns upasana to D-20 and then writes only “amsa”. With Rahu as Atmakaraka the 12th is counted in reverse; in the example chart that gives Pisces in D-20, ruled by Jupiter and aspected by Sun, so Shiva, whom the native already worships. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s devotion to Kali is the test the Navamsa reading fails. Mahavidyas are for moksha and are not to be prescribed for jobs or court cases; PVNR’s mapping through the avataras makes Sun Tara, Moon Kali, Mars Bhairavi and Mercury Matangi. On chara karakas, Parashara’s criterion is 8 when two planets are in the same degree and 7 otherwise, and karakas do not change during life.

BPHS Ch.29 v16-23 — 12th from AL: Expenses+Earnings Both; Venus/Sun/Rahu = Royal Luxury; Mercury = Relatives/Legal; Jupiter (aspected) = Taxes; Saturn+Mars = Brothers; 11th = Same Quality But Earnings; Rahu/Ketu in 7H from AL = Digestive Problems; Body Parts Map from AL

BPHS chapter 29, verses 16–23. A planet in the 12th from Arudha Lagna gives many expenses and also much earning, because it has argala on the 11th; a functional benefic (śubha) brings the money by a good path and a functional malefic (pāpa) by a bad one, and the teacher takes “functional” from the Arudha pada. Then the planet-by-planet results: Venus, Sun or Rahu (and the Moon especially) spend on account of the king, Mercury on relatives, an aspected Jupiter on taxes and on himself, Saturn with Mars on brothers; the same combinations in the 11th become sources of gain. Last, why Rahu or Ketu in the 7th from AL harms digestion: AL is the body, the nodes aspect it, have reversed argala on the 5th from AL, and are enemies of the Sun, kāraka of digestion.

Alternative Arudha: Exact Longitude Reflection (NOT Just Sign Count) — Standard Approach Limitation (Only 6 Possible Positions, No Longitude); Dhirubhai Ambani (Sagittarius Lagna): Standard AL Pisces FAILS; Alternative AL 29° Taurus → 6.5/8 Planets Aspect 11th = India's Richest Confirmed; A2 in 5th + A10 in 9th from AL

The sign-based Arudha gives only a sign, so there is no longitude from which to count houses. Tested on Dhirubhai Ambani it fails: AL Pisces has 2½ planetary influences on its 11th and 4 on its 12th. The teacher presents an alternative for study, not sanctioned by the BPHS he has seen: measure the exact distance from the house cusp to its lord, repeat it from the lord, and subtract 90° if the point lands within 0–30° or 180–210° of the cusp. This puts Dhirubhai’s AL at 29° Taurus, with 6½ of 8 planets aspecting the 11th against 3¼ on the 12th, A10 in the 9th and A2 in the 5th from AL. The page also covers why a pada must be a point, where the method came from, and two ways of taking padas into divisional charts.

Bill Gates (Seattle 1955): Alternative AL 20°20' Sag → Venus+Exalted Saturn in 11th (Better than Standard); Graha Arudha Q&A: Parashara Only Defines A1-A12 + Planet Arudhas (NOT L9/L7 Arudhas); PVNR Meta-Commentary: Arudha = Signal with Noise, Not Complete White Noise

Bill Gates as the second test of the longitude-based Arudha. Sign-based AL Virgo gives 3 influences on the 11th and 1¼ on the 12th. The longitude AL at 20°20′ Sagittarius puts Venus, lord of the 11th, and exalted Saturn inside the 11th, but the count is again only 3; A9 falls in the 7th from AL, while A10 falls in the 12th, which the teacher says does not make sense. The Q&A that follows: a two-sign planet’s Graha Arudha is taken from the stronger sign, “L9 Arudha” is not Parāśara’s term (take the 9th lord as a planet and find its Arudha), and the method of reading people of each lagna from Graha Arudhas is not from Parāśara. The class ends with the teacher’s view of where Arudha knowledge stands: signal with a lot of noise, to be tested chart by chart, with Parāśara as the anchor.

BPHS Ch.29 v24-28 — Ketu+Malefic in 7H from AL: Bold/Impulsive + White Hair (Pitta) + Erratic Desires; Jupiter/Venus/Moon in 7H from AL = Wealthy (One Sufficient); Exalted in 7H = Wealth+Fame (Overrides Functional Nature); Same Wealth Yogas Apply to 2H from AL; Karkamsa Extension

BPHS Ch.29 verses 24–28 on the 7th and 2nd houses from Arudha Lagna. Verse 24: Ketu in the 7th from AL, joined or aspected by a papa graha, makes the person sahasi (seen as bold, acting on impulse), sveta keshi (white hair — he looks older; Ketu is a Pitta planet) and vrddhalingi (strong, erratic desires). The verse also settles a term: papa must mean functional malefic, because Rahu, a natural malefic, always aspects Ketu and the condition would otherwise be empty. Verse 25: Jupiter, Venus or Moon in the 7th from AL gives wealth, even one of them. Verse 26: any exalted planet there, functional benefic or malefic, gives wealth and good fame — provided it dominates the house. Verses 27–28 carry the wealth yogas (not the physical traits) to the 2nd from AL, where an exalted Mercury, Jupiter or Venus gives wealth; Moon and Mercury count only while they are natural benefics.

AK = Sense of "I" (Vedantic Ego NOT English Ego); AmK = Sense of Purpose/Mission; 12th from AK in D20 = Ishta Devata; 6th from AmK in D10 = Purpose-Deity; D4 = Bhagya/Fortune (Parashara — NOT D9); D2 Alternative = Chart of Death/Transition (Sampada = "Falling")

Parashara extends the lagna and pada yogas to Karakamsa, without saying which amsa. From there the class turns to what the karakas are. Atmakaraka is the king — the sense of “I”, ego in the Vedantic sense, not pride. Amatyakaraka is the minister — the sense of purpose, which is why it shows career. The 12th from AK shows the Ishta Devata, because the “I” has to be let go; the 6th from AmK shows the deity who removes the obstacles to one’s mission, and it is the more fundamental of the two because the king will not retire while the minister still has work. PVNR now reads the first in D20 and the second in D10, not in Navamsa. He treats D60 as a research area (the past-life rule failed on K.N. Rao’s rebirth cases; only phobias from the 3rd from AL correlated), offers a second meaning of sampad for D2 — the fall, death — and points out that Parashara gives bhagya, fortune, to D4, not D9. A wrong Ishta Devata recommendation does no harm: nobody told Ramakrishna or Vivekananda to worship Kali.

Marriage Matching (Two Boys for One Girl): Nakshatra Boundary Problem (11 Seconds = Cannot Determine); Personality Matching From Chart (Martian Girl: Libra Lagna + Mars+Ketu on Venus LL); Mangalik Principle = Match Energy Level NOT Just Textbook Positions; Karmic Link = 7L + Graha Arudha + UL Connections

A girl and two prospective bridegrooms: which boy matches better? The second boy’s Moon is 6 arc-seconds inside Chitra — 11 seconds of birth time from Hasta — and the guna score is 22 of 36 with Hasta and 8 with Chitra; dashas cannot settle it, only nakshatra transits at major events and the nature of the person can. So PVNR reads the personalities. The girl has Libra lagna with a close 8th aspect of Mars, and lagna lord Venus within one degree of Mars and Ketu in Pisces: diplomatic on the surface, fiery and stubborn underneath. Boy 1 (Aquarius lagna, lagna lord Saturn with Moon in Cancer in the 6th) is a sensitive thinker who will still fight back — an average match that sustains. Boy 2 (Cancer lagna, Jupiter aspecting lagna and Moon in Virgo) is compassionate and dharmic and may handle her better. The point of kuja dosha matching is that the unhappiness is shared and neither is crushed. The class ends with the karmic link technique: comparing one person’s Navamsa marriage points (7th house, Graha Arudha of the 7th lord, Darapada, Upapada) with the other’s rasi chart.

BPHS Ch.29 Final Verses — Mercury in 2H from AL = Ruler-Level Status; Venus in 2H = Kavir-Vadi Poet/Orator; A7 in Kendra/Kona from AL = Wealthy+Famous, 6/8/12 = Low Status; Master Rule: All Padas in Kendra/Kona from AL Flourish; Arudha Padas = Aspects of Native's Own Self (NOT Separate People)

The class finishes BPHS Ch.29 from verse 30. Saumya in the 2nd from Arudha Lagna gives rulership of the country or all-round knowledge; because Venus is named separately (kavi, vadi — poet or debater), Saumya is read as Mercury. Darapada (A7) in a kendra or kona from AL, or holding any strong planet (sabala graha), makes one wealthy and widely famous, because A7 is how one interacts with the world; in the 6th, 8th or 12th it gives little money — though the teacher warns this is no thumb rule, and A7 in the 6th can simply make one look like a fighter. A7 well placed from AL also gives friendship between the couple, badly placed enmity; spouse-happiness from AL is only a secondary indication, the main one being Upapada in Ch.30. The "king who rules the earth" verse covers 8 houses of 12, so it is read as "good for status". Closing rule: any pada in a kendra or kona (perhaps 3 and 11) from AL flourishes, in 6/8/12 it suffers — and the padas are aspects of the native's own personality, Upapada being the marriage, not the wife.

BPHS Ch.30 Upapada v1-16: 2nd from UL = Marriage Sustenance; Natural Malefic in 2nd = Wife Killed; Exalted Planet in 2nd = Many Beautiful Spouses; Gemini as UL/2nd = Multiple Marriages; Saturn+Rahu in 2nd = Scandal/Divorce/Death; Sthira Darakaraka (Venus/Jupiter) in Moon's Sign = Wifeless in Old Age

Parāśara's verses on the Upapada and the 2nd house from it, read one by one up to the 16th. The 2nd from Upapada in a bad planet's aṁśa or joined by a natural malefic makes the man the cause of his wife's death, usually passively; an exalted planet linked to it means luck in marital bliss; Gemini as Upapada or its 2nd shows multiple spouses; Saturn and Rāhu in the 2nd mean the wife is given up over a scandal, or dies. The lord sitting in the Upapada or in his own sign, and likewise the sthira kāraka of the spouse (Venus or Jupiter) in own sign, still allows the loss of the wife late in life when that planet is malefic or afflicted — the recording's "Moon sign" is "own sign". An exalted Upapada lord or sthira kāraka brings a wife from a respected family, a debilitated one from an ordinary family. The old thumb rule of always propitiating the 2nd lord is revised: weigh occupant, aspect, aṁśa and owner, and propitiate the planet that dominates.

BPHS Ch.30 v17-23 Spouse Health via 2nd from UL: Ketu+Venus = Blood; Mercury+Ketu = Bones; Saturn+Rahu+Sun = Fever; Mercury+Rahu = Fat; Mars+Saturn (Mercurial/Martian sign) = Breathing; Jupiter+Saturn = Ears/Eyes; Dental; Vata; Universal Disclaimer: Functional Benefic Aspect Mitigates ALL Results

BPHS Ch.30 verses 17-22 read the spouse's health from planets in the Upapada or in the 2nd from it: Ketu + Venus give blood disorders, Mercury + Ketu bone problems, Saturn + Rahu + Sun fevers, Mercury + Rahu a stout body, Mars + Saturn in a sign of Mercury or Mars breathing disease, Jupiter + Saturn trouble with hearing, Mercury + Mars or Jupiter + Rahu dental problems, Saturn + Rahu Vāta disorders. The teacher shows that Parāśara is using the planets as elements here, not as the seven dhātus: Venus is water, Mercury earth, the Sun fire, Saturn air, while Rahu, Ketu and Saturn deplete whatever they join. He works out why Mars + Saturn harms breathing (a strong Mars with a 6th or 8th house link afflicting Saturn, the planet of air), flags two places where the text looks corrupt, and ends with Parāśara's disclaimer: a functional benefic's aspect or conjunction cancels the result.

Pada Divisional Longitude Transit: Within 2-4° of Pada's D-Chart Longitude Triggers Events; Three Lagnas for Marriage (7H from Lagna=Physical, Moon=Mental, Venus=Conjugal Spirit); the native (1980, Virgo Lagna): Saturn-Rahu MD-AD = Marriage + TP 7th Lord in 7H Confirms

Verse 23 of BPHS Ch.30 leads to a timing technique: an ārūḍha pada has a divisional longitude in every varga, and a marriage planet transiting within 2-4 degrees of the Upapada's navāṁśa longitude can bring marriage. The page gives the orb, the teacher's research method and how to compute a divisional longitude by hand. The case study is a Virgo-lagna chart married in February 2005 in Saturn-Rahu of Vimshottari. Marriage is judged from three references — the 7th from lagna (physical), from the Moon (mental) and from Venus (the spirit of enjoyment) — and in the navāṁśa Saturn and Rahu are tied to those 7th houses when the houses are measured by divisional longitude. The Tithi Praveśa of the marriage year, read after a small change to the birth time, shows the annual daśā lord Jupiter as 7th lord in a kāma house and the lagna lord in the 7th.

BPHS Ch.30 v24-38 — 18 Reference Points (Lagna×AL×UL × 1st/7th × House/Lord + Amsha); Children from 9th: Sun+Jupiter+Rahu=Many, Saturn+Moon+Mercury=None, Moon Alone=One; Siblings: Saturn Alone in 3/11H = All Siblings Destroyed; Career: Malefic in 6H from AL = Thief; Rahu in 7/12H from AL = Wise+Fortunate

A verse-by-verse reading of BPHS Ch.30 from the second half of verse 24 to verse 38. Parashara gives 18 references — Lagna, Arudha Lagna and Upapada, the 1st or 7th from each, the house or its lord, and the lord's amsa — and leaves it to us which to use. Children are read from the 9th from the reference: Sun, Jupiter and Rahu give many; Saturn, Moon and Mercury deny; the Moon alone gives one; Mars with Saturn gives an adopted or a brother's child. Then the Upapada in Leo or Virgo, and why childbirth is also judged from navāṁśa and triṁśāṁśa. Siblings are read from the 3rd and 11th: Saturn with Rahu, Saturn with Mars, Saturn alone and Venus destroy; Moon, Jupiter, Mercury and Mars give; Ketu gives sisters. The page ends with the 6th from Arudha Lagna for livelihood and Rahu on the 7th or 12th from Arudha Lagna, who makes a person both wise and fortunate.

Quantitative Aspect Strength (Parashara Formula): 180° = 100%, Jupiter +50 Points in 9H (240°–270° = 100→75%), Mars +25 Points in 8H (210°–240° = 100→75%); CRITICAL: Aspect of X on Y ≠ Aspect of Y on X (Asymmetric); Rahu Exaltation: PVNR = Taurus (NOT Gemini)

Parashara's formula gives every aspect an amount that depends on the exact angle: nothing at 150°, full at 180°, then 75% at 210°, 50% at 240° and 25% at 270°. Mars is raised 25 points between 210° and 240°, and Jupiter 50 points between 240° and 270°, so each runs from 100% to 75% across his special house. Worked on the D-24 of the example chart — Mars at 28° Gemini, Saturn at 7° Sagittarius — Mars aspects Saturn at about 30% while Saturn aspects Mars at about 82%. So the aspect of X on Y is not the aspect of Y on X, and a "mutual aspect" must be read accordingly. The page also gives the teacher's position on the nodes: he takes Taurus and Scorpio, not Gemini and Sagittarius, as the exaltation and debilitation signs of Rahu and Ketu.

BPHS Ch.30 Final: Mercury in AL = King Over All Territories (Sarva-Desha-Adhika); Jupiter in AL = All-Knowing (Sarvajna); Venus in AL = Poet+Orator (Kavi-Vadi); Functional Benefic in 2nd from UL/AL = All Wealth+Intelligence; 2nd from 7th Lord from UL: Rahu=Big Teeth, Ketu=Halting Speech, Saturn=Ugly

The last verses of BPHS Chapter 30. Mercury in Arudha Lagna makes a ruler, Jupiter there one who knows everything, Venus a poet and eloquent debater — and the second line of the verse is what proves that “Saumya” in the first means Mercury, not benefics in general. A functional benefic in the 2nd from Upapada or from Arudha Lagna gives all kinds of wealth and intelligence, which leads to the point that Upapada is not only marriage but overall status. The 2nd lord from Upapada in that 2nd house with functional malefics makes a “thief”: wealth that is not earned in a straightforward way. Last, the 2nd house from the 7th lord from Upapada — Rahu gives big teeth, Ketu halting speech, Saturn bad looks — read as the “food” of the interaction with the spouse, with the good planets left for the student to work out.

JH 7.4 Features: Quantitative Aspect Evaluation (Any Div×Any Div), Stationary Transit (Planet Speed=0 = Max Power), Antardasha Ordering Variants; Vimshottari Dasha Progression: ONE Physical Zodiac (No Separate Navamsa Zodiac), Progressed Divisional Longitude + Transit Correlation = Events

Three additions to Jagannatha Hora 7.4 — percentage aspects of the planets of one divisional chart on the cusps, arudhas and special points of another; a choice of antardasha order for Ashtottari, Shodashottari and other nakshatra dashas; and the stationary-transit finder — with the longitude-based arudha padas they depend on. Then the principle of Vimshottari Dasha Progression: one mahadasha moves a planet through one nakshatra and one antardasha through one-ninth of it, equal arcs in unequal times, and any planet can be progressed, not only the Moon. The technique: progress the lord of the relevant house of the natal Rasi chart, take its divisional longitude in the chart of the matter, and see which Rasi transit planet conjoins or aspects that longitude within 2–4°. Behind it stands the idea that a divisional position is a point in the one physical zodiac. The page ends with the teacher’s own software settings and why the technique cannot fine-tune a birth time.

BPHS Ch.33 Karkamsa: CRITICAL = Do NOT Default to Navamsa (Each Result Implies Specific Amsha); AK in Aries=Fear; Taurus=Animals+Wealth; Gemini/Virgo=Skin; Cancer=Water Danger; Leo=Wild Animals; Scorpio=Snakes+Mother Trouble; Sagittarius=Fall/Accident; Pisces=Moksha (D20); Benefic/Malefic Aspect = Negates Result

BPHS Ch.33, verses 1-11: the results of the sign the Ātmakāraka occupies in a divisional chart (Kārakāṁśa). The teacher's main point is that an unnamed aṁśa is not navāṁśa by default; the aṁśa is deduced from the kind of result — D-10 for profession, D-4 or D-16 for animals and comfort, D-30 for disease and danger, D-20 for mokṣa. He also holds that aṁśa and aṁśaka mean the same thing, and that both K.N. Rao's and Sanjay Rath's readings of Kārakāṁśa are partial. The page goes sign by sign from Aries to Pisces with his reasons, then the disclaimers (a functional benefic's aspect cancels the bad results, a functional malefic's aspect cancels the good ones), the king and wealth combinations, and Kaivalya from a well-placed upagraha in the 12th from the AK.

Atmakaraka = I-ness / Ego Sense (Bandhanamokshakaraka: Binds AND Liberates); Houses from AK = Current Spiritual Path (10th=Action, 6th=Service, 5th=Scripture, 8th=Meditation, 12th=Moksha-Ready); 12th from AK = Ishta Devata; JH 7.4: Use True Nodes (NOT Mean Nodes)

A student asks why Parāśara gives gains and dangers from the Ātmakāraka if the AK is about mokṣa. The answer: the AK is the king of the nativity, the I-ness or ego sense, and it gives material results as much as spiritual ones; it is the one who binds and the one who liberates. Mokṣa is seen from the 12th from AK because the 12th is letting go, but that applies to someone already close to it. For everyone else the strong house from AK (10th work, 6th service, 7th dealing with people, 9th temple-building, 5th scholarship, 8th meditation) shows the present path, and the 12th-from-AK deity should not be prescribed by habit. The page ends with the Jagannatha Hora 7.4 settings: why the teacher recommends true nodes over mean nodes, and why Rāhu's longitude is still reckoned from the end of the sign.

Example Chart (Leo Lagna 1963): House Sale Dec 2009 = Saturn-Saturn MD-AD (4L in 12H D4 = Displacement + A11 = Money Received); Best House Purchase Window = Sun Pratyantardasha Sep-Oct 2010 (A6 Lord in A4 in D4 = Loan+Purchase) + TP Moon Dasha (5L in 4H D4 + Jupiter+Argala on A4)

A man born in 1963 sold his house on 15 December 2009 and wants to know when in 2010 he will buy another. The birth time is first corrected by 2 min 35 s from the marriage date, using Rāhu–Venus and the Tithi Praveśa of the marriage year. In D-4 the sale falls in Saturn–Saturn: the 4th lord in the 12th, linked to A11 so that it is a sale for money, in the pratyantardaśā of the 8th lord Mercury. For the purchase the class weighs Venus against Sun pratyantardaśā and prefers Sun (owner of A6, placed in A4, in the 8th from lagna), 7 September – 31 October 2010. The 2010 Tithi Praveśa agrees: Moon daśā, with Moon in the 4th of D-4 beside the lagna lord and having argalā on A4. The class ends by reading the AK Saturn's sign in D-9, D-30, D-10 and D-20; the outcome of the prediction is not on the recording.

BPHS Ch.33 Karkamsa Completion: Sun+Rahu in D30 = Danger from Snakes OR Modern Doctor (Auspicious Vargas); Mars Aspect = Fire Accident; Venus Aspect = No Fire (Jala Tattva Quenches); Jupiter + Malefic Sign = Still Burns; Karkamsa = Internal Vasanas NOT Profession; AK in Divisional Lagna = Very Fortunate in That Area

BPHS chapter 33, verses 12 to 22: the results of planets in Karkamsa, the sign the Atmakaraka occupies in a divisional chart. Parashara does not name the chart; pick it by the matter (Navamsa for marriage and dharma, Dasamsa for work, D24 for knowledge, D30 for evils). The class reads each planet in turn: Atmakaraka in a varga of Moon, Mars or Venus, then Sun, full Moon, strong Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu. The teacher insists that Karkamsa gives the instinct and the vasanas, not the profession, which is read from Lagna; and that the Atmakaraka in the lagna of a divisional chart makes the person fortunate in that area. It ends with Sun and Rahu together in Karkamsa, read in D30: fear of snakes, a doctor if they are in benefic shadvargas, and fire when Mars alone aspects, which Mercury or Venus prevents and Jupiter cannot prevent in a malefic sign.

Cancer Patient (Taurus Lagna 1977, Rectified 3:24:36): Leo D9 Lagna = Saturn 7L in 7H (Marriage); Gulika <1° from Rasi Lagna + Rahu Aspect = Poison/Cancer Yoga; D30 Scorpio Lagna: Mercury 8L in 12H + Rahu = Hidden Chronic Disease; Rahu-Ketu (Maraka from Lagna+Moon) = June 2010 Critical; Middle Life (Longevity); Nidhana Shula Dasha Virgo → Libra

A 32-year-old man with fourth-stage lung cancer, given three to four months by his doctors, whose chart other astrologers had passed as safe. The birth time is first rectified to 3:24:36 AM (±14 seconds) by testing marriage, a daughter, the move abroad and the first job in Vimshottari on the Navamsa, Saptamsa, Chaturthamsa and Dasamsa, and again in each year's Tithi Pravesha chart. The disease is read in Trimshamsa: Scorpio rises, and the 8th lord Mercury sits there within 2° of Rahu, with Ketu and Gulika, in the 12th house by longitude. In the Rasi, Taurus lagna has Gulika within half a degree and Rahu's 98.7% aspect, with no benefic aspect to relieve it. The three longevity pairs give middle life. Rahu-Ketu antardasha from June 2010 to June 2011 is the maraka period, both from Lagna and from the Moon, with July 2010 the peak by the annual chart; Venus, the lagna lord, can give recovery from July 2011 if he survives.

BPHS Ch.33 v23-31: Gulika in Karkamsa+Moon=Thief; Gulika+No Aspect=Death by Poison; Ketu+Malefic=Ear Disease; Ketu+Venus=Dikshita; Ketu+Mercury+Saturn=Impotent; Ketu+Saturn Only=External Sannyasi; Ketu+Sun+Venus=Royal Servant; 2nd from Karkamsa Rahu=Money Loss; Mandi=Gulika (NOT Two Separate Entities)

BPHS chapter 33, verses 23 to 31: what Gulika and Ketu give in the Karakāṁśa, and what the 2nd house from it shows. Gulika there with the full Moon aspecting makes a thief whose own money is stolen by thieves; with no aspect, hardship and death by poison; with Mercury aspecting, many children. Ketu there gives ear disease under a malefic, initiation under Venus, inability to beget under Mercury and Saturn, a servant maid’s son under Mercury and Venus, penance under Saturn, the mere robes of a sannyāsī under Saturn alone, and service at the king’s court under Sun and Venus. For each verse the teacher works out which divisional chart it belongs to (D-30, D-7, D-20, D-12, D-10) and why the planets give that result. The 2nd from Karakāṁśa in a sign of Venus or Mars shows interest in others’ spouses, which Ketu restrains and Jupiter does not; Rahu there loses money. Verse 23 also settles that Mandi and Gulika are one upagraha.

Ayurvedic Constitution from Chart: Kapha=Jupiter/Venus/Full Moon; Pitta=Sun/Mars/Ketu; Vata=Saturn/Rahu/Waning Moon/Mercury-Variable; Body=Lagna; Mind=Moon; Persona=AL; Quantitative Aspects ≥75% Dominate; Prakriti (Birth Chart) vs Vikruti (Current Dasha); 6L/8L Pumping Dosha = Actual Disease

How to read a person’s Ayurvedic constitution from the chart. Kapha is shown by Jupiter, Venus and the full Moon; Pitta by Sun, Mars and Ketu; Vata by Saturn, Rahu and the dark Moon; Mercury takes the dosha of his company. The body is read from Lagna — its sign, planets in the 1st house, the Lagna lord, and above all the computed percentage aspects on the Lagna degree, where the top one or two planets above 75% decide. The mind is read the same way from Moon and the Moon-sign lord, and can differ from the body. The persona the world sees is read the same way from Arudha Lagna. The page also covers prakṛti against vikṛti, how a daśā raises its planet’s dosha, why a 6th or 8th lord pumping a dosha turns it into disease, and how to eat when two doshas are present.

Ayurveda Cases: Gemini Lagna 1965 (70% Pitta; Mars 95%+Mercury 87% on Lagna; Mind Pitta); Cancer Lagna 1953 (65% Vata; Rahu 91%+Exalted Saturn 83% on Lagna; Mind Pitta); Leo Lagna 1963 (60% Pitta+40% Vata; Rahu 100%+Saturn 92%; Saturn 6L Dasha = Gout/Arthritis); Indira Gandhi AL = Rahu 95% = World Sees Her as Manipulator

Four charts read for Ayurvedic constitution. A Gemini-lagna woman (1965): Jupiter in the 1st gives Kapha, but Mars at 95% and Mercury at 87% on Lagna make her about 70% Pitta, and the mind is Pitta with some Kapha as well; the teacher lists the food that suits Pitta with Kapha. A Cancer-lagna man (1953): Mars in the 1st, but Rahu at 91% and exalted Saturn at 83% on Lagna make the body 60–65% Vata, while the mind, through Venus tight with Ketu, is mostly Pitta. A Leo-lagna man (1963): Mars in Leo against Rahu at 100% and Saturn at 92% gives Pitta with Vata, and when the daśā of Saturn, his 6th lord, began he got gout and arthritis; his mind is mostly Kapha. Indira Gandhi: body and mind are Kapha with Vata, but her Arudha Lagna, lorded by a Pitta Mercury and aspected by Rahu at 95%, projects a fiery fighter whom the world takes for a manipulator.

BPHS Ch.33 v32-38: Malefic in 3rd from Karkamsa=Brave, Benefic=Timid; 4th=Property Attitude (Moon/Venus=Palatial, Saturn/Rahu=Modest, Mars/Ketu=High-Tech, Jupiter=Natural, Sun=Simple); 5th: Mars/Rahu=TB/Dangerous Disease, Ketu=Grahani, Rahu/Gulika=Poison/Black Magic; Mercury in 5th = PARAMAHAMSA (Childlike Purity+No Enemies+Total Adaptability)

Parāśara’s verses on the 3rd, 4th and 5th from Karakamsa (BPHS Ch.33, v.32–38), with the teacher’s reasons for each. 3rd: a functional malefic makes the native brave, a functional benefic timid, in whichever divisional chart is being read; his own D-20 is the example. 4th, in D-4: Moon or Venus gives a palace, Saturn or Rahu an ordinary house, Mars or Ketu brick (engineered, high-tech), Jupiter wood, Sun grass, and Moon again an open place — all read as the attitude to one’s house, not the building. 5th, in D-30: the 12th from the 6th is loss of the fight, so Mars or Rahu there gives tuberculosis and other infections (certain when a weak Moon aspects), Mars boils, Ketu dysentery and water-borne disease, Rahu or Gulika black magic and poison. Mercury there gives a Paramahamsa, because Mercury is childlike, has no enemies and becomes like his company.

BPHS Ch.33 v39+: 5th from Karkamsa Skills (Sun/Mars=Warrior, Saturn=Archer/Patient, Rahu=Heavy Technology, Ketu=Precision Machinery, Venus=Poet, Moon+Jupiter=Great Author); CRITICAL: Venus > Jupiter for Eloquence (Jupiter=Elevated Only; Venus=Compassion for ALL); 5th also=Logic, Analysis, Music, Mathematics; 2nd=Skills Put to USE (10th from 5th)

BPHS Ch.33 from verse 39: the 5th from Karkamsa is the skill the soul carries from Purva Punya. Sun and Mars wear sword and spear (contact warriors, decision makers), Saturn the bow (the foot soldier who executes), Rahu a metal machine (heavy technology), Ketu an hour-machine (subtle machinery), Venus makes a poet. Moon and Jupiter in Karkamsa or the 5th make a great author, Venus a little less, Mercury less again; Jupiter alone knows Veda and Vedanta and writes well but is not eloquent. The teacher explains why Parashara gives eloquence to Venus, the teacher of the demons, and not to Jupiter. The same 5th house gives the logician (Mars), the analyst (Mercury), the one dull in assembly or patient (Saturn), the musician (Sun), Sankhya, literature and song (Moon) and mathematics (the nodes). The 2nd from Karkamsa, 10th from the 5th, is the skill put to use, and Karkamsa itself is the soul's sense of identity, not what the person does.

Karkamsa Saint Analysis: Aurobindo (Saturn AK; Mars 90% on 5th+Jupiter its Lord = Logic+Vedic Scholar+Not Accessible; Ketu in 2nd = Demystify Vedic Texts); Ramana Maharshi (Moon AK; Moon+Jupiter = Famous Teacher of Wisdom; Mars in 5th = Crisp Logic; from Direct Experience); Ramakrishna (Rahu AK; Venus 1° from 5th = Parables to Everyone; Sun in 2nd = Singer)

The verses on the 5th and 2nd from Karkamsa applied to three Navamsa charts, with aspects measured in percent on the cusp degree. Sri Aurobindo: Karkamsa 1°30' Scorpio; Mars aspects the 5th cusp in Pisces about 90% and Jupiter owns it, giving crisp logic and Vedic scholarship that is not for laymen; Ketu in Jupiter's sign in the 2nd makes demystifying the Veda and Upanishads the soul's job; Mercury beside Karkamsa makes analysis the dharma of the skill. Ramana Maharshi: Moon as Atmakaraka at 14° Gemini aspected over 75% by Jupiter gives the famous teacher of wisdom, Mars in the 5th the razor logic, and with no node on the 2nd he did not make the texts his work. Ramakrishna: Rahu is Atmakaraka and the houses are counted backward; Venus within a degree of the 5th cusp gives the master of parables who connects with anyone, and the Sun in the 2nd the singer and dancer. The D-20 of Aurobindo and Ramakrishna ties Mercury to the 5th from Karkamsa, the Paramahamsa combination. The page opens with the method: Jagannatha ayanamsa, Navamsa as the chart for skills, D-27 as research.

Karkamsa Saints: Sarada Mata (Moon AK; Saturn on 5th=Extreme Patience; Sun on 2nd=Mission Administrator); Vivekananda (Sun AK; Mercury+Saturn in 5th, Mars its Lord=Analyst+Laboring Ascetic; Soul=SERVANT not Teacher); Sivananda (Sun AK; Rahu in 5th=Medicine/Service to Outcasts; Venus 100% on Karkamsa=Prolific Writer); Soul vs Action Distinction

Three more Navamsa charts read from Karkamsa. Sarada Mata: Karkamsa 2° Sagittarius with Mercury close; Saturn is the one influence on the 5th, and her hallmark was patience; the Sun aspects the 2nd cusp 89–90%, the command and administration she put to use guiding the Math till 1920. Vivekananda: Karkamsa 25° Sagittarius; Mercury in Aries, Mars owning the 5th and Saturn at 2° Taurus give the analyst, the crisp logician and the ascetic who works himself to ruin; Saturn owns and aspects the 2nd, so the soul sees itself as a servant, while the Navamsa lagna, with 5th lord Jupiter aspecting the 5th, shows that what he did on the ground was teach. The teacher links this to the belief that Vivekananda carried an amsa of Shiva, the servant. Sivananda: Karkamsa 24° Libra; Rahu in the 5th with a close Mars gives modern medicine, the exalted 5th lord Saturn gives service to those nobody else would serve, and Venus exactly aspecting Karkamsa gives the writer and orator. A summary table of all six charts closes the page.

BPHS Ch.33 v46-52: Malefic in 6th=Hard Worker, Benefic=Lazy; 7th from Karkamsa Spouse Vasanas (Moon+Jupiter=Noble, Venus=Artistic, Sun=Confined, Saturn=Older/Sick, Rahu=Unconventional); Benefic in 8th=Long Life Aspiration; 9th: Benefic=Guru-Devoted+Swadharma, Saturn+Rahu=Guru-Drohi; Swadharma = No Universal Dharma

Verses 46-52 of BPHS chapter 33, read house by house from Karakāṁśa. 6th (and 3rd): a malefic makes a hard worker, or a frustrated one if weak; a benefic makes one lazy, too soft to fight, or with no need to fight. 7th: Moon+Jupiter a beautiful or famous spouse, Venus one of many desires and talents, Mercury a versatile one, Sun a wife kept in the family circle whom the native bosses, Saturn an older, austere or sickly one, Rāhu a widow, foreigner or other match outside the tradition of that place and time. 8th: its lord or a benefic gives long life, which the teacher reads as the soul's desire to live long, probably seen in Triṁśāṁśa. 9th: a benefic gives truthfulness, devotion to guru and swadharma; a malefic gives faith in childhood that is lost with age; Saturn and Rāhu make a guru-drohī, unless they are functional benefics or the 9th lords. The word swadharma leads to the teaching that the Vedic paradigm has no universal dharma, only one's own, found by listening to conscience.

Atmakaraka = Ahamkara (Vedanta): I-ness = Individualized Consciousness Through Past Karma Prism (NOT Pride); 7th from Karkamsa = Soul-Level Vasanas NOT Guaranteed Outcomes; Amatyakaraka = Sense of Mission (Minister); AK+AmK in Quadrant = Rajamandala Yoga; 6th from AmK = Obstacles to Fulfill Mission

A student asks why Parāśara reads the spouse from the Ātmakāraka, which is the self. The answer: the Ātmakāraka is ahaṅkāra — not pride but the sense of "this is I" that controls buddhi, citta and manas — and the houses from Karakāṁśa are that I's notions of spouse, father and the rest: aspirations carried from past lives, which may or may not be granted. The last thought at death seeds the next life (Prithviraj Chauhan reborn as Akbar, by Vimalananda's vision). The Amātyakāraka is the minister: the sense of "this is what I need to do". Conscience is Amātyakāraka and Jupiter together, under the Ātmakāraka. When the Amātyakāraka is in a quadrant or trine from the Ātmakāraka and they are friends, king and minister are on good terms and the minister's agenda gets done. The 6th from Amātyakāraka shows the obstacles overcome to fulfil the purpose; Parāśara names it alongside the 12th from Ātmakāraka, and for some people it matters more, because until the purpose is fulfilled the I cannot be given up.

BPHS Ch.33 v53-60: Jupiter+Sun in 9th=Self-Righteous Guru-Drohi (NOT from Disbelief; from Ego-Certainty); Venus+Mars+6 Vargas=Paradarika; Mercury+Moon=Wavering Compass; Jupiter Alone in 9th D30=Sensual (NOT in D9); 10th: Benefic=Stable+Dignified, Mercury+Venus=Gainful Work, Sun+Moon+Jupiter=Royal Position

Eight verses on the 9th and 10th houses from Karkamsa. The 9th is the inner self’s sense of duty, so each planet there colours it. Jupiter and Sun make a man who lets his guru down out of certainty that he knows what must be done; Saturn and Rahu, in the previous verse, do it out of disbelief. Venus and Mars give affairs when the combination repeats in several vargas (the word “maranam” in the verse is taken as corrupt); Mercury and Moon give a sense of right and wrong that shifts with the wind; Jupiter alone gives sensual pursuit only when he is weak, and in D30, not in the Navamsa. Each has a good side when the planets are strong. On the 10th: a benefic gives stable wealth and dignity, a malefic gives loss in work (D10) and no happiness from the father (D12), Mercury and Venus give gainful work and great deeds, Sun and Moon with Jupiter give kingship. All of these show what the soul wants, not the concrete event.

BPHS Ch.33 v61-72: 11th Benefic=Profitable+Siblings, Malefic=Bad-Means Gains+Famous; 12th Benefic=Good Expenses, Malefic=Bad Expenses; Ketu in 12th+Benefic=MOKSHA; Ketu+Aries/Sag=Merges in God; Deity by Planet with Ketu: Sun=Rudra, Moon=Gauri, Venus=Lakshmi, Mars=Subrahmanya, Merc/Sat=Vishnu, Jupiter=Dakshinamurti, Rahu=Durga/Kali

The Karakamsa verses of BPHS Ch.33 from verse 61. A functional benefic on the 11th from Karakamsa gives happiness from siblings (read in D3) and profit in all works (D10); a malefic there still gives gains, fame and boldness, but by a bad path. A planet in the 12th from Karakamsa shows expenses — on good causes if benefic, on litigation, sickness or enemies if malefic — read in D2, with the planet's meaning taken from D20, D9 or D6. An own-sign or exalted benefic there sends the soul to a good loka; Ketu there with a benefic gives moksha, and in Aries or Sagittarius sāyujya, while Ketu alone or with a malefic does not. The page then gives the deity for each planet influencing that Ketu in D20, why Rahu calls for a tāmasic devatā like Durga or Kali, and why the 6th from Amatyakaraka — the mission — comes before the 12th from Atmakaraka.

Four Purusharthas: Dharma=Fire Signs, Artha=Earth, Kama=Air, Moksha=Water; Bhava=Intangible (Sanskrit: Meaning), Arudha Pada=Tangible (Sanskrit: Word); Example Chart (Leo Lagna 1960): D24 Mars Dominant on 9th Lord+A9 = Mechanical Engineering; D10 All 3 Kama Trikonas (3-7-11H) = Business; Rahu in A7 = Power Systems (Big Machinery)

The four Purusharthas map to the elements: dharma to the fire signs, artha to earth, kama to air, moksha to water. A house (bhava, "meaning") shows the intangible; its ārūḍha pada ("word") shows the tangible — the learning against the degree, the wish to do business against the company. The case is a mechanical engineer born in 1960 whose power-systems business is in debt. In D24 the 9th lord Saturn is debilitated in a sign of Mars and aspected by Mars, and Mars aspects A9: Mars with Saturn gives mechanical engineering. In D10 the 6th lord is poorly placed while the 3rd, 7th and 11th are linked through Ketu, Mars and Jupiter, so he is made for business; Rahu with A7 makes big machinery the right field, but A7 in the 12th from lagna holds the business back and points to a foreign angle.

D20 Deity Identification: 12th from AK = Lord, Occupant, Aspect ≥67%, Argala → Ketu Association → Sign Refinement (Malefic Sign = More Aggressive Form); Applied: Job-Seeker = Jupiter in Aries D20 = Slightly Aggressive Shiva; PVNR Own = Mercury+Rahu 7-Minute Exact = Vishnu + Chandi Homam (Confirmed Mercury-Rahu Dasha)

How to find the deity from D-20: take the 12th house from Ātmakāraka and see who owns it, who occupies it, who aspects it by more than about two-thirds, and who has argalā on it. The planet with several links dominates, and a link to Ketu, the kāraka of spirituality, tips the balance. In the job-seeker’s D-20 the 12th from Ātmakāraka Mars is empty; its lord Jupiter also has the biggest aspect on it, so the deity is Śiva, and Jupiter in Aries makes it a slightly aggressive form. In the teacher’s own D-20 Mercury is the 12th lord in the 12th from Ātmakāraka Moon — Viṣṇu — while Rahu, the 8th lord from Ātmakāraka, aspects that house and its lord almost exactly: Caṇḍī sādhana came to him in Mercury daśā, Rahu antardaśā. The page also covers the 8th from Ātmakāraka as sādhana against the 12th as realization, and the 6th from Amātyakāraka as the struggle to fulfil one’s mission.

Planet-Deity Mapping (D20 12th from AK): Sun=Shiva, Moon=Parvati/Gauri, Mars=Subrahmanya, Mercury=Vishnu, Jupiter=Shiva, Venus=Lakshmi, Saturn=Vishnu, Saturn(Malefic Sign)/Rahu=Durga/Kali, Ketu=Ganesha/Subrahmanya; Sign Refinement; CRITICAL: Personal Love Overrides Chart

The planet-to-deity list as the teacher recalls it from Parāśara: Sun Śiva, Moon Pārvatī or Gaurī, Mars Subrahmaṇya, Mercury and Saturn Viṣṇu, Saturn in a malefic sign and Rahu the fierce deities such as Durgā and Kālī, Ketu Gaṇeśa or Subrahmaṇya, Jupiter Śiva, Venus Lakṣmī. From there one extrapolates by the sign the planet occupies and the influences on it; the ṛṣi gave no clear rule for that. The teacher then says what limits all of this: our knowledge is a small lamp, so the person’s own love for a deity goes before what the chart shows, though one may have to scratch the surface to find it. The class ends on Caṇḍī pāṭha as inner mastery and on sādhana, which no amount of reading replaces.

BPHS Kārakāṁśa Verses: Mars Alone=Kunta (Spear), Saturn=Archery; Moon+Jupiter in Svāṁśa/5th=Granthakartā (Author); Jupiter=Knows Veda and Vedānta but No Orator; Saturn in 1st/5th=Sabhā-jaḍa (Freezes in Assembly), Mercury=Mīmāṁsaka; 2nd from Kārakāṁśa + Malefic Aspect=Cannot Speak; Ketu=Main Planet for Speech Difficulty

The BPHS verses on planets in the Kārakāṁśa and the 5th from it, as far as the damaged recording carries them. Mars alone gives a kunta, a spear; Saturn gives archery. Moon and Jupiter in the svāṁśa or the 5th make an author of books; Jupiter alone knows Veda and Vedānta but is no orator in an assembly. Saturn in the 1st or 5th from Kārakāṁśa makes a sabhā-jaḍa, one who freezes in an assembly, and Mercury there a mīmāṁsaka. The 2nd from Kārakāṁśa shows a speech defect, worse under a malefic aspect; the teacher calls Ketu the main planet for speech difficulty and asks in which chart the Kārakāṁśa should be taken — a question he leaves to be tested on charts.

Body Part House Map: 1H=Head, 2H=Face, 3H=Neck, 4H=Chest/Heart, 5H=Stomach, 6H=Hips, 7H=Kidneys, 8H=Genitals/Anus/Rectum, 9H=Thighs, 10H=Knees, 11H=Calves, 12H=Feet; Bādhakeśa: Chara=11L, Sthira=9L, Dvisvabhāva=7L; Bādhakeśa in the 2nd Is Not Enough — Hospitalization Needs a 12th-House Link

The houses mapped onto the body, from the head (1st) down to the feet (12th), given in class to place a health problem; the recording carries the list to the 8th house. Then the bādhaka lord: 11th lord for a movable lagna, 9th for a fixed one, 7th for a dual one. The teacher takes a planet that owns the 4th and 11th, is the bādhakeśa and sits in the 2nd, and asks why it gave a stay in hospital. His point: hospitalization needs a link with the 12th house; bādhakeśa in a māraka house does not explain it alone.

BPHS Ch.34 Yogakarakas: Kendra Lords=Neutral (Benefics Don't Help/Malefics Don't Harm); Trikona Lords=Always Benefic (Lagna=Trikona Primarily); 3/6/11=Struggle/Challenge; 2/8/12=Depends on Company; Sun/Moon 8L Exception=Tapasya; Planets as Inner Qualities: Sun=Soul, Moon=Mind, Jupiter=Conscience/Viveka, Venus=Greatest Tapasvi

BPHS Ch.34, verses 1–7: what a planet gives by the houses it owns. Kendra lords are neutral — a natural benefic owning a kendra does not give good, a natural malefic does not give bad. Trikona lords always give good, Rahu and Ketu included; lagna counts as a trikona. Lords of 3, 6, 11 are malefic because those are houses of active pursuit; lords of 2, 8, 12 go by their company and by the other house they own, with the 8th lord leaning inauspicious as the 12th from the 9th. The Sun and Moon carry no 8th-lord blemish: soul and mind are here for tapasya. The teacher explains this through the planets as personifications of inner qualities, and separates owning the 8th from sitting in it.

Graha Pravesh Muhurta: Real Intention Required (Cannot Cheat Cosmos); Always Lagna+4H Strong; Target House by Desire (9H=dharma, 7H=marriage, 5H=children, 10H=career); Movable=Short Stay, Fixed=Long, Dual=Medium; Abhijit=Sun in 10H Compensates All; Shairam Raksha=Jupiter in Lagna Compensates All; Jan 11 2011 Muhurta: Pisces Lagna+Moon+Jupiter=Gajakesari+Mars Exalted 11H

A Griha Pravesha muhurta worked out live for a student couple. Griha Pravesha is entering with the intention of living there; a ceremony in an unfinished house does not count. Lagna and the 4th house must always be strong, then the house of whatever the family wants there (9th dharma, 7th marriage, 5th children, 10th career). Lagna, Moon and their lords in movable, fixed or dual signs show a short, very long or 5–10 year stay. The class then walks the dates from 30 December to 11 January 2011, 10:18 AM — Pisces lagna with Moon and Jupiter, Sun vargottama in the 10th, 9th lord Mars exalted in the 11th, Leo navamsa with Jupiter rising — and fixes what to do in the five-minute window and which homams cover the chart’s weaknesses.

BPHS Ch.34 v8-18: Natural Benefics Venus>Jupiter>Mercury>Moon; Malefics Mars>Saturn>Sun>Waning Moon; Kendrajatva Dosha (Benefics Fall by Owning Kendra); Raj Yoga Formation: Exchange>Together in Own House>Conjunction>Mutual Aspect; Raj Yoga Cancelled if 3/6/11 Owned; Rahu/Ketu = House Owners: Judge by Occupancy+Association Not Scorpio/Aquarius

BPHS chapter 34, verses 8 to 18, read line by line after a recap of the first seven verses: koṇa lords are śubha, kendra lords neutral for every planet, 3rd/6th/11th lords aśubha, and 2nd/8th/12th lords decided by their other house and their company. Parāśara then ranks the natural benefics (Full Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus in rising order) and malefics (waning Moon, Sun, Saturn, Mars), and says kendra ownership costs Venus the most and Moon the least. A Raja Yoga is a kendra lord and a koṇa lord in exchange, together in one of their own houses, together elsewhere, or in full or partial mutual aspect; it does not apply when either also owns the 3rd, 6th or 11th. A yogakāraka is a planet that owns both, or a kendra lord in a koṇa, or a koṇa lord in a kendra. Rahu and Ketu are judged by the house they occupy and the lord they are with, not by Aquarius and Scorpio, and become yogakārakas on the same terms.

Mother Leo Lagna (1964): Saturn Dasha 6L+6H = Knees (10H Body Part); 10L Venus in 6H = Disease House; D30 Saturn in 8H Scorpio = Serious Suffering; Tridoshic (60%Pitta+25%Vata+Kapha); Yogaraj Guggulu + Fennel/Licorice Tea + Mahanarayan Oil; D20 5L in 5H=Extreme Devotion; Lalitha Worship Confirmed; Drig Dasha Libra 2010-2017=Peak Spiritual Period

A Leo-lagna native with knee trouble in Saturn daśā. The 10th house is the knees: it is empty, aspected by the 12th lord Moon and the 6th lord Saturn, and its lord Venus sits in the 6th, his maraṇa kāraka sthāna, beside Saturn. D-30 decides the severity — Saturn, the bādhaka lord, in the 8th in Scorpio. The constitution is read from aspects on lagna (pitta-dominant, tridoṣic) and on Moon (kapha mind), and the knee condition comes out hot and dry: vāta with some pitta. The teacher gives Yogarāja guggulu, a fennel–licorice tea, an oil for the knees, a diet without heating spices, and Saturn mantras or Hanumān Cālīsā. The D-20 lagna, on the Aquarius/Pisces border, is fixed as Aquarius from her Lalitā worship; the chart shows discipline, devotion and ritual, the Dṛg daśā of Libra (2010–2017) is her peak period, and the 12th from the ātmakāraka confirms the deity.

BPHS Ch.34 Lagna-Specific Functional Nature: Aries=Mars Benefic+Venus Maraka; Taurus=Saturn Yogakaraka+Jupiter Malefic; Gemini=Venus Only Benefic+Moon Maraka+Jupiter Max Kendrajatva; Cancer=Mars Yogakaraka+Jupiter Benefic(9L)+Venus Malefic(11L); Key: Natural Benefics Can Be Malefic Functionally

Parāśara answers Maitreya lagna by lagna: which planets are benefic, malefic, yogakāraka and killer. Aries: Mars is auspicious despite owning the 8th; Saturn, Mercury and Venus are malefic (Mercury worst, Venus least); Jupiter and Sun are benefic; Venus is the direct killer. Taurus: Jupiter, Venus and Moon are malefic; Saturn and Sun benefic, Saturn giving rāja yoga; Mercury only limitedly benefic. Gemini: Mars, Jupiter and Sun are malefic, Venus the only benefic, Saturn left unlisted, Moon the main killer. Cancer: Venus and Mercury malefic; Moon, Mars and Jupiter benefic with Mars the full yogakāraka; Saturn the killer and the Sun decided by association. The teacher reads the lists as degrees of beneficence, not three boxes, and stresses that lords of 2, 8 and 12 go by the other house and by sāhacarya. The nodes take their nature from the house they occupy and the lords they are with.

D16 Vehicular Accident: Venus in 12th from A4 in TP D16 = Vehicle Loss; Venus (Maraka) Aspected by 6H Jupiter + 8L Mars in TP D16 = Accident; Surya Siddhanta TP: Venus+Sun (8L+6L) in 12H; Amshatujya Amsha: Compare Planet Across Two Vargas; 6-8 = Mutual Undermining; Trine = Amplification; Same Period: D30 Venus 6th from D16 Venus = Accident + D9 Venus 9th from D16 Venus = New Vehicle

A car is totalled on October 12, 2010; the native has minor injuries and gets a new car in the same period. Natal D-16: the antardaśā lord Rāhu owns the 8th and sits in the 6th by longitude. The 2010 Tithi Praveśa chart: in its D-16 (Aries lagna) the annual daśā lord Venus is the māraka, aspected by Jupiter from the 6th house and by the 8th lord Mars, in the 12th from A4 yet a yogakāraka from it; in its D-30 he is the bādhaka lord with the nodes. The teacher then shows the same year under Surya Siddhanta, where the D-16 lagna becomes Pisces, and explains why he is testing that model without concluding. Last comes the technique of comparing one planet across two vargas: D-30 Venus in the 6th from D-16 Venus gives the loss, D-9 Venus in the 9th from it gives the new car. The same method is applied to the teacher’s own layoff and new job in 2002.

Leo Lagna 1964 Knee Analysis: 10L Venus in 6H + Saturn(6L) Aspecting 10H + Moon(12L) on 10H = Triple Link; D30 Badhaka Lord in 8H Scorpio = Serious Suffering; Pitta-Vata (60%Pitta+25%Vata); Yogaraj Guggulu + Fennel/Licorice/Turmeric Tea + Mahanarayan Oil + No Red Chili; D20 Aquarius (5L Mercury in 5H = Devoted; 9L Venus 93% = Ritualistic); Lalitha Confirmed by Practice

A Leo-lagna native has severe knee trouble in Saturn mahādaśā. The 10th house is the knees: its lord Venus is in the 6th in maraṇa kāraka sthāna, and the 6th lord Saturn and 12th lord Moon aspect it. D-30 sets the severity: Saturn is the bādhaka lord in the 8th in Scorpio. The teacher works out the doṣa (the knee is mostly vāta; the body is pitta-led and tridoṣic), then gives the measures — yogarāj guggulu, no heating spices, fennel and licorice, a medicated knee oil — and the propitiation of Saturn or Hanumān. The D-20 lagna sits on the Aquarius–Pisces border and is fixed as Aquarius from her Lalitā worship; the chart shows patient, rule-following, devoted practice, and Moon and Mercury aspecting the 12th from the ātmakāraka confirm the deity.

BPHS Ch.34 Leo/Virgo/Libra/Scorpio: Leo=Mars+Sun+Jupiter Benefic; Virgo=Mercury+Venus ONLY Yogakarakas+Moon Worst Malefic; Libra=Jupiter+Sun Malefic+Mars Maraka+Moon-Mercury Raj Yoga; Scorpio=Moon Clear Benefic+Moon-Sun Yogakaraka; KEY: "Jeevadhyaha Papa"=Functional Malefics Kill, NOT Natural

BPHS chapter 34 read verse by verse for four lagnas. Leo: Mercury, Venus and Saturn are papa, Mars, Sun and Jupiter shubha, Saturn the maraka, Moon judged by association, and Jupiter with Venus gives no yoga by mere conjunction. Virgo: Mars, Jupiter and Moon are papa, Mercury and Venus shubha and the only yogakarakas, Venus also the maraka, Sun by association, Saturn neutral because he is left unmentioned. Libra: Jupiter and Sun are clear malefics, Mars a borderline malefic but the clear killer, Saturn and Mercury benefics, Moon with Mercury the raja yoga, Venus neutral. Scorpio: Venus, Mercury and Saturn are papa, Moon and Jupiter shubha, Sun and Moon the yogakarakas, Mars neutral, Venus the maraka. Running through all four: 2nd, 8th and 12th lords follow their other house and their company, and the "papa" who kills by touching the 2nd or 7th is the functional malefic of that lagna, not the natural one.

Infant (Scorpio 2010): Mandi in Lagna = Toxin Sensitivity + Blood Toxicity Causes Skin Rashes; Jupiter MD + D30 Jupiter 8L in 12H = Health Challenges; Moon AD Worse Than Sun AD (D30 3L Moon in 6H); Coconut Oil for Pitta Rashes; Lakshmi Narasimha + Kshraum Bija = Poison Destroyer; Punya Chakra Rebirth: 7th House of Death Chart as Lagna; Soul Blessings vs Actual Rebirth

A two-month-old girl with heavy skin rashes, Scorpio lagna, running Jupiter dasha. Jupiter is a benefic for Scorpio, so the affliction has to be found: in rasi he disposits Rahu in the 2nd and is aspected by Sun and Saturn, and in Trimshamsha, where suffering is seen, he is the 8th lord in the 12th house and the dispositor of the 6th lord and the badhaka lord. Moon antardasha will be worse than the running Sun antardasha. Mandi very close to the lagna shows toxins in the body and a lifelong sensitivity to chemicals; the lagna and its lord Mars make it a pitta condition, so coconut oil, not sesame. The propitiation is Narasimha, who removes poisons: his bija, and Lakshmi Narasimha in the baby's room. The class ends by taking the 7th house of the grandmother's Punya Chakra as lagna and comparing it with the child's chart; the key combinations do not repeat, so a rebirth is not indicated.

BPHS Ch.34 Sagittarius/Capricorn/Aquarius/Pisces: Sag=Sun+Mars Benefic+Saturn Maraka; Cap=Venus Yogakaraka+Moon Malefic(Karka=Lord=Extreme Desire); Aqu=Venus Yogakaraka+Moon 6L Worst Malefic; Pisces=Mars+Jupiter Raj Yoga+Mars Won't Kill; Three House Categories: Trikona=Lakshmi Blessings, Kendra=Vishnu Effort, 3/6/11=Struggle; Closing: Yogas Override Base Classification

Parāśara's list of benefics, malefics, yoga-givers and killers for the last four lagnas, with the reasoning behind each. Sagittarius: Venus the only malefic, Mars and Sun benefics, Jupiter neutral, Sun + Mercury the rāja yoga, Saturn the killer. Capricorn: Mars, Jupiter and Moon malefics, Venus alone the yoga-giver, Saturn no killer by himself. Aquarius: only Venus gives rāja yoga; Jupiter, Sun and Mars kill. Pisces: Mars and Moon benefics, Mars + Jupiter the rāja yoga, Mars a māraka who does not kill, Saturn and Mercury the mārakas. The class also works out why Moon as 7th lord is a malefic, sorts the houses into blessings (trines), effort (quadrants) and struggle (3, 6, 11), and reads the closing verses: the yogas of the later chapters can enhance, suppress or override this house-based judgement.

BPHS Ch.35 Nabhasa Yogas (32 Sky-Pattern Yogas): Asraya=Raju(All Chara)+Musala(All Sthira)+Nala(All Dvisva); Dala=Mala(Benefics in 3 Kendras)+Sarpa(Malefics in 3 Kendras); Akriti=20 Shape Yogas (Gada/Sakata/Vihanga/Sringataka/Hala/Vajra/Yava/Kamala/Vapi Defined+11 Named); Sankhya=7 Number Yogas (Vallaki to Gola, Named Only); Results Read From the Name

BPHS Ch.35, verses 1–12. Nābhasa yogas are combinations read from plain placement of the seven planets in the zodiac — lordship, friendship and exaltation do not enter, and Rāhu and Ketu are left out. Parāśara names 32 yogas (3 Āśraya, 2 Dala, 20 Ākṛti, 7 Saṅkhya) with 1,800 variations, and at this point defines them without giving results, so each result is reasoned from the name. The class defines and reads Rajju, Musala and Nala (all planets in movable, fixed, dual signs), Mālā and Sarpa (natural benefics or natural malefics in at least three of the four kendras), and the first nine shape yogas: Gadā (two consecutive kendras — strength), Śakaṭa (1st and 7th — a dynamic go-getter), Vihaṅga (4th and 10th — a workaholic), Śṛṅgāṭaka (trines), Hala (11th, 3rd, 7th — maximises the fruit of effort), Vajra (gentle person, ruthless work), Yava (its reverse), Kamala and Vāpī. The remaining Ākṛti yogas and the seven Saṅkhya yogas are only named; whether the yogas apply in divisional charts is left as debatable.

BPHS Ch.35 Akriti Completion: 4-Sign Weapon Yogas — Yupa(1H=Personality), Sara(4H=Arrow Focus), Shakti(7H=Go-Getter People), Danda(10H=Karmayogi Persistence); 7-Sign Support — Nauka(4H Center=Clarity), Kuta(7H=People Gang), Chhatra(10H=Status Umbrella), Chapa(1H=Character Foundation); Chakra(Odd Houses=11H Culminates=Cycle of Gaining); Samudra(Even Houses=12H=Ocean Giver)

BPHS Ch.35 verses 13–15, read in class. Four-sign yogas, all seven planets within four houses from a kendra: Yupa (from lagna), Sara (from the 4th), Shakti (from the 7th), Danda (from the 10th). The names are weapons and the starting house decides the result: personality, clear aim, strong desire worked through people, patient work. Seven-sign yogas: Nauka, Kuta, Chhatra, Chapa — ship, gang, umbrella, arch. The theme is support and the middle house decides: the 4th, 7th, 10th and 1st. Chakra (all odd houses) and Samudra (all even houses) are read from the last house: the 11th, a cycle of wanting and gaining more, and the 12th, the magnanimous giver. Parashara gives only the names; the teacher says plainly that these readings are his reasoning from the names and the grouping, and that Chakra and Samudra need case studies.

PVNR Surya Siddhanta Switch: Nadi Granthas Use It; Varahamihira Used It; Divisional Charts Can Shift 1-2 Signs; Higher Signal-to-Noise Ratio. Char Dasha in Divisional Charts: Treat Division as Rasi, Calculate Char Dasha from Divisional Lagna; Transit from Char Dasha Sign as Lagna; Bhoga Rashi = Arudha of Dasha Sign; Multiple Confirmation (Char+Vimshottari+Transit) = Certain Event

The teacher moves the class from Drik (modern, NASA-model) positions to Surya Siddhanta. His reasons: the old tradition revered it, Nadi readings match its positions, Varahamihira praised it. He calls this circumstantial evidence, not proof, and says he is still not fully convinced. The rāśi chart barely changes; divisional charts shift by a sign or two. Tithi Pravesha works as before, Tajika works better, and two ideas he had junked begin to work: Vimshottari and Char Dasha computed inside a divisional chart. The page gives the method: Parashara’s Char Dasha from the divisional lagna, transits read from the dasha sign and from its bhoga rāśi, both dashas agreeing before an event. It ends with his rules of honest research: demand simple explanations, test on past events, and follow Parashara over the riddles of Jaimini.

PVNR's Own Life — Divisional Char Dasha Validated: D24 Pisces Dasha=Exalted Venus=State First+IIT; D9 Scorpio Dasha=7L Mars in 7H=Marriage 1993; D10 Aquarius(6H)=Career Start 1993; D10 Aries(8H)=5 Jobs in 4 Years; D10 Taurus(9H)=Manager 2008; D20 Sagittarius(8H)=Kundalini 2005; 8L+Nodes in 8H in D20=Sarala Yoga; Tajika 6L+8L in 8H=Spiritual Awakening

The teacher tests divisional Char Dasha and divisional Vimshottari on dated events of his own life, with Surya Siddhanta positions. Marriage, 1 August 1993: D-9 Scorpio Char Dasha, the 7th house holding the 7th lord, in Saturn–Mars. State First and IIT in 1987: D-24 Pisces Char Dasha with exalted Venus and Jupiter transiting Pisces, in the dasha of lagna lord Mercury in the 5th. First job, December 1993: D-10 Aquarius, the 6th house, with five planets transiting the 10th from it. Five jobs and a layoff: D-10 Aries, the 8th. Promotion in 2008: D-10 Taurus, the 9th. Kuṇḍalinī awakening, June 2005: D-20 Sagittarius, the 8th house with its lord and the nodes, with Jupiter and Ketu transiting the bhoga rāśi. The Tajika annual charts of 1993, 2002 and 2005 are read for the same events. The site’s chart uses modern positions, so several of these placements show one sign away; the notes list them.

Sub-Divisional Charts (Dm×Dn): D24×D9=Education Blessings, D24×D30=Education Evils, D24×D10=Work Application of Education; Use Planetary Positions Only (NOT Sub-Division Lagna); Research in Progress with Surya Siddhanta; PVNR's Own D24×D10=Moon-Jupiter in 2H=Work in Astrology; D20×D9=Saturn in 9H=Disciplined Spiritual Work

A further division taken inside a divisional chart: D-24 × D-9 for fortune in education, D-24 × D-30 for its evils, D-24 × D-10 for knowledge put to work. The teacher calls it research still in progress. Use only the planets — their strength in the sub-chart and the sign they fall in, laid over the houses of the parent chart — never the sub-chart's lagna, which changes every few seconds. He shows it on the student's D-24 and on his own D-24 × D-10 and D-20 × D-9.

Rahu/Ketu Functional Nature: Judge by House Occupied+Planets With Them (NOT Houses They Own); Krura/Saumya=HOW Result Delivered (Not Whether Good/Bad); Krura/Saumya vs Functional Benefic/Malefic Are Separate; Divisional Vimshottari=Start from Divisional Moon; Tajika Vimshottari=Use Tajika Moon; Divisional Charts Are PRIMARY (Not Secondary Confirmation)

Method points the teacher states during this class. Rāhu and Ketu are judged by the house they occupy, the sign and the planets with them, not by the houses they own; the 8th lord by his other house and his company. Krūra and saumya describe how a planet delivers, not whether it does good. Each divisional chart has its own Vimśottarī from its own Moon, an annual chart's daśā starts from the annual chart's Moon, and remedies follow the divisional chart of the matter. A divisional chart is the main chart for its area of life, not a confirmation of the rāśi chart.

Char Dasha 4-Factor Framework: (1)Natal from Dasha Sign, (2)Dasha Sign as Lagna, (3)Transit at Event, (4)Transit at Dasha Start; Co-Lord Rule (Scorpio/Aquarius); 360-Tithi Year for ALL Nakshatra Dashas (Mandukya Upanishad+Mahabharata+Moon Logic); Two Reference Frames (Lagna=Overall Quality; House of Interest=Event Capability); Rahu/Ketu NOT Maraka

The working rules stated in this class. A Char Dasha is judged on two natal parameters (the dasha sign as it stands in the chart, and the chart with the dasha sign as lagna) and two transit parameters (at the event and at dasha pravesha); its antardashas are not used. For Aquarius and Scorpio, if one co-lord is in the sign the other is taken for the calculation, yet the one in the sign still blesses the house. All nakshatra dashas are run on a year of 360 tithis, with the reasons: experiment, the Moon basis, the 116-year longevity of Kali Yuga, and the Pandavas' count of their exile. A planet's functional nature is read from lagna and also from the house of interest. Maraka: the 2nd and 7th lords and malefics afflicting those houses — a benefic 2nd lord included, benefic nodes in the 2nd excluded.

Mundane Charts: PVNR Skeptical (Japan 2011 Unexplained); Kali Yuga Epoch Issue; Prashna Valid. D10 Dikpala CORRECTION: Brahma=Urdhva(Up, Creative), Ananta=Adha(Down, Foundation-Laying); Example Chart D10: Sun+Mars in 6H=Raj Yoga Service+Surgeon; Nirriti Dashamsa=Cutting-Edge Surgery; Ananta Dashamsa=Foundation-Laying Research; 6H=Service vs 7H=Business

A student asks whether mundane charts can be read. The teacher has tried solar, lunar, monthly, fortnightly and daily charts over 20–25 major events and found nothing consistent; he suspects the year definition itself, because at the start of Kali Yuga the Sun was near 2° Aries and not conjunct the Moon. The Lunar New Year chart for Tokyo is read as a test for the March 2011 earthquake: a malefic Jupiter in lagna and an afflicted Mercury in the triṁśāṁśa can be "explained", but nothing shows the scale, the tsunami or the nuclear leak. Independence charts and praśna (rāśi, D-3, D-9) remain usable. The page then reads a cardiologist's daśāṁśa: lagna lord Mars and 5th lord Sun in the 6th give a rāja yoga in the house of service and show a surgeon, with the 6th-versus-7th (service versus business) rationale, and why the speciality cannot be read. It ends with the correction of the daśāṁśa deities: Brahmā is above, Ananta is below, so Ananta daśāṁśa is patient foundation work and research, while Nirṛti is cutting-edge, barrier-breaking work.

Example Chart — Woman (1973): D4 Gemini Char Dasha = Saturn(12L)+Rahu(12L) in Sign = Going Abroad; D9 Saturn+Rahu = 7th House Lords; Same Planets = D4 Foreign + D9 Marriage = Went Abroad FOR Marriage. D4×D9 Sub-Divisional = Blessings in Residence Area. KEY: Positive Events Require Functional Benefic; Papa Graha Spoils Houses They Touch; Marriage Requires Shubha Graha Activation

The 7th house of the caturthāṁśa can mean travel because of marriage, but only a link with the 7th of the navāṁśa lets one say so. The example is a woman who married on 24 January 1999 and was in the US within a week. In her D-4 the chara daśā is Gemini, holding the 12th lords Saturn and Rāhu and aspected from Sagittarius by the 9th lords Mars and Ketu; the D-4 Viṁśottarī is Saturn–Mars. In her D-9 the same planets are the 7th lords (Saturn, Rāhu) and the occupants of the 7th (yogakāraka Mars with Ketu): she went abroad because of marriage. The class then introduces D-4/D-9, the navāṁśa of the caturthāṁśa — blessings in the area of residence — where the navāṁśas of Saturn and Mars both aspect the 12th of the D-4 and flank the daśā sign; the teacher marks this as research, not Parāśara. The page closes with the rules of the class: śubha graha for a śubha event, pāpa grahas ruin the houses they touch, and a functional malefic in the D-4 gives visits, not settlement.

Amsa-Amsa Principle: Navamsa Within Any Divisional Chart = Blessings in That Life Area (D81=D9ofD9, D108=D9ofD12, D144=D9ofD16); Nakshatra Dasha Selection: ONLY Moon Hora+Sukla Paksha=Vimshottari; All Others=Shodashottari; Hora Determination: Male Sign(1st Half=Surya, 2nd Half=Chandra); Female Sign(1st Half=Chandra, 2nd Half=Surya)

Parashara lists every divisional chart but later speaks mostly of rasi and navamsa. The teacher reads that as rasi and navamsa with respect to every divisional chart: take the divisional chart as the rasi and find its navamsa from the divisional longitudes. That is how a vargottama lagna is judged inside a D10 or D9. The page then gives the procedure for choosing the nakshatra dasha of a divisional chart. Special conditions are checked first, by longitude and with a planet strong enough to carry them. Otherwise the hora of the lagna and the paksha decide, following Lomasha: Chandra hora with Sukla paksha gives regular Vimshottari, Surya hora with Krishna paksha gives Vimshottari counted from Ardra, and the other two combinations give Shodashottari.

Boston Child (Pisces Lagna, Dec 2009): Amavasya=Saint OR Goon (Thumb Rule Only, NOT Chart-Specific); Gandanta=Physical Problems NOT Evil; Actual Chart=5L-9L Parivartana+Neecha Bhanga=Spiritual Dharma; 3rd from AL Only Jupiter=Saintly Gentle Person; D10 Mercury Exalted(6H Harsha Yoga)=Precision Business; Chamunda Remedy; Going Abroad Possible

The parents of a two-year-old were told he will grow up a rowdy and live away from them. The teacher shows the prediction rests on one thumb rule — Amavasya birth, "saint or goon" — plus Mars and Ketu in the 5th. The Rasi has the lagna lord Jupiter in the 12th in Aquarius, the 5th and 9th lords Moon and Mars exchanging houses with neecha bhanga, and only Jupiter in the 3rd and 6th from Arudha Lagna: a gentle, saintly person. The Dasamsa (Sagittarius lagna, 10th lord Mercury in his own sign in the 7th, strong kama trikonas) shows a businessman who also does spiritual work, and the Vimsamsa is decent. Remedies are the Amavasya and Sankranti (gandanta Sun) dosha shantis and, later, Chandi Path; the page ends with his relationship with his parents and the chance of settling abroad.

Example Chart (1989) D10: Shodashottari Doesn't Explain June 2011 Job; Leo Char Dasha(5H=Raj Yoga+Yogakaraka Mars in Lagna From Leo)=Job; Transit From Leo=Jupiter in 9H+Venus+Mars in 10H=Career Trigger; Mercury Exalted 6H=Harsha Yoga+Nirriti Dashamsa=Cutting-Edge Software; Moon as Lagna Reference: When Dasha Conditions Fail, Try Chandra Lagna

A man born in 1989 joined as a software engineer on June 26, 2011. His Dasamsa (Aries lagna) shows the career — 6th lord Mercury exalted in the 6th, in Nirriti's dasamsa — but the dashas chosen from the lagna do not show the job: Shodashottari gives Ketu–Ketu, the 8th lord in the 7th, and Vimshottari gives Venus–Mercury. Chara dasha does explain it: Leo holds a raja yoga, and on the day Jupiter is in the 9th from Leo and Venus and Mars are in the 10th. The teacher then applies the dasha conditions from Chandra lagna, which is stronger here: Dwadasottari gives Mercury–Saturn and Ashtottari from Ardra gives Mercury–Mercury; the thumb rule is to apply the conditions from the stronger of lagna and Moon and to test the contenders on known events. The page closes with the same native's degrees of May 2011, used to rectify the Siddhamsa lagna to Libra.

Example Chart — D7 Child Birth Aug 2009: Rahu MD Verified — From Sun(5L=Rahu) + From Moon(Rahu Disposes 5L+Aspects 5H) = Strong From 2 References; Leo Lagna Reference Fails = Time Rectification Needed; Cancer D7 Lagna (Rectified 10:07PM): 5L=Ketu, Rahu Aspects Him = 5H Link From All 3 References; Shodashottari+Vimshottari Consistency Check

A man born in 1977 had his only child, a son, in August 2009. In D7 Vimshottari that is Rahu mahādaśā, on the border of Ketu and Venus antardaśā; the conditional Ṣoḍaśottari daśā gives Venus–Sun. The teacher tests Rahu against the 5th house from Sun, Moon and Lagna: from Sun he is the 5th lord, from Moon he aspects the 5th and disposes its lord, but from the Leo D7 lagna he has no link at all. The D7 lagna turns to Cancer only 2m31s earlier; there the 5th lord is Ketu and Rahu aspects him, so the link holds from all three references. The time is corrected to 10:07:15 PM. Venus, the Ṣoḍaśottari lord, fits from Sun and Moon but not from either lagna — Vimshottari read from three references is the more consistent of the two.

Example Chart — D4: Mars+Rahu in 9H(From Lagna+Moon=2/3 Convergence)+9th-12th Parivartana(From Sun)=Flourishes Abroad; 5L Saturn Debil in 7H=Weak Desire to Return; Lagna+10L Parivartana=All Residence Changes Career-Driven; Saturn-Venus AD=Staying Abroad; Moon AD 2013=30-35% Return Chance; Mutual Trine+Friendship Rule

The question is whether a man living in the USA will go back to India for good. In D4 (lagna and Moon in Libra) Mars and Rahu are in the 9th; from Sun the 9th lord and bādhaka lord Moon is in the 12th and the 12th lord Venus in the 9th. A link between the 9th, the 12th and the bādhaka sthāna from all three references shows a person who flourishes far from his birthplace. The 5th lord of the motherland, Saturn, is debilitated in the 7th: long visits home, no return. Lagna lord and 10th lord exchange signs, so every change of residence follows the job. Saturn–Venus and the Sun antardaśā keep him abroad; the Moon antardaśā of 2013–14 carries a 30–35% chance. A second chart from the class shows the same method: Jupiter daśā from February 1999 took that native abroad for good in October 1999, and no return shows before Mercury daśā in 2033.

D4 Case (1983): Jupiter(9L+Bhadaka+12L Links From All 3)=Going Abroad 2007; Ketu(12H From Sun+9H From Moon)=Trigger; Venus AD=Returned 2009(Venus=Lagna Lord From Moon+5th Lord From Sun=Motherland Priority Even From 12H); Sun AD=Returned to US 2010(Bhadaka Lord With 9th-12th Lord); KEY: Lagna Lord + 5th Lord = Repatriation, Though Placement in 9H/12H Keeps the Visa Effort Alive

A 1983 chart read in D-4 with the D-4 Vimśottarī daśā, from lagna, Moon and Sun. Jupiter–Ketu took the native to the US in October 2007: Jupiter links to the 9th, the 12th and the bādhaka sthāna from all three references, and Ketu touches the 9th or 12th from each. Jupiter–Venus sent him back to India in April 2009, because Venus is the lagna lord from Moon and the 5th lord from Sun, and those two lords repatriate a man. Venus also sits in the 12th from Moon and the 9th from Sun, so he went home but kept working on the visa. Jupiter–Sun brought him back in August 2010: Sun is the bādhaka lord from Moon and joins the 9th and 12th lord Mercury. The page opens with the birth details, the events the native reported and the method.

D6 Case (1983): Ketu+Saturn(8L)=Bhadaka Sthana=Health Problems; D30 NEW Setting: UNCHECK "Map 1 Degree to 30 Degrees" (Better Empirical Results, Vinay Jha Method); D30 Sun-Mercury=Bhadaka Lord in Bhadaka Sthana=Kidney 2008; D12 Grandparents="9th from 4th Doesn't Work Consistently"=OPEN RESEARCH QUESTION

The 2008 kidney infection read in D-6 and D-30. In D-6, Ketu daśā had just begun: Ketu sits with Saturn and both 8th lords in the 11th from Cancer, which in Ṣaṣṭhāṁśa is read as the bādhaka sthāna and not as the house of gains. For D-30 the teacher first changes a software setting: uncheck "Map each 1 degree in Rasi to 30 degrees in D30", so each unequal part of the sign is prorated as a whole. The D-30 daśā is then Sun–Mercury, and Mercury is the bādhaka lord in the bādhaka sthāna aspecting the 6th and 8th lords in lagna. The health outlook follows, then the D-12 question of the maternal grandfather, which the teacher leaves open because the 9th from the 4th is not consistent. The reading ends with marriage timing in D-9 (Vimśottarī, Chara daśā, Jupiter and node transits, the 2011 Tithi Praveśa), children in D-7, and Durgā as the remedy for a weak Amāvāsyā Moon.

Kurma Chakra Dynamic: Lagna Star of Lunar NY Chart=East; Sarvata Bhadra Veda on Stars=Disaster Regions; Mundane D40/D60 Reliable(No Birth Time Uncertainty). SC Dasha=Parashara Best Kali Yuga Technique: Lagna+Moon+Sun Progress 1 Sign/Year; Dasha Pravesh Chakra; Lord in Own Sign+Exalted=Auspicious; Rahu in Sign=Weakened; 5H Strong=Power; 8H Strong=Setback; Convergence from 2+ References

A student asks whether the south-east of the world is in danger in 2012. The answer is a method: read the Kurma Chakra dynamically. Cast the Lunar New Year chart for the geographical centre of the country, take the star holding its lagna as the east, and look for vedha on the stars in the Sarvatobhadra Chakra of that chart; D-30, D-40 and D-60 of a mundane chart can be trusted because the moment is exact. The second half sets out Sudarshana Chakra Dasha: lagna, Moon and Sun each progress one sign a year and are judged from the Dasha Pravesha Chakra of that year. A sign is strong when its lord is in it or aspects it, when an exalted planet is in it or aspects it, or when its lord is exalted; Rahu weakens a sign. An important event shows from two or all three references.

SC Antardasha Seed Method: Seeds=Signs of Lagna+Moon+Sun in Dasha Pravesh Chakra (NOT Dasha Sign); For Nth Antardasha=Count Nth from Each Seed; Pratyantar: Repeat from Antardasha Pravesh; Romney Feb 2008 Verified(Guru Chandala in 5H=Power Setback). Uchatrushi=Aspect to Sign of Exaltation=Auspicious. Convergence: Important Event Shows from 2 or All 3 References

If the antardashas of Sudarshana Chakra Dasha start from the dasha sign, the first antardasha always reads the same as the mahadasha, and it does not work in practice. The method taught here takes the signs of the actual lagna, Moon and Sun in the Dasha Pravesha Chakra as seeds; the Nth month of the year is the Nth sign from each seed, judged in the entry chart of that month. Pratyantardashas repeat the step from the Antardasha Pravesha Chakra. The worked example is the month Mitt Romney dropped out in February 2008: Guru-Chandala yoga on the 5th and the 8th, and the 7th lord in the 8th, from two or all three references. The same method is then applied to January–March 2012 and to the New Hampshire primary. The page also gives uccha drishti: the aspect of a planet on its own sign of exaltation.

Ashtakavarga in SC Dasha: Level 1=Find Raj Yogas+Own Sign+Exalted; Level 2=Ashtakavarga Reinforcement; Exalted/Own Sign Overrides Weak AV; Friendly Sign Needs AV Support. JHora PAV: Alt+PCV→Reverse AV Checkbox Shows Benefic Planets From Reference Position. Analysis Priority: Occupants→Aspectors→Lord. Rule: Exalted/Moolatrikona Trumps AV; Lagna+Sun in Same Sign=Primary Reference

How Ashtakavarga is combined with Sudarshana Chakra Dasha, as Parashara instructs. The antardasha references are the signs of Lagna, Moon and Sun in the Dasha Pravesha Chakra, counted N signs for the Nth antardasha — the teacher's own method, which he says Parashara does not state but does not contradict. The Ashtakavarga rules of Lagna, Moon and Sun are applied from the progressed Lagna, Moon and Sun; JHora's Prastara Ashtakavarga with the "reverse the meaning" box checked serves as the lookup table. First find planets in dignity and yogas common to two or three references, then use Ashtakavarga to reinforce: an exalted, Moolatrikona or own-sign planet is strong without it, a planet only in a friendly sign must also be benefic in Ashtakavarga. A house is judged by occupant, then aspector, then lord, and two references in one sign outweigh the third.

Time Scale Accuracy: Annual=Best for Long-Term Events; Monthly=Also Excellent; 2.5-Day=Less Clear(Many Details); 5-Hour=Short Focused Events. PVNR D24 IIT 1987: Scorpio+Sagittarius+Aries Progress Signs; From Scorpio=5L Jupiter Exalted in 9H; From Aries=Lagna+5L Raj Yoga(AV Benefic); Antardasha May-Jun=Saturn(5L in Moolatrikona)+10L Raj Yoga; Pratyantar=9th-10th Parivartana

The teacher's own D24 for the year he stood state first and was selected for IIT Madras (28 May 1987). The SC Dasha signs of the year are Scorpio (Lagna), Sagittarius (Moon) and Aries (Sun). From Scorpio the 5th lord Jupiter is exalted in the 9th and aspects his own sign; from Aries the lagna lord and 5th lord join in the 8th with the 5th lord benefic in Ashtakavarga, and Jupiter is exalted in the 4th. In the month (Libra, Capricorn, Sagittarius) the 5th lord Saturn is in Moolatrikona in the 5th with the 9th lord, opposite the 10th lord. In the 2.5 days (Cancer, Aries, Leo) there is a 9th–10th lord parivartana, but the 3rd and 10th houses stand out — the result came on the evening radio news. The page also sets out what each scale shows: the year shows a long-term event well, the month better, 2.5 days less well, because each chart shows what fills the mind in that period.

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

Two more years from the teacher's own life read by SC Dasha with Ashtakavarga. D10, year from April 2002 (Taurus, Cancer, Capricorn): Guru-Chandala Yoga of Jupiter and Rahu falls in the 6th from Taurus, the 4th from Cancer aspecting the 10th, and the 10th from Capricorn — a layoff in August; but the 6th house keeps a sound lord or aspector from each reference, and he had a new job within weeks. D7, year from April 1998 (Libra, Sagittarius, Taurus): from Libra the lagna lord Venus, exalted, joins the 5th lord Saturn in the 6th, aspected by exalted Jupiter; from Taurus the 5th and 4th lords are in the 9th under the same Jupiter; from Sagittarius the 5th is only average. In the month of the birth Lagna and Sun of the Dasha Pravesha Chakra are both in Capricorn, so Taurus, the 5th from it, is the main reference and holds the 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th lords. The 2.5-day chart of the birth shows far less. The technique shows the forest, not the trees.

Lesson 200 Reset: PVNR Returns to Drik Siddhanta(Surya Siddhanta Abandoned=No Objective Correlations for Arudhas); SC Dasha "Going Easy On"(Too Subjective); JHora: Recommended by Author Setting+360° Solar Year for All Dashas+Physical Longitudes for Arudhas+Ascendant=Middle of 1H(±15°). Gandanta=Only Water→Fire Junctions. Prushthodaya Signs=Results at End of Dasha. Dvisaptati Sama Dasha in D10

After about a year with Surya Siddhanta, PVNR sets the software back to Drik Siddhanta and Jagannatha ayanamsa. With Surya Siddhanta he found nothing objective for arudha padas and Chara Karakas; with Drik Siddhanta and bhava arudhas taken from physical longitudes he has three objective researches — Vimshottari dasha progression, the padamsa correlation and stationary transits — that held over hundreds of charts. The page gives the JHora settings: "Recommended by author (Drik Siddhanta)", the solar-longitude (360°) year for all dashas, exact-longitude arudha padas with "use divisional longitudes of planets" unchecked, true nodes, and the ascendant as the middle of the 1st house (15° on either side). Kept: Vimshottari of the rasi chart and of the divisional charts, conditional nakshatra dashas in the rasi chart only, argala, rasi and graha drishti. Set aside: conditional nakshatra dashas in divisional charts and Sudarshana Chakra dasha, because both leave too many degrees of freedom. It also covers his hora-lord definition of the ruler of the year, gandanta (only where a watery sign ends and a fiery sign begins), Rahu and Ketu acting like their company, prishthodaya signs giving results at the end of a dasha, and the condition for Dvisaptati Sama dasha.

Example Chart (1966, Pisces Lagna): Venus(3L+8L)=Functional Malefic Dasha+Dispositor of Jupiter(1L)=Health Difficulties; D30: Saturn-Saturn=1L in 6H+Parivartana(1L-6L Exchange)=DURYOGA Not Raj Yoga; Kapha Dominant=Moon Vargottama Cancer; Kapha Diet: Trikatu+Millet+Spicy+No Dairy. Vargottama=Same Sign Rasi+Navamsa. Parivartana Duryoga Rule: Kendra-Dusthana Exchange=Problems

A health reading of a Pisces-lagna man (1966) with diabetes and weakness. The Rasi chart shows average health: lagna lord Jupiter is retrograde in Venus's sign, a great enemy's sign, and Mars, Saturn, Gulika and Mandi afflict the 12th, but Saturn is in his own sign and Rahu is 20° from Jupiter. The trouble is the dasha: Venus is the 3rd and 8th lord and the dispositor ("landlord") of the lagna lord, with the 6th lord Sun and bādhaka lord Mercury 12° away. In D30 (Capricorn lagna) the lagna lord Saturn is in the 6th and exchanges signs with the 6th lord Mercury, who sits in the lagna with the 8th lord Sun — a Duryoga, not a Raj Yoga, due in Saturn–Mercury. The page then covers his Kapha constitution with Pitta on the Moon, the Kapha diet (trikatu, millet, brown rice, heating oils), Sita Rama as the remedy, and the Vargottama Moon in Cancer.

Example Chart — D10 (Gemini Lagna): Mercury(1L+4L)+Rahu(9L) Raj Yoga in 10H=Investigative Journalism(Rahu=Hidden/Shady Matters); Jupiter(10L in 5H)=Advisor-Kingmaker NOT King; Venus(5L)=Marana Karaka Sthana 6H=Weakened(Political Power Blocked); 5L-6L Mutual Aspect=Duryoga; D12 Surya Lagna Stronger When Its Lord Is Exalted There: Father(Exalted Saturn 9L+10L in 6H)=MLA Politician

The D10 of a man who taught, became an investigative journalist, lost the job and went back to farming, and is now pushed towards politics. Gemini rises with Mercury, Moon and Rahu in the 10th in Pisces: 10th lord Jupiter gives teaching, the Mercury–Rahu Raj Yoga (lagna lord with 9th lord, about 2° apart) gives investigative journalism, the 2nd lord Moon gives agriculture, and Mercury's debilitation explains the fall. For politics, the exalted Sun in the 11th aspects the 10th lord Jupiter in the 5th, but the 5th lord Venus is in the 6th — his Maraṇa Kāraka Sthāna — in a great enemy's sign and in mutual aspect with the 6th lord Mars. Venus pushes the house he owns without the strength to deliver it, so the advice is to be a kingmaker, not a king. The father, an MLA, is then checked in D12 from the 9th from the Sun, the Sun being with exalted Mercury.

Example Chart — D4(Sagittarius Lagna): Venus(6L+11L in 2H=Wealth Litigation); 8H(7L+9L+10L)=Inherits Fortune+Dissipates It. KEY PRINCIPLES: Marana Karaka Sthana(Jupiter=3H, Rahu=9H, Venus=6H); 9H from Sun for Father; 4H from Moon for Mother; Dispositor as Landlord Rule; Parivartana Duryoga vs Raj Yoga; Sita Rama for Mercury+Sun+Venus Combination

The D4 (Chaturthamsa) of the same man, read for property and finance, followed by the rules of the whole lesson. Sagittarius rises and the dasha read from D4 is again Venus: the 6th and 11th lord, an enemy of the lagna lord, placed in the 2nd — litigation or tension over wealth and property. Lagna lord Jupiter is in the 3rd, his Maraṇa Kāraka Sthāna, with Ketu, which made the teacher ask about property trouble with siblings (there is none). The 8th house holds the 7th, 9th and 10th lords with the 8th lord: a man who inherits a fortune and blows it off. The summary table collects the lesson's rules on the dispositor, parivartana Duryoga, Maraṇa Kāraka Sthāna, owned house versus occupied house, and the references for father, mother, son and wife.

Stationary Transit Principle: Planet Stationary=Stops+Acts(3-4° Orb Only); JHora Mundane Tab=Stationary Transit Mode; Nimitta Dog=Saturn. the native(Aquarius 1989) Coma: Jupiter-Rahu Dasha=Jupiter(2L Maraka)+BUT Rahu(1L in Lagna=Not a Maraka); HOWEVER Gochara: Jupiter(8H from Moon)+Rahu(Debil in 2H=Maraka Sthana)=Long Suffering; Relief: Jupiter Moves to 9H From Moon(~June 2013)

A stationary planet triggers the natal point it conjoins or aspects, in the rāśi chart or in the divisional chart of the matter. The orb is a couple of degrees, four at the most, and Jupiter and Saturn matter most. The page shows how to find a station in the software and the nimitta (a dog crying) that sent the teacher to Saturn. It then reads the rāśi chart of a native in coma for 60+ days (born 1989, Aquarius lagna): Jupiter daśā is a māraka daśā, but the antardaśā lord Rāhu is lagna lord in lagna and no māraka. The length of the suffering comes from gochara: the daśā lord Jupiter transits the 8th from natal Moon and the antardaśā lord Rāhu sits debilitated in the 2nd from Moon. Relief is timed to Jupiter entering Gemini about June 2013, the 9th from Moon and 5th from lagna.

Example Chart (1981) D4: Venus-Saturn=Abroad 2005(Bhadaka Sthana+Pak Lagna 9L+12L); Sun-Rahu=Immigration Denial(Rahu=6L from Sun=Litigation); Sun-Jupiter(Jan-Nov 2013)=1L Dasha+5L Antardasha in Mutual Quadrants=RETURN TO INDIA(Motherland); D10 Pisces: Gajakesari+Jupiter(1L+10L in 10H Moolatrikona)=Teaching Career After Mercury-DBA; Moon MD=5L in Lagna=Career Fortune

An immigration question for a Taurus-lagna native (born 1981) whose green-card waiver has just been denied. Mercury daśā took him abroad in 2005: from the Pāka lagna, Libra, Mercury is the 9th and 12th lord. The birth time is checked first, because three minutes earlier the D-4 lagna changes from Leo to Taurus; the present trouble and the D-24 for education both keep the given time. In D-4 (Leo lagna) Venus–Saturn gave the move abroad: Venus is in the bādhaka sthāna and Saturn is the bādhaka lord in the 12th from Venus. Sun–Rāhu gave the denial: Rāhu is the 6th lord from the daśā lord. Sun–Jupiter in 2013 is lagna lord daśā with 5th lord antardaśā, the two in mutual quadrants, and that shows going back to the motherland, not a green card. The D-10 (Pisces lagna) has Jupiter, lagna lord and 10th lord, in the 10th in mūlatrikoṇa with Gajakesari yoga, so the career is safe and teaching suits him better.

Correct Parashara D2 Hora: Even Signs Reverse from Cancer(NOT Forward to Gemini); Leo-Cancer=Mirror Axes; D24 Even-Sign Correction: Mirror Around Cancer Axis(Cancer-Capricorn Unchanged); D24 Education=4th House ONLY(Abandon 9th-2nd-6th Sequential Rule)

PVNR brings the Hora chart back in its corrected form, the interpreted Parashara Hora, for financial results. Parashara gives two cycles of the zodiac across the 24 horas from Aries, with the first half of an odd sign going to the Sun and the first half of an even sign to the Moon; reading Sun as odd and Moon as even, the halves of an odd sign map to an odd then an even sign and the halves of an even sign to an even then an odd sign. The same reversal applies to D24: for even signs the count runs from Cancer back to Leo, not forward to Gemini, so a planet in an even Rasi sign is mirrored around the Cancer–Capricorn axis (software Libra becomes Aries, Pisces becomes Scorpio, Virgo becomes Taurus; Cancer and Capricorn stay). He warns that this is settled for Hora and D24 only and other vargas need research. He also drops the 9th/2nd-house sequence for degrees: education is read from the 4th house of D24 and from A4 alone.

True Nodes=Real Eclipse Points(JHora: Preferences→Planet Calculation→True Nodes); Dusthana Lord in Own Dusthana=Harm Neutralized(8L in 8H=Mysticism; 12L in 12H=No Loss); 3rd Lord in 10H=Career Breaks; TP Annual: Lagna in 7H from Natal=Marriage Year; 4H=Abroad Year; Hora Lord=Year Ruler

Rāhu and Ketu are the points where the Moon’s orbital plane cuts the Earth’s. True nodes are those points as they stand at the moment; mean nodes are the same points averaged over time so that they are always retrograde. The teacher prefers true nodes, because eclipses are caused by the true intersection points, and the choice can move a node into another sign in a divisional chart — which is how the question came up in class. The page also gives the rules he states on dusthāna lords: 6th lord in the 6th, 8th lord in the 8th and 12th lord in the 12th are good; a dusthāna lord in lagna is not; 3rd lord in the 10th of D-10 gives breaks in work. Last, the Tithi Praveśa year is judged from the ruler of the year and from where the TP lagna falls from the natal lagna: in a kendra the year is good, in the 6th, 8th or 12th it can show setbacks.

11H=Favorable for ANY Planet(Malefic or Benefic); Viparita Raj Yoga: Dusthana Lord in Dusthana Must Be UNAFFLICTED(Benefic Present=Only Partial Yoga); TP Lagna in 7H from Natal=Marriage Year; 4H=Abroad; Hora Lord=Year Ruler; D24 Even-Sign Correction Scope: D24 Only(NOT D9/D60 Yet)

Four rules stated in this class. The 11th house is good for any planet: the 3rd and 6th favour malefics only, but in the 11th even benefics are well placed — still check who joins or aspects the planet. Viparīta Rāja Yoga needs an unafflicted duṣṭhāna lord: a 12th lord in the 12th aspected only by the 8th and 6th lords gives the full yoga, while a 6th lord in the 12th joined by a 9th lord gives only partial relief. In a Tithi Praveśa chart, read the house the annual lagna occupies from the natal lagna (7th marriage, 8th setbacks, 4th going abroad, 11th gains) and judge the Hora Lord, the ruler of the year, in the annual Rāśi and Navāṁśa. The revised D-24 reckoning counts the 24 parts of even signs backward from Cancer, the mirror image of the odd-sign count from Leo; the teacher applies it to D-24 only and leaves other vargas as they were.

Young Man (1992 Secunderabad): D10 Scorpio: Jupiter FM(Debil 8H)+Saturn Viparita(11H)=Better; Mercury-Venus EXALTED Raj Yoga Peak ~2037; D24 Cancer: Jupiter(9L in 3H=Manakarksthana)=Average Studies; Moon AD 2014=Best Year; Internship=D24-10H+D10-4H Dual Method; Life Nonlinear: Poor Studies ≠ Poor Career

A 20-year-old in the third year of mechanical engineering works hard and gets low grades. Rāśi lagna is Aquarius: Jupiter, running till 2018, is the 2nd and 11th lord — a functional malefic — so this is not his best period; Saturn, lagna lord and 12th lord in the 12th aspected only by duṣṭhāna lords, gives Viparīta Rāja Yoga from 2018. D-10 (lagna Gemini): Jupiter, 7th and 10th lord, is debilitated in the 8th; Saturn, 9th lord, is in the 11th; lagna lord Mercury exalted in the 4th faces 5th lord Venus exalted in the 10th — the rāja yoga of Mercury daśā from 2037. D-24 (lagna Cancer, cast with the revised even-sign reckoning) is read from the 9th house for the bachelor’s degree: Venus antardaśā poor, Sun average, Moon in 2014 good. An internship is read from the 10th house of D-24 together with the 4th and 10th of D-10. The teacher’s point: life is not linear, and a poor daśā during studies does not cap the career.

Kundali Milan: 20+/36=Average; 11/36=Very Poor(Skip); Mutual Venus Shadashta=Not Ideal Love; Check Lagna Compatibility Beyond Score; Mars-Rahu Affecting Both Lagnas=Double Stubbornness; Moon 3rd-11th=Acceptable; Shadashta Moons+Lagnas=Skip; 2015-2020=Astrologically Significant(NOT 2012)

How PVNR matches two horoscopes for marriage, worked on two prospective brides for one man. The score out of 36 comes from the Moon alone: 20 is average, 11 is very poor. After the score he compares the two Moons, the two Lagnas and the two Venuses — which houses they are in from each other and whether the lords are friends — and reads each temperament from lagna and lagna lord. The first match scores 20 but has Venus in ṣaḍaṣṭaka, Mars and Rāhu on lagna or lagna lord in both charts, and weak progeny indications in both; the second scores 11 with Moons and Lagnas in ṣaḍaṣṭaka and is dropped. The page ends with a JHora menu question and the year-end talk on why 2012 means nothing and 2015–2020 matter more.

Pancha Kosha: Annamaya(Lagna)=Body; Pranamaya=Bridge; Manomaya(Moon)=Mind; Pranayama: Anulom Vilom=Calm+Inaudible+80% Capacity+No Holding+10min; Ida-Pingala Balance; Physical Features→Dosha: Kapha=Thick Hair+Well-Built; Pitta=Muscular+In Between; Vata=Thin

The five kośas and why breath sits between body and mind. Lagna controls the Annamaya Kośa (physical matter), Moon controls the Manomaya Kośa (mind), and the Prāṇamaya Kośa — the life force, of which breathing is the surface — is the connection between them. When prāṇa is depleted, breathing and the steadiness of the mind suffer together. The teacher then shows how to do anuloma-viloma prāṇāyāma: alternate nostrils, no holding, no sound, stop at 80–85% of a full breath, breathe out slowly, ten minutes a day — and explains the iḍā–piṅgalā push and pull that forceful breathing upsets. The page ends with judging a person’s dosha from build, hair and forehead: Kapha is fat or well-built with luscious thick hair, Vata is thin, Pitta is in between and muscular; and a breathing problem does not have to be Vata.

Leo (1983): Ketu MD+Saturn AD(6L+7L+Aspects Lagna Lord Sun)=Vata Respiratory; Dual Verification: Saturn=6L from Lagna+8H from Moon=BOTH References=More Serious; 6L AD=Comes and Goes(NOT Chronic); Saturn=Vata Planet; Moon Paksha=Vata/Kapha Formula(Krishna Dwadashi=12/15 Vata); Retrograde Exalted 6L=Reduced Harm

A student’s own chart: Leo lagna, born May 9, 1983, with recurring nose and respiratory trouble for a few months. The trouble did not start with Ketu mahādaśā in 2007 but recently, so the teacher looks to the antardaśā: Saturn, from April 2012. Saturn is the 6th and 7th lord, a functional malefic for Leo, an enemy of lagna lord Sun, and he aspects the Sun. The 6th shows things that come and go; the 8th, long-term disease — so this is not chronic. From the Moon in Pisces Saturn is the 11th and 12th lord in the 8th; a planet showing disease from both Lagna and Moon can be more serious. Saturn is the Vāyu planet, so the complaint is Vata. The page also covers Moon’s dosha by tithi (full = Kapha, new = Vata; Kṛṣṇa Dvādaśī here = 12/15 Vata) and why the retrogression of an exalted 6th lord reduces the trouble he gives.