Jupiter Transit Murti, Transit from Arudha Lagna vs Moon, & Kundalini Philosophy — Shivering is NOT Kundalini (It's Prana Vayus Cleaning Nadis)

Jupiter Transit — Murti System

A student asks about Jupiter's transit into Sagittarius two days earlier. Jupiter is in own sign and moolatrikona, so he gives his results strongly. For Aries Moon he is in the 9th: very good. One planet does not make a year; daśā and the other transits matter.

Murti (the teacher shows the colour code of the transit calendar):

How to Read Transit Quickly:

1. House from Moon.
2. Tara — the nakshatra counted from Moon's nakshatra. Sampat, Mitra and the like are good; Vipat, Pratyak, Naidhana are bad.
3. House from Lagna — only if the chart is accurate.
4. Murti — how easygoing or how difficult the planet is.

Mainly combine house and tara. Ashtakavarga bindus and kaksha also modify the result but can be left out for a quick reading.

Worked example — Taurus Moon:

• Jupiter is in the 8th from Moon: a bad house.
• He is Swarna murti, so it is not that bad. In a bad house and copper or iron murti he would hammer the person.
• For Rohini he is in the 7th tara, Naidhana: bad house and bad tara.
• For Krittika (padas 2–4, also Taurus) he is in Mitra tara: bad house, good tara → mixed.

Murti and propitiation:

• A badly placed planet in Swarna murti is easy to convince. He withdraws his bad results when propitiated.
• A planet in the 8th in Loha murti is hell-bent on giving trouble. It is very hard to remove by propitiation; be prepared for it.
• For Jupiter in Sagittarius: pray to Dakshinamurti or an auspicious form of Shiva — a Shiva stotra, not Rudra.

See the transit in perspective: Jupiter may come to the 9th while Saturn, Rahu and Ketu hammer the person; then Jupiter's benefit may not even be visible. Look at Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu, who stay long in one place. Sun, Moon and Mars change within the month and matter less. In the sample chart Saturn and Ketu are in the 4th and Rahu in the 10th from Moon: no sukha.

Transit from Arudha Lagna:

"Arudha Lagna transits are how the world perceives what is happening to you, what is happening to your material status, your image. And Moon is your mind, how you are looking at what is happening in your life."

• A man suddenly becomes president or governor: the transit from AL is good. He thinks "what a mess I got into, I was happy playing golf": the transit from Moon is bad.
• Or the reverse: a man feels great, and people think he is crazy to have left a palace abroad for a small hut in India.
• Planets transiting a kendra from AL are good for the image.

Jupiter in the 9th from AL: the material image takes a blow, and the person gets a reality check on materialism and a chance to become more spiritual.

• The teacher: this is the rule he was taught; he is not sure of its basis.
• His explanation: Jupiter is the planet of wisdom and the highest truth. With him in the 9th you have to appear wise, and one who clings to material success does not look wise. One who lets some of it go does.
• So it is a test of materialism against spirituality, not a big setback.

Saturn in the 8th from AL: a big setback. The material status takes a big blow; one can suddenly become a pauper.

---

Kundalini — Philosophy (Discussion)

Can the shivering be Kundalini?

• A siddha can be born with Kundalini already awakened, but it is extremely rare.

"Some people will say when Kundalini flows, you will shiver. That is utter nonsense."

• If Kundalini is flowing, it does not cause shivering. Perhaps if it wanted to flow and met a big obstacle.

What Kundalini is:

• Self-awareness, ego-consciousness. "What you consider as 'I' is Kundalini."
• The snake of three and a half coils is symbolic. Do not look at it as some power or mystic energy.
• It is the Divine Mother, the Shakti, who took you — Brahman, the infinite — and bound you into this body like a compressed spring, with the sense "I am this body". The Shakti that bound you is the one that releases you.
• Think of Kundalini as your Ishta Devata, or as the Shakti of a male Ishta Devata. For the teacher she is Mahalakshmi. Ramakrishna perceived his as Kali.

Awakening and rising:

• With Kundalini awakened, "who am I?" is active in the mind always, not a question written down.
• The first awakening may be forceful. You lose the sense of the body and perceive yourself as something else. It goes as far as it can and comes down. Because it rises through impurities, the first time can be a shock.
• After that it rises slowly, as the nadis are purified. Purifying a nadi is the mind dropping a layer of conditioning — feeling small when blamed and good when praised, the notions of good and bad, "this is mine".
• Once awakened, it is unlikely to sleep again.
• Measure of progress: how far kama, krodha, lobha and moha have been overcome.
• The chakras correspond to the lokas. Awareness moving up even one chakra is only bliss.

"Kundalini experience is an indescribable bliss only."

Any path can awaken it:

• Bhakti yoga, jnana yoga, any yoga.
• That only mudras, bandhas (Jalandhara bandha and the rest) and pranayamas awaken it is a common misconception.
• A devotee who gets lost in Shiva or Krishna and forgets his own identity: Kundalini awakens and rises.

What the shivering may be:

• Before Kundalini awakens, various vayus flow in the nadis to clear the way — more likely in ida, pingala and other nadis than in sushumna.
• This gives a lower bliss, with full awareness of the body remaining.
• Shivering, or a sensation of ants crawling up the spine, are such premonitory signs: vayus exploring the nadis and cleaning them.
• The nadis are in the subtle body (sūkṣma śarīra). Each event there has its event in the gross body: a signal passing through a nerve.

The teacher's conclusion for the child:

• "I do not think this is actually Kundalini rise, because that is an indescribable bliss."
• A vayu flowing is a possibility. From Rasi and Navamsa his gut feeling is that this may be what is happening. He draws no firm conclusion.
• What the chart does show: a problem in the flow of current in the nervous system, which may also have a physical cause in the brain.
• Either way, the child's system is not able to take it. Worship of Narasimha will help.

---