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

Varga Schemes — Dasha Varga, Shodasavarga, and Shadavarga

Twin nations and why divisions matter

• The independence charts of India and Pakistan differ. But the lunar new year or solar new year chart of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan — or of London, Paris, Portugal, Spain — will mostly have the same lagna in the rāśi chart. Do they all have the same fortune? No.
• The rāśi chart is gross: the overall state and mood of the country. The subtler picture is in the divisional charts. Every divisional chart read for a person can be read for a nation.
• For a country with no known birth chart, only the lunar and solar new year charts are available, and in them divisions are the key. With a birth chart, combine the new year chart with the natal chart, daśās and transits.
• If divisions matter there, they matter everywhere. Reading only the rāśi chart for everyone and turning to divisions only for twins is illogical: someone may have been born in a hospital two miles away a few minutes apart.
• That is why the navāṁśa is read for a nation's foreign relations.

The four varga schemes

The lists are in BPHS and at the end of the divisional-charts chapter of the teacher's book.

D-40 and D-45

Both are in the 16-varga scheme and not in the 10-varga scheme.

• D-45 shows the karma inherited from ancestors on the paternal side. A grandfather who built ten temples blesses you; one who went to war and destroyed thousands unfairly makes you suffer.
• D-40 shows the karma inherited from the maternal side.
• They matter for every person, but less. The karma of parents and forefathers is small beside the karma carried from one's own past lives.
• These are gross rules. Saying Dasa Varga applies to human charts does not make the other six charts useless.

When they must be read

• A terrible combination in D-40 or D-45 means a curse in the family.
• If an ancestor did something terrible — say, cheated and murdered his guru — up to 7 generations suffer.
• Example: a family where every marriage fails quickly — the engagement breaks, or something forces a postponement, or the wife dies soon after. An evil is coming down the father's side; someone did something terrible to a wife.
• A student mentions five brothers in his family dying within six months. "Could be. I don't really know." The teacher points to a Telugu film in which a wrong done to a temple deity kills one family member in a particular Jovian year, generation after generation.
• Examples of D-45 are left for a later class.

Three Bala Systems — What Each Measures

Vimsopaka Bala

• In the software it is under the strengths, computed for each scheme: Shad Varga, Sapta Varga, Dasa Varga, Shodasa Varga.
• It looks at the planet in the various divisions and gives one composite strength: how benefic this planet is for the whole life, not for one matter.
• It has nothing to do with houses. It is based on exaltation, moolatrikona, own sign and so on.
• It shows "how happy the planet is with you" — the overall tendency of the planet to do good or bad to you.
• High Vimsopaka Bala = the planet's agenda has a higher chance of being fulfilled.
• Parashara gave it much importance.
• Use the Dasa Varga scheme for ordinary charts.

Ashtakavarga

A student asks whether Vimsopaka Bala is linked to the Ashtakavarga number. It is a different thing.

• Ashtakavarga shows how much cooperation a planet gets from the others. Mercury is learning ability, Moon the mind, Jupiter wisdom, Saturn the ability to work hard.
• Saturn's Ashtakavarga: how happy are Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Lagna with Saturn, and how well do they cooperate with what he wants to give.
• If what he wants to give is bad, non-cooperation is good for you. If it is good, non-cooperation is bad for you.

Shad Bala

• The relative strength of two planets — not whether they mean good or bad, but who wins when they fight.
• When several planets give a Raja Yoga, Shad Bala shows which planet delivers it.
• "If I and my wife want to give a donation to a charity, who runs first and gives the check? That is what Shad Bala shows."

Summary

Annual TP Lagna as Karmic Indicator

The rule

Take the lagna of the annual Tithi Praveśa chart and see which house it is from the natal lagna. That house shows the karmic influences triggered during the year. It supplements what the Hora Lord shows.

Only these two cases are given in this class.

The example

Pakistan: natal lagna Aries, 2001 annual lagna Scorpio — the 8th. The 8th house of the annual chart itself holds Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Rahu. A year of pain. The Hora Lord Mars in lagna, with graha dṛṣṭi on that 8th house, adds the bold new beginning and keeps the damage in check. The full reading is in the section on the 2001 annual chart.