ASHTAKAVARGA SYSTEM OF PREDICTION PART 24 By Dr. E.S.

.Neelakantan It takes only a minute to change your life This is the title of an inspirational book by Willey Jolley. Why does it just take only one minute? The authors view is that the minute you decide to go after your dreams is the minute you change your life. Everybody is equally in the same position to reach it because everyone gets the same 1440 minutes per day to take advantage of that time. Those who are familiar with the biography of matinee idol Rajnikanth or music legend A.R.Rahman would know that their rise to stardom was meteoric even they didnt have a clue to the rags-to-riches story their lives were about to take. Can anyone give an example of how to correlate with this same concept in Astrology? If you cant think of one, let me cite an example. Please consider the movement of Venus from Virgo to Libra. When it reaches the fag end of Virgo, it is perhaps at its weakest debilitated rasi and debilitated navamsa. The next minute you find Venus in Libra in own house, own navamsa, in Moolatrikona, blazing in full glory in its passage towards its exaltation point Pisces. It acquires a stature through which even the Sun, while getting debilitated in Libra could bask in the glory of a neechabhanga Raja yoga. In my view, this astrological phenomenon, justifies the statement - It takes only a minute to change your life. With these introductory remarks we will discuss the Ashtakavarga features of Venus. In our previous article we discussed a couple of rules: 1. When Venus is associated with 8 bindus in a quadrant or trine, one will possess animals for transport. 2. If in the above case Venus has 7 bindus, that person will possess wealth as well as precious stones. The two yogas mentioned above stand cancelled, when Venus is in Virgo or it occupies houses 7, 8 or 12. The above rule needs a little bit of explanation. While Venus is in the 7th, it is in a quadrant and a rajayoga could possibly occur if rule (a) is satisfied. Then why does the rajayoga become defunct? The answer is simple: When Venus is in the 7th, the dictum Karako bhavanasaya" is invoked. (A karaka in bhava spoils the bhava). Every house has two different connotations namely Jivapara (soulful) and Lowkika (worldly). For instance take the 4th house: Maternal

love is indicated by the 4th house. This is something which a person can experience at the level of soul. Immovable property or vehicles relate more to worldly pleasures rather than soul-satisfaction, though they are represented by the 4th house. This means that when Venus occupies the 7th house, the soulful satisfaction that probably could enure on account of a Rajayoga is denied to the native. Coming to houses 8 and 12, we know that these are inauspicious houses dealing with denial of good fortune and loss respectively. Consequently they too fail to bestow Rajayoga even if Venus obtains bindus in excess of the specified limit. Now we will turn our attention to a series of rules which require care in interpretation since they deal with loose morals. Venus stands for spouse. Relationship between married persons occurs at three levels namely spiritual, mental and physical. Further society lays down norms for behaviour, in accordance with customs and traditions. In India, since time immemorial social behaviour is dictated by Dharma sastras. Jyothisha sastra or Astrology is an independent science whose tenets are not bound by rules pertaining to Dharma sastras. For instance let us say monogamy is the order of the day. The horoscope of the person may show that the person may resort to bigamy. These concepts need to be understood, borne in mind before we go into a discussion on these rules. (a) When Venus occupies the house of Saturn in Rasi or navamsa, the person is desirous of union with a despicable woman. Same is the case when Venus is in conjunction with a malefic. (including Saturn) (b) If Venus occupies the house of Mars either in Rasi or navamsa and is associated with or expected by Mars, the person will be fond of beautiful women. (in an immoral sense) To appreciate these concepts better we need to know the inherent qualities of planets with reference to personal traits. According to Varahamitra, Sun, Moon and Jupiter represent Sattwa guna; Mars and Jupiter, Tamas; and Rajoguna is the quality represented by Venus and Mercury. (vide Brihat Jataka, chapter II, verse 7) The following table explains this concept: PLANET Sun, Moon and Jupiter Venus and Mercury Mars and Jupiter QUALITY Sattwa Rajas Tamas

Please note that Sattwa represent purity of mind. Venus, Saturn and Mars are basically Rajas/ Tamas in quality and inter-relationships between these planets will activate the basic instincts of a person and such people will be guided by passion rather than reason. There are people who can be termed as alcoholics such persons cannot live without drinking and will even squander away wealth to consume alcohol. The quality of alcohol is Tamas since he who drinks becomes unconscious while the craze for drinking is Rajas. So the combination of Mars and Saturn could force a person to take up drinking. Impurity of mind is caused by afflictions to Mars, Saturn and Venus. A persons wife will be (a) A harlot or (b) A destroyer of husbands happiness or (c) A person with extra-marital affairs if in the chart of that person (i) (ii) Navamsa of 7th house falls in the houses of Mars or Saturn and gets expected by these planets or The Lord of 7th house occupies the rasis of either Mars or Saturn.

When The Moon in the navamsa of a malefic is in 7 or 12 and Venus is associated with a malefic, then the person comes to grief through a woman. Please note that all these rules have to be tested or applied only in the chart of the husband. The 7th house denotes the qualities of wife. When the 7th house is subject to Martian and Saturnine influences, the wife will not be loyal too husband. The next rule is an amalgam of three conditions which need to be cumulatively satisfied. - Moon in the navamsa of malefic - Moon in 7 or 12 - Venus associated with a malefic. Moon in a malefics navamsa is a functional malefic. When in 7, this planet will affect married life as 7th house is house of marriage and Moon gets vitiated occupying a malefic navamsa. The 12th house denotes sorrow. Moon, in a malefic navamsa in 12 gives sorrow through a woman as Moon is a feminine planet. Venus is Kalatra Karaka or Karaka of spouse.(Strictly speaking Venus denotes wife in husbands chart but the converse is however not true the reason is Venus is a

feminine planet.) Hence Venus with a malefic gives sorrow through wife or through a woman since Venus is a feminine planet. Generally Venus associated with a malefic is a dosha which is treated on par with Kuja dosha. According to the rules of Kuja dosha, both the boy and girl should have the same quantum of dosha in order to have a happy married life. If the doshas are unequal, then the match will not be good. If the girl is Manglik, then the astrologer will have to search for a compensatory dosha in boys chart. In such a situation, Venus with a malefic in boys chart will equal the Kuja dosha in girls chart. In Ayurveda there is a theory called Tridosha theory. According to this theory if Vaba, Pitta and Kapha exist in the body in almost equal proportions, that person will be healthy. If one is more and the other two are less, disease sets in. The matching done, based on Kuja dosha or Kalatra dosha is similar to this concept. When Mars influences the 7th dosha it generates a certain power which can destroy the spouse, unless an equivalent and opposite power is generated by planets in the spouses chart. When these forces are equal, they cancel themselves out and the couple lead a happy and prosperous married life. To be continued