Special Topics in Vedic Astrology

By Alison Bodhani

Table of Contents
Foreword by Michael Laughrin
A Word from the Author, Alison Bodhani
Preface
Introduction
Planetary Potency
Sattva, Rajas and Tamas in the Zodiac The
Influence of the Earth's Moon Birth
Nakatra and Personality Lunarscapes: To
the Moon
The Debilitated Moon
Debilitated Planets
The Mutual Aspect of Saturn and Mars
Yogas of Spiritual Intensity Skill
and Dexterity in Jyotish Five
Opera Singers
On Considering Jupiter
Planetary Configurations that Make a Good Psychic
Mental Illness and Jyotish
The Differences Between the Two Nodes
K la Sarpa Yoga
Venus-Rhu Conjunction
Lagna Lord in the Twelfth
Marital Harmony
Fertility
The Lakm Yoga: Wealth

Planetary Potency
Jyotia has complex systems for assessing planetary strength or potency but
several components of planetary strength can be assessed simply by looking at a
horoscope. Factors of strength can be divided into two
main categories, those that are evident through observing the sky directly,
and those that are made evident through the system of meanings applied
in astrology's symbols. An instance of the first category would be a very
bright or full moon. The potency of such a moon can be felt by all who look
up at her alluring beauty on a full moon night. Babies blessed to be born on
such a night usually possess an abundance of the positive traits associated with
the moon. All other factors being equal, they tend to be more emotionally
resilient than those born with a dark moon; they tend to assimilate life's
opportunities better and to recover from its difficulties more easily. An example
of the second category of strength lies in the concept of planetary dignity,
where a planet's capacity to deliver results is weighted by what its
placement in a given constellation represents. This is a symbolic
construction that is not directly observable in the sky.
Conditions influencing planetary potency include the following: exaltation,
own sign, sign of a friend or enemy, debilitation, retrogression,
combustion, dik bala(directional strength), vargottama, condition of the
dispositor and for the moon, brightness and the waxing phase
Each planet has one constellation in which it is thought to function with
supreme potency, known as exaltation. An exalted planet is said to be able to
deliver things that a person wants even if they are normally outside that
planet's scope. In order for an exaltation to deliver full results, the
dispositor of the exalted planet should also be strong and ideally, the planet
should be near its point of maximum exaltation, a particular degree within
the constellation.
The following is a list of planets, their sign of exaltation and degree of
maximum exaltation. Sun - Aries - 10 degrees, Moon - Taurus - 3 degrees,
Mars - Capricorn -28 degrees, Mercury - Virgo - 15 degrees, Jupiter - Cancer - 5
degrees, Venus - Pisces - 27 degrees, Saturn - Libra
- 20 degrees.

The next best thing for strength and sometimes better for results is own sign.
The sun and moon each own one sign and the five true planets each own
two signs. When they are in their own sign, they are both strong and
comfortable, just as we are when we find ourselves in our own home,
provided no unpleasant relatives are visiting. A planet in its own sign, if
unafflicted, will usually take good care of that sign whether it is malefic or
benefic. The Achilles heel of own sign planets is that when they are afflicted,
both the house and its lord become afflicted, which creates a double effect for
potential trouble with that house. This is something people are often deceived
by, and they end up expecting better results than are delivered by the own sign
planet. If such a planet is only influenced by benefics, it becomes quite potent.
Third, in terms of strength by constellational occupation, is sign of a friend
or enemy. While not up to the potency of exaltation or own sign, whether or not
a planet occupies the sign of a friend or enemy can be an important
consideration. At the very least people tend to be very uncomfortable with the
significations of planets in the signs of enemies. For instance, people who have
Venus in the sign of Leo, ruled by the Sun, who is Venus's enemy, may be
very uncomfortable discussing sex (Venus) because they feel it is undignified
(Sun).
Fourth is debilitation, the opposite of exaltation where planets tend to
function poorly and are inclined to be weak, vulnerable and deranged.
Another category of strength is retrogression, which is when a planet appears
to be moving backwards in the sky. Retrograde planets are considered
especially strong for two reasons. In the case of the outer planets, they are the
closest to the earth in their orbit, which causes them to shine more brightly in
the sky (just as the bright moon is a noticeable object, so is any bright planet).
The second reason is that any retrograde planet is moving more slowly than
usual producing a more thorough result. The opposite of retrogression is
combustion when a planet is so close to the sun it is lost in the sun's rays. As
planets draw nearer to the sun their motion increases so such planets are also
moving very fast. Retrogression and combustion represent the far ends of the
spectrum of planetary strength by speed.
Next is dik bala or directional strength. Directional strength is a feature of
diurnal, or daily motion. Each planet will occupy its position of dik

bala for an hour or two every day because it is a position in the heavens as
related to the spinning of the earth. Mercury and Jupiter achieve dik bala in
the first house. Mars and Sun in the tenth. Saturn in the seventh, and Moon
and Venus in the fourth. The first house is the eastern horizon, the tenth
is directly overhead, the seventh is the western horizon, and the fourth is
directly below our feet.
Vargottama, varga + uttama, which means "best division" is another strength
consideration. A planet is said to occupy the best division when it occupies the
same constellation in the nava as it does in the birth chart. It is sort of like
having only one marriage. That person becomes the sole focus of one's energies.
Just so the planet's energies are focused twice in the same place, producing a
deeper result.
When considering any planet it is important to weigh in its dispositor, the
planet who owns the constellation the planet inhabits. Like a landlord or
a ruler of a country, its condition affects its tenant.
This is not a comprehensive list of conditions of planetary strength and
weakness but it is a quick overview of types that are readily observable in a
chart.

Sattva, Rajas and Tamas in the Zodiac

Most students of Indian spirituality and philosophy are familiar with the three
guas, or fundamental qualities, of all manifest existence, sattva, rajas and
tamas. Each gua has both positive and negative attributes depending on
the state in which it is functioning.
Sattva gua is positively characterized by purity, kindness, contentment,
forgiveness, harmony, order, knowledge, stability and truth. It is negatively
characterized by attachment to those things for themselves rather than as a
way to draw nearer to Spirit and/or by inertia and complacency. Sattva is the
energy of knowledge and its color is white.
The sattvic planets are Sun, Moon, and Jupiter. The sattvic ris are the dual
ris.
Rajas gua is the energy of energy, kriy akti, and its color is the red of
dynamic activity. It is characterized by activity, dynamism, desire, passion,
emotion, change, enthusiasm, pleasure seeking, goal
orientation and active selfishness. When it slides into negativity, it
becomes insatiable desire, undue attachment to likes and dislikes,
unnatural tenacity, cunning, greed, hardheartedness, fickleness, and
irritability.
The rajasic planets are Mercury and Venus. The rajasic ris are the
moveable ris.
Tamas gua is the energy of fixity, or dravya akti. Its color is black. Positive
qualities include constancy, rigidity, mass, structure, the bliss of ignorance or
non-awareness, and inactive selfishness. Negative qualities include laziness,
helplessness, refusal to change, stinginess, mechanical behavior, dullness,
chronic negativity, and non-awareness of others.
The tamasic planets are Mars, Saturn, Rhu and Ketu. The tamasic ris are the
fixed ris.
In order to establish the predominant guas in an individual's nature, one
can look at the primary influences on the lagna, lagnea, sun and moon.
Planets that are strong will usually produce the positive qualities of the gua
with which they are associated, and positive results as well.

Planets that are weak will usually produce negative qualities and results. A
person with weak rajasic planets may become increasingly distrustful of
generating new projects because they are likely to have a history of disastrous
results. People with a strong and influential Saturn may grow increasingly
stubborn as they age because they find that tenacity usually produces positive
results.
A simple look at the gu as can become a profound tool for insight and
suggestions for productive shifts in attitudes and behaviors.

The Influence of the Earth's Moon

The sun and the moon are the two brightest objects in our sky and appear,
uncannily, to be the same size when viewed from Earth. They are a
manifestation of the primordial iva and akti, Yang and Yin, masculine
and feminine forces that underlie our Universe.
The sun has a tremendous constancy and predictability. He is selfluminous, shines continually and moves through the sky on a predictable
path at a constant rate of speed. He is regarded as a symbol of our essence
because of these qualities of consistent presence and radiance.
By comparison, the moon is a very inconstant being. She moves through
the sky at a variable rate of motion, changes shape and size swiftly and
continuously, and moves quickly against the background of stars. She does not
generate her own light but reflects that of the Sun. She represents the Divine
Feminine, the chaos that underlies seeming order, the randomness that gives
rise to the beautiful, yet not quite predictable patterns in Nature. She is a
curvy fickle body.
The moon also represents the manas or habit body of the individual, the inner
contents of our minds, conscious, subconscious and unconscious. A Vedic
astrologer will draw conclusions about a person's predominating vsans
based in part on the condition of the moon at the time of a person's birth. Like
the moon, the minds of human beings are in constant flux, rotating through
psycho-emotional states, attentions
and desires within the framework of a certain fixity. The person who is prone to
optimism generally resorts to happy thoughts or to thoughts of happy
outcomes while the person who is prone to glumness does the reverse.
Although both will experience the opposite, they will return again and again
to the same state. Modern neuroscience remarks that in the brain "what fires
together, wires together." This means that the same state becomes more and
more deeply ingrained and more easily produced by the brain with time.
Thus human perception can diverge greatly from the circumstances of the
moment if the brain produces a state that reflects its history by frequency or
intensity, a phenomenon referred to in the common parlance as projection, but
that has other

components as well since humans often tend to gravitate to or recreate

circumstances that trigger their deepest "wiring." Manas is memory, because
memory is a collection of habits. What a person remembers as being
significant will largely be composed of things that confirm the
predominating habits/wiring of the personality. Experiences that feel even
remotely similar will produce the identical state in the brain reinforcing a
particular psycho-emotional frame.
Additionally, the moon represents rasa, or the juice of life, what Chinese systems
refer to as jing. The moon produces deep cool sweet nectar that nourishes life
on all levels. The moon is tender and can never burn up life as the sun can.
The sun has a relentless quality to him but
the moon is ever embracing, like a loving mother whom never tires of her
baby.
People born under a strong moon generally have a good capacity to
recognize and digest the nutrition that life offers to them. They are healthy
eaters not only physically but also psychically. Those with a strong moon
tend to naturally see good in things and have good things come their way.
People born with a weak or afflicted moon often have a darker turn of mind
and are inclined toward depression. They are disinclined to partake of life.
This is often fueled by negative experiences that set up their habituated
patterns of perception and interaction. A weak or afflicted moon can also
give rise to asceticism, because it disinclines a person to tasting life all the
time.
The moon's orbit varies in speed because the moon is subject to two
gravitational forces, the Earth and the sun. Depending on the
relationship of these three objects in space, the moon speeds up or slows down,
just as our minds are often pulled in two directions. The moon takes
approximately 27.3 days to complete an orbit around the earth, but because the
earth is also moving in space, it appears from here that it takes approximately
29.5 days for the moon to orbit. These orbital rates can vary by as much as 12
and 7 hours respectively. This is why the
two halves of the lunar month do not always have the same number of days.
A lunar year is eleven days shorter than a solar year. It takes nineteen

years for the two cycles to meet; thus, every nineteen years, the moon will be
at the same phase and position on the same day to within two hours. Ancient
cultures knew this and kept track of this nineteen-year lunar cycle, the moon
slowly dancing up and down in the sky.
The moon's gravitational pull on the Earth causes the Earth to bulge toward
the moon. Because water is more flexible than land, the oceans bulge more
noticeably than the land, giving rise to higher tides and more unpredictable
waters when the moon is closer to us in her orbit. Human beings are twothirds water and our brains are mostly water, which means that moon's
gravitational pull also affects us strongly. Water as an element corresponds to
all desires, tastes, and emotions. With each month, as the moon draws nearer to
us and becomes full and bright, we experience her effects upon our minds and
bodies and can
see our condition more fully expressed. If we pay attention to this cycle, we can
work with the moon and learn to accumulate rasa or jing, in order to become
more youthful and more content. Just as the moon pulls on the Earth, people
born with an influential moon will often have a
type of charisma that pulls our attention to them. Like the moon, this
charisma may wax and wane.
The moon loves adornment and beauty. It is always best to look nice when
worshipping the moon. The moon loves sweet flowers, seashells and
perfumes, white rice, milk, coconut juice and other sweet cooling things. In
astrology she rules the mind, emotions, the mother, food, nutrition, the
night, women, fashion, water, memory, imagination, habits, receptivity,
sensitivity, and changeability.
The moon corresponds to ida n, the left and more internal n. In a
healthy state, this n gives a state of balanced equilibrium and a soft
receptivity towards others and ourselves. When this channel is clogged,
depression and inertia develop along with a chaotic and weird internal
dialogue.
The moon influences us in so many ways. Whenever you walk outside on a
clear night, look at our sweet moon, and give thanks.

Birth
Nakatra
Personality

and

A potent indicator of individual personality is the nakatra the moon is located

in at the time of birth. Seven categories of nature apply to the nakatras, plus
many other qualities and associations. These are aids in assessing personality.
The seven categories of nature are: fixed; moveable; sharp; tender;
fierce; light; sharp & tender.
Category 1: Fixed. The fixed nakatras, like the fixed signs, tend to indicate
stability and permanence in a person's nature. The fixed nakatras are
Rohin, Uttara Phlgun, Uttara Ah, and Uttara Bhadrapad.
Category 2: Moveable. Moveable nakatras incline a person to movement,
travel and change. The moveable nakatras are Punarvasu, Svati, rvaa,
Dhaniha and tabhia.
Category 3: Sharp. The sharp nakatras are rdra, Ale, Jyeh and Mla.
They give success in attacks and torture, punishment and separation.
These nakatras can often indicate a surprising streak of nastiness in a
person when they are influential in a horoscope.
Category 4: Fierce. The fierce nakatras, who rule over all forms of destruction,
can also result in a negative streak: Bhara, Mgha, Prv Phlgun, Prv
Ah, and Prv Bhadrapad. This tends to be particularly true of
Bhara, Prv Ah and Prv Bhadrapad because these
nakatras occur in warlike constellations and/or have other associations with
aggressive or cruel behavior.
Category 5: Tender. Conversely, the tender nakatras can impart a
remarkable streak of sweetness, softness, love and devotion for others to an
individual that also may not be apparent on the surface. The tender nakatras
are Mrigira, Citr, Anurdh and Revat.
Category 6: Light. The light nakatras are also pleasant. They are beneficial
for trade, commerce, sensuality, learning and medicine. They are Avin, Puya
and Hasta.
Category 7: Sharp & Tender. The two nakatras in the combination sharp &
tender are Kttik and Vikha. They display both the qualities

of the sharp nakatras and the tender nakatras.

In addition to the nature of a nakatra, investigating the things it rules and the
associated deity is extremely worthwhile. The nakatras occupied by the
lagna and the moon tend to be the most significant, although all planetary
placements will bear out to one degree or another. These can be another aid to
understanding an individual's complexity and seeming contradictions.

Lunarscapes: To the Moon

Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And
ever changing, like a Joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
- Poem By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Moon is so indicative of a person that in classical India, all charts were
read from the position of the Moon. In many parts of India, this remains the
tradition. No other planet gives as much direct reflection into the state of a
being. Some texts state that it is the Moon who is the giver of happiness or
misery because the Moon is the emotional mind and the comforts that a
person receives in life. A person with a good Moon will tend to be given both
comforts and the emotional capacity to make the most of them. Those with
"bad" Moons usually have plenty of lemons and a poor idea of how to make
lemonade.
The Moon is "rasa," the taste and nectar of life and the foundational tissue
of the body, from which all the others are made. Rasa is the essence
imparted to a baby from a mother's breast milk. Rejuvenation in Ayurveda is
called "rasyana," or the path of juice. The Moon is indicative of the
sweetness, the juiciness and the comfortableness of a person. Even in an
otherwise blessed life, a bad Moon can so ruin the person's mind that they live
as if they were a homeless person. A perfect example of this is the legendary
Howard Hughes who, despite being insanely wealthy, spent years dirty, naked,
alone, in the dark, peeing on the walls. A suit had to be purchased for him when
he died. His Moon
is dark, debilitated and aspected by Saturn.
The Moon is the space body nearest to the earth. It is much, much nearer than
anything else; it is practically hugging us. The Moon is near enough to manifest
its gravitational pull in the rise and fall of the ocean's tides. Its effect can be
directly seen and sensed by even the least subtle
of persons. The Moon is "here" in a way no other planetary body can be said
to be.
The Moon has an extra parameter of strength and weakness that
humans are keenly aware of too. It waxes and wanes. While this can be said to
match the true planets' cycles of retrogression, which bring them

nearer to the earth and therefore brighter, the intensity and variability of the
Moon is much greater and more frequent. The Moon rotates between
being stunningly bright when it is full to diminishing to absolute nothing.
This tremendous variability of strength is one huge factor in the variability
of the quality of a human life and the inconstancy of experience which
perpetually fluctuates from good to bad.
The Moon is unique amongst the grahas in another very important way. It is
VERY easily influenced. The Moon is a luminous sponge. It absorbs
influence and radiates it back out, deeply affecting the state of everything that
it touches. The Moon is the true King Midas, turning a life to gold or to ashes
depending on its condition.
Phaladpika declares in Ch.19, Shl. 8, "Before declaring anything,
examine the strength of the Moon in a nativity."
Factors making the Moon strong include the following:
1Brightness - the Moon should be at least 72 degrees from the Sun and
is better when brighter
2. Exaltation, Own Sign, Sign of a Friend - the Moon is exalted in
Taurus, it owns Cancer and its friends are Sun, Mars and Jupiter
3. Aspected by benefics
4. Waxing cycle
Factors diminishing the strength of the Moon include:
1. Darkness - Moon within 72 degrees of the Sun
2. Debilitation, Enemy Sign
3. Aspect of malefics
4. Waning cycle
5. Eclipse

One place to look at the effect of the Moon is in those charts where it is placed
in the first house, making the inhabitant very much possessed by its luminosity.
In Chapter 2 of the Bhrigu Stram, several lokas are devoted to the Moon
in the first house. Most state that its effect depends on the strength of its
dispositor and the nature of the aspecting grahas. Elsewhere in stra, it
is oft repeated that the Moon's brightness is crucial in determining its
effect. Keeping those factors in mind, let us see what can be gleaned from
analysis of 1st house Moons.

Fullish
Parton

Moon:

Dolly

Dolly Parton, like Madonna, has a Leo ascendant with a nearly full
Moon within five degrees of the ascendant. She embodies multiple
lunar qualities. She has huge female charisma and beauty. She is one of the
most successful country singers of all time. She has a good sense of humor, a
strong orientation towards God (the Moon is a sattvic planet), a history of
philanthropy, and a very flashy style of dress and presentation. She has a
reputation for being a very nice person. Her Moon is in the sign of a friend. It is
aspected by a Rx Saturn who also throws the aspects of Mars and Rhu onto
her Moon. I would attribute her extensive plastic surgery and her slightly overthe-top "look" to the aspects of these three malefics. However, they are all
softened because an unafflicted Jupiter gazes upon them. Furthermore, her
lagna lord sits in the sixth house closely conjunct Venus. This adds to her
feminine

power and her aspect of "niceness" which helps to overrule the otherwise
detrimental gaze of Saturn. She grew up extremely poor in a one room shack
in rural Tennessee because Moon in the 1st is a blria yoga and has
Saturn's influence. He also disposits her lagna lord who sits in the sixth house
which has caused her to manifest the high side of Saturn, humility, a
remembrance of others' suffering and the desire to be of service.

Fullish Moon: Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball has an almost Full Moon in her Sagittarius ascendant. It is
unaspected. Like Dolly Parton, she was known for being over-the-top. Dolly
has bleached blonde hair; Lucille Ball had bright red hair. Both share a great
sense of humor and significant charisma, as well as business sense. Both
women grew immensely wealthy over the course of their careers. Ball also has
Saturn, Mars and Rhu together but in the fifth house instead of the
eleventh. Her combo is also aspected by Jupiter , but who is this time
afflicted. While Parton's marital life has been extremely sedate, Ball's was
full of turbulence. Additionally, Moon in the first can contribute to health
issues and Lucille Ball had rheumatic fever that left her in bed for a couple of
years.
Both performers have a kind of "energetic largesse" to them that is easy for
audiences to bask in, much like the full moon.

Fullish
Chaplin

Moon:

Charles

Charles Chaplin has a very bright Moon within one degree of his
ascendant. It is opposed by the exalted Sun, own sign Mars, and Venus who
are, in turn, aspected by Saturn from the tenth house. Chaplin was such a
bright star that he remains legendary to this day. He was one of the biggest film
stars of all times, the winner of multiple awards, one of the progenitors of
United Artists and a director and composer as well. He is often considered
unparalleled as a comedian.

Darkish Moon: Friedrich Nietzsche

What can be said of Nietzsche? One of the most quotable and arguably, one of
the most exciting philosophers, his life had more than its share of suffering. It
has been postulated that he was manic depressive and he was plagued by
undiagnosable health problems for most of his life. He was the youngest
person to ever be appointed to a philosophy chair at the University of Basel
and he remains widely read (in philosophy classes) today. His is a deeply
nihilistic philosophy that nonetheless frequently radiates a dark exuberance -in keeping with the quality of Beethoven's music, a fellow manic depressive.
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" is Nietzsche's line. I would
attribute the fact that there is artistry in his philosophy to the presence of the
Moon in his ascendant. His Moon is dark, debilitated and closely conjunct
Rhu. Mercifully, it is also aspected by a swa, Rx Jupiter from the fifth which
would account for his philosophical power that was clearly colored by his
emotional stance towards life. Nonetheless, the Moon filled his life with
physical and mental suffering.

Darkish Moon: H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft is a classic horror fiction writer whose popularity has grown
posthumously. His writing is dark and pessimistic. He was sickly as a child
and suffered from night terrors, believing he was haunted by giant ghosts. He
has a dark sadhi Moon in his ascendant with debilitated Venus. (Moon
rules imagination.) His lagna lord is in the twelfth house

conjunct malefics Sun and Saturn. His Moon is aspected by debilitated Jupiter
from the fifth. One of the meanings of debilitated planets is that they are easy
to pierce, thus such people often feel themselves to be prey for other realm
beings and to be physically afflicted in ways that are hard to pin down.
Another meaning is that of being overwhelmed. Lovecraft's books are filled
with characters who must deal with horror beyond their control that they, for
one reason or another, cannot get away from. His influence on popular
culture has been huge but his life was miserable.
In these dramatic examples it is easy to see how much the state of the Moon
determines a life. Both Charlie Chaplin and Dolly Parton were born into
extreme poverty and both rose to create a great deal of success for themselves as
well as an acceptable measure of personal happiness. On the other hand, for
Nietzsche and Lovecraft the nature of their
bodies and minds drove them into misery and despair.
May the Moon bless us all with a good manas.

The Debilitated Moon

All debilitated planets require a careful and thorough analysis to assess their
impact in a life. Not all debilitated planets are created equal -- some offer
tremendous gifts and some offer only suffering. One has only to contemplate the
fact that Picasso had four debilitated planets to understand that their implications
can vary widely.
When analyzing a debilitated planet, it is very important to consider the strength
and position of the dispositor, any compensatory strengths the debilitated
planet possesses, any aspecting planets, and whether or not the planet has
nca bhaga or nca bhaga raja yoga and if so, how many nca bhagas
operate, and the condition of the bhaga granting planet(s). In the case of the
Moon, one must also consider whether the Moon is waxing or waning and
whether it is bright or dark. Because the condition of the Moon is so crucial to
the wellbeing of an individual generally, it requires a particularly careful
analysis when it appears debilitated.
The Moon debilitates in Scorpio. One can ascribe a general flavor to Moon
in Scorpio, but whether the qualities of that flavor will work well or poorly for
an individual depends on all of the above factors as well as the house rulership
and position of the Moon in a given ri. Scorpio is the natural ruler of the
eighth house and as such is associated with
eighth house themes -death, the occult, things which are hidden, scandal,
sex, power, other people's money, deep grief, trauma, loss, inescapable
difficulty, secrets and a certain capacity for vengeance. The scorpion is a
creature that lives alone mostly in dark underground places, who surfaces at
night. Scorpions are not particularly aggressive except when acquiring prey,
when surprised (in which case they will deliver a nasty sting before running
off,) and when having sex. Sometimes scorpions sting their mate to death
during the sexual act. These qualities add the themes of ingestion of drugs and
other poisons, loaded sexuality and a capacity for lashing out.
Scorpio is a fixed water sign. Water and fixity do not go well together except in
the case of ice, which is very cold. Otherwise "fixed water" is stagnant water,
producing rot, algae and mosquitoes. Water is the element most closely
associated with emotion. Emotions must flow

gracefully in order for a life to be successful. Both water and emotion produce
rot when they stagnate, which in turn attracts the kinds of low level beings
and energies that are drawn towards rot. The Moon debilitates in Scorpio
because it rules the emotional mind.
All other factors being equal, the Moon in Scorpio will cause a person's
emotions to become deep, dark, mysterious and very hard for a person to let go
of or change. Also, because debilitated planets have a certain inherent
vulnerability, in the Moon this translates into exceptional emotional
sensitivity which then translates into grudge holding over pain. The classic
debilitated Moon archetype is just that, a deeply sensitive person given to great
emotional intensity which they attempt to hide or disguise who is often
brooding over perceived hurts, the general sadness of the world, or dark sexual
fantasies.
On the high side, this kind of emotional awareness can be transmuted into
tremendous compassion for the suffering of other beings, a great forgiveness
for self and others, an acute awareness of the feelings of other beings, a
willingness to sacrifice the self for God or others - the bodhisattva mentality,
and/or great artistic sensibility. On the low side, the debilitated Moon can
represent madness, sexual depravity, sexually transmitted diseases, murderous
vengeance, prostitution, the Mafia and the like. Below are chart examples.

Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh, one of the most famous artists the world knows now,
embodies many debilitated Moon themes. Were his birth time to be
moved forward four minutes, his ascendant would become Cancer, making
the Moon the ruler of is chart. Whether or not that is the case, he could be the
poster child for the debilitated Moon. Before he was a painter, he was a pastor
of great religious sentiment who tried to live in a truly Christian way, sleeping
on the floor on straw and preaching to miners. In his late twenties, he took up
painting. He was plagued all his life with deep despair and episodes of
mental illness. He was chronically poor, often smelly and dirty, and drank
far too much. During his lifetime, he sold only two of his paintings. He
depended on his brother Theo for financial support. He is famous for having
cut off his own ear. He eventually died by his own hand. He shot himself in
the chest and died two days later. His brother reported his last words as, "La
tristesse durera toujours" - the sadness will last forever.

His debilitated Moon resides at 28:55 of Scorpio, making it very nearly

gandanta. It is aspected by no planet and there is no planet in an angle from it.
It is bright but waning. If the ascendant were Gemini, the Moon would have
three nia bhagas, but if it were Cancer, it would have none. The dipositor,
Mars, is in the sign of a friend with and exalted benefic, but unfortunately, it
does not aspect the Moon.
Picasso, Raphael, O'Keefe, Corot, and Rembrandt also had debilitated
Moons.

Al Pacino
Al Pacino's debilitated Moon has expressed itself mainly through his acting
career. He is known as "smoldering" and "sensitive. " His single mother was
ill when he was a child, and in the early years of his stardom, he did go
through a period of drug excess, but mostly he has portrayed an endless series
of characters that embody eighth house themes: Mafiosos, drug lords and
even Satan himself.

His debilitated Moon is at 28:39 of Scorpio. It is waning but very bright and it is
opposed by own sign Venus in Taurus and Mars, who is its dispositor.
These combinations make some very powerful yogas and provide a lot of
protection to the Moon, greatly softening its impact. Expanding the definition
of nca bhaga raja yoga to include placement of the debilitated planet
in a trine, Pacino's Moon also has two good nca bhaga raja yogas.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Elizabeth Clare Prophet was the head of a New Age religion of some renown.
Starting as a child, she had visions, and went to every single church and
synagogue in her town looking for spiritual answers. She eventually married a
man who had started his own religion and took it over for him. She ran a
huge outfit in Montana that required austere living for all of its constituents,
including early rising, hard work, lots of prayer and meditation, strict limits on
sexual behavior and the gift of all

assets to the church. She claimed to be able to foretell the apocalypse. Ardent
church members built huge bomb shelters on the ranch in Montana. She
was frequently beset by scandal. Her Moon is at 21:00 of Scorpio. It is
unaspected and hemmed by malefics, but it does
participate in a weak Keri yoga by virtue of the fact that Jupiter is four signs
away and it does have a nca bhaga formed by Mars who is in
the sign of a friend.

Candraekhar Sarasvat, the Sage of Kanchi, 68th Jagadguru in

the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam
A very famous Indian saint and guru. An astrologer read Candraekhar
Sarasvat's chart when he was a child, and fell at the boy's feet. The
astrologer told the parents that the whole world would bow before their son. He
has a very nearly full debilitated Moon in the fourth house. His Moon is at
14:00 of Scorpio, putting it in the nakatra of Anuradha, a nakatra with deep
spiritual leanings. Because it is at 14:00 it is also very, very close to the very
bright red star Antares which resides there.

His fullish Moon is opposed by the Sun, Jupiter and Mercury. Moon
thereby participates in a powerful Keri yoga. Plus the Moon is aspected
by Saturn, it is vargottama and again aspected by Saturn in the navama.
Moon in a navama of Mars aspected by Saturn is a very powerful spiritual
yoga. This chart represents the very high side of the debilitated Moon.

Debilitated Planets
The Sanskrit term for a debilitated planet is nca which can be variously
translated as: mean, insignificant, low, dwarfish or depressed. Other names
for debilitated planets include epithets that suggest vulnerability and fear. Such
planets are excessively weak in some way and the areas of a chart that they rule
are usually vulnerable to puncture, destruction, overwhelm or dissatisfaction.
However, they may have other compensatory strengths that vary their results,
such as dik bala - directional strength, kendradibala - angular strength, nca
bhaga - modification of debilitation, strength in multiple aas, or, in the
case of the Moon, being full. Thus, all debilitated planets are not created equal
and a careful analysis is required to determine what the effect of a
debilitated planet will be in an individual chart. A consistent quality of
debilitated planets is that with or without compensatory strength, they will
behave in an unusual fashion. The fundamental planetary energy is going to
express in an at least slightly abnormal way.
The most important compensatory mechanism for debilitated planets is a
bhaga. Bhaga is usually translated as cancellation of debilitation. It
can be translated as breaking, abatement, paralysis or failure. The best word
may be abatement, because a debilitated planet is going to remain a different
creature even with the best of ancillary supports, just as
Wolverine remains different from the rest of us, despite his super human
skeleton and fantastic clawing ability. Clawing ability is another good analogy
for debilitated planets. Because they are, in some way, weakened or
diminished, people who possess them will usually have to do some scrabbling
after success in the arena of life that they represent, even if that success ends up
being considerable. If a debilitated planet is located in a kendra or a kona, a
bhaga confers a raja yoga. The debilitated planet is placed in prime
horoscopic real estate and its
bhaga confers a special type of power, analogous again, to Wolverine, in
which an abnormality becomes a source of exceptional strength.
Bhagas universally depend on the strength or accessibility to the chart owner
of the dispositor of the debilitated planet. Planets are strong by virtue of being
exalted or own sign and they are accessible by virtue of being in an angle.
Planets in angles deeply influence a horoscope. Bhagas are formed by: the
dispositor being in an angle from the Moon or ascendant, the lord of the
debilitated planet's exaltation sign being in

an angle from Moon or ascendant, the dispositor aspects the debilitated planet
or the planet who would be exalted where the debilitated planets sits is an
angle from Moon or ascendant. While not technically a bhaga, I would
add that if the debilitated planet's dispositor is in its own sign or exalted, this
will be very good for said planet.
While results vary depending on individual charts, it can be useful to analyze
the fundamental energy gone awry of each planet when it is debilitated and
why it is regarded as functioning most poorly in a given constellation. Sun
debilitates in Libra. The Sun is the symbol of universal consciousness and
generosity. It gives its light and heat to all alike. The constellation of Libra is
ruled by the merchant's scales in jyotia, NOT the scales of justice. This sign
loves to weigh and measure value gained versus value given. Librans often
apply this soulless weighing to things that other beings naturally find it offensive
to
measure in such a way, like love and friendship. This makes them good at
choosing everything from a strategic standpoint but it is not a place where the
energy of the generous Sun can express in a beautiful and harmonious
fashion. Laura Bush has just such a Sun in her seventh house of spouse.
Because the Sun does not accord well with Libra, its own expression will be
weakened and will become vulnerable. This means that the areas that the Sun
rules will suffer including government, leadership, vitality and authority. A
classic debilitated Sun problem is pain from the government. Bill Gates,
who was embroiled in a huge antitrust suit with the federal government, Larry
Flynt, who fought for his magazine all the way to the Supreme Court and Spiro
Agnew, who was forced to step down as vice president, all have debilitated
Suns.
Moon debilitates in Scorpio. Moon rules rasa - taste and emotion, and it
represents the emotional mind. Scorpio is a fixed water sign. The qualities
of fixity and water do not blend well together, one reason Scorpio rules
swamps and sewers. Emotions are best when they are sweet and when they
flow along easily without too much force. Scorpio is a sign of great fixity and
great intensity and darkness. These qualities do not lend themselves easily to
good emotional relating, a problem Scorpios often face. When the Moon
resides in Scorpio, a person may
be prone to great sensitivity and great intensity of emotion that is often hidden
within them. On the high side, the fixity of a Scorpio Moon can produce a
great bhakta, someone who always remembers God with devotion. On the
low side, it can produce a vindictive grudge holding

tendency or a tendency to consort with those filled with dark emotion, like drug
dealers and horse thieves, or a tendency to be too easily affected by the
feelings of others since the manas is extra vulnerable, which may cause such
persons to start hiding out like scorpions. Moon rules mother and the
emotions and both these arenas typically suffer when the Moon is debilitated.
Al Pacino's chart is ruled by a debilitated Moon. He dropped out of high
school to work because his mother was sick. His Moon has a powerful nia
bhaga raja yoga so his association with darkness has been in the medium
of film where his debilitated Moon has expressed itself perfectly playing dark
smoldering characters that are frequently from the underworld. He has even
played Satan. He is a very private character who is described as very sweet
and compassionate.
Mars debilitates in Cancer. Mars represents icch akti, individualized will.
Cancer is the home of the Moon, the manas or emotional mind. Mars in
Cancer gives rise to some version of compromised expression of personal
will. In many people this may show up as a conflict between softer
feelings and the need to express their will. They may then learn to develop a
certain pigheadedness as a desperate countermeasure to their own softer
feelings. Alternatively, if Mars is debilitated and suffering from multiple
other afflictions, the will may turn on the self in some way or may become
irascible, unpredictable and violent, or the person may suffer such qualities
at the hands of others. Both Moon and Mars debilitate in the sign of a
mutual friend which often creates a tenable avenue for a person to deal
successfully with their nia planet.
Mercury debilitates in Pisces, the most dual of the dual signs. Pisces symbol
is that of two fish swimming in opposite directions. Of the other three dual
signs, Virgo and Sagittarius are rules by single creatures. Gemini is also
symbolized by two beings, but in jyotia that symbol is a pair of twins, one
male and one female. At least the individual sexual identity of each being is
clearly demarcated. In Pisces two identical fish swim in opposite directions.
Pisces is also a mute sign. Mercury represents buddhi, intellect and
communication. Being of two minds is rarely good for practical decision
making and Mercury's ability to communicate is hindered by its location in a
mute water sign. Pisces is ruled by Jupiter, the planet of wisdom. Mercury is the
planet of intellect,

and while rare people are able to apply their intellect to the cultivation of
wisdom, wisdom is both something more than and something less than
intellect. Wisdom is holistic knowledge, the integration of multiple ways of
knowing conjoined with a refined understanding about what to do or say in a
given situation. Intellect, on the other hand, tends to be about pure knowhow, rather than intelligent application of know-how. Intellect is to brass as to
wisdom is to gold. A debilitated Mercury with
a good nia bhaga may give rise to an inspired form of knowledge that
bridges into wisdom, but it will still not deliver practical know-how in day to
day living. Witness Albert Einstein, ruled by debilitated Mercury, he had
inspiring insights into space and time but still could not locate his own house or
dress himself.
Jupiter debilitates in Capricorn. Capricorn is the quintessential sign of
structure, security and ambition. None of these qualities accord well with
Jupiter's pure wisdom nature. Wisdom has no structure. Wisdom is Ati or Now,
thus it operates outside of Time and the structures
permitted by Time. Efforts to structure wisdom in time never fail to produce
an ultimately banal result. Anthony Robbins, success guru extraordinaire has
debilitated Jupiter in his ascendant. His entire mission is to have people use
knowledge to obtain success. This is known as spiritual materialism.
Venus debilitates in Virgo. Virgo is the sign of the Virgin, the sign of purity.
Venus is the guru to the asuras, the demonic beings. Venus is the only Being
who knows the Sanjivin Vidya, the method of returning the dead to life, and
can always restore his disciples, the asuras, after they have been killed. Venus is
called ukra in Sanskrit, which means
"white, shining and semen." Being the planet of sexual energy, naturally it
disaccords in the sign of the Virgin. But it also disaccords in this sign because
of the notion of purity which is at odds with Venus's indications of sensual
worldly pleasure. Venus in Virgo usually creates some oddity around sexual
energy. The person may be gay or they may be lustful and crude. Because
Venus is blocked they may be unable to develop refinement and taste in the
enjoyment of worldly pleasures. Bill Clinton has debilitated Venus in his
ascendant.
Saturn debilitates in the sign of Aries. Aries is everything that Saturn is not. It is
youthful, fiery, energetic, brash, speedy and impulsive. Saturn is slow, cold,
methodical, strategic, contemplative and disciplined.

Perhaps there is no greater zodiacal clash than Saturn in Aries. Aries is ruled
by the malefic Mars and Saturn is a natural malefic and neither planet
accords well with the other. The dissonance of Saturn in Aries, barring
softening factors, brings out a hideous combination of the traits of the
constellation and planet, a ghoulish twisted limping offspring, impatient and
slovenly. Saturn in Aries gives rise to trouble with Saturnian themes of
discipline, responsibility, structure, respect, work and death. Because Saturn
in turn afflicts Aries, such people may struggle with head issues such as clear
thinking, headaches, fits of rage, phobias or compulsions such as
trichotillomania. Muhammad Ali, who developed Parkinson's has Saturn in
Aries, as did Hyppolite Blot, inventor of special scissors for performing
craniotomy during difficult labors. Jacques Cousteau had Saturn, his 5th lord of
children, debilitated in the eighth and he had a tragic loss of a child.
Rhu and Ketu debilitate in the sign of Taurus. Rhu and Ketu are so
mysterious that jyotiis do not agree on their signs of exaltation and
debilitation. Continuing the logic of the debilitation and exaltation system
in which planets debilitate and exalt in opposing pairs, Rhu and Ketu, who
are two parts of the same being, debilitate and exalt opposite the Moon. Rhu
and Ketu are therefore exalted in Scorpio. This makes sense. Just as two
negatives in math equal a positive, the same happens with Rhu and Ketu in
Scorpio. Scorpio is the natural 8th house of the zodiac, ruling over deep
transformation, kualin akti and poisons. Rhu and Ketu, who are
subtle grahas, perform well in this sign, enhancing people's understanding
and experience of the great mystery
of life and often making great alchemists and magicians of one sort or
another. They debilitate in Taurus. Taurus is ruled by the bull and is
associated with cows and agriculture generally. It is a fixed earth sign ruled
over by the sensual Venus. Taurus deeply embodies earthly comforts. The
subtle, complex energy of the nodes conjoined with Taurus creates an
unnatural grasping after and distorted participation in earthly pleasures. One
node will always be exalted and the other debilitated, making it necessary
to suss out which theme will gain primacy. Frequently, Ketu gives a better
result in Scorpio and Rhu gives a worse result in Taurus. David
Copperfield has exalted Rhu in the third house of hands and skills. He is
a tremendously gifted magician. Conjuring is ruled by Rhu. Jacques
Cousteau, who gave us the mystical experience of the ocean depths has exalted
Ketu. Walter de

la Mare, a novelist of supernatural short stories and Francis Desmedt, the

Belgian Wiccan Grand Master also have exalted nodes. Robert Downey Jr.
has Rhu debilitated in Taurus. He is famous for his forays into addiction.
Ernest Gallo, famous maker of cheap wine, also has Rhu in Taurus; he tills
the earth to produce a type of poison.
Debilitated planets can be powerful and can powerfully positive results, but
these results will still be unusual. Debilitated planets can give unusual and
unusually terrible results as well. They are almost always worth taking extra
note of in a horoscope.

The Mutual Aspect of Saturn and Mars

Saturn and Mars are very different energies.
Saturn is dark, cold, old and slow. Mars is bright hot, fierce, intense and
impatient.
They share one thing in common. They are both tamasic planets. Saturn
is a difficult planet to read in a horoscope. This is because he
represents both the shadows in the self, the overgrown vsans, the
aspects of ourselves we stubbornly cling to and refuse to change. He
also represents the forces that will force us to change. He is both the disease
and the cure. We all, in some way, bang our heads against a metaphorical
wall until the pain causes some learning to take place and we adapt our
behavior.
Mars represents icch akti, the force of personal will. When Saturn and Mars
are in mutual influence, there is a curious intermingling of shadow and will.
This becomes stubbornness on stubbornness, blind spots reinforced by a
deadly certainty. Each planet amplifies the tamasic nature of the other. This
gives rise to a being with tremendous drive, tremendous personal will and a
distinct tendency to fail to include the rights and needs of others in their
reckonings. With heat (Mars) and iron (Saturn), steel is forged. So are steely
personalities, people capable of tremendous effort and possessed of the
potential to overcome tremendous odds. Such people always display
exemplary effort, but an exemplary result will be dependent on other
configurations in their horoscopes.
Because planets in angles tend to have a huge effect in a horoscope, this
combination acquires extra potency when the planets in questions are in angles.
People dominated by this combination share a number of traits:
1. Great personal energy and the ability to keep on going and
going in pursuit of a goal despite obstacles. This can manifest
as great success in external life, but the same dynamic applied
to personal relationships leaves the other person feeling exhausted
and disrespected.
2. They exhibit crusadership both, personal and social

3. Are very focused on their personal freedom and feel others'

needs as interfering with their freedom
4. Exhibit tremendous internal tension leading to fighting and/or
addiction
5. Show supreme effort, with or without supreme results
6. Exhibit harshness, self righteousness and mercilessness
towards others
7. Their body is frequently damaged by injury or degraded through
overwork
8. Have a tendency to love the militaristic and use will to oppress
others through dictatorialness
9. Exhibit courage and a willingness to break with the status
quo and forge ahead with innovation, and
10. Will to death through homicide and/or suicide.
Below are chart examples.

Muhammad
Ali
The most successful boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali was a
tremendous fighter and a man of great personal energy who also fought against
the Vietnam War and joined Islam. After his retirement from boxing, he
traveled over 200 days a year in support of humanitarian causes. He has
been married four times and said he feels women should remain in the
background. His first marriage ended because his wife did not want to wear
Muslim dress, the second because he cheated on her, etc. He has Sa Rx and
conjunct Mars in the 10th house in Aries, so the expression of his incredible
drive has been largely visible to the world.

Patch Adams
Patch Adams is famous as a social activist, medical doctor and clown who
founded a completely free medical clinic that has been open since the 1970's.
He has devoted his life to changing healthcare. His 340 acre free hospital with
complementary medicine in West Virginia is known as the Gesundheit
Institute. Adams travels tirelessly to bring humor and health around the world.
He has a Scorpio Lagna with Mars in the fifth and Saturn in the eighth,
combining the fourth lord of humanitarianism with the sixth lord of health
and the fifth house of teaching and the eighth house of deep struggle.

Jim Jones
Jim Jones convinced 909 out of 914 followers to drink his suicidal
poisoned Kool-Aid. A religious/crusade leader, his organization was founded
on Christianity and socialism. All the members turned over all their belongings
to the organization. Due to the result of scandal and increasing paranoia and
drug addiction on the part of Jim Jones, his organization moved to Guyana,
where followers were held against their will. Jones grew increasingly insane and
drug addicted and eventually commanded all his followers to commit suicide.
His vision started out as one of idealism and social utopia through cooperation
and hard work, but his paranoia, dictatorialness and suicidalism literally
drove his movement into the ground.

Benito
Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was a famous dictator and the father of Italian Fascism.
He was the head of Italy's military and was killed for his crimes against the
people. A rebellious man who started out with idealistic social visions,
Mussolini served in the Italian military and was decorated for meritorious
service. He originally espoused the ideas of socialism, but then decided
socialism was unworkable and created Fascism which was supposed to be
a doctrine of Nationalism that transcended class. His rise to power caused
his simultaneous descent into dictatorship, and as power corrupted, he began
to commit heinous crimes to suppress opposition including torture and
slaughter of civilians. Please note that Mussolini has three planets in the 8th
house (known as the house of death, sudden change and transformation) -Moon, Mars and Saturn. We see that the Moon here is exalted and rules the
house of career. This explains why he had such a hugely successful career as
head of state. However, his rise to power was largely through the death of
others, war and subjugating his own people. Furthermore,

his wonderful Moon is conjunct two malefics--Mars, a violent planet, and

Saturn, the planet of sickness and death. Also, Mussolini's own death was
very violent. He was killed by his own citizens. So we see in this chart how
heinous Mars and Saturn can be, particularly when placed in the 8th
house (house of death) without the aspect of any benefic.

Yogas of Spiritual Intensity

Once one gets a taste of God, there will be a burning fire to realize Him totally.
Nothing else will ever compare. The rate at which that fire turns a limited
human personality into Divine Ash can be understood in part by an analysis of
the yogas of spirituality contained within a horoscope.
The most famous class of such yogas are called prvrjya yogas, often
translated as "yogas of renunciation." They usually indicate the formal joining
of a religious order. Other factors that are important are the strength and
position of the trines and trinal lords, the twelfth house and lord, Saturn, Jupiter,
the Sun, Moon and Ketu.
Prvrjya yogas include the following:
1.Moon in a dreka of Saturn aspected by Saturn or Moon in a
navaa of Mars or Saturn aspected by Saturn.
2. Saturn or Moon in the ninth unaspected
3. Jupiter, Moon and Ascendant aspected by Saturn with
Jupiter in the ninth
4. Four planets in the same sign with none being combust and
one being the tenth lord.
5. 3 planets in the tenth with the tenth lord strong
6. Saturn aspects the Moon's dispositor or the 1L
7. Sun, Moon or Jupiter without strength in the 1st,
10th or 12th aspected by Saturn
8. Saturn or the 1st lord aspects the Moon's dispositor
Three other yogas that are not classed as prvrjya yogas but are
powerful spiritualizing yogas are:
rkaha Yoga - Lagna lord, Sun and Moon exalted, swa or in a
friend's sign in an angle or a trine

2. Virinci Yoga - 5th lord, Jupiter and Saturn exalted, swa or

in a friend's sign in an angle or a trine
3. rntha Yoga - 9th lord, Mercury and Venus exalted, swa or
in a friend's sign in an angle or a trine
As you can see from a glance above, Saturn and the Moon figure
prominently in spiritual intensity. While, from a worldly standpoint,
Saturn's influence on the Moon is regarded as unfavorable since it is not
conducive to worldly happiness and success, it is a dynamo trigger for spiritual
greatness. Saturn often gets a bad rap, but Saturn is both the ground we
stumble on and the means by which we pull ourselves up from it. The moon
is our manas, our emotional mind. Saturn can give it an otherworldly focus
which is the only real succor to be derived from such an aspect.
Here are some examples.

Paramahamsa
Yogananda

Famed author of "Autobiography of a Yogi," Yogananda's horoscope

abounds with spiritual yogas. He has a rkaha Yoga formed by the Sun as
both the Sun and the lagna lord in the fifth in the sign of friend Jupiter and
Moon in the ascendant in the sign of friend Sun. Plus the Moon is the
twelfth lord. He also has Moon in a navama of Mars aspected by Saturn.
And the fifth and ninth lords are conjoined in another moka house (the
eighth) aspected by Saturn. He also has a Virinci Yoga from his Sun
ascendant. All three of his ascendants participate in his spiritual yogas and
all three are trined to one another, giving him the one pointed focus
necessary to achieve spiritual greatness.

Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa
Another great saint who also has all of his ascendants in accord with
one another, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa achieved nirvikalpa saadhi at a
young age. He has Moon in a navaa of Mars aspected by Saturn.
He has Saturn in the ninth and although it is aspected by Jupiter, it is

also retrograde and exalted and so is its dispositor. This also makes a Maha
Lakmi Yoga and while Lakmi is in this Kali Yuga mostly associated with
worldly wealth the root of Her name, laksh, means goal. She can also give
spiritual realization if that is someone's goal. He is
very near to having a Virinci Yoga as well. Fifth lord Mercury is retrograde
and in the lagna in the sign of friend Saturn, Saturn is exalted in the ninth and
Jupiter is retrograde in the fifth but it is in the sign of Mercury who is only
neutral towards Jupiter but not actually friendly. Ketu, moka krak, is exalted
in Viakha, a nakatra renowned for its fixation on goals. And both Sun
and Moon are in the ascendant disposited by exalted Saturn from the ninth.
His spiritual potency still resonates today.

Anandamayi
Anandamayi

Ma

Ma was one of those rare individuals born with only a small remnant of work
left to be done in the spiritual realm and she initiated herself and achieved full
realization in her twenties and lived out her days as a saint

sought by all. One glance at her image fills even the most stubborn heart with a
tender feeling. She has four exalted planets: Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Her
chart evokes both a rkaha Yoga and a Virinci
Yoga. The lagna lord is exalted in the fifth house, the Moon is in the tenth in
Jupiter's sign and Sun is exalted in the second. Technically Sun is not in the
right place but the second is a positive house. The same is true for Virinci. The
fifth lord Moon is in the tenth in a friend's sign, Jupiter is exalted in the fifth,
and Saturn is exalted but in the 8th house. She also has Moon in the tenth
aspected by Saturn, a prvrjya yoga. The eighth lord is exalted in the 1st and
the twelfth lord is exalted in the eighth - both are moka houses. Saints show
man what is possible for him, that, as he suspects, he is meant for something
finer than earthly life. Rather than aspiring to locate Heaven in earthly things,
he should undertake the process of locating the Divine within and try to keep
the earth in such a state that others might be able to do likewise.

Skill and Dexterity in Jyotish

A famous quote from stra states, "Yoga is skill in action." The
American Heritage Dictionary defines skill as: 1)proficiency, ability, or dexterity
2) an art, trade, or technique, particularly one requiring the use of the hands or
body.
A dexterous person is usually able to acquire a wide base of skills with relative
ease. Such people often display proficiency in a number of arts and crafts
simultaneously; they may be good martial artists as well as great cooks and
musicians with a facility for math or weaving. Each skill learned makes
future additions easier to acquire because more and more connections
between neurons in various areas of the brain are developed and the habit
of holding a multifactorial awareness in the midst of intense activity becomes
second nature.
In many systems of spiritual development, it is standard to have all
acolytes develop a skill because of the way it grounds awareness in the physical
body, which later prevents meditation from becoming mere mentation. There
are several planetary yogas that point to a person likely to be innately
dexterous and therefore adept at acquiring skills and skillful in any vocation or
avocation they choose to pursue.
The number one planet of skill is Mercury. He is associated with swiftness
and grace of both physical and mental varieties. And most yogas describing
skill include the involvement of Mercury. His association with another
planet often gives skill in an area governed by that planet, because Mercury will
take on the character and nature of
any graha that influences him and add his own quickness to that planet's
qualities.
The number one house of skill is the third house, which also rules the hands,
the tools most commonly used in the application of skill. In fact, stra states
that when the lord of the horoscope goes to third house, the person will be
"endowed with all achievements."
Another important house for skill is the house of intellect and creativity, the fifth
house.
And perhaps the consummate rai of skill is Gemini, the natural third house
of the zodiac, owned by the adept Mercury and an air sign,

which also gives a certain swiftness. It is also the sign of artisans and
entertainers. Any yoga involving skill that appears in Gemini will be
distinctly enhanced.
Important yogas for the display of dexterity are Sarasvat Yoga,
Kalnidhi Yoga, and the combination of Mercury particularly with Jupiter,
Venus or Mars. His combining with the Sun or Moon may also give some
intellectual or imaginative brilliance. However, that is not the same as the ability
to be skillful, which usually involves both mind and body. Sarasvat is the
goddess of knowledge and learning. This yoga consists of Venus, Jupiter and
Mercury in an angle, a trine or the second house while Jupiter is exalted or in
his own or a friendly rai. Such a yoga usually produces a person of great
erudition who will display tremendous knowledge and will usually have a
gift for musical arts, singing, and any other skill that involves wisdom or
aesthetics.
Venus and Jupiter are the two guru planets. They contribute greatly to the
display of skill, creativity and intellect. Mercury's appearance with either one
of them will give some of the effect of a Sarasvat Yoga. Such people excel
at graphic arts, interior design, drawing etc.
Kalnidhi means "treasure of digits." This yoga literally describes having a
"treasure" in one's fingers and it implies skill with the use of the hands. It
consists of Jupiter in the second or the fifth associated or aspected by Mercury
and Venus, or Jupiter in the second or the fifth in the ri of Mercury or Venus.
By loose extension, we can conclude that when these three planets interact
with each other in a horoscope in a positive house, the person will be likely
to display skill, provided other indications do not negate it. The combination of
Mars and Mercury also produces dexterity in a person, often of a physical
and/or a fighting nature. Because of Mars's contrary nature and Mercury's
facility for speech, this combination can also produce biting comedians
and/or gifted liars and media people.
Mercury displays his gifts very well in all of the air signs, particularly his own
of Gemini. He can also do well in the fire signs, in Virgo, and in Capricorn. But
he tends to stumble in the water signs, all of which are mute. It easy to see that
a light graceful airy talkative fellow like Mercury would struggle in the heavy
dense element of water. While his placement in such signs may not dim a
person's intellectual brilliance,

people with this configuration may still appear as bumblers, saying the wrong
thing at the wrong time and often lacking in physical grace.
Below are example charts of both yogas.

Steve Jobs
Inventor of all things i, Jobs has a potent Kalnidhi Yoga. Jupiter is in Gemini,
it is Rx and it aspects the fifth house from the eleventh. Venus sits in the fifth
aspecting back onto Jupiter. Plus Jupiter aspects the Sun in the seventh, who
is the ascendant lord, thereby tying the yoga directly to Jobs.

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg is one of the most successful, renowned Hollywood
directors of all time. The gross receipts on his movies exceed 8 billion dollars.
His movie, Jaws, was a huge innovation in film style that had not been seen
before. He has made many of America's iconic films, including Jaws, E.T.,
and The Color Purple. He also has a great Kalnidhi Yoga. Jupiter is in Venus
sign with Venus in the fifth house and Jupiter aspects the first house, tying this
yoga directly to the person. The fifth house is the premier house of creativity
and also the house of the intellectual mind. When these two abilities conjoin
with skill in a person not otherwise afflicted the results can be marvelous.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso has a Kalnidhi yoga formed by Jupiter Rx in Taurus in the
eleventh and aspected by Mercury from the fifth house, where the lord of his
chart, the Moon, is sitting. Because his fifth house contains Mercury, the
debilitated Moon and exalted Rhu who conjoin with the

Kalnidhi Yoga his renowned skill was also highly unusual.

Raphael
Raphael is another painter of nonpareil status with a beautiful Kalnidhi Yoga.
He has Jupiter Rx in the eleventh in Virgo with exalted Rx Venus in the
fifth with Jupiter aspecting ascendant lord Mars. Both Venus and Jupiter are
strong, Venus is just reaching its exact degree of exaltation (27). Venus is totally
combust but this can enhance the inner qualities of a planet and Raphael's
painting was a very high expression.

Britney Spears
Britney is no Raphael, but she is a successful singer and she does have a weak
Kalnidhi Yoga formed by Jupiter in no special condition in Libra in the
second house. The averageness of this yoga makes her popular for the
masses but not a producer of timeless masterpieces.

Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is one of India's legendary saints. He has a
Kalnidhi Yoga formed by Jupiter Rx in Gemini in the fifth house. In his
case, multiple yogas indicating great spirituality turn his Kalnidhi Yoga into
spiritual skill.
Some other people renowned for skill with a Kalnidhi Yoga include Fred
Astaire, Roger Abbott, Hank Aaron, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Ford, Carl Jung,
Alexander Graham Bell, and Ammachi.
Sarasvat Yoga is defined in Phaladpika CH.6 as "Highly intelligent; skilled
in dramatics, prose composition, versifying accounts, poetry, narrative
descriptions, and the exposition of sacred lore. Will be world- renowned,
prosperous, and blessed with wife and progeny. He will be fortunate and
respected by even the best of rulers."
Below are example charts of Sarasvat Yoga.

Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has been described as a "colossus of learning." He is an Italian
writer, teacher, and researcher. He holds thirteen honorary doctorates, he
speaks five modern languages and has a good grasp of classic Greek and
Latin. He is one of only a few hundred people regarded to have mastered
semiotics, the study of signs and symbols. He has written several enormously
large and successful books and he lives with a library of over 30,000 books. He
has a lovely Sarasvat Yoga formed by exalted Rx Jupiter in the ascendant,
Venus in the seventh and Mercury in the fifth. Mercury conjoins his lagna lord
in the fifth, which Jupiter aspects. And Venus aspects his ascendant, so all
three elements of his Sarasvat Yoga are tied to the ascendant or the
ascendant lord.

Omraam Aivanhov
A Bulgarian mystic, philosopher and teacher, he was a leader of the
Universal White Brotherhood, which taught timeless spiritual precepts with a
predominantly Christian flavor. His Sarasvat Yoga is formed by Jupiter in the
second, Mercury in the fourth and Venus in the fifth. Because Jupiter
conjoins Rhu on his Kla-Sarpa Yoga axis, forming a Guru-Candala Yoga his
organization was not always well respected.

Enrico Fermi
A Nobel Prize winner in physics, Fermi discovered nuclear fission,
invented the nuclear reactor and created the first controlled nuclear fission
reaction. He was a child prodigy in math and physics and received his
doctorate at the age of 21. His Sarasvat Yoga is formed
by Mercury and Venus in Libra in the seventh and Jupiter in Sagittarius in the
ninth. The presence of Rhu and Mars with his Mercury and Venus is
probably what made him take up the pursuit of nuclear fission.

Bertrand Russell
Another Nobel Prize winner (in Literature), Bertrand Russell is considered
one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a
mathematician, logician, social critic and philosopher with strong
humanitarian leanings. He wrote over 3000 publications and 40 books. He is
standard fare in any liberal arts education.
His Sarasvat Yoga is formed by exalted Jupiter in the tenth and Venus and
Mercury in the seventh. His Sarasvat Yoga is completely unafflicted
and Jupiter is in the tenth, making him a strong humanitarian.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest universal geniuses of all time. He
remains legendary today for his painting, his mathematical abilities and his
inventions, but he was also skilled in numerous fields including writing, music,
botany, sculpture and architecture. He has a Sarasvat Yoga formed by
Jupiter in the fourth, Mercury in the fifth and Venus in Taurus in the seventh.
His Jupiter is in Aquarius, only the sign of a neutral planet to Jupiter, but
Jupiter can function like it is exalted in Aquarius so it is a special exception.
Mercury is debilitated but it has nia bhaga from both Venus and
Jupiter. Mercury in Pisces can represent a diversified thinker because fish, the
symbol of Pisces, breed in hordes, so often the mind of a debilitated Mercury
person has hordes of thoughts. This can make someone ditsy and
disorganized or multifaceted and brilliant depending on other indications in
the chart. Albert Einstein also had a Sarasvat Yoga with Jupiter in Aquarius
and Mercury in Pisces. One difference between Einstein and da Vinci is that da
Vinci's lagna lord is Mars exalted in the third house of skills whereas Einstein's
chart is ruled by debilitated Mercury, so da Vinci had hands on practical skill
as well as diversified intelligence, whereas Einstein
was primarily a thinker and not at all practical in his own life.

Five Opera Singers

Singing is a skill, a complex and flowing talent involving coordination of hearing
and sound production, of speed, evocation and largesse. Traditionally
singing has always been about emotion and beauty. Today certain modern
musical genre are so cacophonous, dissonant and
jarring, they resemble a sonic assault more than an aural revelation.
Leaving those Kali Yuga diaspora aside, singing is the beautiful
evocation of stirring emotion.
As such, to find a skilled singer in a jyotia horoscope requires the analysis
of a confluent interplay of multiple factors.
1. Yogas of skill:
a. Sarasvat Yoga - Jupiter, Venus and Mercury
all in angles or trines or the second house with
Jupiter exalted, own sign or in the sign of a friend
b.
Kalnidhi Yoga - Jupiter in 2nd or 5th
associated or aspected by Mercury OR Jupiter in a
ri of Mercury or Venus
2. Association between the first lord or bhva and the
second lord or bhva.
3. Association between the third lord or bhva and the fifth lord or
bhva
4. Association between the first lord or bhva and either the fifth
lord or bhva or the third lord or bhva
5. A prominent Moon and Venus
6. Lagna, lagna lord, Moon, Sun or other strong placements in
nakatras with a strong theme of creativity, music and/or skill. One
could include others but definitely Avin, Rohin, the two
Phlguns, Hasta, Citra, Svati, Uttara Aaa, ravana,
Dhanitha

7. A strong and/or influential Saturn. Saturn rules over pra,

and over wind and stringed instruments.
8. No other pressing yogas that supersede a singing career.
9. A da sequence in which the majority of planets are tied to the
combinations for singing.
This pro forma is broad enough that some elements will appear in nearly
every horoscope. That is why it is necessary to establish a high degree of
confluence amongst the possible factors to elucidate a singer.
Many things could be said about the differences between opera and other
styles of singing, but one thing is for certain - opera is about the singing. In
order to be able to sing opera one must have a big and well- trained voice. There
can be no fudging with electronic support and back up singers. Unlike some
pop singers whose success may be tied to personal charisma, glitzy stage
presentation, dance ability etc., inasmuch as it is tied to singing ability, the
opera singer's career depends on a full embodiment of vocal skill.
Analysis of five leading opera singers provides eminent confluence of the
above factors.

Frederica von Stade

1. Relevant Yogas: Her horoscope contains a Sarasvat Yoga,
Ve in 1B, Me in 2B, Ju in Leo in 5B. This Sarasvat Yoga occurs
in three houses very relevant to singing. The first is the person
themselves, the second rules the voice, the fifth rules both creativity
and entertainment.
2. 1L or B tied to 2L or B: The second lord is Venus who is sitting
in the first house.
3. 3L or B tied to 5L or B: The 3rd and 5th lords are conjunct
in the second house making a Budhditya Yoga and Mercury
participates in the Sarasvat Yoga as well.
4. 1L or B tied to 3L or B or 5L or B: The first lord is tied to the
third bhva because of the mutual aspect between Mars in the
twelfth and Saturn in the third, plus Jupiter disposits lagna lord
Mars and sits in the fifth as part of the Sarasvat

Yoga.
5. Prominent Moon and/or Venus: Both von Stade's Moon and
Venus are prominent by virtue of being in angles, particularly
the 1st and 10th house. Moon is also in its own star.
6. Nakatras: Lagna and Venus are in Avin, Moon is in
ravana and Sun is in Rohin. Plus Jupiter is in Prv
Phlgun.
7. Influential Saturn; Saturn is influential because he is in a yoga
with the first lord, 1st and 10th lords in mutual aspect and he
disposits the Moon. Plus Saturn is conjunct Rhu in the third
house of skill. Rhu has the tendency to expand whatever
planets he influences.
8. Von Stade has an Amala Yoga formed by the bright
unafflicted Moon in the tenth.
9. She is born into the Moon da. She then runs Mars up until
the age of ten at which point she starts Rhu who is placed in
the third house of skill. At 28 she starts Jupiter in
the fifth house of creativity and entertainment and who is part of her
Sarasvat Yoga. She then runs Saturn, also in the third and then
Mercury in the second. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in
1970 during her Rhu dasha and Sun bhukti.

Luciano Pavarotti
1. Pavarotti also has a Sarasvat Yoga. Venus is in the second,
Mercury is in the 4th and Jupiter is in Scorpio in the fifth. Two
out of the three planets are in singing related houses.
2. The first lord, the full Moon, is opposite the second lord, the
Sun
3. The third lord/bhva and fifth lord/bhva are not
mutually related but the fifth lord is in the fifth bhva and the third
lord is in an angle strong because of retrogression
4. The first lord is tied to the third house by sitting in the ninth
opposite the Sun in the third. It is also linked to the fifth house
because it forms a sabandha with Jupiter in the fifth, by virtue of
being in Jupiter's sign aspected by Jupiter.

5. The Moon is prominent because it is full and it is the lagna

lord. Venus is reasonably prominent because it is the second
house in its own star.
6. Venus, Sun and Mercury all occupy relevant nakatras. These
are important placements because both Venus and Mercury
participate in the Sarasvat Yoga and Sun makes an important yoga
with lagna lord Moon.
7. Saturn is doubly strong because it is in its own sign and it is
retrograde. While it does not directly aspect the lagna or lagnea, it
does make an important Anaph Yoga (true planet in 12th from
Moon), important because both planets are very strong and Moon is
the lagna lord.
8. Pavarotti has a strong fifth house. Mars is there forming a Rucaka
Yoga and both a powerful rajayoga and a powerful dhana yoga
with Jupiter. The fifth house is the house of teachers and
counselors and Jupiter is the planet of teachers and counselors.
Pavarotti worked for a couple of years as an elementary school
teacher. Saturn is also notably strong in the
8th house opposite Venus and during his serious musical
training which began in Venus-Venus he worked as an
insurance salesman.
9.
Pavarotti undertook serious musical study at the
beginning of his Venus Mahada. He runs twenty years of
Venus, six years of Sun, 10 years of Moon, seven years of Mars,
and 12 years of Rhu who is in Jupiter's sign and Venus' star
before dying in Rhu-Venus.

Andrea Bocelli
1. Bocelli does not have a Sarasvat Yoga although Mercury
and Venus do occupy the ascendant. But he does have a
Kalnidhi Yoga because Jupiter is in Libra in the third house
2. The first lord is in the second house and the second lord is in
the first house.
3. The third and fifth bhva are related because fifth lord
Jupiter is in the third bhva making a Kalnidhi Yoga.
4. The first bhva is tied to the third because third lord
Venus occupies the lagna.
5. Venus is prominent here by virtue of occupying the
ascendant less than three degrees from the ascendant degree. Moon
is not particularly prominent because it is sandhi in the

sixth house although it is tied to Jupiter in a Keari Yoga.

6. Lagna, Venus, Mercury, lagna lord Sun, Rhu, Ketu, Jupiter
and Moon all occupy relevant nakatras. That makes seven out of
nine planets and the ascendant.
7. Saturn is influential because he occupies the fourth house and
thereby aspects the lagna, and he disposits and aspects
the Moon.
8.
Bocelli does have a big yoga unrelated to singing. Saturn,
lord of the seventh sits opposite Mars, lord of the ninth. Saturn is
also lord of the sixth in Mars sign aspected by Mars from the tenth.
Before becoming a famous singer Bocelli went to college and
law school and worked as a lawyer for a while. It was only in 1992,
at the age of 34, that his rise to international stardom began. He really
took off in
1994, during Rhu-Sun, the same period that ignited von Stade.
This is interesting because both have Rhu in the third with a true
planet and Sun in the second. Perhaps the
presence of the true planet empowers Rhu with a Vei Yoga like
effect.
9. Bocelli's career only began relatively late in Rhu and has
continued well through his Jupiter period. Both planets are clearly
tied to his singing combinations. We will see what becomes of him
when Saturn starts in 2014.

Placido Domingo
1. Placido Domingo has a near miss on a Sarasvat Yoga. He has
both Venus and Jupiter in trines and Jupiter is in the sign of a
friend. Mercury is conjunct the lagna lord, Sun, forming a
Budhditya Yoga, but it is in the sixth house so technically there
is no Sarasvat Yoga, but it is Sarasvat Yoga-esque.
2. The first and second lord are conjunct.
3. The third and fifth bhva lords are in a sabandha. Venus,
the third lord, is in the fifth in the sign of and aspected by fifth lord
Jupiter who in turn aspects the third house.
4. The first lord is not too deeply tied to either the third or fifth, but
the fifth lord does aspect the first bhva and the first lord is aspected
by Saturn who conjoins fifth lord Jupiter and thereby throws
Jupiter's aspect onto the Sun. Venus, 3rd lord

in the fifth, forms a Voi Yoga because it is in the twelfth from

lagna lord Sun.
5. Venus and Moon are prominent because Moon is in the third
forming a strong Keri Yoga opposite fifth lord Jupiter and Venus
is in the fifth in its own star.
6. Lagna, lagna lord, Mercury, and Rhu in the second all
occupy relevant nakatras.
7. Saturn is influential because it aspects the Moon and
disposits and aspects the Sun who is the lagna lord.
8. Placido Domingo has a Rucaka Yoga in his fourth house that is
not tied to his combinations for singing, but it is a solo planet and he
doesn't run its da. Instead he is one of those people born in the
right family and da sequence for a
smooth glide to his destiny.
9. He enters life in Jupiter-Venus. Conveniently, his family owns
and operates a musical theater company. At the age of seven he
begins his Saturn da who is located with fifth lord Jupiter in the
ninth aspecting the third where Moon resides. His career begins
and rises during Saturn. Then he runs Mercury, lord of the second
with the first and again his career holds steady. Ketu in the 8th offers
a bit of diversion by virtue of an enormous earthquake that wipes out
many of his family members. He spends a year doing benefit
concerts for the survivors, but since Ketu is in the sign of Jupiter
and star of Saturn, his career still holds fast. Next he runs Venus, also
part his plethora of singing combinations. And of course then
comes Sun and Moon. It is no wonder that he has performed more
operatic roles than any other male tenor.

Maria Callas
1. Callas has a Sarasvat Yoga. Venus is in the second and
Mercury and Jupiter are in the lagna in Scorpio.
2. The second lord is in the first house with dik bala. Jupiter here is
also the fifth lord making him doubly relevant.
3. The third and fifth bhva are not connected other than that
5th lord Jupiter is in the star of 3rd lord Saturn.
4. The third lord is conjunct the first lord and the first lord aspects
the 3rd bhva. Plus the third lord is exalted and aspects the
second bhva.
5. Moon is not particularly prominent but it does aspect the fifth
bhva and it enhances the Mars/Saturn combo in the twelfth
because they then make a Sunaph Yoga(and of course a Voi
Yoga) Venus is in the second as the dispositor

of the lagna lord.

6.
Lagna lord Mars, 3rd lord Saturn and Moon all occupy
relevant nakatras.
7. Saturn is strong and influential as it is the exalted third lord.
8. Callas does not have any yogas that send her chart in another
direction. She does have a full blown Kal Sarpa Yoga with all
planets moving toward Ketu. Ketu is in the sign of exalted
Saturn, the planet most controlling her horoscope and the star
of Rhu. Rhu is in the sign of the Sun, conjoined with two
elements of her Sarasvat Yoga and the star of Venus, who falls in
the second house of voice.
9. She begins life in Sun. At the age of 5, as her Moon da begins,
her mother forces her to start singing. Moon da activates the
powerful Saturn in the twelfth because of the Sunaph Yoga. Her
life with her mother is a battle as her mother is unkind and
controlling. This is no surprise given the planetary war between
exalted 4th lord Saturn and lagna lord Mars. This difficult yoga also
drives Callas to develop a range and repertoire unmatched by any
other singer. After Moon
she runs Mars, in Citra, a major singing nakatra with 3rd lord Saturn.
Her public debut occurs at the start of Mars, her professional
debut a couple of years later. In 1953, during Rhu-Saturn and/or
Rhu-Mercury, she lost a large amount of weight after which her
voice was never the same.

On Considering Jupiter
One cannot extol the extraordinary beneficence of the planet Jupiter enough.
Jupiter is the protector, the giver, the wisest one, bestower of grace, destroyer of a
thousand ills, the heavy one, the teacher, the one who enlightens. No other
planet in a horoscope demonstrates the capacity of human beings to behave
in a truly divine way as Jupiter does. Jupiter is goodness (without ulterior
motive), love, grace and unconscious sacrifice personified. Both Lord Rma
and Lord Ka had extremely powerful Jupiters. Lord Rma had exalted
Jupiter in the ascendant, contributing to his incredible commitment to right
action, as did Thomas Huxley, the famed biologist who said, "Perhaps the
most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the
thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is
the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training
begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly."
Lord Ka had Jupiter in its own sign in the eleventh house. One
jyotia guru lineage says that if Jupiter appears in a horoscope in the
eleventh house, no matter what happens, the person will always be saved.
Ka was so successful, so beloved by all of creation that He had to arrange
the ll of His death Himself.
Jupiter's astrological significations are reflected in modern astronomy. Jupiter,
whose Sanskrit names include Bhaspati, the preceptor to the gods, and
Guru, which means both "teacher" and "heavy," has 2.5 times the mass of
all the other planets combined. His gravitational field is intense. Both his force
of gravity and his size cause him to serve as a giant blockade against incoming
comets that would otherwise rock the earth. Jupiterian people are known for
having large bellies, and the force of Jupiter's rotation causes him to form an
oblate sphere, with a noticeable bulge at the equator. Jupiter rules the color
gold and appears to be a golden color. Although Mars occasionally exceeds
him, he is frequently the third brightest object in the night sky, after Moon
and Venus, with a potential magnitude of -2.8.
Jupiter is the great purifier. Whatever he touches in a horoscope will grow
in integrity and generosity. Even the sorriest horoscope with a good Jupiter
will allow for redemption when his period runs.

One sees the quality of one's own Jupiter best when one either runs the da or
sees the transit of Jupiter over its natal position. At this time, the blessings
Creation has in store for you will be given.
In jyotiical mythology, Jupiter was so wise and good that his wife, Tr, got
bored of him and ran off with the Moon and became impregnated. Then,
in classic fashion, Tr discovered the Moon was a very flighty and unreliable
lover, and not the man she wanted to raise a child with, so she returned to
Jupiter, who in his beneficence reaccepted her and her unborn child, no
questions asked. That child turned out to
be Mercury, the planet of intellect, who is Jupiter's (wisdom's) stepchild and
the child of the Moon, the emotional mind. In a horoscope, if
Jupiter does not influence Mercury or the Moon, the person may have a
tendency to waste their intellect rationalizing their emotions, rather than use
their intellect in the service of wisdom. Jupiter's attitude toward his wife is the
attitude that we, as human beings, would do best to hold toward each
other. Forget all wrongs done. Remember only the blessings of life. Be kind
and thus goodness will multiply.

Planetary Configurations that Make a Good Psychic

There are two essential planets involved in creating a good psychic and three
secondary ones that provide support.
The most important houses to look to are the first (the person
themselves) and the fifth (the mind.)
The most essential planet for proper intuition is Jupiter.
This is illustrated by a Jupiter yoga mentioned in Sarvartha Chintamani called
Trikla Jna Yoga. It says the proprietor of this yoga will have knowledge of
the past present and future. The yoga's definition is the following: "Jupiter
in Mrudvama, own navama or Gopurama aspected by a natural
benefic."
This yoga appears in the chart of every example below.
In addition, the other planet that is nearly always involved in creating a psychic
is either one of the nodes, which gives access to unseen realms and non
ordinary modes of perception.
Supporting planets are Mercury, the Moon, the Sun and to a lesser extent Venus.
A psychic is likely to be better if these planets are reasonably strong and
unafflicted, especially Mercury and the Moon. If Mercury is afflicted, they may
lack the ability to successfully translate between other realms and may become
confused about what they are perceiving. Moon rules the manas, the
emotional mind and if Moon is afflicted, their psychic abilities may simply
push them over the edge into some type of madness. The Sun rules
consciousness itself and light so it can illuminate both visions and allow for
things to surface from Pure Consciousness.
The following combinations are frequently present in the charts of good
psychics:
1.

A powerful Trikla Jna Yoga

2.
Ideally, either the first house or first lord or the fifth
house or fifth lord should be involved with Jupiter, or

Jupiter should be involved with the nodes.

3.
Ideally, either the first house or first lord or the fifth
house or fifth lord should be involved with the nodes, or Jupiter
should be involved with the nodes.
4.
unafflicted

Mercury and Moon should be reasonably strong and

5.
The Sun or Moon should be involved in one of the
combinations

Here are some examples.

Malcolm Bessent
Malcolm Bessent has undergone extensive scientific study and has been

rated the most accurate psychic in the world. He has all of the
combinations above in toto. A Capricorn ascendant, his lagna lord is placed
in the fifth house of the mind. He has a strong Trikla Jna Yoga form
by exalted AND retrograde Jupiter in the seventh house who is also in his
own sign in the navama and in his own sign or exalted in 6 amas
(subsidiary chart). Jupiter is with the full Moon who is in its own sign and
with Rhu. In the ascendant are the Sun and Mercury forming a
Budhditya Yoga (a yoga of intellect) with Ketu.

Peter Hurkos
Peter Hurkos developed psychic abilities after a severe head injury that left him
in a coma for three days. Volatile and moody, he could speak in foreign tongues
when asleep but also did psychic work when awake.
He is just shy of a true Trikla Jna Yoga because Jupiter is not
aspected by a natural benefic, but it is Rx and in its own or exaltation sign in
four amas. The head injury tie to being psychic is apparent in the placement
of the lagna lord in Aries in the eleventh where it is

associated with a parivartana yoga between Mars and Saturn. The psychic
combinations are potentized by having Jupiter with Ketu in the fifth house in
mutual aspect to the lagna lord in the eleventh who is with Sun and Rhu while
having the fifth lord in the ascendant. He also has
a Budhditya Yoga in the eleventh giving support. His Moon is
somewhat afflicted by virtue of occupying an enemy's sign associated with
Mars which is, no doubt, why he was moody.

Judith
Richardson
Another famous psychic, Judith Richardson successfully sued for damages after
a CAT scan that she claimed terminated her psychic abilities. She has a
Trikla Jna Yoga formed by an exalted Rx Jupiter in the sixth house
aspected by Venus from the twelfth. Jupiter is in its own ama three times.
While Jupiter is not involved with the fifth
house, it is very strong and it is situated with Rhu in the sixth. The fifth lord is
in the ascendant as Mercury forming another potent and unafflicted
Budhditya Yoga. Her Moon is very bright and unaspected

by any malefic. The lagna lord, Saturn, is in the fourth where it aspects both
Jupiter and the ascendant. She lost her psychic powers during the tail end of
Rhu-Ketu or the very beginning of Rhu-Venus while Saturn was transiting
over Rhu and Jupiter.

Mental Illness and Jyotish

Mental health and illness exist on a broad spectrum and cover a wide range of
states. Thus to analyze someone's mental health or lack thereof in a horoscope
requires a detailed analysis and synthesis of a number of factors. These factors
include the 1st, 4th, and 5th houses, Mercury, the Moon and any afflictions to
these particularly by the nodes or Saturn.
The 1st house is important because it governs the person and the
general condition of their mind-body apparatus. It is also a crucial house in
determining the nature of childhood including in utero experience
and early trauma, which both ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience
posit as a chief cause of mental disturbance. The fourth house is important
because it governs mother, not just in the sense of chief caregiver but also
in the sense of formative environment (home) and manas (the emotional
mind), which will largely take its shape through these factors. The fifth house
is important because it governs the intellectual mind or buddhi. Confusion or
debilitation in either the
manas or buddhi may be counterbalanced by the sound operation of the other
portion of mind, but if both are afflicted matters become very troubling.
Mercury also rules the buddhi as well as the nervous system particularly as it
relates to the flow of prna. The Moon rules the manas. If one analyzes
blria yogas--yogas pertaining to afflictions of early childhood--nearly
all of them involve the poor placement of the Moon because foundational
experiences will determine so much the health of the emotional mind.
Modern neuroscience reveals the enormous impact of early trauma on brain
function. Especially when such experiences occur preverbally and exist only
in implicit memory, they can drive the manas in a very pernicious way. The
manas accords to what is called
the limbic system, the portion of the brain that governs our primal
responses to environmental threats and needs and our arising emotions. This
part of the brain does not respond to logic or reason. It responds to image and
emotion and has to be worked with accordingly. Once it establishes neural
grooves they can be difficult to change.
Although Mars can certainly play a role in mental affliction, the planets that
figure in much more substantially are the nodes and Saturn. All three of
these can give rise to fear, confusion and skewed perception. All three also
govern the flow of prna in the body, which deeply

affects the state of the nervous system. The nodes particularly can cause people
to form perceptual realities that almost no one can relate to and can cause very
strange aberrations of which it is difficult to determine either the diagnosis or
the cure. Saturn gives rise to deep fear and anxiety usually as a result of
neglect, abuse or cruelty in the environment.

Chris Costner Sizemore - 3 Faces of Eve

This woman had multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity
disorder. The movie, "The Three Faces of Eve" is based on her life. Her lagna
(1st house) is mixed. It is afflicted by a potent Rx Saturn from the fourth house,
but it is also aspected by Mercury and Jupiter, both benefics; however, they
are in a planetary war and located in a nakatra associated with cruelty and
difficulty. And the 1st lord, the Sun, is in the 8th house. The rising nakatra
belongs to Ketu who is located in the fifth house creating an affliction there. The
fourth house is afflicted by Saturn and its dispositor, Mars, is extremely sadhi
and

located with Rhu, in the 11th house, eight away from the fourth. The fifth
house itself contains Ketu who is aspected by the weak Mars. Mercury is in
a planetary war in the sign of Saturn. The Moon is located with Venus in the
ninth house, a fairly benign placement except that its dispositor is also Mars, the
extremely weak and afflicted fourth lord and it is in a nakatra ruled by the Sun
who is in the eighth house.
Up until the age of forty she suffered from MPD. She felt that she came in with
multiple identities but then early trauma intensified their separate existences, a
view in accord with modern trauma research. She was
born into Sun da and then ran Moon, Mars and Rhu, all of which
participate in a complex pattern of mental affliction. At age 40 she started
her Jupiter da and found a therapist, her sixth, with whom she did intensive
therapy for four years. This reintegrated her personality so that she no longer
experienced MPD.

Virginia Woolf
Author Virginia Woolf suffered from debilitating bouts of depression

and mental illness that included hearing voices. These problems came on
during her teenage years with the death of her mother and would
culminate in her eventual suicide. Interestingly mental illness began in
Venus-Rhu and she took her own life in Rhu-Venus.
Woolf has Taurus rising with Ketu in the ascendant within five degrees of the
rising degree. The ascendant is hemmed by malefics on either side. Her lagna
lord is Venus in the ninth house mildly combust the Sun with 2nd and 5th lord
Mercury. This is a well placed combination with
a number of good yogas which allowed her considerable success as an author.
However, it is afflicted by the aspect of a debilitated Saturn from the 12th house
and an Rx Mars from the second. Her fourth house is unafflicted, but its lord is
the Sun who is aspected by Saturn and Mars. The fifth house is aspected by
Mars and so its lord Mercury who is also aspected by Saturn. The real trouble
in this horoscope stems from the twelfth house combination of Saturn and
Moon. Having the Moon in
the 12th house is a blria yoga which can give affliction up to the age of 24.
This is made worse by the presence of a debilitated Saturn who afflicts not
only the Moon but the Sun and ascendant lord as well. Furthermore Saturn
unilaterally aspects Mars which is a combination for suicide. It is felt that a
substantial portion of Wolf's mental troubles stemmed from the sexual abuse
she suffered from her half brothers during her childhood. On the ascendant
she has the nakatra Rohin which is strongly associated with sexual abuse.
The ruler of that
nakatra is the afflicted Moon in the twelfth house.

Tennessee Williams
Playwright Williams is another author who suffered from lifelong mental
disturbances, chiefly deep states of depression. He had a very abusive father,
a weak mother, and a sister who was diagnosed schizophrenic and given
a lobotomy after years in an institution. Williams became very dependent
on drugs and alcohol in an effort to manage his mood states, and died of
choking on a bottle cap in a state of drug induced confusion.
Williams has Moon and Mars in his Capricorn ascendant. stra states that
Moon in the ascendant can make a person mentally disturbed. The lagna lord
is Saturn debilitated in the fourth house creating both a weakness for the
ascendant and an affliction to the fourth house and its dispositor Moon.
Rhu is also in the fourth house creating another affliction. This is
somewhat softened by the presence of Venus in the fourth and Jupiter in
the tenth allowing him to survive within his difficult family structure. The
fifth lord is Venus in the fourth with

Saturn and Rhu. Mercury is debilitated in the third house. And the chart
has a Kal-Sarpa Yoga.

Vincent Van Gogh

Artist Van Gogh is another artist famous for the intensity of his life-long suffering
which took its roots in a difficult childhood. He also
committed suicide. Posthumously many people have tried to diagnose his
mental illness with over 30 ideas given. His ascendant is sadhi at
29:21 of Gemini, a condition considered not good for mental stability. He has
Rhu in the ascendant but it is also aspected by a swa Jupiter from the
seventh. This helps somewhat but Jupiter is also afflicted by virtue of being
within one degree of Ketu. The ascendant lord is Mercury in the 11th
house with a debilitated Saturn. Mercury doubles as the fourth lord so it is
thrice afflicted by Saturn, in its capacity as 1st and 4th lord and as significator
of the buddhi. The fourth house is aspected by the combination that made
him a great painter, exalted Venus who is the fifth lord, Sun and Mars.

Most crucially here, in addition to an afflicted sadhi ascendant and the

presence of debilitated Saturn with the lagna lord, is the sadhi
debilitated Moon in the sixth house making a blria yoga in one of
the worst places of the zodiac for the Moon. His brother said his last words
were, "The sadness will last forever."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher Nietzsche is a perfect example of someone with a startlingly
immense and clear intellect (buddhi) who nonetheless suffered greatly on
account of his manas. He has a Scorpio ascendant occupied by the debilitated
Moon and Rhu. There are no afflictions to either the fourth or the fifth house
other than that the fourth lord Saturn is 12 away from the fourth although in
its own sign. The only other noticeably weak planet is the Sun who is sadhi
and debilitated, and Nietzsche's father would die when he was around six.
The fifth house contains Jupiter in its own sign making a beautiful yoga with
exalted Mercury and lagna lord Mars in the eleventh. Nonetheless, Nietzsche

suffered a difficult childhood and would eventually go mad, spending the

last ten years of his life in a stupor despite the extreme brilliance of his writing
and philosophy.

Charles Samuel Addams

Creator of the Addams family and other semi macabre cartoons, Charles Samuel
Addams suffered a number of nervous breakdowns despite enjoying
tremendous success with his art; however, he did not "go
mad" or commit suicide.
His ascendant holds Rhu and debilitated Saturn. His fourth house is
unafflicted. The fourth lord Moon is in the fifth, a positive house,
aspected by Mars and in the nakatra of Ketu. Mercury is in the ninth with
the Sun aspected by Mars. The heavy affliction to his lagna was enough to
prompt several instances of loss of equilibrium.

The Differences Between the Two Nodes

People are often confused about the differences between Rhu and
Ketu, the north and south nodes of the moon. This is natural, since these two
planets were once one being and they share many meanings in common.
But they also have very important distinctions in personality and significations
that can cause their manifestations in a horoscope to
be dissimilar. Because they are chy grahas--shadow planets--their nature
is shifting and cloudy, which contributes to the confusion surrounding
them.
They share in common being portals to other realms of existence,
shamanic doorways that can open our minds and expand our visions of reality.
They rule over Kundalini and extrasensory perception, and shamans and
witch doctors. They both rule foreigners and outcasts, the strange and unusual,
poisons, obsessions, disguise, eccentricity, psychism, magic and the sudden
and unexpected.
To understand how they differ, one can begin by contemplating the fact that
Rhu is a head without a body and Ketu is a tail without a head. The head in
Vedic thought is always the symbol of all forms of ego and grasping. It is also the
seat of the intellect and the personality. This gives to Rhu a heedless
ambition and acquisitiveness (which is largely missing in Ketu's
personality), as well as striking inventiveness and originality and often a
pronounced charisma. Because Rhu is the top part of the body, he rules
the hands, whereas Ketu rules the legs. We generally commit far more selfish
acts with our hands than with our
legs. Rhu figures much more strongly in combinations that give rise to
legerdemain (a show of skill or deceitful cleverness) and to visible siddhis.
Ketu, being a tail, is entirely lacking in a head, which makes him
associated with confusion (state of headlessness), universality (a more positive
view of confusion), and moka (liberation from all ego and grasping). While
Rhu may be the most materially seeking graha, Ketu can be the least. Ketu
knows not of this world and is possibly the worst planet for trying to get along
in capitalist society. The detachment and confusion associated with him often
leads to people being very spaced out and directionless, unable to establish the
position of things relative
to one another. Also, because Ketu rules the legs, he is associated with the acts
of sitting for meditation and walking around to go on

pilgrimage.
Their brand of psychism tends to be different as well. Rhu tends to
produce striking visions whereas Ketu tends to produce intuitive
feelings.
Additionally, it is said that Rhu behaves like Saturn, and Ketu behaves like
Mars. Rhu shares with Saturn in being a vata planet-cold and windy-whose effects can be pernicious. Ketu shares with Mars in
being a pitta planet prone to explosive violence, mishaps with fire and
fanaticism.

Kla
Yoga

Sarpa

Kla Sarpa Yoga -- The Great Serpent of Time Yoga -- is formed when all the
planets sit in one half of the horoscope between the north and south nodes of
the moon, Rhu and Ketu. The nodes are magnifiers and intensifiers of
everything that they influence. When the Kla Sarpa
Yoga exists, this effect applies to the entire life; therefore, whatever else is going
on in the chart will be heated up, in the same way that you can start a fire by
focusing sunlight through a magnifying glass. This means it is crucial to assess
all other yogas in such a horoscope to determine what is going on.
In order to understand the effect of Kla Sarpa Yoga on an individual, one
should understand the direction of the destiny pattern indicated by all the
other planets. In a chart with strongly positive indications, Kla Sarpa will
increase those indications. The reverse is also true, making this a yoga both
of very great heights and very low depths. To understand the nodes, it is
useful to contemplate the nature of snakes which the nodes rule. Snakes are
pictured with a number of important Hindu deities. Vedic snake
associations are very rich. Snakes are regarded as a potent form of power;
they are associated with Kulin akti, with powerful memory, with the
primordial energy of the Universe. The ability to be with snakes is a sign of
transcendence.
Snakes are also feared and can be very dangerous, especially when one happens
upon them unexpectedly. This is particularly true in India, where king
cobras grow up to 18 feet in length and can raise themselves five feet in the air.
If you happen upon a snake as long as a bus rising as tall as a human, there is no
possibility of escape. It is not like the much more benign rattlesnake of North
America, which grows only a few feet long and warns you as you approach,
giving you the opportunity to politely move out of the way.
The eyesight of snakes varies from minimal to good enough to track the
movement of prey. Cobras are amongst the snakes that can and do track
movements with their eyes, giving them renown for focus, another
important quality of the nodes and of Kla Sarpa Yoga in particular. Many
snakes also have an infrared sensing mechanism that allows them to "see" in
the dark, making them feared night hunters. Think the movie "Predator." These
qualities -- power, intensity, focus and uncanny abilities that seem to transcend
normal limits -- will show up for good or

ill in the charts of those with Kla Sarpa Yoga.

After assessing other yogas in the horoscope and other important factors of
strength or weakness, especially the three ascendants and their lords, one wants
to analyze what domains of life will be most profoundly affected by the
yoga. A common way to do this is to look to themes of the pair of houses that
Rhu and Ketu occupy, expecting exaggerated results tied to those themes.
Another important element to look at is the planets influencing the nodes.
The nodes give their own effect as well, but they very dramatically give
the effect of the planets in whose signs and stars they sit and those that aspect
them. The significations of these planets are another very likely place that the
chart owner will deeply experience the power of the nodes, as well as in all other
yogas because the Kla Sarpa Yoga implicitly affects the whole horoscope.
Should any planet sit in the same sign as either node, there is still a Kla Sarpa
Yoga but it will be very important to look carefully at such a planet. Such a
planet's negative indications are often powerfully enhanced as the full power
of the Sarpa is upon such a planet. It may very well operate as if it has a very
poisonous snake bite.
Much is also made over whether all the planets are moving toward Ketu or all
the planets are moving toward Rhu. Various sources will
describe each variant as being the more difficult of the two. It very well may
depend on the individual case and the relative strength, quality and placement
of each node. What can be said generally is that Rhu represents egoic
selfishness -- it being the head of the body and Ketu represents selflessness, it
being without a head. The egoic quality of Rhu may increase egoistic
tendencies when all planets move toward Rhu whereas all planets moving
toward Ketu may produce greater surrender or greater confusion and chaos.
Kla Sarpa Yoga works like an amplifier. If the music is beautiful, the
amplifier will be a great enhancement. If the music is terrible, the
amplifier will be a torture.

The Low Side -- Charles Manson

Cult leader and mass murderer Charles Manson's Kla Sarpa Yoga is of the
negative kind. His lagna lord is in the sign of a friend but its dispositor is
debilitated. He has a combination of four planets in the seventh house
which are likely to produce some raja yogas; however, the dispositor of these
planets is Venus who is totally combust with a debilitated sun and the other
constituents rule out three of four possible dussthanas. The whole combination
is aspected by Saturn, who sits
with Rhu in the tenth. The Moon, who is the fourth lord, is also posited with
Rhu and Saturn, indicating a very sick mind since Moon is the krak of
manas and the 4th lord who also represents manas on the Kla Sarpa Yoga axis
with Saturn. Narendra Desai always remarked that Saturn in the tenth creates
a dictator. Here the fact that all planets are moving towards Rhu enhances
the insanity and egotism -- the "head" problems. Both the nodes are heavily
influenced by Saturn: Ketu is in Saturn's star aspected by Saturn and Rhu is
in Saturn's sign conjunct Saturn. Ketu's sign dispositor Moon is also with
Saturn. This makes this a situation with no relief.

The High Side -- Donald Trump

Financier and famous businessman Donald Trump has a mostly positive Kla
Sarpa Yoga. This is an instructive example because Moon also sits on the nodal
axis in this chart. Trump's Moon is debilitated; however it
is very full and it is with an exalted Ketu and all planets are moving in the
direction of Ketu. Rhu is debilitated in the eleventh house and conjunct
the Sun. Sun and Moon opposite each other make a very powerful dhana
yoga, lord of the 2nd and 1st on the 5/11 axis. (Trump was born on an eclipse.)
Rhu is in the sign of Venus who is the further lord of real estate posited on the
ascendant with Saturn, the 7th lord of independent business and a natural
kraka of real estate. Rhu is in the star of Mars who is the raja yoga kraka
in a friend's sign in a money house. Rhu is aspected by Rx Jupiter who is
the lucky ninth lord, a powerful natural benefic and a mutual friend of lagna
lord Moon. Ketu is in the sign of Mars amplifying this effect as well. Ketu is in
the star of Mercury who is the twelfth lord in its own sign. Mercury is
protecting against the theme of loss. This is not to say a few problems do not
exist. Saturn is the 8th lord in the ascendant and it is sandhi. This is a poverty
yoga amongst many good yogas but Trump has had some financial up and
downs.

Primo Levi
Primo Levi was a very famous Italian author and chemist. He was
imprisoned in Auschwitz from 1944-1945 and he died in 1987,
generally thought to have been a suicide. He has a full Kla Sarpa Yoga with all
planets moving towards exalted Rhu in the sixth house, which means he
possesses a debilitated Ketu in the twelfth house. His lagna lord Mercury is
conjunct 5th lord Venus and ninth lord Saturn in the third house, making
some lovely raja yogas. This combination gave him skill as a writer. However,
this combination also forms a number of
aria yogas. Levi's health suffered a great deal, physically in his youth and
mentally after his Auschwitz experience. This is particularly the case because
8th lord Saturn is in a planetary war with Mercury. They
are only fifteen minutes apart and therefore will travel together in almost all
divisional charts.
The most pivotal point in Levis' life was his imprisonment in Auschwitz which
began in February of 1944 during his Rhu-Jupiter period. Rhu is in the
sixth house in the sign of Mars who is the sixth lord in the ascendant,
another unfavorable yoga. He is in the star of Saturn who is the 8th lord in a
planetary war with the lagnea and he is aspected by Jupiter, a markea
exalted in the second house. Ketu is in the star of the Sun, in the sign of Venus
and aspected by Saturn. At the time of his imprisonment, Rhu and Jupiter
were both transiting Cancer and Saturn was transiting Taurus. Ordinarily, one
would think of exalted Jupiter in

the second house as producing largely positive results; however, Jupiter is mildly
combust and situated with the Sun who is the star lord of Ketu in the twelfth
house where Saturn was transiting at the time. Saturn may be the most pivotal
player here, as it alone influences both ends of the Kla Sarpa Yoga. Levi's life
was spared at the end of the war because he had fallen ill with scarlet fever and
was left behind as all the other prisoners were forced to go on a death march that
left almost none alive. Here we see the clear and intense activation of both
sides of his nodal axis as imprisonment is a twelfth house indication and
illness, especially acute, is a sixth house indication.

Johnny Carson
Talk show host Johnny Carson has all planets moving towards Ketu in the
fourth house. He has a number of powerful raja and dhana yogas in his
ascendant including lords of 1,4,5,9, and 11 all conjoined plus a aa Yoga
with Saturn ruling only good houses and a Budhditya yoga. His lagna
lord is unafflicted in the second house and his Moon makes a good Keari
yoga with Jupiter in the third. Certainly, Mercury
is the twelfth lord in the ascendant indicating some financial loss (minor
compared to the dhana yogas), which took the form of charity in Carson's
life. Rhu is in the sign of the Moon and in the star of Saturn aspected by
Saturn. Levi also had Rhu in the star of Saturn aspected
by Saturn -- this is why it is important to consider exactly what a planet means in
a given horoscope. Ketu is in the sign of Saturn and in the star

of the Sun. Here we have a reinforcement by star placement of Rhu and

Ketu of the dhana yoga formed by Sun and Saturn together in the ascendant.
He was a billionaire. Carson had an uncomplicated career
and a mostly uncomplicated life, other than marital difficulties which are seen
easily by the placement of the seventh lord in the twelfth.

Ava Gardner
Famous actress Ava Gardner has a Kla Sarpa Yoga with Rhu in the third
and Ketu in the ninth. Saturn, lord of the seventh and eighth houses, sits
with Rhu. The lagnea Moon is in Saturn's sign in the eighth house with
Mars. This is a case where the planet sitting with a node definitely "bitten."
Gardner was famous for her extremely passionate tempestuous love life.
This would be an indication given by Moon and Mars in the eighth but it is
dramatically enhanced by having the seventh and eighth lord located with
Rhu who sits in Uttara Phlgun, a passionate nakatra.

Jennifer Aniston
Actress Jennifer Aniston has a Kla Sarpa Yoga with three planets on the
nodal axis, JuR with Ketu and Venus and Saturn with Rhu. While some
aspects of the "bitten" quality operate here, the quantity of yogas formed by the
participating grahas also provides a nodal enhancement to those yogas.
Aniston was estranged from her mother (4th lord is Saturn) for a decade and
was profoundly affected by the death of her therapist (8th lord Venus) and it
remains to be seen what her experience of children will be (5th lord Saturn) but
we know of her because of her career success as an actress. She has some nice
yogas formed by her exalted lagnea Venus and 4th and 5th lord Saturn, which
are aspected by the Rx benefic Jupiter who is also the third lord of the house of
skill. She also has a Candra-Mangala Yoga and a very nice dhana yoga
formed by Sun and Mercury in the 4th. She is purported to have a bit of an
obsession with body maintenance and she did not achieve career success
until losing thirty pounds. Such an obsession would be another form by Rhu
"biting" lagnea Venus.

Venus-Rhu
Conjunction
By Michael Laughrin and Alison Bodhani
Venus, as we all know, is the second-most-powerful benefic. (Jupiter is the
strongest benefic.) In Vedic mythology, Venus is the teacher of the asuras--the
worldly-minded spirits. Venus rules beauty in all forms: sex, love, marriage,
painting, dancing, music, writing, sculpture, flowers,
etc. Venus is called ukra in Sanskrit. ukra is also the name for sugar, e.g.,
that which is sweet. Venus owns Taurus and Libra, and is exalted in Pisces.
Venus has Dik-bala (directional strength) in the 4th house. Venus is a
Brahmin.
Rhu, on the other hand, is out of the caste system altogether. Rhu-- and, to
some degree, its other half, Ketu--stands for foreigners, weirdos, drop-outs,
hippies and people who are extremely materialistic. I sometimes jokingly
say that Rhu rules fast cars, fast women, flashy clothes, and lots of cash
that comes easily, whether by legal means or not. Rhu is a rule breaker.
Rhu rules the rough, the tough, the low class. It rules poisons like alcohol
and drugs--both legal and illegal. It also rules junk foods, swearing and street
language - SLANG. Rhu also is a multiplier it vastly increases the strength
of any planet with which it is conjunct.
On the more positive side, Rhu represents the future just as Jupiter
represents tradition. Rhu, in a sense, represents freedom of thought. It
represents creativity that knows no boundaries. It is the new, the Now. It is
what's happening. We can say that computers, the Internet and electronics
are all ruled by Rhu. Some astrologers have even said that the U.S.A. is ruled
by Rhu.
So, what do we get when we combine Venus and Rhu in the same sign
and same house?
.
As far as sex and romance are concerned, they may indicate
homosexuality or bisexuality. They also rule pornography and illicit or multiple
sexual liaisons. In any case, usually one with a strong Venus conjunct Rhu
will break the rules of normal middle class morality or go beyond the rules.
.

Concerning the arts, Rhu and Venus conjoined will give us an

artist who embraces the new at the expense of the established.

.
In music, this combination indicates jazz, rap music, rock and blues.
Also, electronic music may be indicated. Venus-Jupiter combinations,
though, indicate Classical music, traditional music, and harmonious music.
Venus-Rhu may also indicate dissonance.
.

In painting, Venus-Rhu indicates non-representational art.

In dance, they indicate modern dance, jazz dance, rock and roll dance

pretty much everything except ballet and ballroom dancing.

.
In poetry, Venus-Rhu may be excessively sensual, but poetry with a
strong Rhu influence will generally not rhyme nor will it have a fixed meter.
In summation, Venus and Rhu (and, to some extent, Venus with Ketu),
rule the underworld, the "shadow" self, the forbidden and the hidden. They
may rule the ugly, the weird, the outcasts (following the idea that "ugly is the
new pretty"). Venus-Rhu individuals will never be dull, they will always
break new ground in their activities, and they will break the rules in love and
marriage.
However, it seems to me that they are often extremely self-absorbed and, in
matters of love and creativity, are often petty tyrants who only look after their
own interests.
Here are some examples.

Tennessee Williams
America's most famous playwright Tennessee Williams was also an avowed
homosexual who struggled with addiction especially in the latter part of his
life. As a child he had severe diphtheria which left him crippled and delicate,
causing his father to refer to him as Miss Nancy because of his weakened
condition. He wrote from very early on and had great success. His sister was
mentally ill and was given a full lobotomy that rendered her utterly
incompetent. Tennessee feared his entire life that he would also go insane
and said that his mental instability drove his feverish need to write. He died
under mysterious circumstances at the age of 72. He has Venus conjunct
Rhu in the fourth house.

Douglas Adams
Best known as the author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Adams
was a prolific and unusual creative writer, a staunch atheist, an environmental
activist and a great lover of technology. He has Venus conjunct Rhu and the
Sun in the ninth house. Venus is the fifth lord of creativity, Sun is the third
lord of skill and Moon, another creative planet aspects from the third house.

Elvis Presley
Presley is a superlative embodiment of the Venus-Rhu combination.
Considered one of the founding fathers of rock and roll, there was nothing
like Elvis in his day. In addition to his unprecedented personal and artistic
style, he was renowned for his incredible sexual charisma and liberal
engagement with sexual behavior across multiple partners.

Georges Braque
Braque, along with Picasso, is considered the inventor of Cubism. The two
spent many years collaborating together. The interesting thing, astrologically,
is that Picasso has several debilitated planets and so does George Braque.
Furthermore, George has such a huge conjunction - 5 planets - in the 7th
house of public recognition that he pretty much had to be famous. He is as
famous as Picasso. Also, Rhu, the planet of "new-ness" and "breaking new
ground" thinking, sits prominently - exalted! - in his 1st house of the self.
Also, Mercury conjunct Venus often indicates a very skilled and creative
individual. Saturn in the 6th house aspects the 3rd house of the hands and
gives a highly disciplined person who works with his hands. Jupiter with
Ketu gives a person who takes the old rules (Jupiter) and utterly breaks them
or transcends them.

Lagna Lord in the Twelfth

In jyotia, the twelfth house is called the vyaya bhva, the house of loss. This
house is a dussthana, a house of suffering, and thus tends to carry heavy negative
connotations. There is a general rule in jyotia that when the lord of a positive
house goes to a negative house it will increase negative results for the positive
house. However, this is not always so, and in practice, the result can vary
widely and will depend on a concordance of factors. A study of the lagna
lord in the twelfth house reveals how widely variant a negative result for the first
house can be.
Loss itself is a concept with negative connotations but when looked at from
multiple angles loss can be a source of tremendous positivity as well. While
the twelfth house is about loss, when the lagna lord resides there, the person
will develop a distinct relationship with loss and expenditure that is often
quite imaginative and unique and may actually generate prosperity through a
creative relationship with the notion of loss. When we contemplate loss we
also contemplate how to avoid it or minimize it and a powerful twelfth house
can grant the ability to avoid loss as well. One thing that does seem to hold true
across the spectrum of results of the lagna lord in the twelfth is the notion that
such people think odd thoughts, ones that often seem very misguided to
others. Another thing that seems to hold true is that people who have the lagna
lord in the twelfth often are an interesting mix of introversion and
extroversion; just as saving and expenditure become a dominant theme
elsewhere, they can also become a dominant theme in personality
expression.
Here are some examples of Lagna Lord in the Twelfth.

Henry Ford
A potent example of a creative relationship with the notion of loss is Henry
Ford who amassed, in his time, one of the largest fortunes held by anybody.
Ford was famous for many things and efficiency was one of them. He was
obsessed with the notion of efficiency and with the notion of making his
automobiles less and less expensive. When the Model T first appeared in 1908
it cost $865, which would be about
$21,000 today. Through increases in efficiency that price fell every year and by
1918 had reached $360. Ford's focus on efficiency included designing the
pallets that transported parts to be the right size so they could double as the
floor in his cars. Efficiency is a type of loss avoidance. In a revolutionary
move Ford also chose to pay his workers an unprecedented $5 a day when the
going rate was often $2. In today's money that is about $120 per day or $15 an
hour. From a twelfth house perspective and from the minds of his cohorts
this was a big and unnecessary expenditure, but Ford had the clarity to see
that well-paid workers would be able to afford not only his cars but other
consumer

goods that would drive increasing prosperity in the whole economy. He wasn't
without his odd thinking foibles either, chief among which was his antiSemitism which he propagated through the purchase and distribution of a
newspaper.
He is a Leo rising with Sun in the twelfth in the sign of the Moon. Sun is
conjunct Mercury forming two powerful dhana yogas as well as a nice
Budhditya Yoga. This combination is aspected by a benefic full Moon from
the sixth who is of course protecting the twelfth house as its strong dispositor.
Significantly, the lagna lord is also in the sign of a friend here. Mars who is
rajayoga krak for this ascendant is in the ascendant unafflicted and the
ascendant itself is surrounded by benefics. That is still not to say that his life was
ideal. Having the lagna lord in a dussthna did also bring about some heavy
losses for him. Like Leo Madonna, Ford lost his mother at a young age. He
loved her extremely and she died when he was 13 years old. Secondly he also
suffered the loss of his considerable mental faculties (indicated by his 12th
house Budhditya Yoga) in his later years.

Ross Perot
Ross Perot is another person whose 12th house lagna lord may surprise some
given that he is a billionaire, proving that loss, like so many things, is a
relative concept. Perot is a Gemini ascendant with Mercury
in the twelfth in the sign of its friend Venus. Perot's horoscope is loaded with
yogas. He has the llth lord in its own sign, a good placement for prosperity.
The location of fifth lord Venus in the second also supports prosperity but the
big yogas fall on his 1/7 axis. He has a powerful raja yoga formed by the
opposition of Jupiter and Rx Saturn. He has a nice Gaja-Keri yoga as well as
another dhana yoga formed by Moon and Saturn. The lagna itself is supported
by benefics within and on both sides of it. Perot amassed a fortune with his
company Electronic Data Systems; however, there was a day in the seventies
when the company's stock dropped so much that Perot lost 450 million dollars in
a single
day, making him (at the time) Wall Street's biggest loser. He also lost a lot of his
reputation, perhaps undeservedly, in his presidential
campaigns. This loss ties into the theme of introversion/extroversion that tends
to play in the twelfth house. His presidential bid could be
regarded as a large extroverted move in which he found himself talking to
millions of people and spending millions of his dollars. After the loss of his
reputation he has since refused entirely to speak on political issues at all.
In only one case does the lagna lord go to the twelfth in its own sign. While
one might be inclined to think of this as a more desirable placement,
preliminary investigation seems to indicate otherwise. For Aquarius lagna
Saturn rules both the first and the twelfth, but this happenstance seems to
more firmly impregnate the horoscope with the stamp of loss. Three famous
Aquarian ladies with the lagna lord in the twelfth are Whitney Houston, Sylvia
Plath and Demi Moore.

Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was a brilliant but tortured writer who killed herself. She has
Saturn in the twelfth house opposite debilitated Mars. Mars is doubly
weak by virtue of being nearly sandhi. There is a node in the ascendant. The
Moon has gone to the eighth house with debilitated Venus and Sun is
debilitated in the ninth. Having Venus, the rajayoga krak, be so weak
increases the level of affliction in this horoscope. While Plath's odd thinking
certainly drove her creativity, it also drove her suicide, a case of ultimate loss.

Whitney
Houston
Singer Whitney Houston has the same lagna with a Rx Saturn in the twelfth
opposite combust Venus and 7th lord Sun. Mo and JuRx form a powerful
Keri Yoga in the second house. Those two planets also
gave her her singing ability. Unfortunately, Mars sits in the 8th house, a place
where Mars's risk- taking behaviors seem to amplify. From there he aspects
both the Moon and Ketu in the 11th. 8th lord Mercury aspects the
ascendant. Despite her many raja yogas, Houston died an early death from
drug overdose. Here the placement of the lagna lord in the 12th as a marring
factor is very evident. The lack of ability to
exercise clear judgment and the inevitable psychic pain caused by being ruled
by a dussthana SaRx contributed heavily to her drug-related Mars- driven death
in Moon da, Ketu bhukti.

Demi Moore
Actress Demi Moore has Saturn in the twelfth with Ketu opposite
debilitated Mars and Rhu in the sixth. Like Houston, she has become
notorious for her drug related misdeeds - a loss of reputation as well as of
health. Her chart is counterbalanced by the presence of Jupiter in the
ascendant and a strong Venus in the ninth which may be enough to save
her life as she goes through her Jupiter da. While Jupiter is a benefic in the
ascendant, it also sits in the nakatra of the sixth house Rhu. The nakatra
lord contributes a big percentage of a da's effect as is apparent in the life of
Moore.

Marital
Harmony
Is there such a thing as marital harmony? Many of us wonder.
In order to establish if a person will have marital harmony, one analyzes all
factors influencing Venus, the seventh house and the first house.
Four planets primarily promote the sense of being happily adjusted to
marriage. They are the Sun, Moon, Mars and Jupiter. In the case of the Sun,
Moon and Mars, they must not rule a dussthana for the principle to apply. In
the case of Jupiter, it does not matter. When they influence the seventh house or
lord or Venus, and/or the seventh lord or Venus falls
in a positive house in a constellation owned by the Sun, Moon, Mars or Jupiter,
it promotes the sense of being happily adjusted to marriage. Ideally, the
seventh house, lord and Venus are also all free of major affliction,
particularly combustion, planetary war and ri sadhi (being at the very
beginning or very end of a sign).
If the vsans supporting the sense of marital harmony are strong enough,
it will matter less whether there is good compatibility with the spouse or
whether the spouse is difficult because the person in possession of the harmony
vsans will incline in the direction of seeing that reality and therefore
establishing it despite evidence to the contrary. The rest of us have to rely on
good compatibility,
proper karmic ties and similarity of socio-cultural
background to help our relationships flourish. And perhaps most importantly,
we must keep a keen eye on our own shortcomings and blind spots so that
we do not unconsciously destroy our relationships.
(Note: Of course, the proper application of will power and paying off ones
karmic debts through intense spiritual practice can vastly improve the
probabilities of marital harmony. - Michael Laughrin)

Fertility
Fertility can be considered separately from whether or not someone will become
a parent. While it is a closely allied subject, there are other issues that come
to bear on the likelihood of producing progeny, and fertility as a concept is
something that can be applied to any house in a horoscope. Someone with a
very fertile fourth house may own many homes or vehicles. Someone with a very
fertile seventh house may have had many wives, lovers, or business partners.
Someone with a fertile tenth house may be blessed with a multitude of career
opportunities.
One thing to look for in locating fertility in any area of a horoscope is water.
The ancients knew it, modern science knows it, and anyone living in the
rainforest knows it. Water produces life in abundance. It is no coincidence that
the water rais, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, are also the three ris classified as
"fruitful" or fully fertile. And they are the three ris symbolized by creatures
that give birth in hordes. Mammals give birth to one or two offspring at a time
but crabs, scorpions and fish give birth to many, many offspring at once. The
next sources of water are the watery planets who also happen to be the
zodiac's natural benefics. Natural benefics are anabolic -- they support
increases of all kinds. The three primary benefics are Jupiter, Venus and the
bright Moon, all of whom are affiliated with the water element to one degree
or another. The Moon and Venus actually rule the water element and Venus
rules ukra dhtu, the actual tissue that produces offspring. While the mighty
Jupiter governs space, he also rules kapha doa, which is composed of the
water and earth elements.
There are also five ris described as semi-fruitful. They yield fertility but not
with the same magnitude as the fertile ris. They are Taurus, Libra,
Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius. We can surmise that
Taurus, Libra and Sagittarius are semi-fertile because Venus and Jupiter rule
them, and Taurus has natural associations with fertility since it is an earth ri
and its symbol is the life-giving cow. In the case of Capricorn and Aquarius,
they are both ardha-jala ris, which means "half-water." The symbol for both
ris includes water--Capricorn's symbol is a makara, a crocodilian creature
that inhabits water and Aquarius's
symbol is that of a man holding a pot of water.

One other source of "fertility" is the neuter Mercury, because he rules

multiplicity.
In any chart where one sees a powerful benefic or Mercury in a water ri,
there is the possibility of great fertility tied to the houses owned and occupied by
that planet. Telling instances of such abundance exist in the horoscopes of
Elizabeth Taylor, Albert Einstein and Hugh Hefner.
Elizabeth Taylor had her seventh lord Venus exalted in Pisces in the fifth
house aspected by exalted Jupiter from Cancer in the ninth house. She had
over a dozen marriages.
Albert Einstein had exalted Venus in Pisces in the tenth house conjunct
debilitated Mercury and third lord Sun. Venus rules his fifth house of the
mind and the tenth house rules the sky. His was one of the most fertile minds
for understanding the physics (3rd house) of the Universe. Playboy founder
Hugh Hefner has debilitated Mercury in the seventh house in Pisces and has
spent most of his life surrounded by a multitude of women.
May we all be blessed with the fecundity most suited to our respective natures!

The Lakm Yoga: Wealth

In order to properly assess a horoscope, analyzing the yogas therein is of
primary importance. Yogas trump house analysis. They give rise to the
preeminent themes of life. They influence the level of attainment in arenas
such as knowledge and wisdom, wealth, spiritual power, governmental
leadership, musical skill, etc. Certain yogas may also be indicative of other
qualities such as strength of moral character (or lack thereof).
When assessing yogas, it is also important to assess the strength of the lagna
and any ties it may have to existent yogas. The stronger the lagna and the more
the yogas are tied to it, the greater the person's capacity to utilize them.
Yogas are like a home and its furniture: they provide a structural
framework in which a life will operate. Like furniture, yogas are not created
equally. If a yoga were an armoire, for example, well, armoires range in quality
from a particle board self-assembly unit from Wal-mart to a perfectly preserved
antique made of rare wood by an exceptional furniture maker. So, to simply
remark that a person has an armoire reveals almost nothing except that they
at least own a piece of furniture. If one discovers that the armoire is a priceless
antique, the armoire starts to become a piece of furniture worth talking about.
And just as a single priceless antique in someone's home is unlikely to arouse
much talk, but a house full of priceless antiques becomes noteworthy, a single
yoga is unlikely to elevate a life to an exceptional level. But a horoscope full of
good yogas, in decent condition, will elevate that life, provided there is not a
relevant yoga bhaga present.
With those caveats, one of the premier yogas of wealth is the Lakm Yoga.
stra offers two definitions of this yoga. Bhat Paraara Hora stra states
the yoga is formed when the ninth lord occupies a kendra
in its own, exaltation or multrikona ri and the first lord is strong. This yoga
cannot be formed in Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius, Capricorn or
Pisces ascendants. This form of Lakm Yoga will be considered in a
subsequent article.
The second form of Lakm Yoga is defined in Phaldpika as the ninth

lord and Venus in kendras or konas in their own or exaltation rais. This yoga
can be formed in any ascendant. Some astrologers include Venus in the
second in its own sign or exaltation for this yoga since the second is a money
house.
The yoga is described: "Will always enjoy the company of young and amiable
women, be free from ailments, wealthy, sharp, blessed by the goddess
Lakm, and protector of his people. He will have the best of transport, like
horses, elephants and palanquins. As ruler, he will be the most pleasing to all
his subjects and liberal in his gifts."
Lakm Yoga is not the only wealth yoga and one will not find it in all wealthy
horoscopes; however, its presence is a strong indicator of luck and prosperity
because it is a rare yoga. A refined analysis of the yoga can give some clues as
to the level of prosperity it may bring. Below are five example charts with
comments.

Christophe
Auguin
Auguin is the poorest of our Lakm Yoga contenders. He is one of the world's
best sailors and has won multiple sailing prizes. Unfortunately, sailing prizes
tend to be smallish, only thousands of dollars. His chosen vocation is teaching,
which is not a giant moneymaker either. However, one indication of Lakm
Yoga that does hold true for him is that of "best vehicle." He asked for and
received a boat especially built for him in which he won two around-the-world
races. His Lakm Yoga is

weak for a number of reasons. First of all, it is formed by only a single planet
because Venus is the ninth lord for Aquarius ascendant. Secondly, Venus does
not participate in any other yogas, and while the chart does contain some other
nice dhana yogas in the tenth house, they are not tied to the lagna lord who
is Saturn and who is also all by himself. And lastly, Aquarius people often
do not successfully orient around money because Jupiter is the lord of two
money houses, the second and the eleventh, and Jupiter prefers wisdom to
money.

Eddie Arcaro
Eddie Arcaro was America's richest jockey. He rode to victory 4,779 times
with winnings totaling over 30 million dollars. He parlayed those winnings into
good investments, successful oil speculation and part of a saddle business. His
net worth was probably in the neighborhood of
100 million dollars. His Lakm Yoga is beautifully formed with exalted
Venus and swa Jupiter in the ninth house. Plus, his lagna lord Moon is
in the second house, making a good dhana yoga opposite Sun in the eighth.
However, the blight on both these yogas that capped his prosperity at 100
million is the aspect of Rx Saturn from the 12th house. Saturn's aspect is potent
because he is Rx, plus he is the lord of the bad eighth house and he is aspecting
from the twelfth house of loss.

Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire, one of America's best known dancers, was worth
somewhere between 50 and 100 million dollars. His Lakm Yoga is formed
by exalted Venus in the fifth house and exalted Moon in the seventh. His
wealth capped at this level because, although there is no affliction to Venus
or the Moon and the chart does contain other dhana yogas, neither Venus nor
the Moon is involved with any other planet, nor is Mars, the ascendant lord,
who is debilitated in the ninth house.

Stephen Bechtel

Stephen Bechtel is one of the 793 billionaires in the world, the third
generation leader of Bechtel corporation. But he is a poor billionaire. He has
only 2.5 billion dollars. His Lakm Yoga consists of Jupiter
swa in the ninth house and Venus in its own sign in the second, which I
mentioned before is sometimes included in the yoga (although it is not part of
its technical definition). This is one of those charts where there are many,
many yogas, most of which directly involve the ascendant or its lord. Nearly
every planet in the chart must contribute something to wealth promotion for
such a good outcome. And this is the case in this horoscope. Firstly, the lagna
lord Mars sits opposite Jupiter in the ninth, directly involving it with the
Lakm Yoga. Secondly, the fifth lord and eleventh lord sit opposite each other
on the 1/7 axis. The lords of 5 and
11 are another huge dhana yoga. This one is especially strong because both
Sun and Saturn are exalted, plus Saturn is Rx. This Saturn is also special
because it rules only positive houses, so although it aspects the ninth house
and lord, as did Eddie Arcaro's, it is an entirely different Saturn, because it
makes yogas and owns only positive houses. Nonetheless, it is still a Saturn
aspect. Plus Mercury is in the ascendant as the sixth lord aspected by Saturn,
which is a poverty yoga. These two factors weighted against all the good yogas
are keeping him in the low billions. Also, Venus participates in another dhana
yoga with the
Moon in the eighth house. And there is a parivartana between Mars and
Mercury, further strengthening the lagna.

Bill Gates

The mother of all money charts, the richest man in the world does have
a Lakm Yoga. His yoga consists of Venus and exalted Saturn in Libra in the
fifth house. Because Saturn is a direct participant in the yoga, his association
with Venus does not diminish the yoga. In addition, the ascendant lord
Mercury is exalted and participates in multiple dhana yogas with Mars and
the Moon, who also form a Candra-Magala
yoga, another prosperity yoga. This yoga really counts in this horoscope because
both Mars and the Moon rule money houses, the Moon is
almost full, in a watery ri, in the sign of a friend and the whole yoga conjoins
the lagnea who is powerful. All of his yogas are unafflicted
by harassing planets with the exception of the Sun, lord of the third who mildly
afflicts his Lakm Yoga; however, it is the Sun, who is cruel but not really
malefic, and is only the ruler of the third, a mild dussthna. Nonetheless,
Gates did lose money when the US government (a
signification of the Sun) sued him over monopoly issues.
Thank you to my jyotish gurus who have taught me what I know and
understand about this vidya. The gifts of their knowledge and their
blessings are everything.