Illustrations Horoscopes
The second letter
“A” represents arista or malefic effects of
planets. Here as usual, the lagna lord plays the most
important role.
Next to the lagna
lord, the Moon is important also.
Then come into play
the sixth house and its lord, the eighth house and
its lord and the twelfth house and its lord.
Generally planets
are divided into two categories, malefics and benefics.
The benefics are Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and the strong
Moon (the Moon is neither with malefics nor very near
the Sun). The malefics are Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu
and the Sun.
So against five
malefics there are only four benefics, Jupiter, Venus,
Mercury and the Moon.
Even out of these
four benefics, the Moon and Mercury can become ineffective
or even malefic if they are in the company of malefic
or come under their influence.
Then retrograde
benefics also lose their natural benefic nature.
Checklist
for Danger Points
1. Natural malefics
are Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu and the Sun.
2. The Moon and
Mercury under malefic influences become malefics.
3. Retrograde benefics
lose their beneficence particularly if they are aspected
by malefics.
4. The lagna lord
placed in the eighth, sixth or twelfth house is bad
for health.
5. The Moon, in
childhood, is a danger signal for a child if under
malefic influence and even in adulthood or old age
if in ill-placed (in the sixth, eighth or the twelfth)
house or/and malefic influences. As usual, the dasha
sequence and transit of planets are important in timing
such events.
The
Death Inflicting Planets
The lords of the
second and seventh houses and planets in the second
and the seventh houses and their dasha periods are
the periods to be watched, when sicknesses and diseases
affect an individual.
There are many other
principles. Here only a very easy instance is being
given.
House-wise they
are:
For Mesha, Venus
as the second and the seventh lord.
For Vrisha, Mercury
as the second lord and Mars as the seventh lord are
to be watched. In this way all the death-inflicting
planets can be tabulated for all lagnas.
For further reading
refer to my book, "Astrology, Destiny and
the Wheel of Time".
Sound
Time Tested Principles
The sound and time-tested
principles of good life and health are:
1. Benefics in kendras
(in the lagna, the fourth, seventh and tenth houses)
and,
2. Malefics in the
third, sixth and eleventh houses.
Therefore, before
examining any horoscope apply the following check-list.
1. Are there benefics
in the kendras?
2. Are there malefics
in the third, sixth and eleventh houses?
3. Are lagna lord
and the Moon ill placed in the sixth, eighth and twelfth
houses.
4. Is the lagna
afflicted?
5. Is the lagna
lord afflicted?
6. Is the Moon afflicted?
7. Is the mahadasha
running along with its sub-period running and the
sub-periods to follow promising recovery for continuing
sickness or misfortune?
8. Are malefics
in transit harmful? 9. Finally, is the opening dasha
and its sub-period itself make that start of someone’s
life with ill-health?
