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Exploring Vedic Astrology Fundamentals

with Mars we have this idea that it is very commonly called as mangalik manglik is basically certain combinations of Mars are present in the horoscope whether they're in this seventh house Eighth House couple of other three years are there so that causes a disturbance in the married life previously it used to be believed that it will cause death to the spouse today mostly divorce or separation but there are rituals on pujas that can be done to pacify that or there are combinations for example normally what they do is that there's a horoscope matching that can be done whether that other individual also has similar manga so it kind of cancels it out so whenever somebody tells me that Gita says this first question has tell me the sloka because the Gita is the most popular book also is the most abused book really people have their own understanding fed into the Gita Gita one book will have for everything Gita is wonderful text but Gita is not at all an easy text people have made it easy because they have owned their own understandings also they're fed into most people don't know Sanskrit the read comment that is commentaries and then they add up things and pick up one two slokas from here and there and make up an idea Gita maybe it's saying that Gita says a lot of things about a lot of things by the way Gita is a progression from chapter 1 to chapter 18. it is a progression this episode is a deep dive into the basics and slightly intermediate aspects of Vedic astrology if you're someone who doesn't know anything about even astrology in general I think this episode is a fantastic theoretical starting point promise you this one's heavy it'll teach you a lot about astrology it will polish up your skills if you know the basics and it's with a TRS All-Star rajashi nandisa Returns on TRS make sure you take notes for this one it's one of the ultimate 101s on Vedic astrology on the Indian internet enjoy yourselves guys and keep learning [Music] the Emperor of Tantra is back welcome back we're not going to be talking only about Tantra in this one we're doing an astrology 101 okay and I had a lot of chances to do ABC's about astrology the advanced explanation of it with lots of people over the years right I was waiting for the right person and I didn't even know that you knew about astrology until we had a little phone call where you helped me out a bit and we won't talk a lot about my personal chart and all that but uh this particular conversation is mainly so that people just understand astrology in its most classical form fundamentals yeah ABC is offered right and then maybe we'll build upon it I don't know whether it'll be a one hour conversation or a three-hour conversation so let's just start talking um where would you like to begin I do have a slightly Western question to begin with which is that when someone's born on a particular date of the year so say you're born on June 1st I am technically a Gemini according to the Gregorian explanation of it uh how did the Gregorian calendar come up how did these Gemini Libra Pisces and all these signs come up there did they take it from the East did it spread out of the East has it developed parallely do they follow the same kind of principles that we do or is it something completely different because whatever research I have ended up doing I feel like there are some parallels but it's like a slightly less detailed system of what we have in the East sorry if I confused you at the topic no it's not confusing but it's uh this covers a lot of talk ground okay your question and before I started okay so I believe that astrology or what we call as jyotisha jyotisha has been an integral part of Hindu Dharma okay to the extent that it is believed that in order to have expertise in Vedas there has to be certain vedanga which is limbs of The Vedas a person must know and of these limbs various things are there Sanskrit and ritualism and a couple of other things not going into that but one of the limbs is considered as jyotisha jyotisha was considered as the Eye Of The Vedas okay it gives you an ability to see beyond the normal okay now uh development of jyotish when it comes to the West uh I think it's possible that two aspects are there now I can't be 100 sure of this because perhaps a historian will be able to tell you better but there has been a parallel developments of astrology both in ancient uh you know West and as well as India plus it is also possible that some parts of the astrological techniques that was there might have migrated from west to India but once it came here it not only got modified it got let's say expanded to a level which was not there originally some of the techniques now this is what scholars believe I personally have no opinion either way it doesn't matter whether it fully organically developed here or it developed but there was some input from the West also I think some of the astrologers do mention texts uh with this title of yavana and all the governments the Greek texts and all that so there could have been some cultural exchanges okay uh now coming to the first point is that there is however a strong difference between the Western astrology for the sake of this conversation I'll use the word Western astrology to denote all that is in the west while we have jyotisha here one of the primary difference is that uh so these the Zodiac belt is an imaginary belt by the way okay looking at the uh the stars in the nakshatras so there are certain animal figures and all that that have been created uh and this was observed by people who are sort of skywatchers it was independently observed in India it was independently observed in the west Etc so but remember that it's an imaginary belt so you are assuming that this is a belt like this okay so and it is divided into uh what we call the in in our term the rashes or the houses okay 12 rashes are there 12 houses are there as in 12 signs in the world signs and forces 12 rashes rashes okay key difference is that our the Zodiac belt there's a there is okay before that also let me just say that uh at an ancient time in India astrology was not diverse from mathematics so if you if you did not know there is a part called which is predictive and there is a part called ganit ganit means mathematics so if you did not know the mathematics you could not become an astrologer it's not possible today you have software said this and that to make things but those days you need to know how will you calculate the position tentative position of the planets there's a saying I learned on the show they say that mathematics is the language of the universe which is so true every subject is the language of the universe if you go to that depth it's not just mathematics if you develop the eyes you will enjoy the orchestra very well okay just general statement sure no I understand what you're saying uh so coming back to the what we were discussing so these uh so the calculation part so as I mentioned there's a mathematics that is involved there okay uh and there's a mathematics involved in the west also so people who wear sort of astronomers obviously in astronomy there is mathematical ability that is required not everybody can do that so only more or less those people are those who had a scientific mindset by the way they were the people interested in things like astrology okay so for example I think if I'm not mysticated even Newton had while he was a great scientist he also had many of these beliefs and he had written about these things okay so it was it was something that was not diverse from each other it was parallel to each other if you were not good with uh looking at the skies and figuring out the you know the constellations and things like that and the mathematics you could not do this okay now having said that so there is a calculation based on which the zodiac is defined okay some mathematical calculation is there in inherently here there is something known as Precision of equinoxes I am not going into the details of it okay this is from astronomy anybody interested can you know find out more of this but uh so the zodiac is an imaginary belt now we uh from the the Hindu philosophers they saw the Zodiac in the background of the Stars the nakshatras the stars are very far off so stars are outside of the our galaxy they're very far off okay so on the background of the Stars they defined the Zodiac belt whereas the West did not do it this way they defined the Zodiac belt using some other parameters okay now this caused over periods of over long periods of time this caused the difference in the tilt of this odx to the degree I this may this may all just you know bear with me for some time because this will all be a little yeah but um sounds technical but it's not actually that difficult uh so basically what happens is effectively the Western zodiac and the jyotisha Zodiac has about I think 23-24 degrees difference in the in the Tilt which results in what so if you are born in so when you do when you see a general statement that I am a gemini or a Taurus or whatever it is so first of all um the very average statement is that's taken as the position of the sun in the western system the sun is in Gemini sun is in Taurus so you are saying that you are in Taurus but if you use the Hindu calculation you might find that the position is different instead of Taurus it may be in Aries I will have to just pause you here and make it slightly simpler I've got what you're trying to say when you're born there's a map of the sky above you right now for the map of the Earth you draw the land you draw the mountains you draw out the oceans that's how you know where you are correct in order to draw out the sky you can only do that through the positions of the sun of planets in your solar system and of the Stars sort of now the Stars can be divided the entire map of the sky above you can be divided into 12 Parts 12 Parts yes and depending on where the sun is where Mars is where Venus is uh that has certain astrological effects correct now you're saying the difference between the Western and the Eastern way of looking at the same subject is that we have a 23 degree difference in the map so the map has just slightly moved yeah so 23 degrees away and this is we in Hindu system we call the ayanamship it's a term that's used basically um this 23 degree difference causes the difference in the position of the planets when you are trying to make a chart okay uh difference number one difference number two is that the West uses certain different techniques at least the older extra old astrological writings a little bit that I've gone through I'm not extremely proficient in the western system uh it uses a different set of techniques whereas the Hindus use a different set of techniques we have wide variety of techniques because jyotish has been developed over Centuries by some of the finest Minds Etc they were fantastic people but excellent high IQ terrific individuals okay so as I said they were also capable in knowledgeable in multiple other fields in mathematics and things like that so it went in parallel so obviously somebody's good in mathematics has to be highly intelligent there are international listeners there are people who may not be open to the Eastern way of looking at things but for the sake of understanding the subject much more in detail I think at this point we should head straight into the Eastern breakdown of astrology correct uh and I feel that whether or not you believe in the Eastern school or the Western school of thought uh by the end of this conversation you'll have learned a lot and you'll be able to apply it in whatever format of astrology you're following I'm also learning about these in this much detail for the first time okay um but before I let you continue again I'm going to give some Basics here which I picked up from the show um and please correct me wherever you think you can interrupt first rule is that when a baby is born they note down the time they note down the place and obviously the date right and that's the map of the sky that you draw out on your astrological chart correct that's amazing then the other logic here is that each of these planets the sun uh each of these celestial bodies like the sun the moon and the planets and even the combinations have a certain kind of effect on the astrological chart correct um BK Shivani on this show said that astrological charts are great representations of a Soul's Journey till the point they took this birth in terms of all the karmas from the previous births land up as this astrological chart and it's a likely scenario of what can happen in your life but as you move forward in this lifetime through your actions through your karmas through your um sadhna your meditations and disciplines maybe you can even shift your astrological charts and you can make get better for yourself or if you do evil things you can make it worse for yourself so it's just the mapping of the Soul's Journey till that point now I also know that it's difficult to change your astrological chart for the average everyday person who's going to office coming back home having a family having things to do so if you know about your own astrological chart it just makes living slightly more convenient or you can anticipate that certain difficult phases are coming and if you have a spiritual journey if you're into Tantra you'll be able to combine your practices with the best outcomes for your future um have I missed out any point here from the basics no most of it is correct but I the few points I look at it differently sure so I'll explain though more or less what you told is right so basically having covered the part about the difference and also there are just one more line the Western system uses certain different techniques than we do okay some of those have also been integrated into certain aspects of astrology in India but that's more deeper will go later into that if the conversation goes there but so basically yeah at the moment when it is born when somebody some somebody is born for that matter not just an individual by the way it could also be an event so there are different branches of astrology in Hindu system so one there is the jathakam which is for the individual horoscope then there is something known as uh at this specific moment what are the planetary combinations there and from there you can make certain predictions or for example suppose a particular you are starting a company okay the moment the company is getting registered or you are entering into a new house the moment you're entering into the new house Etc the graha conditions at that moment can tell you what is likely to happen in the future okay so that's like a birth of a thing but need not be an animate it can be reanimate object also looking at the time when an individual is taking oath You can predict that how his that you know party or that individual in both in terms of say when a political party or somebody in some other capacity you can see that how things are going to go okay so not going into more details on this but this is the broad Outlook of things oh and there is another aspect of jyotisha which is a bit rare which is um uh which is like a destiny of land masses okay this is something I have not explored too much but it is also there which means that so what is the destiny of this uh say southeast Asia or or certain parts of the world so that has its own rules also but that is the aspect of jyotish that is least explode more or less the most common is individual horoscopes and of course okay now when a person is born this date time place you know these things from this you can get a map of these guys map means basically after the rashes there are 12 rushes I mentioned the next most important thing is the nine grahas okay 12 houses 12 signs 12 signs 12 rushes the signs of the rashes what you call which is like the Aries Taurus Gemini cancer and all this same thing okay on an Indian astrological chart do the 12 different houses represent different aspects of your life like I have heard that the first house represents your personality second house represents your marriage yes of course that is the whole basis in which you using which you predict okay but only rashes are not enough next comes the grahas so it is important here because to mention this uh so then the word graha means it comes from the root word in Sanskrit which means to grasp okay something that grasps your mind and governs you basically so are these actually the physical planets yes and no both are important to understand while we take the position of the physical planets but let us for the sake of discussion assume that a graha is like the astral projection of one of the physical planets wow yeah that is why you are able to also manipulate the graphas a bit that comes in the last part of jyotish and by the way not just in the East and Western occult also they have ways of invoking planets okay so what exactly is it that is invoke if your worship if you're doing certain prayer certain sadhanas for Jupiter for example which is Jupiter suppose okay is it the physical planet is it changing anything nothing but there is everything has its own uh let us just take and you know a projection of itself that projection which contains the essence the tattoo of the can interact with you and cause certain changes one way or the other depending on how you are approaching it for example Saturn is Shani is the god spoken about in the puranas no no it's not like that so graha so God means not in the God so these are grahas is the devta spoken about in the prayer devathas are higher than this means if you say Shiva or ganpati they're much higher than this okay okay this is just personification of the planets personification correct word or personification of the plants let's look at it that way and it has certain effects it can have effects if you approach it in a certain manner positive and negative both it is a accumulation of right as you said the the birth chart gives you an accumulation of what karmas you might have done till that point of time okay uh now what happens as I was mentioning in the other podcast is that 99 of the people I think I don't know whether I mentioned it so 99 of the people lead their life just to reaction to actions they have performed so when I get a question from somebody that what is the purpose of My Life um I'm afraid to say out of 100 people 99 of no purpose now you're just reacting to things that have happened that's all okay purpose and all that comes in later for very few people they have it most are just what purpose you use you finish school you go into college then you work then you get married then you have kids uh then you grow older then you die so that's all purpose there's just reactions sometimes you're happy sometimes you're sad there's that and all that uh so what happens what is what I mean by that is that because of the momentum of actions you have done more or less your destiny is in Broad lines it is set which means that if you look at a horoscope at the moment of birth and it is indicating suppose that this person will have a bad marriage okay there are almost 99 to 100 chance that he'll go through bad relationships or marriage in the context of the times okay say context of the times means suppose the in essay 500 years ago somebody is seeing a chart and saying that your spouse is going to die okay 500 years ago we did not have divorces and all that as much so today spouse will not die but divorce something like that okay so more or less that what I mean is that because the accumulated momentum of karmas are such that the chart kind of 80 to 90 percent will sort of give a broad indication of where it is going and it will happen that way have the intensity May differ but the basic lines are kind of set because at any given point a person is not alone or he is not outside of time there is a past and there's the future the pressure from the past and the pull from the future is what makes you at this moment in time okay before we go into a very deep conversation about kalbara and how deities are also part of this again I have to boil it down to the ABC's here um do you want to talk about the 12 houses right now or do you want to talk about the planets and all the effects yeah sure but before that there's one more small aspect that needs to be mentioned so there are three types of karmas more or less okay for easy understanding and it plays a part in the jyotisha it's relevant to the question of how your birth chart affects you okay so first is this one part of the karma that is jira zero means fixed okay certain combinations can indicate in certain individuals it may not be in everybody that some karma is fixed fixed Karma means you just have to bear with it you can't do anything about it it cannot be changed you will have to face it nobody in the world can change it then there is some part of the karmas which are jira which means they're fixed and unfixed which means basically fundamentally it translates to this that if you do some kind of upaya pariharam pariharam means some specific mantras or some Puja Etc depending on the horoscope there is a chance that part of it will be negated and maybe a certain say intensity was coming at 10 it comes down to three or two or something it's more bearable okay and then the third is the Adria which is not fixed not fixed karmas are just showing a tendency they are very easy to change you don't need to chant or do any ritual all you need is a strong mind you just want the willpower using a willpower you can change it so these are three types of karmas that will reflect in a horoscope I've been advised not to understand the laws of karmas that deeply and when I kept deep diving into questions related to Karma he said don't try understanding it fully he spoke about these things and all those aspects as well but he's like in the Gita there's a part that says Karma's such a complex subject to understand that you'll go crazy if like you try understanding those I have a different perspective of this so what I think that aspect is um uh so karma there's a particular phrase in the Gita so currents of karma are very deep uh yes that is true to the extent that if you want to find out that I am sitting here and I suddenly have a headache key what is the karmic reason for me to get headache you will not find that reason because there might have been something something but what I am talking about is something that is very fundamental to understanding jyotish okay there's nothing I um the way I look at it so these three if you don't understand you will not understand that why is it that certain things can be changed and certain things cannot be changed and I just remembered I think I had read one of these cartoon strips long back I used to read Kelvin and Hobbes and he makes this wonderful statement I forgot that you know God give me the strength to what cannot be changed that you enjoy it or something like that it's a very fantastic line that was there so there are certain aspects which you can't change in certain individuals okay there are certain combinations once I and I have seen that in the course of when I have done readings and all these days I do very less but when I've done them so that nobody can change it doesn't matter you can go to all the temples in the world go to every single spiritual person in the world every person if you're only meant to live for 39 years of your life you'll die at age 39. that's one example of something like this let's say sort of it depends it's not like it's not that simple okay there are certain combinations of grahas which if present and I'll not go into details of that because the problem with astrology though is that right about when you start combinations everybody opens their chart first thing okay and that's the last thing you should do because you will never be objective when you are doing your own analysis you have to learn from other people okay people with whom you have no emotional connect that will give you the lesson anyway so certain combinations are there which if present it indicates that it's very fixed Karma can you give an example of a Karma which can be changed through willpower so many things uh uh for example I am growing fat I need to become thin all right start exercising eat less fast will power is acting see in the yogic format as I was just telling you there's the physical body there is the vital plane where there is astral body there is the mind a perfectly working Yogi is one where the Mind controls the vital your emotional and the emotions and the vital body controls your physical body but for people what happens just the Ulta mind has no control so emotions that control A to Z I feel like eating I feel like going out with my friends I feel like enjoying Etc that's all your emotional talk and that's the goal of yoga to have complete control over yourself yes and do you know what is the uh in in another aspect another way of looking at it this vital power that is there uh who is the greatest representative of this vital force hanumanji what does he do initially he is when he's jumping over the ocean he doesn't know what powers he has then he's told then he gets it okay and he sublimates it whole to the feet of Lord Rama so basically the vital has tremendous power but it should not make its own judgment it puts itself into something higher in this case say the mind or in in the case of Lord hanumani puts it to Rama okay so the moment that is done basically the idea is that don't let your emotions make the judgment hmm okay emotions are tremendous Force nothing in this world can happen without emotions but if you allow it to be your master then it is a terrible Master it s role is that it should be in control of the mind because the mind is objective but that rarely happens in humanity as in the mind would be able to control the emotions yes the Mind should give an order and the emotion should follow but that's very difficult to achieve that is the if you already achieve that then everybody will fall at your feet you are already a saint have you achieved oh no forget me I am just an ordinance okay okay I am just ordinary person that's all I probably have spoken to two or three people on this show who I believe have come close to it I'm not gonna take names but like of everyone I've spoken and these are obviously like spiritually inclined people who I think may have come a little close to possible yeah you meet a lot of spiritual people so it's the goal of yoga Union between that's one goal of yoga let's put it this way because everything is the more you look the more you see that there are things okay okay uh I'll let you take it Forward where do you want to continue so with these understanding that there are three types of karmas now we spoke of the rashes there are the 12 rushes we spoke of 12 signs that are there the zodiac signs uh and then there are the nine grahas and I told you that grahas are basically graspers of Consciousness it is very important to understand that do you want to name the grahas yeah so uh in if you speak in English so graha is not exactly the planet let me tell you this way so that's why sun is also a Graham okay so I'm not talking about astronomy here okay it's from the jyotish point of view so the Sun the moon Mercury Venus uh Jupiter Saturn uh and six six um Jupiter's Mercury whereas Jupiter Saturn then rahu and ketu are also there okay two of them these do not have physical presence okay so each of these rahu and ketu are two of the nodes nodes means so the Moon is traveling around the earth right so there is a it's it's like uh it's a point in space in calculation where it changes its direction not the direction is rahu Southern direction is ketu so it doesn't have a physical presence uh I think an easy way to understand that is think of the head and tail of a serpent yeah so that is that is big so uh this is I'm talking about the calculation part of it okay and when we see the uh the head and tailor is open plus uh rahu is one of the most powerful okay in this age specifically as the ages go rahu becomes more powerful so Sun for example sun is let's the first of the planet so basically Sun represents certain qualities so one of the qualities could be sun may represent the government Sun represents father leadership leadership fame fame comes from Sun uh if Sun is positive then it can give uh um it can cure from many diseases uh including things like for example if there is certain people have patches on the skin and things like that so there is some stories where uh certain people so those were cured by worship of sun Etc so like that sun but most importantly sun will give you a lot of Fame if Sun is positive for an individual okay there's a lot of him karna used to be a worshiper of Surya okay so when you think positive for an individual you mean the com combination of sun with which house slash yeah there is then the more complicated thing that comes that when does a when is a grapher positive and when is a grower negative okay in this there are certain places where the grower will become more powerful and some places where the growth becomes weak so simply speaking Sun becomes very powerful when it is in Aries mesh first house okay of the zodiac and it becomes very weak when it is in Tula Tula is Libra which is the seventh just opposite to that okay it becomes very weak so because of the strength of the Graham it will have its own [Music] um power and behavior pattern will change of the human being involved no off the Graham and I told you that what graha means grasper so accordingly when sun is influencing an individual at a particular phase of times if three years or four years those properties it will transfer into the individual gotcha understood okay that is how it grasps the Consciousness that's why it makes you do things um that's why they say things like oh your son is now in uh Gemini that's why this kind of effect oh now your penis is in Aries Etc um I got a pause here and I know that this is pissing off some viewers who already know about astrology but I also got to talk to like more basic viewers yeah autobiography of a yogi has an entire chapter on astrology where they talk about how every object in the world has a kind of you can think of it as an electromagnetic energy or a spiritual energy that it gives out like how light has a dual nature of like being a wave form as well as photons so in the same way everything like say the planets have a solid nature which is as is the physical planet and then they have an energy that they're giving out correct you can think of it as in the same way that every big object has gravity or every object in the world has gravity but when an object is huge it has more gravity in the same way when an object is huge it has a deeper Cosmic effect on a human being's life and that object doesn't want to be negative or positive it just is and that's where this aspect of grahas comes in correct okay any anything you want to mention no not much but more or less these 9 are the fundamentals of jyotisha okay okay now now I think you should mention each one little little bit okay so sun is like that as it's saying Fame and things like that on the other hand when to just give an example suppose so one of the other things on the negative side Sun can also denote ego okay somebody with a very strong son may project a very strong ego or even misrepresented as being very arrogant because sun is super confident okay on the other hand when sun is weak lacks confidence and maybe internally insecure I have seen horoscopes like that so basically they will be again to clarify is never independent in the sense that there are other aspects of it Sky chemistry multiple Growers may be in the same house some Graham may have something known as drishti effect site can also see the house that is seven distance from it just opposite opposite yes okay special dishes okay we'll go into that this is details of astrology this is actually these are all basic semester okay go on so uh so son so it creates that sense of insecurity in can create an insecurate sense in the individual and and the thing is that for example if Sun is weak uh they get affected by Praise very easily good or bad if you praise them this one's very happy or if you criticize them a bit they become very disturbed whereas when the graha is stronger it is more stable it is criticism also it doesn't take that seriously but it may project an image of ego or arrogance it depends on the overall horoscope okay at a very deep level astrology also has its own levels and a very deep spiritual level Sun Also represents the Atma inside an individual it is the king of the solar system the Atma is the king of your life like that your soul soul at another level San is Shiva but it can also be Rama depends on the horoscope okay so what does that mean so these come in later on so you have supposed um Suppose there is an Affliction to Sun in the horoscope I'm seeing and I see that it needs to be rectified or some some way it can be cured or something like that so how do you do that there are three ways in which you can do that one is that you do certain activities related to that Graham that makes the growth favorable towards you okay so for example uh some government agency or government related thing you make some donations you do some work sun is connected to the government son becomes happy but there is suppose some other kind of combination in the chart with respect to Sun so I say that no this is not enough there you need the help of forces higher forces okay so how you need the help of devathas devathas are hired at this cross but the grahas can map to certain devathas partial energies to some degree so depending again on the position of the sun I may say that uh worship Shiva or worship or worship Lord Rama Rama is of the solar Dynasty okay depending on the position of the sun or foreign if you know it can map to everything it is the capacity of the astrology to find out that what exactly is the mapping happening and this is not exactly a science it's more like an art correctly find out so a good astrologer must also have a certain degree of experience and intuition okay after sun let's go to Moon perhaps the most important graph in the horoscope if you ask me more than even the Sun okay moon is your mind moon is your mother moon is water moon is milk okay these things moon is food items also certain things various other list of things are there uh Moon the graha itself is something that fluctuates so there is purnima and then there is a mavasa so exactly like the human mind today I'm happy tomorrow I'm very sad day after again I'm happy then I'm sad so the Moon is like that changing changing like that so the moon becomes very powerful when exalted when it is in Taurus exalted means exalted means maximum power okay okay okay wish over and it becomes very weak where it is in Scorpio just seven houses separate okay a strong Moon can indicate somebody who has lot of emotional self-control and who has the capacity to enjoy even in stressful times that inner whoa stability stability but not just a dry stability Bliss because it's liquid moon is water so that sense of happiness and joy also is governed by moon are you okay giving names of like celebrities or no okay no no individual charts are going to but uh let's just say that yeah Moon gives you that um that feeling of contentment inside a strong Moon whereas a weak moon plus Moon allows you to have extract joy and enjoyment from a wide range of things if the moon is strong so to give an example a person with a very strong Moon whoa even if he falls in the drain fear we may not panic right now I can't change my circumstantial situation moon is weak the slightest amount of disturbance happens oh my God what the hell is happening I can't take this and being in a so even more second step of analysis so being Scorpio being a side swap is a very interesting sign so it's government March so there is amount there could be how do you how does somebody react to a disturbance one way of reacting is that you could internally curse yourself that okay things are very bad or you could just throw around a lot of disturbance to everybody around keep I not just I am disturbed but I want to throw this it happens to people okay it doesn't matter whether the person you are telling is responsible or not but more or less you create that environmental disturbance can be created okay now uh these get modified a lot because obviously agraha is never normally alone there will always be some aspect or some other something like that and those will modify the characteristics characteristics I'm just talking about a very pure condition and now almost no chart has this and this is important to mention because a lot of your listeners are going to say oh my moon is like this but I'm not behaving like this or I'm behaving like that or Etc that's because there will be all other girls it's like like chemistry you add things and final product comes in something else is also like that it's never going to be one graha alone I'm just talking about the basic qualities sure afternoon let's go to Mercury Mercury is the so Moon by the way also connects to the Divine mother to the feminine okay depending on the position of the Moon it could be various characteristics of the Devi which form of Devi with some mild form with its aggressive form whether it's Kali whether it's a position of the Moon can govern these things okay and uh Vishnu avatars also connect to them by the way like I said sun is connected to Rama moon is connected to Krishna so Mercury is the graha Buddha is the graha that is considered to be youthful it's perpetually youthful it's it's like a prince if Sun is the king and moon is the queen of the horoscope then Buddha is the prince he is eternally in the teenager just crossed teenage face he doesn't grow up beyond that so he's very playful he's extremely good in comedy okay he has a remarkable memory Buddha has to be strong for a person who knows multiple languages without that you cannot learn languages it's tremendous memory okay he hears something he remembers it he may not understand it though that's a different topic that goes to different that domain but he will be very good with it uh certain positions he may be very good in communication communication things are governed by Buddha and certain positions of Buddha can also make a person very good in yoga and and this is very strange it may sound certain combinations of Buddha can also represent things like a Witcher or black magic okay Buddha is fundamentally as I said it's a youthful and also by the way Buddha also governs certain other aspects like people who suffer from with its impotency or things like that or confusion regarding sexuality these are all governed by Buddha Buddha has this capacity uh it's it's it's very playful it's very playful but also very powerful because as I said Buddha's blessing if it's there and somebody they are very good in uh remembering things extremely short memory will be there they'll be very good with languages they can learn subjects very fast things like that they'll do it playfully there's no stress just like that they'll learn so but uh not as I said the all these characteristics that I'm talking of the girls all of them will not manifest in an individual it again everything gets modified with the position where exactly is it and what others are combining with it okay so Buddha becomes very powerful when it is in Kanya Tanya Rashi which is uh Virgo in English okay and it becomes very weak where it is in Mina or Pisces okay Buddha is the strongest all the positive traits of the Buddha come on and if it's in Pisces all the negative fruits negative weaker traits and there will be disturbances like various other things see Buddha is so important Buddha is communication half the time when you have miscommunication Buddha is playing some role of the other or even all forms of growth actually happen with communication yeah communication is very important for example what you do as a communication is a significant part of it so uh Buddha is very important for anything related to communication also Buddha is very important Buddha's other thing is that if Buddha blesses an individual you'll be very good in academics so studies and subjects and all that will be very good the often you will find people who have done multiple phds and all that with certain combination of Buddha okay not all but certain combination as I said Buddha is that he's very youthful he's young that energy is there in Buddha Buddha connects to Vishnu very strongly okay Lord Vishnu position of Buddha will tell you which form of Vishnu Buddha also connects to among the Devi forms connects to tripur sundari sundari she is a mahavidya and Buddha can also connect to what because he is somebody who's younger so these are things related to Buddha let's go to the next say Mars Mangal Mars is the warrior among the grahas Mars represents that martial Spirit Mars represents the ability aggression Mars represents fighting ability Mass represents fire okay Mars is the general among the Army Virat Kohli show he has a very strong Mangal all Sportsmen who are into physical Sports will have a strong Mars it's impossible to be in physical sports with its cricket football or anything without a strong Mars or the military military too police military Etc okay all these are all governed by Mars strong Mars uh so Mars becomes very powerful when it is Capricorn and becomes very weak when it isn't cancer okay cancer is uh Calcutta Rashi because it's governed by Moon so it becomes it's not particularly a very graha that uh and that's emotional or things like that too watery okay Mars connects to certain deities you know the first date is hanwanji okay then there is the general of the army okay but Mars also connects to narasimha of the Vishnu avatars Mars also connects which specific form it will connect to depends on the horoscope all these are Warrior deities all these over here Mars also connects to chamunda so favious form of the mother but it depends on certain other combinations not Standalone okay uh when Mars is strong an individual they are normally capable of very not just physically strong but they also what I've seen is that there's a confidence in this physicality okay they're very confident and that also makes them pure Mars I'm talking about so there is self-control also but pure Mars is very rare the moment Mars is touched by few other girls Behavior will change for example if Mars has any contact with rahu it becomes like a wall-like condition okay they are put them into a conflict bus straight they'll go into singular Mars will be very self-controlled it will only enter if at all is needed just as much as it is needed to get dessert it'll come out but Mars combined with other things will behave differently is this related to manglik certain positions of Mars make an individual magnetic is it true that when you mariamanglic is bad for the partner and all these yeah okay according to astrology yeah so but there are ways to take it that also do you want to address that later in the episode we'll just briefly touch upon it but not too much detail so basically uh before I go to that so Mars when it becomes weak uh it can have first of all there could be uh as a Mars also represents Blood by the way okay so there could be blood related problems plus there will be a weak Constitution okay and again when a graha is weak it is fundamentally insecure so that individual will have certain degree of insecurity with respect to his own physical strength and that can manifest in very weird ways by the way which means sometimes what happens is if you're insecure about certain things to cover up your insecurity you may try to be proactively more aggressive so a stronger Mars will have more self-control because he's confident of his power weaker Mars even at the slightest amount of disturbance something like that you will try to behave in a way that is very you know aggressive it's basically because deep down there's an insecurity so you have to kind of prove more to yourself subconsciously no I am very strong that psychology works with the girls through the individual okay with Mars we have this idea that it is uh very commonly called as mangalik manglik is basically certain combinations of Mars are present in the horoscope whether they're in this seventh house Eighth House couple of others are there so that causes a disturbance in the married life previously it used to be believed that it will cause death to the spouse today mostly divorce or separation okay but there are uh rituals on pujas that can be done to pacify that or there are combinations for example normally what they do is there's a horoscope matching that can be done whether that other individual also has similar mangalicious so it kind of cancels it out to a degree okay not fully but to a degree so basically you will still fight but stay together oh so that kind of thing and then there are cancellations of yogas also there in chart which is another aspect just because the parts is in a certain position it's showing mangalik it may not show the result if there are some other combinations present so like this okay but Mars is um uh so all things related to military police Etc is governed by Mars and the date is that I mentioned these are the ones who can control Mars if it is weak if it is negative if it needs some other disturbances manifest in it then we approach these datas and we worship them okay like for example hanumanji gives you self-belief yeah hanumanji see deities are more powerful than the remember this always so when you are approaching a devatha for a specific graha related problem he can solve that problem but if you approach Devita for spirituality then he goes even deeper into spirituality he will take you beyond he can take you beyond any of the deities okay one more thing is that Mars in a female horoscope can represent uh partner boyfriend things like that okay can represent partner boyfriend now let's come to Venus so Venus has this very interesting thing Venus is also known as kavya kavya means poetry so Venus fundamentally gives you the ability all that is Artistic in the world is governed by Venus okay Aesthetics is governed by Venus whether it is wonderful Aesthetics or weird Aesthetics okay whether it is a classical painting or whether it is a very difficult modernistic or post modernistic painting that also is Venus but different positions of the Venus it could be that the Venus is weaker a weaker Venus but other combinations are there so a very famous painting but you're not able to understand okay whereas a classical painting could be a very classically placed nicely placed Venus okay so like that so Vedas governs in general it governs women governs things of beauty whether the way you are dressing up whether using a perfume and all that all these are Venus jewelries everything is Venus poetry is Venus the ability to write poetry is Venus Venus also governs I wonder who has a strong Venus no there are others also that govern but Venus has one particular governing capacity of Tantra and this comes from Venus is a uh among the grass Venus is one of the gurus by the way there are only two gurus in the grahas Venus is one of them and Venus comes from shukracharya we find the reference to shukracharya many times in our scriptures was one of the rishis okay and he was the guru of the asuras and the detectors okay was born in the lineage of Rigo Rigo was one of the rishis and shukracharya was a terrific worshiper of Shiva it is shukracharya who gave us the mithunjaya mantra he is said that he went to Kashi and for 5000 years he worshiped Shiva in his in a normal way of Aditya worship and nothing happened then he said I'll do severe austerities for one thousand years he worshiped Shiva but making sure that he only consumes the smoke from burned grains nothing else only smoke in your eyes in your continuously for Thousand Years while chanting the Mantra of Shiva Mantra after thousand years they say that there's a there's an actual story the other grahas and the other gods the gods came to see okay how is he able to do this much amount of sadhana [Music] is doing just inhaling smoke can you imagine when he's almost eyes are blind and of its smoke and all that and is continuously worshiping after a thousand years they tell Shiva that please give him whatever he wants stop this because if he keeps doing that he alone will control everything Shiva appears before him and tells him I'll teach you one thing I'll teach you the Mita sanjivani Vidya how to bring the dead back to life something that no one else has got he gives him that shukra uses that then to revive the asuras during the battle okay so he is able to bring back all the Divine beings and all that so then the pramathas or the shivaganas they come to Shiva and say that he is Reviving all the asuras back all the wounds are going in there again but how will we defeat them ever and Shiva tells nandi who is shiva's greatest bhakta does that go and catch him and bring him here okay so he gets shukra back to Shiva digest shukra takes him inside his body eats inside the body of Shiva he is seeing that all the 14 lokas are there universe is there everything is there gods are there whatever is happening outside everything is inside his body only okay and in this he's not able to come out of that state because his they say that I think for hundreds of years he stayed inside the body of Shiva okay and the asuras obviously became weaker because he was not using the Vidya to revive them anymore so the king God started winning after that finding no other excuse no other way out he was able to come out from the sexual organ of Shiva then Shiva told him that by this act you become like my son okay and you will have Mastery over certain aspects so she was shook so he gets the name shukra shukra the word also means semen shukracharya he has Venus controls everything about sexuality in the sense normal sexuality okay everything whether a person looking at the condition of sugar you can find out A to Z about a person's um various things about his sexuality and things like that okay including even um those aspects which are for example used in Tantra some of the aspects whether maithona is used in whether it can be done on whether individual will be able to do it depends on the shukra wow knows the Vidya to revive somebody if shukra is strong in a person certain things you there are practices they can do by which even if they may be aging will still look young it is the capacity of shukra to give you that shukra is fundamentally passion see Moon and shukra both are likeness but there is a difference both are feminine that's the difference moon is that General Bliss and happiness everything is fine this is what he applies in the sadhana he says that no no I have to get Shiva I am like mad he doesn't know everybody's stunned how the hell is able to do this so much of penance austerity okay this is the capacity of shukra without shukra it is very difficult to succeed in the world because you don't have passion for something you want a passion you are not going to put in that effort passion could be for anything passion could be for sadhana also and one's passion is in something it doesn't feel like effort exactly there is not work anymore anybody who has done something terrific will need to have some blessings of shukra Venus will have to be in a good place in that chart yes for them material growth correct not just material that's what there are certain combinations there's a particular combination of Venus Saturn and ketu present in the chart it shows a tapasvi yoga which means that you are able to do pen answers hard pen answers okay because you like doing it once as you said once you start liking something then it is not effort anymore then no one has to prod you to go to office or go to school or something like that you on your own will do it okay that is the blessing of shukra and it's very very important in many things on a very low level I know that if your Venus is in a good place you are said to have a lot of sex in your life ah that is one way of looking at it so basically what happens is that two things Venus does govern sex but also it governs the forum for a man Venus also governs his wife or girlfriend or something like that whatever his partner okay Venus by itself is women all women are governed by Venus in fact uh by looking at the position of Venus you can make out even that how how what are the physical features and various are really a lot of things okay so not just Venus are there but Venus is a key component of it okay and uh so Venus connects to Lakshmi mahalakshmi and also among the mahavidyas she can Venus connects to kamalatmika is a mahavidya okay that's the tantric form of Lakshmi but again is never alone so once it has influence of others its character and behavior changes Venus by the way also controls things like films and all that you can never be famous as a film actor or somebody who's well known until your Venus is well placed and connected to certain places in the horoscope that visibility that see that's the thing Venus that connection of lot of people okay that that kind of him with respect to films and things like that all are somehow governed by Venus one of the artistic Fields media for example also Venus okay after Venus let's go to Jupiter Jupiter is the second is the guru of the devathas okay Jupiter is masculine in nature Jupiter is Guru in the traditional sense is heavy okay here's a certain there's a certain gravity and a weight in Jupiter somebody who's influenced by Jupiter moment they sit in a room you will understand that Jupiter is strong so they they're not they'll not joke around and all that it's not intimidating kind of heavy but you feel that okay this person knows a lot or this person has a lot of depth in him that is Jupiter okay uh Venus by the way also governs jewels diamond and all that because business you cannot enter jewelry business you cannot enter without Venus influence especially uh gemstones and rare stones and rare materials and all that things now Jupiter is the guru of the grahas okay he teaches the devathas not just he teaches the gods how to fight whatever other vidyas have to be taught Etc is that way he represents The Vedas and the vedanta he is the traditional path okay completely jyotish and all traditionally all under his domain his influence Jupiter also represents wisdom Mercury I had mentioned that has the ability to learn lot of things but you may learn a thing you whether you are digesting it or not that governs Jupiter whether you're realizing it or not okay that is Jupiter's domain Jupiter represents gold it represents lot of wealth it represents banking systems so very often clean wealth but it's very important Jupiter is Jupiter is fundamentally ethical it doesn't like non-ethical things because it's a guru of the girls it will never do any shortcut business ethics is very important okay Jupiter also weight is there so there are certain combinations of Jupiter if it's present then people tend to put on weight there's a certain heaviness heaviness in their Aura heaviness also physically can happen Jupiter becomes very strong when it is placed in cancer and it becomes very weak when it's placed in Capricorn okay just the opposite of Mars uh Jupiter can connect to any graph any deity for that matter but certain placements depending on placements it can represent Shiva or it can represent a very Cosmic form of Vishnu very large form of Vishnu Jupiter can also represent a very Cosmic form of ganpati very powerful form of ganpati so there are more details of it which stotra of ganpati will connect to Jupiter in this form and from the tantric point of view Jupiter represents matara okay so Jupiter has these characteristics Jupiter's blessing on an individual means he'll be very deeply learned so subjects like um I would say for example say physics these are all governed by Jupiter or philosophy 100 Jupiter without a strong Jupiter you will not that depth will not come Jupiter has that very they're very sincere Jupiter doesn't like shortcuts okay very ethical very sincere hard working and Jupiter's blessing is very important to digest experiences correctly digest the experience spirituality Jupiter plays a very important role whatever others may be they have their own role to play but Jupiter plays a role in the sense that Jupiter puts you in the right path no shortcuts hard working and it helps you to finally expand and digest experiences that's one of the key things about Jupiter I already mentioned matara links to Jupiter certain conditions of Jupiter she has to be worshiped to bring the person out on the negative side Jupiter is another fundamental quality is that it expands bitter likes expansion okay a negative Jupiter can also bring in diseases by the way in an individual like cancer and things like that sudden uncontrolled expansion of cells or something like that Jupiter likes sweet things a person's strong Jupiter we can more orally save like sweet as a taste Jupiter also there are karate means Lordships what does it control there are two types of Lordships which is till now what I was telling you was the nicer which means natural lordship so Jupiter naturally Lords gold Jupiter naturally Lord certain things but in a horoscope it may have some functional lordship also which depends later we'll go into that but so Jupiter uh because of this if Jupiter is Afflicted you will you may see diseases like sugar blood sugar and things like that these are also covered hormonal problems are governed by Jupiter sometimes okay some kind of hormonal imbalance or things like that in a women's horoscope Jupiter May govern her husband so you can understand the basic nature of the husband by looking at the position of the Jupiter okay and general wealth and wisdom and all these things are there so it's the Deva Guru then we come to Saturn Shani Shani the most interesting one for a lot of viewers Shani is fundamentally a graph of discipline and task Masters it likes hard work it likes people who do hard work a positive Shani means they will be very hard working negative Shani means they will be extremely lazy okay lazy indolence okay and the more lazy you become the more your Shani is going to cause you trouble simplest I'm saying of course it all gets modified based on various other factors but this is number one so hard work and discipline is what shiny likes number two Shani likes uh masses lower level not the elites shiny dislikes Elite see Shani is actually son of Surya the son of the sun yeah in the mythological Lords that we get he's a son of Surya okay but he dislikes Surya completely dislikes him Shani just dislikes son okay because Sun can project the ego arrogance and confidence Shani likes humility just the opposite the more humble one is so shani's idea is that you be humble and do hard work then why does Shani have a negative connotation that is because certain positions of Saturn if it is placed so these are the two things that are told but fundamentally people may not neither be humble nor hard working okay so then uh Shani also among other things it will it rules things like something that is very long lasting okay so if Shani gives you a trouble it is going to last for a very long time okay for example what I said about um discipline and all that this is the fundamental nature of the graph but if Shani is negative okay and is troublesome then it can cause a lot of trouble because it is slow also okay and also another thing with Shani is that it likes Justice okay if there is something wrong or some injustice that has happened or being done something it likes dishing out the Justice to that individual during its period that can be very painful okay Shani worships bhairava and Kali these are the two go to graha devathas who can control Shani to an extent but also here let me say that some of the most fixed karmas we are speaking of karmas are also governed by certain positions of Saturn certain in that sense is many people will say that Saturn is a karmic graha basically what it means is that Saturn likes giving this Justice business so you have taken shortcuts XYZ somewhere somewhere somewhere Saturn comes in and he gives you full his arm so he's like that credit card bill that comes in first you ensure then the bill will come so that is what he is and that is where people that's why people get scared because obviously uh somewhere at the other if you have taken shortcuts or some things like that then Saturn comes in is going to make you pay and there's no no escaping it it's not that simple to know to escape Saturn so easily it's very it itself is humble see escaping means what suppose Sun or the others are weak or something like that you do some pujas or Japan or something like that for the Growers that's basically a way of placating the graha duplication is very difficult because it's very humble it is not looking for your Praises too much and that's why you say the Hanuman Chalisa Hanuman Chalisa can help but it has to be significant amount of Hanuman Chalisa hanumanji has the ability to control the dying grass by the way other deities also have hormones is very popular so that's why we use that as a Saturn also controls um various beings of The Laurels so positions of Saturn can tell you whether XYZ individual will have contact with these kind of entities or not Spirits also sometimes can be governed by Saturn Saturn also indicates um so Saturn indicates generally the worker class okay one of the very interesting remedies of Saturn I know a friend who's uses this tell people for example Saturn is difficult in somebody's horoscope so tell him that in your house on specific day you yourself clean the toilets that's something a very menial kind of work precisely what Saturn likes no don't let these serve into somebody else do it you do it you don't like it so what that's the attitude that if you have then Saturn is going to turn slightly favorable towards you it hates ego it hates uh arrogance it hates lack of humility it hates lack of discipline but unfortunately the whole world suffers from these things a lot and Saturn also gives in his Justice his very Justice oriented in that sense by the way Saturn can give in certain combinations exceptional amount of wealth so much wealth that no other can give in fact you can take it this way that perhaps some of the greatest the richest people some of them would likely to have certain combinations of Saturn certain places when Saturn gives wealth it's like Unthinkable amount of wealth will come but there is a catch involved Saturn is one of the now there are Growers of other combinations also so there are certain Growers which are more accurate means more um say let's say fears or something not so may not gentle okay Saturn is one of the sun is also program by the way so Saturn's combine if if a wealth comes from Saturn there are uh it is not a natural domain of Saturn natural domain of certain is hard work and discipline being an unnatural domain you can be certain that if a person if a horoscope composition shows that this person made a lot of money with respect to Saturn they will always be shortcuts involved corruption yeah yeah okay because it's not it's not a natural domain okay Saturn also represents imprisonment and things like that like the Ring of Saturn is like a test you're caged up for some time yeah and if you pass that yes yes sort of so and is it true that at the end of your Saturn phase there's a reward always no not always it's it's a popular saying sometimes it is true but sometimes it may not be true again all of it depends on the position of Saturn okay and as I mentioned there are certain combinations of the Saturn which if present there's no cure possible for that if whatever is the Affliction nothing no amount of a person of any deity no amount of going to anywhere else is going to bring any relief just have to go through that because that is the lesson that nature is going to teach you so it is very good in teaching lessons uh to keep certain degree of control over Saturn Saturn also by the way controls oil and things like that these are all governed by Saturn people often ask I'll do Hanuman Chalisa once once depending on the amount of trouble you are in you decide how much you have to do okay so that it should be you know of the same level as the intensity of difficulty that you are facing then only there is a chance that you will have some relief from it okay now we go to rahu so rahu is basically and Asura The Story Goes that rahu after these after the churning of the ocean Cosmic ocean was done then there was Amrita that came out okay many things came out of which one of them was makes you immortal disguises himself and goes the gods have taken the Amrita and they're having she goes there he says that I wanted Amrita also so he disguises himself and he sits and he takes a bit of that in his mouth okay immediately there is a Vishnu there he understands that okay this is uh this is not a god this is a Asura so he uses his sudarshan and cuts off his head so the Amrita comes into his mouth doesn't go into the body so two parts come out one is the head and one is the tail so the head is rahu of the Asura and the tail is ketu body tailor body whatever okay but because he had Amrita so he becomes immortal okay rahu is a head without a body rahu has its own interesting nature the primary Natures of rahu is that it is a master in creating illusions absolute master okay number one number two is that rahu tries to eat everything okay grasp and eat but it can't digest everything because it doesn't have a body so rahu influence means you are trying to you will try to in that specific area or something try to spread very fast but whether you are able to integrate that properly that you don't know in fact very often that is precisely of what the illusion is very fast expansion in certain ways or very fast uh yeah expansion only for lack of better words but whether that is being integrated or not if it is not being integrated then eventually there is going to suddenly burst that is one of the problems with rahu okay uh rahu also governs spirits okay because it doesn't have a physical presence rahu is extremely powerful because all these domains Illusions this that Etc these are all things in the mind imagination a certain combination who can give tremendous imagination okay rahu is also in a way like the the physical domain is there and then there is the occal domain he is the doorway between the physical and the occult he can take you to that realm both in a positive and a negative sense rahu is extremely Brave but this braver is different from that of Mars Mars is like full-scale Warfare rahu is like a Bomb Blast even a moment before that you don't know what is going to happen suddenly it'll burst and everything is you're like shocked out of your mind okay rahu has another ability it can read through conspiracies no other can if there is all the conspiracy theories in the world aroused doing he loves creating conspiracies whether they're real or not and it also gives you the ability to see through a conspiracy any individual is working in a spy agency or something like this you can't do that work until your rahu is strong it's impossible or politics speculating equations being made this will work that will work you all there is rahu's domain internet full-scale route all YouTubers we we this age is rahu by the way we call it Kali yoga this is the age when rahu is most powerful so Rao is not always bad by the way I'm not saying that I was bad technology is entirely today you have 50 60 years ago people used to think that you know what is going to be a computer large computer maybe like the size of a room or something today that whole processing part is there in your telephone okay it's becoming small it's becoming more powerful things are changing very fast anything that changes fast is rahu's domain quickly it is going to shift things okay rahu grasps attention very quickly which is why the phone is the attention grabber in this today's age everybody take the phone away you are like like a fish out of water okay so these things now who can control uh on the positive side rahu gives a lot of Courage very strong courage rahu also as I mentioned can influence a person into black magic or these things both both being a victim of it or somebody who's doing it okay plus the world of spirits and all that rahu has full uh connection to it a certain combination of Growers can indicate that somebody may be affected by Spirits rahu is controllable rahu also controls uh animals not animals rather it's like insects and all that cockroaches spiders this that all these are covered by rahus rahu to control rahu there are few deities who are very good in controlling rahu primary of them is primary of them then also bhairava is very good in controlling rahu extremely potent in controlling rahu okay rahu can lead to addictions by the way so in combinations with rahu more or less you can be certain that they'll have addiction and very difficult to get out of addiction so in combinations of rahawat there so this is puzzled so these two other deities are also there in the tantric VA uh Devi chin namasta is the one who controls rahu okay China Master is extremely aggressive but this judgment is to be correctly applied when to worship which deity for Relief okay if whatever is there who has the ability to eclipse the Sun and the Moon Sun and Moon are the most power fundamental grahas in the horoscope because Sun I told you is deeper level is soul and moon is the mind your soul and mind are the most important things rahu can cause Eclipse to that and that is going to cause certain behavioral changes in that individual even when we have eclipses outside by the way you will see that two things their eclipse is a very peculiar time one is that when an eclipse is happening temples are closed okay normal Dharma normal sense of right and wrong what is to be done and what is to be not done Dharma and adharma has a certain flow okay whenever rahu grasps the Sun and the Moon it caused a tremendous change in the energy in the atmospheric energy spiritual energy of the place where that eclipse is happening even on the world at a subtle level but more specifically the place where the eclipse is happening so normal Dharma gets Disturbed that is one of the reasons why temples are closed uh traditionally there's certain sutak that is followed which means that you don't eat food for a certain period of time until the eclipse gets over then you take a bath and things like that you don't see an eclipse directly and I am not talking about the scientific aspect and all that but spiritually they have their own meaning why these are not done and this is good to follow okay but that period is also extremely good for Spiritual practice what you can achieve through years of practice in normal time you can achieve in one or two hours during agrahan because rahu is like that Veil between the world we see and the world that you cannot see explosive growth explosive he can live that Veil also will cause that Veil also and in fact there are certain outside India there's certain places where rahu worship is very common outside India yeah yeah certain places rahu worship tattoos and rahu pujas are done specifically but that power is used more for material purposes some positive some negative what is it called in English uh I don't know what is called but they call it rahu only okay uh and uh rahu's ability to see through conspiracy is very useful correctly placed rahu can also help you dominate your enemies because even before they make a move you know what they're trying to do he can see that thing okay rahu is also your link to your subconscious mind all the others are functioning in your conscious rahu is where the subconscious business starts in okay good or bad whatever but either way and even hanumanji also can be certain sadness is there hanumanji which can be done to control rahu another thing is that rahu can show in a horoscope things like we were discussing and all that placement of rahu determines that rahu also controls nagas and serpas and all that okay snakes and all are rahus so after rahu let's go to ketu ketu is the body of rahu without the head s again like Rahul governs all Spirits particularly spirits but also high level of spirituality very high level see Jupiter as I was mentioning is more like uh wisdom and philosophy yes but this is mysticism mystical experiences very strange experiences but also spirits okay both of them are very much there and it also governs a certain degree of detachment correctly placed ketu will govern Detachment correctly place ketu can also show whether a person will attain to very high States like Nirvana and all these things certain but that is uh in my opinion that judgment should not be done because very high when you talk about that level of spirituality they actually go beyond grass okay it's not it's it's what happens is that after a person has achieved something then people try to retrofit and say is but actually that level of spirituality is beyond goodness is also very brave okay but ketu is a bit mindless ketu is irrational completely doesn't have a head so wherever ketu is placed that is the area where you will work mostly either out of Intuition or whatever organic feeling you have uh thinking too much is not going to help wherever the ketu is placed in the horoscope so ketu requires ahead one of the best deities to worship to control ketu is ganpati okay because ganpati himself has his head replaced my uh worshiping ganpati is very good to bring ketu under some degree of control and feeding fishes and things like that they are also governed by ketu okay so ketu's placement tells you a about spirits and about Detachment also Detachment means it can be very strong degree of Detachment in the sense if suppose the house of spouse has ketu let me show that the marriage um in the marriage there is a certain degree of could be a disconnect between the husband wife maybe say in the house they are staying but there is no connection properly it's like two roommates that's it kind of so those things it could be in other areas also so these are the three fundamental themes of kid one is that it could be Spirits or it could be high level of spirituality also governs very high level of mathematical ability by the way very high level I'm not talking ordinary level this is like International uh best mathematicians of the world that is very typically ketu has this ability or very high caliber chess players this is like super Grand Masters okay where they're looking at the most complicated positions because after some point K2 is the graph of intuition most important graph of intuition because it doesn't think the mind is not there your intuition gets blocked because of your rational mind okay but rational mind has its uses because until the intuition is purified and correctly built on it will guide you wrongly because you are getting you can get information all sorts of places so ketu governs these things and uh among deities one of the as I mentioned the First Data to worship is ganpati for that matter there are certain Ganesh with dakshas which with energize with mantras they can help an individual reading troubles if there are very significant amount of problems a certain placement of in Tantra the mahavidya known as dhumavati to control she is one of the most peculiar mahavidas okay ketu also controls things like smoke differences to give an example suppose somebody is afflicted by a disease if you if rahu is the cause of the disease uh you go to a doctor the doctor will tell you haha this is what the is you go to doctor B you will say ah it's very simple no problem but he'll give a different diagnosis you go to 10 different places all of them will give you full confidence 100 will get cured but 10 different diagnosis if ketu is governing the disease 10 110 doctors also will not find out what is the root cause of the problem so it's like this smokiness about it it's not the vision is not there Clarity is not there and rahu is the pretense of clarity sort of in a way briefly saying that is right and uh both of them get involved in yogas obviously there are always seven houses apart rahu and ketu will always be seven houses apart okay and they get involved in the grahan and all these things Etc fundamental is in a way both intuition spirituality Spirits uh and Detachment these things are okay that's it that's the that's the nine okay this is the point where I would also like you to explain the houses okay in terms of let's make this personalized for the end viewer there's a lot of people who don't understand astrology but I feel like if they get an idea of what houses stand for it suddenly makes you interested in astrology for the first time I would always kind of laugh at my mum who's very into it all this doesn't work and when she explained the houses and she explained the positions of my planets I was like okay that's a little weird kind of describe my personality I would even laugh at all these friends of mine who talk about oh you're a Libra that means you could date a Gemini I would laugh at my friends until I just realized that there's some truth in astrology and the more I learn about it the more humble I got about the subject but it began with understanding what those 12 houses right stand for on a very personal level I will let you expand on this thought it start with the first house okay which we call uh lagna is the Zodiac that comes up in the Eastern Horizon at the moment of birth of an individual okay of the 12 houses whatever is coming up at the Eastern Horizon as in the map of where you were born at what time you were born you look at the Eastern Horizon correct whatever is there whatever's side house Rashi is coming up that is the question is is there a Sunday is there mercury in that part is the Venus that comes the second part first is you you fix the lagna okay from where the calculations are to be done okay so lagna is your house number one okay it could be any house so lagna determines the individual's first basic personality it determines key uh what is there uh physically how do they look and things like that and their thinking process lagna is perhaps in a way the self you are the lagna first okay how you think how you determine gov how you work and all that everything will be governed by lagda can you explain that looks part based on if the Sun is in that part of the moon is in that no so it there are multiple combinations possible in this uh along with the lagna there has to be there is the so the trines of the individual Okay the reason I'm not going into the specific combinations because the end there are endless combinations okay there are so many combinations possible you will have only through practice this is the basics I'm talking but once a person starts practicing and all that eventually they are then you will develop your method of understanding how this looks so sometimes it's possible that even um some of the grahas they can give fantastic looks in an individual okay but there will be something in the personality that is not absolutely clean okay so all these things are various possibilities are there uh this is house number one okay it also gives a general idea about your health whether as I said it is like yourself how do you look at yourself okay I also how like the world would know you know that's very interesting there is another calculation that goes not at the first level of second level so there is something known as the arudha there's a specific combination which finds out specific house will have that and from that point if you look at the horoscope then you will understand how the world looks at you you may think you are XYZ the world may think you are something else wow okay because jyotish goes to that depth okay your second house governs things like food what do you like eating how do you speak okay what's the manner of speech is it sweet is it rough uh do you lie are you truthful all these things you can find out number two wealth that comes from your family are you born into a rich family well or family does your family support you Etc like this family means bear inside we have family okay after marriage it becomes your spouse in all that family more or less shows the support of your family resources that your family can provide for you your food habits your speech these things okay uh I'm just giving broad ideas remember that this nine grahas and 12 rashes govern everything in the universe if if jyotish is to be take and if you look at from the Jewish point of view so that means that each houses and each Growers will have a huge list of things actually connected to them but these are the most primary things that I'm talking about okay third house for example is communication written communication okay it is also the house of Courage how much whether a person is Brave or whether a person is not brave you can figure out from the turtles okay uh it also gives short travels not very long okay maybe from Mumbai to Pune or things like that short travels uh it also governs um Sports okay are you whether you are inclined towards sports physical Sports not not chess and all that okay those things so and yeah it also governs your siblings specifically younger siblings those who are younger than you whether you have a sibling or not what is your equation with the sibling everything thirdaus will tell you that your fourth house is your mother and also the house your home where are you staying okay uh along with that it from the fourth house you can figure out things like whether you are you will stay in a country of your birth you go to a different place uh what is your equation with your mother first thing okay uh then mm-hmm is the vast two of your place correct or not wow where you are staying this is almost like intrusively like an x-ray on someone's life yeah that's how deep astrology can go if it's in the hands like this I'm talking is just the starting level there are more other things there okay even the charts in jyotish are not one is your Rashi chart which is this I'm talking about then there is navamsa and then there are 10 15 other subtle levels of charts if I have to check your spirituality I will take a particular horoscope which will give a more detailed view of one aspect of your life if I need to check something else uh say uh you know the various other aspects like this there are multiple charts and that is why one of the typical questions that come in that if twins are there of similar birth why are their lives different because even if there is a difference in a few seconds those subtle the secondary tertiary charts will all start changing wow okay so this level Western astrology does not have it's only jyotish that has it uh so we dealt with fourth house is basically a home fourth house also determines one very interesting thing are you happy or not very simply put your sense of happiness peace photos your heart also that's one of the first spiritual houses fourth okay then comes fifth house fifth house governs creativity how imaginative are you how creative are you one more thing fourth house also governs your primary education School okay school education and all that fifth house will start governing a higher education your creativity most importantly all artistic people must have certain strong combinations with the fifth house fifth house also governs your children if prob people have problems in childbirth often there is some problem in the fifth house okay it's sort of your vision of the future sometimes it happens that there may be a negative or some other problematic combination the fifth house so that individual does not have a clear vision of where am I going in the future or you will make plans and they'll never succeed that's one of the things that fifth house causes the problem okay so fifth house governs these things fifth house also governs by the way among many other houses also there but fifth is the first one that governs your mantra what is the natural Affinity of the month which which Mantra will work naturally for you as in each of the grahas has its own this is generally speaking okay so to give an example if somebody has suppose and my mind again I'm saying that there are multiple combinations it's just I'm telling you one so in um I suppose fifth house is Mars now we have learned that Mars controls Mars is connected to hanumanji or is connected to narasimha margin you can choose one of these deities depending on some other key what are the influences there in Mars and say that you can start this state is fifth house governs your first natural liking and the beauty of this is that each house from its shrines which is the from that house if you connect to Fifth and Ninth of the house if you do a calculation one two three four if you take that as the base and connect the fifth one and the ninth one so these houses will have a natural liking towards each other 159 from any house basically means yourself is house one five is your children so generally Humanity will have a love for their child okay if you did not if this was not there why would a person take care of a child what about the ninth uh ninth is your forefathers your father okay so this makes a very interesting yourself your future and your past they are linked together okay divide the fifth house fifth house now let's come to the sixth house this is the first difficult house in the horoscope uh sixth is the house of diseases sixth the house of enemies sixth the house of debts sixth is the house of court cases all these things will come from sixth house Okay so if there is if there's a problem of enemies or things like their difficulties from looking at the combination in the sixth house and the grahas you can make out that whether uh how long it is going to last or what is the way to get out of it if at all you can get out of it or not and plus diseases and all that all that is governed by sixth house on the positive side six house can also indicate service means um to serve somebody without expectation that also governs that is also governed by the sixth house okay then comes seventh house seventh house is the house of your spouse your partner seventh house is also the window to the world okay because it's just opposite to yourself seventh house is also a house of business a partnership if you're doing a business so whether you are you will work or whether you will do business in that seventh house plays a key role to determine but more or less your marriage and relationships first thing is that seventh house will govern very interestingly by the way I just fifth house governs a feeling of love but whether they translate into something concrete eventually who will be governed by the seventh house and it is the job of the person who is doing the analysis to seek you how it links up everything okay then comes the eighth house this is the mysterious house uh bad and good bad because it is a house where if a graha is placed more or less it is going to give you trouble that's certain just like sixth house sixth is going to lose you for trouble seventh eighth house is also going to give you trouble Eighth House is everything in your life that you cannot see everything that you cannot predict you thought that every all all bases are covered eighth house is what you'd never expect to happen unexpected things accidents nobody expects an accident right absolutely unknown things that comes from ethos whether sometimes you will see a person normal life is leading out of the blue he acquires some wealth or something like that happens or something some Sudden Change that comes in positive or negative it's all Eighth House that which you could not predict before no one could predict out of the blue it will happen ethers also governs your longevity more or less how many years you will survive Eighth House is death 836 7000 is also six but Eighth House shows whether a person enjoys it or not and it can also govern and show you if there are any kind of diseases or anything related to sexuality all that will come out from the Eighth House Eighth House is occult almost every individual who is good in occult will have certain strong Eighth House combinations okay because occult means what that which you cannot actually see in the normal sense that's where your local starts ethos governs all that okay ethers also governs things like Kundalini and thing all that so Eighth House also governs inheritance very interestingly okay whether you will attain inheritance it also governs whether you will attain any inheritance from your spouse some people were married into very rich family okay you get something from there so all that is governed by the condition of the Eighth House okay then comes to ninth house nine thousand your father nine thousands of Dharma your Guru whose father is your first Guru in a way when a child is born is considered ninth House shows more or less if a person what kind of Guru and what kind of guidance you will receive where he will receive the guidance from what teaches how is his equation with the teachers okay these things will come out from the ninth house plus ninth house also governs things like suppose you're doing PhD and that type of that level of study ninth house comes into play Okay um pit through doshas and all that if they are there in the chart they are reflected uh among other things in through the ninth house also okay so ninth house is fundamentally your Guru actually by the way not just fifth ninth is also your day with the ninth is not just today whether it is in your house or your wherever you do your spiritual practice it governs and shows what kind of spiritual practice is doing is that space nice or is that space the problematic or whatever many things can come in ninth is a connection to God okay then comes tenth house tenthos is very powerful house tenth is your karma karma is fundamentally where are you placed in society how is society looking at you what have you achieved in life what is your area of work so basically when questions on career and work comes in 10 becomes very important you see that what kind of work you can do so now if you link this knowledge with the see initials of jyotish are people have to remember these things if you don't will never be able to do jyotish this should be completely inside your head so we have talked about Mars as a graha that connects to police and army and suppose someone has Mars placed in the tenth house very strong you can more or less predict that okay this guy is going to likely to go into police or some this type of work okay because that is the area of work and that is there now if you change Mars and suppose Venus comes in safely either going to be in some fashion industry or Media or something like that change it to Moon okay Moon I had said among other things is that food so maybe you should open a restaurant see change it to Sun try for government jobs upsc this that it's just straight away tenth house is also um in some people some people consider 10th also to be father okay but more or less fundamentally tense shows your uh kind of your where do you stand in society what work you can do and how far you will succeed and things like that okay so that makes it a very crucial house for people okay 10th is that then comes to the 11th house Eleventh House governs things like wealth you're earning okay how much salary are you getting or how much what is your earning from the work you are getting whatever you are doing okay Eleventh House is first thing is earnings second thing about 11th house is that um it also rules your friends how is your friend's Circle okay so if you have a rahu in your 11th house you will have rahu influenced friends around you okay like that these two connections are very simple so once you remember these two first step of jyotish is to remember these things unless you remember them you'll never be able to do you remember them then you uh then you apply after that you practice and apply and there are other sadhanas you do which can make you better enjoy this many things are there anyway so wealth earnings specifically salary what we call all these things are Eleventh House Eleventh House is also your friends eleventh is also your Elder sibling somebody is Elder to you if you have an elder sibling if if at all you have an elder sibling what is your equation with the Elder sibling all these things will come in 11th house okay and Eleventh House is also your relatives more or less broadly speaking see uh what I'm again whatever the the C as I'm saying about the different houses these are like the first level there are more things involved as I said nine grahas 12 houses govern everything in the world if you can see it that way okay so obviously the list would be very heavy after 11th so 11th house uh if somebody has a um to give an example if somebody has Jupiter in the 11th house he'll make a lot of wealth but it'll be clean wealth because Jupiter is an ethical somebody has said it'd be very rich in fact negative Growers they are not negative in the 11th house bring tremendous amount of wealth but there'll always be some corruption involved in it is not going to be in fact understanding these things in a horoscope you can look at a person's horoscope and see that easy amenable to corruption or not can you bribe this person or not even better than predicting what is going to happen later horoscopes work even more powerfully in understanding and nature of the person how is he going to react if you know your fundamentals in jyotish well you can figure out if you have data on the person's date time and place of birth you have some level of power over the person uh one way of looking at it that way but nature is smarter than you remember this always so nature is never going to give power to somebody who doesn't deserve it there is a responsibility that comes in with jyotish not to be misused and if you start frivolously using it after some time your predictions all of them will go wrong wow you can try you can mug up all the texts in the world still the art of prediction is something different it will still when we keep things are not going correct so Nature has its own way of balancing things big boss is nature then after the 11th house we come to the 12th house 12th house is also sort of a negative house just like Sixth and 8th 12th there is something negative and then there is something positive also in the negative sense 12th house represents things hidden enemies you may have hospitalization long-term diseases secret relationships okay which are not there in public secretly some Affair or something going on Etc on the positive side 12th house can represent meditative capacity through those is it's like that part of the mind or that zone it's also your sleep by the way yeah two of those are your sleep so looking at two others you can figure out okay whether a person dreams a lot dreams less good dreams bad dreams many things can you can figure out uh and yes meditative capacity whether you can meditate because meditation is also like sleep except you are not losing consciousness completely okay you are being aware and you are going to a different Zone how far you can meditate or not depends on often very good meditators have very strong in the 12th house so these are the 12 horses now we're done with the theory of astrology yes wow and this is not even one percent of the subject no no there's a lot of other things okay at this point in the show I have to ask you some FAQs okay frequently asked questions all right let's talk about sarees Saturn's Transit over Moon basically so Saturn is what a very dry Planet as I told you it's very in that sense very disciplined Planet it's not an emotional planet Moon is an emotional whenever these two come together more or less it is going to cause you pain okay because it's it's very diverse nature as in when it meets in your first house no no anywhere it meets that house it will cause some pain so if it meets in your house of spouse it'll cause fights in your marriage if it meets fights or some other problem or the other if it meets in your careers will cause career problems yes okay okay but this is the general in the horoscopic combination but what is known as sarasati is that uh so now there are two aspects one is that you are born with a certain combination of gloves apart from that the grahas are always moving transiting right through the Zodiac so that is called as transit or gochar okay so when the Growers are these two have to be combined together for predictions when Saturn is passing over your moon that is known as sarasati because Saturn takes two and a half years to cross one Rashi okay so basically uh Saturn's influence starts even before it reaches your moon which means to give an example we were talking about the 12 houses say say Aries let's just say Aries Aries before Aries you have Pisces and after it is you have Taurus so somebody's moon is in areas suppose Saturn is passing through Pisces it will start its effect on the moon already two and a half years of Pisces then two and a half years of Aries then two and a half years of Taurus seven and a half years it is going to influence the moon that's why but it is not always bad it's more of projection that has been done that it is very bad sometimes it will be bad and in some individuals it may not be bad okay it depends on multiple factors which is other planetary positions in your planetary positions fundamental strength of the horoscope suppose somebody's Moon already has an inference of Saturn which means that right from a younger age only they are accustomed to getting beaten up by life say it is not going to be worse than what is already there so that's in a way of looking at children suppose is running but your Dasha is positive Dasha means now there is the other concept of time each of the Growers get a certain time which it governs your life okay so your Dasha is positive you will find more or less positive results will not impact you that much okay or if the moon is very strongly placed you will have the ability to withstand whatever Saturn is teaching you okay um I have to ask you some more mystical questions as well okay uh if I take up monkood a year from now will my entire chart be turned upside down because I'm shedding off my identity and all that no it's not that easy to get out of the grass growers will already indicate that whether you are taking up one good or not okay a person gets out of the influence of Growers at a very very very very very late stage in the spiritual journey in the spiritual journey if you are a good if you have good grasp of the subject and you have some blessings of some deities or there are people like that you can figure out for a long part of the journey to go out of the influence of grahas yeah it is possible it comes at a much later stage not the initial stages okay so effectively for the average human what should be the approach towards astrology according to you after studying astrology so much should you even be knowing your future uh that depends on you I think for us see even this is also an interesting question you can see a chart and say that whether this person will be able to learn astrology or not no in terms of should everyone even be getting their charts read right so uh in terms of when there is a difficulty it is good to have some amount of guidance from it but also understand that don't go into specific details of it specific details means astrology has this problem of weakening the mind also in some cases which means once you take some reading so you'll feel for every small thing you'll think that okay let's just check the chart no it doesn't work that way look at a broad perspective broad perspective means okay I am running this particular these are the themes related to my chart which will work for the next few years this broad idea you have then you use your own natural intelligence and hard work and work do not if do not some people have that it's a weakness of the mind every day morning you go and open your chart and see what is going to happen that is all nonsense so that will weaken the mind astrology is very good if used in the right degree when they do your kundali matching before marriage what is actually happening are you superimposing the two charts on each other no kind of but basically you see that what is the level of compatibility at in using various parameters multiple parameters are there okay some parameters are whether there's a mental compatibility uh whether there is a family wise compatibility because marriage is considered not just at least when these were devised so marriage is not just about two individuals it's like two families coming together so if uh sometimes it may show that there may be lack of compatibility among the families okay uh physical compatibility between the individuals whether there's a support system and then there are few other factors which are more mystical in nature which shows that okay is this Union going to bring forth a positive result in terms of children and other things and growth these so all these things are taken into account that's one aspect of it but that is not a final aspect final aspect means in my experience what is the standard matching of horoscopes is not enough apart from that there are also some other techniques to find out whether there is a certain level of compatibility or not possible it becomes very crucial to do that today because unlike past we have the option of divorces here uh pass there was no divorces so you get married you are like stuck in there more or less okay today people get married after a few years or not even that less than that things don't match you move out okay so therefore accordingly understanding also has to change and have a more uh you know according so so whether there is a certain degree of compatibility in the graphas that also has to be checked there's never going to be by the way a perfect compatibility that doesn't happen have you seen a marriage where there is a bad compatibility theoretically according to the kundli but then it ends up in a good marriage is that possible or it's unlikely so it depends on what you mean by good marriage isn't it like they rate it on a score of 34 or 36 36 yeah and then above a certain point also is not good and then below seven points also not good you just so that that's exactly what I was telling in the previous one which is the previous answer I was saying so this is the we call the Guna matching what are the gunas Guna qualities basically of matching Etc it's like the mathematics of compatibility yeah but it is not foolproof okay I have seen cases where people have had low scores but they have had good more or less good no one no marriage is perfect ever okay but moral is good and they're doing good whereas I've seen cases where the matching is shown very high scores but it did not last that's why I say that that is not enough there is to be a basic also checking of the condition of the grahas and how they it's kind of superimpose the chart with its own techniques and all are there so that gives a more deeper Clarity whether these two individuals are fit to be together how much does intense levels of Tantra shift your entire chart no nothing shifts you into a chart okay that idea you take it out of the head first it is going to be more I have not seen anybody being able to change their entire chart what not just Tantra let's make it more genetic so spiritual practices you can here is the thing if you have reached a level where you have developed a connection with your rishta devatha whoever it is proper connection not just theoretical make them proper connection then the Ishita devatha has a far higher intelligence than you he or she will guide you through those times which no astrologer can guide ever that is a way of so it is not that the karmas are Vanishing the karmic momentum that thing is coming towards you but the history knows how to bypass this your bodyguard then more of them it's like you have surrendered to that devatha they will take care who is it comes to the same thing as I mentioned was giving an example that suppose somebody's leg is supposed to be cut because of some karmic thing or accident or something like that he does a lot of sadhana instead of cutting the leg there may be just a pin prick that karma is getting nullified level however is not easy it can only come when the Easter takes control of a person's life and that is not at all is it what about astrology TV shows and channels that talk about wearing gemstones or even crystals like these these are Loosely related to astrology what is the role of crystals gemstones and all in like changing your behavioral patterns or your story so fundamentally astrology has this other aspect that is I was talking about this the remedial measures if there is something that is problematic first of all whether it can be limited and what is the best way to remedy that among the remedial measures that are possible there are multiple things worship of deities specific mantras to be done specific activities to be performed or wearing a specific gemstones related to the grass now which of these remedies are going to work for individual that is for the astrologer to determine okay okay it is not necessary for everybody to wear these gemstones neither is it in some cases it will work very well so it that that judgment has to be done by the person who is looking at the horoscope crystals entered my life very organically naturally and I've gotten really into them lately is it because of something in my charts uh possible is there any logic like if you buy too many crystals you're playing too much with your karmas no no so first of all don't worry about playing with the karmas and all that those things are whatever is to like like a particular amount of um particular momentum of events that are supposed to happen kind of going to happen anyway that is going to come so get that idea very clear in your head first okay that is not going to specifically if there is something that is going to cause a strong impact on your Consciousness that is sort of prefixed up as an individual what you can do is that how do you prepare yourself for it so it is not that bringing too many crystals are going to cause anything bad I mean I have not dealt with crystals too much uh gemstones and all is fine but crystals I haven't dealt so I am I do not think that there is anything negative that is going to happen if you know what you are doing and what you are dealing with and I believe that crystals can hold energies uh I think somebody who's more into crystals may be able to explain better but I don't think it is one way or the other it is not going to shift your karma so easily unless and here is again coming back to the three types of karma that I have told you if there are other karmas there are weak karmas etc those two you can shift through these things but remember that which is a jira Karma horoscope anybody's horoscope that um nothing can change okay nothing in the world will change that is you have to go through that I mean again I keep boiling myself back down to this deity question and Tantra question it's not easy to spiritually progress that's one thing I figured you need discipline hard work willpower yes you're earning all that spiritual progress through so much will power and discipline it doesn't shift anything yeah next life it'll shift now so only only the next life you're preparing right now these are not things of one lifetime it's like that student who is working hard for an exam that's two days away thinking that I'll make my yeah day tomorrow easier I'll just revise tomorrow I'll finish my portion today yeah it's it's not necessarily going to bring you the right results so you have to take expand your understanding of the time skills in our system for jyotesh and this and then Karma it is not um so death is not the end so you are carrying forward some things from here and the practices you are doing are modifying what is what you're going to get the next time okay specifically when there are fixed karmas that cannot be changed so this is the way to go about it do you think we've missed out anything in this conversation yeah 90 is left let's talk about jyotish sadness you said that even a good jyotish has to follow certain spiritual disciplines right so today most of them don't okay almost nobody who is into jyotish does any kind of and all that but in a previous era there used to be the norm that before you start reading charts and all that uh you start getting um some connection to some deity okay and that helps you in specifically there are going to be horoscopes so there are going to be things which are going to be tricky when it is tricky then see this is what I told you is the logic but after this there are many things to be weighed in the chart right so that is not a particularly scientific there's not mathematical it's something that organically intuitively you have to determine okay these are the Growers these are the positive this is a negative so where does it weigh is it going to be finely positive or friendly negative that governing capacity is an individual's capacity same horoscope you give to 10 people it's if it's a slightly tricky horoscope they may come with 10 different interpretations of it so which is the right one there you need some inspiration from some deity that's why previously it used to be today's time I would say that if somebody is interested in jyotish one of the best things to do is worship ganpati he has the knowledge and he has the If He blesses somebody you will learn jyotish if you have um the basics You Are Meant To Learn then ganpati is the best deity one of the best date is to worship but not the only deity why did you get into it I was just curious someday I remember somebody uh somebody gave the chart and somebody gave some readings and all that so I just thought that let's see what is there in it so I bought some books and started reading and after that I started predicting just like that and slowly slowly knowledge accumulated practice that's how it started um what sadness should those uh professional astrologers be doing right now so most of them that I have met do not do any sadhnas so there I feel that they're correct prediction volume of correct prediction many factors are there their own horoscopes are also there what their own horoscopes are also there suppose an astrologer is passing through a bad time he may know everything but his predictions are going to all fail hmm okay okay so uh I feel that generally as I mentioned the worship of ganpati is very good if not ganpati then if you have an ishta devatha whom you connect to some the even little bit of connection then it's good to worship that deity and it will build up a stronger chance of success in predicting finally the end of the day jyotish is about prediction you may know all the theory and your predictions may all go wrong then it's not much useful right so it's a way of divination okay a palmistry and face reading related subjects yeah palmistry is related to jyotish in some senses so your palm does have some those who don't palmistry they can figure out how the Growers are placed really huh wow do you know palmistry a little bit really you know my chart so by seeing my hand do you see parallels no no I will not go into the specifics of it yeah no that I will that's not yeah but yeah palmistry can uh give you some hint but there are other things also jyotish is I Rely more on jyotish than on palmistry if needed uh but jyotish has this other aspects as I mentioned to you murta and there is something called a prashna that's very interesting what is Krishna prashna is suppose you have a question and you are serious about the question okay it's not not a frivolous question but seriously something is bothering you Etc you may not have your birth data and all that it can still be answered because the moment that question comes in your head and you decide to take help from somebody you approach somebody I have this doubt I have this question at that moment at that place it's like a birth chart time place and that date this at that moment will give you an answer key what is what is the answer to the question which is it positive negative will it work out will not work out what are the obstacles what time everything damn that is prashna damn and specifically in South in Kerala lot of texts were created on prashna and fantastic texts are there great texts are there they call it a so many things everything can be in fact whenever there's a doubt in the horoscope not just doubt here's the other thing just somebody in the horoscope for example is your um accumulated karmas from past right so there are certain astrologers who will suppose you approach them but it has to be done in seriousness that's what I say astrology should not be frivolous I get up in the morning and have nothing to do and I just open some chart no if you really need help at that time only you should approach an astrologer or use astrology if you're if you know that thing so you open your birth horoscope but at the same time look at the grahas in the sky compare these two that will tell you that whether you have in this life you have done positive things or negative things you said that if you have a burning desire to know something important and you go to a good jyotish he will look up at the sky basically which is the astrological chart and he'll be able to predict time which means time and space are always connected in terms of your life and its outcomes and results will be a result of what point in your timeline you're at but you'll get a trailer and a preview by looking at the stars and the wall with designs around you yes so uh if I understand what you're saying correctly so yes at any given point if you approach the astrologer with a specific burning question in your head at that moment the condition of the grahas where they are placed in which Rashi etcetera treat it like a birth chart at that moment looking at the grahas you can figure out that whether that specific thing that you have in mind whether it will what what is the outcome of that positive negative how much time it will require what needs to be done instead of everything you can find out makes me think even more that we're living inside a simulation which we are according to spiritual theory that we've spoken about in all these other episodes and astrology is basically Gods we are giving you a hint about what's going to happen in your version of the simulation in the near or far future uh yeah uh depends on how you define God the universe the universe the universe is like a software the universe is like a software so constantly there's a feedback loop everything that you're doing is getting fed into that whatever algorithm it has and it's turning out that okay yeah you are doing this so this is the outcome that is going to come this is the outro it's constantly real time it's happening okay which means that what actions you perform can also modify it if you give it a certain amount of time and that time is not always in one lifetime I have a friend who's recently started studying the bhagavad-gita okay through classes and she's not so into spirituality so I actually wanted to know what she picked up from the web either like what's the basic understanding she said that the Gita says that there's actually no such thing as good or bad we look at it as good or bad based on our conditioning and our stories till that point the universe is just reacting to your karmas so effectively what you're meant to do in the present moment is just try being a good person and try getting more spiritualized it basically boils under that because you can't help what's going to happen to you because it's happened in your past and you might look at it as a bad event but it's actually just an outcome of what you've done in the past already my view no please that's why I'm bringing up so again slight deviation from what exactly you asked so whenever somebody tells me that Gita says this first question has tell me the sloka okay because the Gita is the most popular book also is the most abused book really people have their own understanding fed into the Gita Gita finally one book will have for everything gita's wonderful text but Gita is not at all in easy text people have made it easy because they have owned their own understandings also they are fed into because first of all nobody knows most people don't know Sanskrit the read commentaries commentaries and then they add up things and pick up one two slokas from here and there and make up an idea Gita maybe saying that Gita says a lot of things about a lot of things by the way Gita is a progression from chapter 1 to chapter 18. it is a progression you cannot suddenly randomly pick up one verse from here and one verse from there in one place Krishna tells Arjuna that you have to go beyond The Vedas because The Vedas are three gunas again at I think 16th or 17th chapter he says the person who does not follow the shastras what is written in the shrithi and mrity and Shruti which is The Vedas and the vedanga and the other Etc is acting out of his Free Will and is mostly deluded so one place is saying go beyond The Vedas other places saying that everything is The Vedas how do you reconcile these two unless you ask this question reconciliation it's a very terrific text but it's also a text that uh to to imbibe it correctly uh I feel that both at a spiritual and an intellectual level it requires a certain degree of practice maturity and other things are involved in it so it's fantastic so anyway whenever somebody tells it Gita says this first question they ask is that please tell me which sloka is telling this then I can answer you because you might think that the Gita is saying this I might read the sloka and find a different meaning out of it in the context of the other verses okay because it's not that one verse has to be taken out of context there's a reason why he says all he he speaks of Moksha I think in the fourth or fifth chapter but it doesn't stop the Gita then no he could have just said Arjuna attain Moksha everything is over now after that also there are other things going on I think this is the end of the episode is there anything we've missed out on so on jyotish anything that you would like to mention uh learn jyotish respect yotish to not abuse jyotish lot of people have used jyotish abuse of jyotisha's everyday morning wake up and see what is there in my horoscope that's an abuse of the Vidya it's a very powerful Vidya it is more powerful than intuitions and other things I've seen people with intuitions they're good but if you have trust on jyotish it's a Vidya that vidy has to come to you once it comes to you then and you respect that Vidya by not being frivolous about it do not just open your chart just like that randomly earlier times the astrologers who were really careful they were also deeply spiritual so they would uh specific days they'll sit prop you know they'd expect the person who is coming to come with a certain degree of calmness you take a bath and you you know like you go to a spiritual place like that you just didn't wake up and those days it used to happen that you have to be physically present in front of the astrology because today the phones and all are there uh it's so powerful in art I don't call it a science it's an art so powerful an art the way you come into the room the way you sit the which part of the body you are touching by that only already I have an understanding which Grava is influencing you if I'm good with my knowledge of the basics and if I have some blessings of the deities then there is another part I forgot to mention this this is another astrology which is very uh very powerful it's down in in South it's quite popular and not it's very rare Deva Krishna means how do you know the will of a deity in a temple how do you know the will of a deity in a temple yes you can know that definitely there are there's a there's a huge astrological exercise that is done not everybody can do it people who are trained in it can do it Deva prashna they call it it can go on for days you mean a particular Temple what is that Temple's purpose no then the devatha in the temple if you go say you go to tirupati this lord venkateswara inside if you go to Kashi Kashi visheshwar inside what do you think is there just no there is a deity present there and what is the deity thinking what is the date you want what is his or her will and in South that is very commonly done in great temples and everything you can ask you may even ask a lot of questions you may put a lot of questions you may put and that questions will tell you various answers to what to do what not to do I know a specific case uh uh of an individual friend of mine they had a temple uh and uh I think they were vishnavas so this is very interesting I love this episode so they had the some things were going on so they invited one of the most knowledgeable people and one of the most advanced people to do a Deva prashna so he came with his team and all that and he sits there all it's a vaishnava setting um they're all vaishnavas and all that and there's the small boy so he just calls that boy and says that randomly take a name of the god you like best and this voice is Shiva who knows why he says Shiva everybody is like little stunned because it's completely vegetable they don't engage with other details and then the Deva prashna starts one after the other one after the from that point it's like a nimit it's a sign because they started with certain kinds of uh they have their own so people who do engage in these type of jyotisha Are Spiritual people ordinarys cannot do these things okay so as the Deva prashna keeps going on uh he finds out more and more about Shiva it's turning out Shiva and then says that in your family there is some Shiva Temple that is there which is being neglected and that is causing all these issues the deity is not happy then they found that yes there was a Shiva Temple that was given they were given to take care of which was not taken care properly and neglected and then they build certain things based on the prashna certain tanks a couple of other things specific pujas and all that done and the issues started getting all resolved and things like that Deva prashna is a way to know the will of the deity in the temple cross the boundary of this universe no it is more or less so what is a deity in a temple deities Gods we have Shiva in the universe but we also have the Jodi lignus so a portion of shiva's energy which is as Divine comes and resides there for the benefit of humanity okay and we do worship of it we benefit from it within a certain geographical area it will have its influence because the ultimate the cosmic Shiva out of his own kindness he comes in because not everybody can connect to that shivana so he he comes in in the jyotirlingas in the other places with tremendous amount of power so that Ordinary People can benefit from there but the power has still some geographical uh limitations within which it works okay in fact having temples of deities who are worshiped in certain places built in the right Manner and it cements uh sort of the positive energy of that place and ensures that negativity or things are reduced uh I just wanted this to be an astrology 101 right for people to kind of understand what's going on in eastern astrology because there's a big upsurge in the popularity of Western astrology I think people from all over the world do turn to India when we talk about these metaphysical right subjects so I hope that this piece that we've created Finds Its way to the rest of the world as well so again thank you uh thank you looking forward to another episode with you yeah thank you so much so that was the episode for today I want to make a lot more episodes about astrology so if you have guest recommendations please let me know tell me what you thought about this slightly Hut ktrs episode there are more episodes with rajashi nandi that will be released very very soon so stay tuned for some more epic TRS episodes and please keep sending in your guest suggestions we'll be back very soon everyone [Music] thank you