Sub- Period of Capricorn

Sub-periods of two months each, starting from Sagittarius take us to Leo after eight months from January 1981. Leo is aspected by Darakaraka, the Sun, and she got married.

In one year and six months after January 1981, we reach sub-­period of Pisces. Pisces is aspected by the Putrakaraka (child­giver) Mercury. In August 1982 she gave birth to a daughter.

Early Years of Life

In Chicago and earlier in New York, I met some persons who objected to my habit of starting any astrological reading beginning with the early years of their life. The objection is untenable as they who claim to do psychological reading of any individual must first see the influences that shaped the outlook of an individual.

This exercise must always be done to make sure that the horoscope you ore working on is correct. Hindu astrology which is so well developed always starts with the analysis of a horoscope with childhood influences because it is the most developed and most sophisticated and refined method of psychological delineation of human character. It is true that Indian astrologers do not use the jargon of modern psychology and refrain from talking like western astrologers – “you must use your Sun-energy well during the present period”, etc.

Hindu astrology is spiritual first then material, three-dimen­sional in its approach because the analysis of a horoscope is always divided, starting from the ascendant into three triangles:

(i)         The first triangle consists of the first, the fifth and the ninth houses which represent, brahmacharya or life of celibacy; the second, the sixth and the tenth houses grihastha or the life of a house-holder, or the worldly duties of a man or woman; the third, the seventh and the eleventh houses, vanaprastha or the beginning of detachment from worldly duties and sincere devotion to the higher spiritual life, and finally the fourth, the eighth and the twelfth houses are the houses of sannyasa or a life of renunciation.

What counselling can be done if an astrologer is not able to see what energies are getting released and when from the sub-stratum of an individual’s personality?

(ii)        The second triangle is to be divided thus: the first, the fifth and the ninth houses pertain to dharma or ethical-religious conduct; the second, the sixth and the tenth houses pertain to artha or the efforts put in to earn and accumulate wealth; the third, the seventh and the eleventh houses pertain to koama or desires, sensual and sexual; and the fourth, the eighth and the twelfth houses pertain to moksha or such efforts as are put in to attain salvation.

(iii)       The third triangle is a three fold division of the twelve houses and is to be used only in those cases in which an astrologer’s concentration is on spiritual questions. Here the first, the second, the third and the fourth houses are the houses of spiritual efforts to control extroversion; the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and the eighth houses are the houses of introvert spiritual practices and finally the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh and the twelfth houses are the houses of the blossoming of spiritual practices.

These three triangles are made use of only by adept astrologers to answer deep material and spiritual questions of an individual.

Most of the astrologers are only fortune-tellers or the so-called counsellors who can do what they do without even a horoscope. In fact when I told someone who claimed to be doing counselling through horoscopes without even understanding the meaning of planetary combinations, that he could do what he was doing by merely holding a blank piece of paper before his eyes, he felt hurt. I apologised to him. Nevertheless I stick to that view.

PART – III

10 The First Lesson:

Childhood

Now see the horoscope of a child born on January 30, 1992 at 07.21 a.m., New Delhi. The lagna lord Saturn and the eighth lord Sun are on the same degrees. The Gnatikaraka who represents the sixth house and therefore accidents and diseases, Venus is in Sagittarius with Mars and Rahu and is heavily afflicted. In the Vimshottari dasha it was the period of Mercury, the sixth lord.

The Chara dasha begins with Capricorn which contains two malefics. The first sub-period is of Sagittarius, the rashi of accidents. It contains the Gnatikaraka, the karaka of accidents.  An alarming situation. The child got drowned in a tub, was somehow saved by the doctors but his brain is totally dead.

Now see the horoscope of the mother born on September 4, 1967 at Gorakhpur (lat. 26°45’N, long. 83°24’£) with Scorpio.

Lagna              17⁰28’              Mars                21⁰43’              Venus              12⁰06’

Sun                  15⁰40’              Mercury             6⁰34’              Saturn              15⁰30’

Moon               24⁰42’              Jupiter (R)       19⁰27’              Rahu                15⁰53’

ascendant and the Putrakaraka and the Gnathikaraka in Leo whose period she was running when the child was born to her.

Lagna              24°03′              Mars                2°53′                Venus(R)(GK)                       9°10′

Sun                  17⁰41′              Mercury           27″21′              Saturn (R)                   17°45′

Moon (PK)      15°20′              Jupiter             27″55′              Rahu                            5°24′

Analyse both the horoscopes and see how destinies are interlinked. Those who come under the sway of western thinking and insist, that man has complete freedom, will be surprised how it can be seen through Hindu astrology that man’s free­will can operate only within his predestined fate and never outside. But that is not the subject matter right now.

Time for Education

In India we are used to seeing children going to schools first, then to colleges and finally for higher education or some specialisation in middle and upper middle classes mostly. Among the poorer classes start of working life is generally earlier with some elementary education.

In USA and Europe higher education is unlike India, where proper education of the child is given perhaps undue importance.

In USA it is not unusual to come across instances of middle aged or even old persons joining colleges late if family burdens are less, which are less, unlike India where an old man will never join such courses in old age because he feels socially inhibited.*

References: 1. Normal education at normal age. (p.2, Pro iii) 2. Computer Training at the age of 22 in a foreign country. (pol3, ibid) 3. Education interrupted temporarily (p.97).

Keeping this background in the mind, Chara dasha should be used to see from early childhood if a person is progressing smoothly in formal education or there are some breaks.

How this is to be seen is being shown here through examples.

Abbreviations Used in Illustrations :

Some abbreviations which will be used throughout in these illustrations are:

AK for Atmakaraka                                        G K for Gnatikaraka

AmK for Amatyakaraka                                 DK for Darakaraka

BK for Bhratrikaraka                                      Aroodha for Aroodha or Pad a Lagna

MK for Matrikaraka                                        UP for Upa-pada Lagna

PK for Putrakaraka                                         KL for Karakamsha Lagna

Education

The First Illustration (Chart 3)

Here the ascendant is Cancer so the dasha order will be indirect: Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Pisces, etc.

The Cancer period ran from 1963 to 1973.

The Gemini period was from 1973 to 1984.

The sub-periods in Gemini major period were: Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio which ran from November 1979 to October 1980.

Now the features of the Gemini period are that from here two benefics, Jupiter and Venus are in the tenth house while another benefic, the Moon is in the fourth house. Such a period will be predominantly good.

In November 1979 when the native reached the sub-period of Scorpio, she got again two benefics. in the fifth house aspected by the Moon. She did exceedingly well in her studies and decided to appear for the competitive examination for a medical career.

She reached the sub-period of Libra from where the AmK is in the tenth house, aspecting her fifth house of education. She succeeded in the competitive examination and was selected.

Note:   It is always necessary to cross-check such events by looking at the corresponding Vimshottari dasha at that period.

Lagna              21⁰20’              Mars                23⁰06’              Venus              18⁰49’

Sun                  19⁰44’              Mercury             6⁰58’              Saturn              29⁰04’

Moon                 1⁰01’              Jupiter             13⁰36’              Venus              29⁰40’

She was running the major period of Mars from 1977 and it is her fifth lord of education and is aspected by Jupiter from the ninth house. The debilitation of Mars also gets annuled by the aspect of Jupiter in such a case.

The Second Illustration (Chart 4)

Here the Chara dasha is being used to show the departure I have made from the widely prevalent method of calculating Chara dasha.

The Gemini period ran from 1958 to 1961 (no extra addition has been taken for exalted Mercury here).

The Taurus period was from 1961 to 1965 (no extra deduction has been given for debilitated Venus).

The Aries period was upto 1966.

The Pisces period was upto 1971.

The Aquarius period was upto 1976 (here Rahu being with more planets is stronger).

The Capricorn period was upto 1978.

The Sagittarius period ran for full ten years upto 1988.

This young man underwent a special professional course in computer engineering during this period in a foreign country and has made a very good career.

The first sub-period in this period was of Scorpio from where Amatyakaraka aspects the fifth house.

Lagna              29⁰13’              Mars                   9⁰13’             Venus              11⁰48’

Sun                  20⁰41’              Mercury           22⁰21’             Saturn              27⁰23’

Moon                11⁰34’             Jupiter             12⁰42’              Rahu                29⁰17’

Note:   In Vimshottari dasha he was running the period of exalted Mercury from 1966 to 1983 when he completed his special technical education and started a very good career.

Pause and Think

Now pause and think whatever you have read so far. You will have noticed the following features:

1. Life is an eternal flow, a flux. In the greatest epic of the world, the Mahabharata, Bhishma, the venerable warrior describes our meetings and partings in life and likens them to logs flowing downstream, and getting driven in different directions by the currents of water.

Jaimini’s Chara dasha shows it as no other dasha ever can.

2. Have you noticed that your Atmakaraka (AK) is sometimes in one house and sometimes in a different house from your major period. Even within one major period, there are always changes manifesting as sub-periods are changing.

This is what is called the kaleidoscope of life.

3. If you find such changes visible in not one or two horoscopes but in hundreds of them, do you find yourself in a position to accept that there is some unknown karma which keeps on sprouting when you expect it the least?
4. Now combine it with Vimshottari dasha and seek confir­mation of what you see happening. Does it now convince you that there is Destiny?
5. From this stage do you feel convinced that it is astrology, through its refined predictive techniques alone that can explain the strangest quirks of life?
6. Does it then not take you to the next step and force you to accept that you did not know why, what happened to you happened?
7. So now do you get convinced that if astrology is not predictive it is not a super-science?
8. It must then lead you into the acceptance of the reality of transmigration of souls. Is that correct?
9. Which nation or which religion or religions believe in the truth of the transmigration of souls? You perhaps know the answer.
10. So in which country of the world do you think astrology originated, was developed, respected and used effectively?
11. But there is the lurking fear in your mind that if every event in life is predestined, where is the role of free-will?

No one can give a difinite answer to this, other than the Creator himself.

Let me tell you something still more significant which will arouse your hopes. Even the best astrologer of the world commits enough silly mistakes in his readings. When you get a bad prediction, do not become -gloomy. Two thoughts should spring up in your mind: the first that the astrologer may have committed one of his silly mistakes and the second that prayers do work miracles. I have seen that happen in life.

It is for this reason that astrology which is described as jyotisha in India was a compulsory subject of study in the hermitages of great seers. Brought to the marketplace now, if astrology has become a marketable commodity in most of the countries of the world, it is because of the corrupting mercenary tendencies of the age of technology and publicity in which we live.

The need to deliver this sermon arose from the fact that very few astrologers remember that j yotisha (astrology) basically ought to remain, a spiritual-academic discipline.

Revision of Predictive Techniques

The techniques which have been described so far should be revised first, as in the subsequent chapters full-length discussion will not be done.

Such an exercise must be done more and more these days when astrologers too, like other persons in the technological countries have become slaves of computers. We are living in such an era in which some brilliant inventors have given us super­sophisticated tools, the result of which is that the computer does what in earlier ages human brain was required to do. Man has become the machine and the computer the brain. I found it to be so in USA and in England with most of the literate persons. But computer cannot take the place of man fir judgement of the horoscope. For that, man alone has to develop the astrological agility of mind.

First Predictive Lesson

1. Why did he do well in his studies?
2. How did he get selected for an all-India service?
3. Why did the marriage take place in the Scorpio-Scorpio period?

Now prepare the navamsha, all the sub-periods of Saturn in the Vimshottari dasha, explain why Saturn proved so fruitful.

Combine now both the Chara dasha of Jaimini and the Vimshottari dasha of Parashara and see why both must give the same results. That is how predictive techniques are to be developed and an astrological mind shaped.

I have called it the composite technique and it is being practised and revived now by our students in India.

The Second Predictive Lesson

1. Prepare the navamsha and the Vimshottari dasha. You will see that in the period of Mars, the seventh and the twelfth lord for this ascendant, both responsible for preparation of a foreign services career and marriage become visible.
2. Why did she have a child in Rahu-Rahu-Moon period?
3. In doing this, go upto the sub-sub period.
4. Sometimes if the birth time has an error, both the sub-sub period in Vimshottari dasha and the calculation of the degrees of the ascendant may be wrong.
5. As you gain more and more experience you will realise that the Chara dasha gives you a hint and the Vimshottari dasha if worked upto sub-sub period” the correct timing. If the ascendant is not changing, Chara dasha will in any case enable you to see the event clearly though in timing it accurately, more sophisticated methods of Vedic astrology will have to be used.

The Third Predictive Lesson

Now see the horoscopes of both the mother and the child and note the role of Gnathikaraka! (GK) in both cases. GK can cause disease also and can bring into one’s life the active role of a relation.

Now prepare the horoscope of the father of the boy (the husband of this woman); born on February 18, 1966 at 01 hours and 03 minutes at lat. 25⁰45’ and long. 84°09’E, India. Work out yourself both the Chara dasha and the Vimshottari dasha. See if the same event is reflected in it or not. This the Composite Technique I have evolved and illustrated in my articles and books, and a full length portraits using this is given my book Astrological Journey through History, Mystery and Horoscopes.

Such repeated exercises must be done to develop an astrological mind which no computer will do for you.

The Fourth Predictive Lesson

Now do similar exercises in the illustrations under education (Chart 3 and 4). Take up your own horoscope and do a similar exercise to find out the education-pattern in your own case and other people known to you

Interruption in Education

Interruption in education can happen anytime in childhood, adolescence, adulthood or even later when native runs into a bad astrological period. It is being illustrated.

Lagna                5⁰20’              Mars                27⁰48’              Venus                2⁰35’

Sun                  15⁰40’              Mercury           20⁰45’              Saturn (R)       20⁰20’

Moon                 7⁰27’              Jupiter                         27⁰56’              Rahu                  4⁰10’

Chara dasha :

Aries    1977 to 1985

Taurus 1985 to 1995

The event to be examined is that her mother was quite sick in the middle of 1992. If you calculate the Taurus sub-periods on the basis of ten years, this falls in the period Taurus-Cancer.  Her Matrikaraka representing mother is in Cancer.

The corresponding period in Vimshottari Dasha was Mars major period and Mercury sub-period. Now first see the Vimshottari Dasha; Mars as the lord of the ascendant and the eighth house is with Mercury, the third and the sixth lord. This girl got seriously burnt on August 23, 1992 while her mother was ailing. The aspect of Jupiter (the ninth lord) was the basis on which prediction of her recovery was made, inspite of more than fifty percent burns.

In Chara dasha it was Taurus-Cancer. From Cancer three quadrants, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn have maleficso.  The fourth quadrant, Aries, has Jupiter but with Ketu.

From Cancer, finally, the fifth lord of education goes into the sixth house and is with the twelfth lord Mercury.

Her education was interrupted for some months.

11 Love Relationship and Marriage

Women!

It is the Prophet who declares, “After me I have

not left any affliction more harmful to men than

women.” (P591). Women constitute the majority in

Hell according to the Prophet.

Arun Shourie’s The World of Fatwas,

Hindu Explanation of Brahma’s Creation

The first progeny of Lord Brahma, the Creator, was known as manas putra (children born through Lord’s resolution). But when the first creation started seeking salvation right from the start, the Lord faced a serious problem which was’ solved through the advice given by Lord Shiva, that in future, creation should be through sex.

Since then sex has become an adorable, artistic, enjoyable and joy giving act of humans under ideal conditions, and a pure act of carnality, brutality and criminality under others.

The Questions They Ask

In traditional societies, parents of children particularly of daughters, ask when their daughters would get married.

In USA and England it becomes a question about relationship. Now with homo-sexuality getting legalised, astrologers face an odder question, male-male or female-female compatibility for the purpose of marriage or relationships. In the USA a homo­sexual came to me and asked me to match his horoscope with a gay for marital compatibility.

Eighty persons out of hundred would ask this question, in whichever way they may word it.

Some Parameters in Jaimini Astrology

Among the researches I have produced in Jaimini astrology, this had to receive serious attention. I then formulated some parameters which have worked well in a very large percentage of cases.

Note down the following :

1. The ascendant and the seventh house.
2. The rashi containing Darakaraka and its seventh house.
3. The rashi containing Upapada and its seventh house.
4. The rashi containing the pada of the seventh lord and its seventh house.
5. Put in the birth horoscope the navamsha of the Darakaraka and also mark the seventh house from it. Call it the darakaraka’s navamsha or use the abbreviation DKN.
6. Now note down where the Rahu-Ketu axis falls and which houses they are aspecting.
7. Similarly note down the houses being aspected by the Darakaraka.
8. See if the Putrakaraka falls in the fifth house from a dasha period.

An, Astrologer’s Intellectual Equipment

The great Parashara has used a word, ‘uha-poha-patu’ as one of the necessary qualities of an astrologer, meaning that he should be able to weigh the pros and cons of a situation.

Here comes the greatest difficulty. One cannot become a really good astrologer unless one has a sound sociological background of the country which the consultor comes from.

Samples of Astrologer’s Ignorance

1. During my visit to USA in November 1993, I as a sports­lover asked the Vedic astrologers whether they had the horoscope of the famous woman tennis player, Monica Seles, who had been stabbed in Germany in a tournament.

“Who is Monica Seles?” most of them asked me.

In USA emphasis is laid on counselling, not predictions which appeared strange to me because an astrologer who cannot predict can never be a good counsellor. An astrologer should be able to see what is going to happen in future and against the background of that knowledge only his counselling can have substance and utility. At least the client comes to the astrologer with that expectation. I was made to listen to some cassettes of the so-called readings given by America’s Vedic astrologers. It was not astro­logy of Hindus at all. It is a mixture of psychology predo­minantly with some jargon of Hindu astrology in it.

2. During my second visit to USA in June 1994 I asked them what was happening to President Clinton’s Health Bill since during my earlier visit, while giving world predictions, I had hinted at difficulties for him. No astrologer could help me. Later a doctor told me what was happening. How can such astrologers do mundane astrology?

The astrologer must become more and more aware of the sociology of times and contemporary history to be able to do astrology well otherwise he will utter only platitudes of psychology, with which he can escape for sometime and with some people only. In short, the astrologer must be better informed and, endeavour not to fall in the category of modern neo-illiterates.

3. I face similar difficulty when questions about marriage and relationships are asked because I am not married. Relationships or dating as in the .west was my big area of ignorance till some American women explained it to me.

Since eighty percent questions people in the west ask are about relationships, rarely marriage, which seems to have become a less popular social institution there, I felt that the question must be viewed under three heads.

First, the astrologers must know the traditions of the society concerned.

Second, the attitudes towards marriage and relationships must be known to the astrologer.

Thirdly, there must be some knowledge of the stability of such institutions, be it marriage or relationships.

Finally, one must know the societal changes taking place.

THE CASE STUDIES

It is against this background that some cases are being discussed here astrologically.

Case Study One

In trying to verify the horoscope, as usual I put some questions about his past without his having to tell me himself. I committed a silly mistake of asking him whether he was married after the age of twenty and before twenty five.

His answer was, “married in the womb”. He explained that his

Lagna              26⁰35’              Mars                16⁰03’              Venus                5⁰44’

Sun                  21⁰07’              Mercury (R)    13⁰31’              Saturn (R)         2⁰33’

Moon               3⁰30’                Jupiter                         26⁰53’              Rahu                28⁰32’

father had promised his friend whose wife too was pregnant that if their children, happened to be of opposite sexes, they would be married. But the formal marriage took place wh r he was twelve years old, in 1938. The consumption of marriage took place between 1944 and 1946, in the Chara dassha of Capricorn which is aspected by the Darakaraka, Saturn, and IS also having the navamsha of the Darakaraka, in the’, seventh, in Cancer.

Case Study Two

Once bitten twice shy, I asked another person, knowing him to be an Indian of the older generation when child marriages were common, whether he had married early. He was married in 1933, when he was running the period of Libra from 1931 to 1940. From Libra, the navamsha of the Darakaraka is in the senventh, Aries. A vital piece of information he had suppressed from me was, that he had married second time in 1950 when he was running the period of Sagittarius from 1946 to 1952.

Lagna 6°36′ Mars 8°25′ Venus 7040′
Sun 2030′ Mercury 24°09′ Saturn 26°20′
Moon 20’21’ Jupiter 14°54′ Rahu 27°27′

Cases Three and Four

Lagna 12°11′ Mars 27°48′ Venus 23015′
Sun 29017′ Mercury 13°49′ Saturn 12°07′
Moon 70’17’ Jupiter 6°45′ Rahu 11°49′

Someone argued with me that fate governed only fools. I requested him to give me his horoscope and asked him some questions about the past. How did I know it, was his next question? Since he did not believe in fate, instead of asking me how I knew it, would he concede that I had seen astrologically what had happened to him? Here I am discussing the horoscopes of the famous Charles and Diana case about which a prediction was made in the first edition (May 1995) and later, in my weekly columns on the Internet.

In news for some years have been the royal couple of England, Prince Charles and his wife, Diana. Their horoscopes are being given for a joint study of the application of the Chara dasha for timing their marriage, since we know the date, which is February 2, 1981.

Lagna 6°22′ Mars 8°21′ Venus 1007′
Sun 16023′ Mercury (R) 9°52′ Saturn 4°30′
Moon 20’13’ Jupiter (R) 11°46′ Rahu 4°51′
Now a comparative tabulation of the principles given earlier are:
1. The Darakaraka of the Prince is Jupiter in Sagittarius and of Diana, Venus in Taurus.
2. The one-seven axis of the Prince is Cancer-Capricorn, while of Diana, Sagittarius-Gemini.
3. The Upa-pada of the Prince is in Aquarius while that of Diana is Taurus.
4. The navamsha of DK of the prince is Gemini while that of Diana is Capricorn.
5. The navamsha lagna of the prince is Libra while that of Diana is Taurus.
The Chara Dasha Sequence of Prince Charles

Cancer 1948 to 1951
Gemini 1951 to 1955
Taurus* 1955 to 1959
Aries 1959 to 1966
Pisces 1966 to 1969
Aquarius 1969 to 1979
Capricorn 1979 to 1984

(*No extra deduction for debilitated Venus)

Sagittarius 1984 to 1996 (notice three points here): Jupiter, the darakaraka is here; it is the 6th house of disputes from the lagna and the last sub-period in Saggitarius will be of Sagittarius which will be in 1996. If an extra deduction for Taurus was taken because of debilitated Venus, the timing will be wrong.

The marriage of the Prince was announced at least one year before but was performed only after the start of the period of Capricorn which is the seventh house of his horoscope.

Capricorn Sub-Periods:

Sagittarius                   14 Nov. 1979 to 14 April 1980 upto 14 Sept. 1980

Scorpio                        upto 14 Sept. 1980

Libra                            upto 14 Feb. 1984

Virgo                           upto 14 July 1981

The marriage was performed in Capricorn-Libra. Capricorn is the dasha of the seventh house and Libra is aspected by the ‘seventh lord Saturn.

The analysis of the horoscope of Diana is now being done in the same way.

Chara Dasha Sequence of Diana

Sagittarius                               1961 to 1962

Scorpio                                    upto 1971

(Counting has been done upto Mars whose degrees are more).

Libra                                        upto 1978

Virgo                                       upto July 1981

Leo                                          upto July 1983

Cancer                                     upto July 1988

Gemini                                                upto July 2000

Now note that from Virgo in the fifth house there is the Putrakaraka. It promises that soon after marriage Diana will become a mother, which she did when her first son was born on June 21, 1982. The child birth of course came in the Leo sub-period.

Again note that in the case of Diana the Vimshottari dasha the time of marriage was Rahu-Mars. Here in the navamsha the Rahu-Ketu axis falls in the lagna and the seventh house and the sub period of Mars lasted upto October 19, 1981.

Two more points about Mars should be noted here. As the seventh lord of the navamsha, he is the marriage maker. As the fifth lord of the birth horoscope, he is the child giver. We had seen earlier that in Chara dasha there was already a promise of child birth immediately after marriage. In the Vimshottari dasha it is confirmed.

Why is it a Troubled Marriage?

Diana has been running the period of Gemini, the seventh house of her horoscope, since 1988, and it will run upto 2000 A.D. It is in this period that her marriage continues to be in trouble.

The corresponding dasha in the Vimshottari is Jupiter (debilitated) and Mercury sub period which began in 1988. In 1995 the sub-periods are of Mars and later, of Rahu.

Acting as the twelfth lord, Mars has taken her away from her husband. The twelfth house is also the house of separation.

Prince Charles has been running the Chara dasha of Sagittarius since 1984, the dasha of his sixth house of disputes, which will be over in 1996. In Vimshottari this will be the period of Rahu and the sub-period of Jupiter. That is the period to be watched for the much awaited upward swing in the life of the Prince, but there will still be no hope of the marital tangle getting resolved.

Internationally noticed prediction about the separation:

This book had appeared in May 1995. In the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi classes and in the USA, when I taught Jaimini, I took up this horoscope and explained in 1995 why this marriage would collapse in 1996. In an advance prediction, re-emphasizing the statement made in the book in 1995, “but there will be no hope of the marital tangle getting resolved.”

I started writing for a website on the Internet since February 1996 which has been given Gold Star Award on 6 September, 1996 for my astrological coloumn. The marriage and divorce of the royal couple was discussed by me and when it came out correct, it was displayed prominently on the Net many times later. Here are extracts of some of those despatches reproduced here, for the sake of historical record.

Website: http://www.redifindia.com

29 February 1996

The British habit of recording royal births has helped Indian astrologers to test the validity of many ancient techniques of Indian astrology, most ancient in origin but most useful for the problems of any person of any age decade, century or country. One such system known as the Jaimini astrology is under a great revival in the capital of India, Delhi.  It became possible after the publication of a book, Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha by me.

Of interest to lovers of astrology, and also to critics of astrology is the following from the book published in May 1995.  On page 67 the discussion about the married life of Prince Charles and Princess Diana reads thus :

“Diana has been running the period of Gemini the seventh house of her horoscope, since 1988 and it will run up to 2000 AD. It is in this period that her marriage continues to be in trouble.

The corresponding dasha in the Vimshottari is Jupiter (debilitated) and Mercury sub period which began in 1988. In 1995 the sub-period is of Mars and later, of Rahu.

Acting as the twelfth lord, Mars has taken her away from a husband. The twelfth house is also the house of separation.

Prince Charles has been running Chara Dasha of Sagittarius since 1984, the dasha of his sixth house of disputes which will be over in 1996¹.  That is the period to be watched for the much awaited upward swing in the life of Prince, but there is no hope of the marital tangle getting resolved.”

The Future Events Visible in the Horoscopes

Prince has now run into a period of his life which will give him public prominence more and more. Now it is as Prince. Later it will be as the king who will not be the type of orthodox royal figure to which Englishmen are accustomed. Two years later, it will be with royal grace and dignity, officially conferred on him. Chances of his succeeding his mother in rather unusual circumstances strike the eye, if one sees the horoscope closely.

For Princess Diana, the period of change and long foreign trips will continue.

Round about July 1996 or even before her marriage dispute is likely to be settled. Newspapers and the BBC have talked about her huge demand of 64 million pounds. It is not within the realms of astrology to predict how much the amount will be. It is however clear that it will be substantial, with a palace or palatial building along with it. But from her horoscope it appears that the education of her children will be a matter of dispute. There could be a change, in the nature of their education or their educational institutions.

In 1998 Princess Diana may not be very happy to see the opportunity she missed which would have been hers, if her marriage had not run into trouble. Even from her horoscope the year 1998 seems to be a very significant period for Prince Charles which has already started. In the meantime, it is clear that she will make a huge investment most profitably. It will be a good decision as it will take care of all her financial commitments for the rest of her life. It is in the year 2001 that a strange development in her life will bring her into news again, as prominently as she is now.

1998 Princess Diana may not be very happy to see the opportunity she will have missed which would have been hers, if her marriage had not run into trouble. It clearly means that even from her horoscope the year 1998 seems to be a very significant period for Prince Charles which has already started.

In the meantime, it is clear that she will make a huge investment most profitably. I must state here that I had not seen the horoscope of Princess Diana after writing this book. I did make successful predictions about her which were noticed internationally If I had seen it I might have predicted her tragic end which j did not. I have not missed it as I never saw the horoscope from this angle.

In retrospect, it can be seen that in Vimshottari mahadasha of Jupiter in the second house and Mercury the seventh lord she died.

In subsequent chapters, particularly the dasha of Atmakaraka has been discussed. Diana was passing through the dasha of Gemini which contains her Atmakaraka. Sun.

PART IV

As has been stated earlier, there is no book showing how Jaimini’s Chara dasha is used for predictions. This is the first ever book on the predictive uses of Jaimini astrology. It is after testing these techniques on thousands of horoscopes over some decades now that I feel confident that Jaimini astrology can have big revival as a complementary or the main element in the Composite Techniques of Predictions. The first attempt made by me in this regard was in 1991 when I guided, got written and produced, after editing, the book, The Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions in which all the students, whom I have taught astrology and the composite techniques-, came out with their research in 1991.

Then in 1992 I produced my series of papers on ‘Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha’ in which I showed how the Chara dasha could be used and how I had given predictions on this basis.

Those papers are being reproduced here after editing them and technical notes have been added wherever required. It is after the students who have been taught Jaimini by me show enough aptitude to come out with better results of their own that I will write a book on the other Jaimini techn ques which work very effectively.

12 Marriage Related Problems

To start with, some simple principles of both Parashari and Jaimini are being taken up. The differences in Jaimini calculations are being eXplained as a preliminary introduction first.

(a)        Chara dasha for both male and female sexes is done the same way and not from the seventh in the case of females.

(b)        No extra addition is given for exalted planets and no extra deduction for debilitated planets.

(c)        In the case of Scorpio and Aquarius where there is dual ownership, a planet associated with more planets is stronger. When Mars and Ketu or Saturn and Rahu are alone, their strength is decided according to their longitude. The longi­tude of Rahu or Ketu has not been taken in the reverse way.

In the first instalment some marital events are being taken up as experience has shown me that the majority of astrologers are interested in marriage and marriage-related problems.

Data to be prepared

The data to be prepared for this over-simplified approach is shown in the first illustration only. Here, mark the following:

(a)        Darakaraka, Upapada and the Darapada (Rahu is not taken into account at all by us for any Karaka because if calculations are done upto seconds, there is never any confusion in choosing seven, not eight, Karakas.)

(b)        But mark the Rahu-Ketu axis and their aspects, on different rashis, according to the Jaimini method.

(c)        Mark the Lagna and the seventh houses of the birth chart and the N avamsha.

(d)       In Vimshottari dasha scheme mark the Darakaraka. (I had got a research produced by a woman student* of Jyotish Visharad extending the principle of Jaimini to the Vimshottari dasha. For instance the planet which is Gnatikaraka in J aimini can be used as the sixth lord for the purposes of predictions in Vimshottari dasha.)

(e)        In the Jaimini scheme mark the Darapada rashi and its lord.

Take only these five factors and proceed to analyse (see the earlier chapter also.

The First Illustration

The marriage took place in March 1972, in Sagittarius­ Cancer.

Lagna 14°50′ Mars 14°31’ Venus 11°02′
Sun 25°38′ Mercury (R) 0°06′ Saturn 16°13′
Moon 1°53′ Jupiter (R) 24°35′ Rahu 8°18′

Atmakaraka (AK) Sun Gnatikaraka (GK) Moon
Amatyakaraka (AmK) Jupiter Darakaraka (DK) Mercury
Bhratrikaraka (BK) Saturn Darapada Leo
Matrikaraka (MK) Mars Upapada Cancer
Putrakaraka (PK) Venus Karakamsha Taurus

See the article ‘Role of Darakaraka in Vimshottari Dashas’ by SupriyaJagdish in Advanced Techniques of Astrological Predictions, Vol. 1.

Chara Dasha

Gemini 1947-1948
Taurus 1948-1949
Aries 1949-1950
Pisces 1950-1955
Aquarius 1955-1962
Capricorn 1962-1968
Sagittarius 1968-1978

Antardashas in Sagittarius

Scorpio July 1968 to May 1969
Libra May 1969 to Mar 1970
Virgo Mar 1970 to Jan 1971
Leo Jan 1971 to Nov 1971
Cancer Nov 1971 to Sep 1972

1. Sagittarius is 7th from Lagna
2. Darakaraka Mercury is posited in Cancer
3. Cancer is Upa-Pada

Vimshottari Dasha

Venus / Mercury 12th July 1969 to 12th May 1972

1. Venus, Mahadasha lord is natural Darakaraka
2. Mercury, the Antardasha lord is Jairnini’s Darakaraka of the horoscope
3. Venus is 7th lord from Moon; also the 2nd lord from Moon posited in Gemini the lord of which is Mercury
4. Venus is the lord of Karakamsha lagna, Taurus

The Second Illustration

The horoscope of a couple is being given here. Their marriage took place on September 29, 1974.

The marriage was settled before the end of 1973.

In ‘the horoscope of the husband:

The Darapada (pada of the 7th house) is Virgo.
The Upapada is Leo and it also has 7th lord Moon it.

Lagna 0°53′ Mars 4°24′ Venus 24°41′
Sun 28°27′ Mercury 8°19′ Saturn (R) 15°16′
Moon 12°28′ Jupiter 23°53′ Rahu 18°03′

Karakas : Putrakaraka (PK) Moon
Atmakaraka (AK) Sun Gnatikaraka (GK) Mercury
Amatyakaraka (AmK) Venus Darakaraka (DK) Mars
Bhatrikaraka (BK) Jupiter Upa-pada Leo
Matrikaraka (MK) Saturn Dara-pada Vugo

3. The Darakaraka Mars is in Taurus in the navamsha from where it is aspecting Libra in which the natural marriage maker Venus is posited.

The Chara dasha when marriage took place can be worked out now.

Chara Dasha

Capricorn 1946 to 1952
Sagittarius 1952 to 1962
Scorpio 1962 to 1963
Libra 1963 to 1975

Libra dasha is of twelve years so the sub-periods will be of one year each. Proceed Scorpio upto : 1964, Sagittarius : 1965, Capricorn: 1966, Aquarius: 1967, Pisces: 1968, Aries: 1969, Taurus: 1970, Gemini: 1971, Cancer: 1972, upto 1973 the sub-period of Leo is reached. The seventh lord being there, the marriage was fixed. The marriage took place in the sub-period of Virgo which contains the Darapada.

The 3rd illustration.

Lagna 15053′ Mars (R) 28055′ Venus 23042′
Sun 9023′ Mercury 6001′ Saturn 3028′
Moon 0010′ Jupiter 16043′ Rahu 17052′

Karakas : Putrakaraka (PK) Mercury
Atmakaraka (AK) Mars Gnatikaraka (GK) Saturn
Amatyakaraka (AmK) Venus Darakaraka (DK) Moon
Bhatrikaraka (BK) Jupiter Upapada Sagittarius
Matrikaraka (MK) Sun Darapada Virgo

The Horoscope of the Wife

The ascendant is Cancer and the seventh house is Capricorn.

Darakaraka is the Moon and concentrate on it. The Darapada is Virgo.
The Upapada is Sagittarius.

Chara Dasha

Cancer 1956 to 1959
Gemini 1959 to 1962
Taurus 1962 to 1963
Aries 1963 to 1973
Pisces 1973 to 1980

The marriage was settled in Aries dasha. The marriage took place in the major period of Pisces which is seventh from Darapada and in the sub-period of Taurus which is the 7th house of the navamsha lagna.

The Role of the Vimshottari Dasha

In the case of the husband the sub-period was of Mars which is the Darakaraka (remember the principle of extension of Jaimini’s karakas to the Vimshottari dasha). The major period was of the Moon, the seventh lord.

In the case of the wife it was the period of Venus which is a natural marriage maker. Here the navamsha lagna is Scorpio from where the seventh lord is again Venus. It was the right period of marriage. The sub-period was of Rahu who, like Venus, is a natural marriage maker.

The horoscope is now being discussed for the tragedy that struck them.

The Tragedy

In June 1980 her husband died in an air accident in Pisces major period which is seventh from Darapada.

In Vimshottari it was Venus-Mercury period. Venus is the sixth lord from Upa-pada and is in the seventh house. Mercury is the sixth lord from Darakaraka.

The horoscope does not promise long married life is what must be understood first.

1. The seventh lord, Saturn falls under Rahu-Ketu axis.

2. The seventh lord from Venus is Jupiter with the Sun, and is being aspected by retrograde Mars and also Saturn.

The Fourth Illustration

The question put to me was whether this man, an Indian in a foreign country, was married. My answer was, if he was not, he was definitely in love with a foreign girl and he would be forced to marry her before 1990 was over.

In Vimshottari he was running Jupiter dasha, his Darakaraka, and Saturn sub-period, the seventh lord for his lagna. Then the Mars-Saturn opposition along the sixth and twelfth axis shows compulsion in such a marriage.

In Jaimini, the period of Sagittarius containing Darakaraka began in 1983 and in 1990 (from 1989 actually) the two sub-­periods are Gemini, seventh from Darakaraka, Taurus, seventh from Dara-pada and Darapada is also navamsha lagna. So the Taurus sub-period is showing marriage in two ways.

Note: Will be forced to marry needs explaining.

Lagna 15040′ Mars 11029′ Venus 11009′
Sun 14022′ Mercury 5030′ Saturn 18041′
Moon 21035′ Jupiter 2059′ Rahu 22016′

Karakas: Putrakaraka (PK) Venus
Atmakaraka (AK) Moon Gnatikaraka (GK) Mercury
Amatyakaraka (AmK) Saturn Darakaraka (DK) Jupiter
Bhatrikaraka (BK) Sun Upapada Aquarius
Matrikaraka (MK) Mars Darapada Scorpio

1. The fifth lord of love is Mars here in the twelfth house representing a foreign country.

2. The seventh lord of marriage, Saturn is in the sixth house aspecting Mars. The mutual aspects of Mars and Saturn show compulsion. Here both the sixth house of threat and the sixth lord, Jupiter are involved.

Subsequent to the writing of this article, it was brought to my knowledge that a European woman got pregnant and threatened to sue him if he did not marry her. He not merely married but became a father of a female child.

Subsequent to this, he met another girl of another nationality, in Sagittarius-Aquarius also made her pregnant and was again threatened to marry her. In this case too, he became the father of a female child. .

His Darakarika is Jupiter in Sagittarius.
His Upapada is Aquarius.
His Darapacla is Scorpio.
His navamsha lagna is Scorpio from where Taurus is the seventh house.

Chara Dasha

Cancer 1960 to 1966 Pisces 1977 to 1980
Gemini 1966 to 1970 Aquarius 1980 to 1982
Taurus 1970 to 1975 Capricorn 1982 to 1983
Aries 1975 to 1977 Sagittarius 1983 to 1995

Sub-Period of Sagittarius

At the rate of one year each move from Scorpio (1984), Libra (1985), Virgo (1986), Leo (1987), Cancer (1988), Gemini (1989) the period when he met the foreign girl and made her pregnant in Taurus (1990), the seventh house of the navamsha and seventh from the Darapada. He had to marry that girl.

In Sagittarius-Capricorn he met another girl. Is she pregnant?

Compare it with the third illustration. The marriage of this girl took place in May 1984 in Aquarius-Taurus. Here Aquarius period has given seven years as the degree of Rahu is more than Saturn’s.

Lagna 17000′ Mars 2020′ Venus 28005′
Sun 16054′ Mercury (R) 22056′ Saturn 11034′
Moon 12024′ Jupiter (R) 10039′ Rahu 13035′

Karakas:
Atmakaraka (AK) Venus Gnatikaraka (GK) Jupiter
Amatyakaraka (AmK) Mercury Darakaraka (DK) Mars
Bhatrikaraka (BK) Sun Upapada Sagittarius
Matrikaraka (MK) Moon Darapada Capricorn
Putrakaraka (PK) Saturn Navamsha lagana Sagittarius

Both Aquarius and Taurus are aspected by Darakaraka, Mars and Rahu.

In Vimshottari dashait was Mercury-Saturn period. Mercury being the lord of the seventh house of navamsha and Saturn of the birth chart, a love affair resulted in a hurried marriage.

The Tragedy

In Aquarius-Sagittarius her husband died a violent death. Sagittarius well known in Jaimini astrology for such incidents. The point that is being stressed here is – by not taking one year extra for exalted Mercury and not taking one year’s extra deduction for debilitated Mars and the Moon, and Rahu’s degree deciding the seven year period of Aquarius and the seven month sub-periods bring us exactly to Sagittarius when the tragedy struck the native.

In Vimshottari it was Ketu-Mars which is self explanatory.

Note: There is against me a criticism that I have made an alteration in the method of Chara dasha calculation which is not sanctioned by any commentary. I will answer that charge later.

First thing first. It is well known that Sagittarius, besides a power bestowing sign, is also the sign for fall and accidents or sudden sicknesses.

Chara dasha

Cancer : from 1962 to 1970 is what I have taken while for the debilitation of the Moon it should end in 1969.

Gemini : from 1970 to 1973 is what I have taken while here one extra year should be taken because Mercury is exalted here. There is a compensating error here.

Taurus : is from 1973 to 1978, no controversy.

Aries : is from 1978 to 1981 according to me because I am not taking an extra year’s deduction for debilitation here. If that is taken there will be one year less now in our calculation and this period will end in 1980.

Pisces : will be from 1981 to 1982.

Aquarius : will be from 1982 to 1989 because of Rahu’s degrees which are more than Saturn’s though both are associated with one planet.

The sub-periods of Aquarius

Pisces October 1982 to May 1983.
Aries May 1983 to December 1983.

Taurus which is aspected both by the Darakaraka Mars and Rahu shows an unusual marriage, which it was.

Gemini upto July 1984.
Cancer upto February 1985.
Leo upto September 1985.
Virgo. upto April 1986.
Libra upto November 1986.
Scorpio from November 1986 to June 1987.

Sagittarius was from June 1987 to January 1988 when the first attempt to kill her husband was made. The Darakaraka, Mars is eighth from here.

Now came the period of Capricorn the seventh house of the spouse. From Capricorn, the seventh house has Mars, the Darakaraka, and Rahu, being aspected by Jupiter, the Gnatikaraka, representing enemy.

In the navamsha Mars, the Darakaraka, is again in Cancer aspected by Rahu and Ketu from Scorpio and Taurus res¬pectively.

The Vimshottari dasha

It was the period of Ketu, with retrograde Saturn, being aspected by Mars, the planet of violence. The tragic drama was unfolding in the seventh house, in company of the seventh lord.

In November 1994 a rich American lady had asked me when I had traced out many incidents of her life, “Tell me, what happened during this period”. I had seen similar violence in her horoscope and asked politely, “Anything violent to someone dear to you”. “Yes”, she said. Her husband was killed similarly.

Summary

The identity of the natives has not been disclosed. I have called it an over-simplied approach. Actually when a prediction is to be given, particularly in the tragedy that struck in the third and the fifth illustration, fuller details should be prepared and cross¬checked.

Detailed work in the beginning leads to the habit of looking at an event from various angles and is more elaborate than a medical diagnosis. When a point of saturation is reached, sound predictions can be made with lesser details. Then it is like an experienced doctor’s clinical diagnosis. At this stage or at any intermediate stage intuition helps in getting the right prediction. But even without intuition, an astrologer should be able to focus his attention on the right spot in a horoscope. That is the advantage of learning more and more astrological techniques.

Amatyakaraka of Important Persons

In no commentary of Jaimini has the role of Amatyakaraka, the planet with the second highest degree, other than Rahu or Ketu, has been given any place of importance. I do not recollect ever reading any article in any astrological magazine discussing the role of Amatyakaraka in a horoscope. It is a superstition to think that commentators or translators of Jaimini Sutras had even elementary grasp of this branch of astrology. If they had, it would have struck them that Jaimini used sevenkarakas which were meant to be used. If their use was not known, research should have been done. No such research has been done by older generation of astrologers at all. I use all Karakas and get very good results. In this book, I will show the use of some of them only.

            Yet in my research in Jaimini astrology found Amatyakaraka to be the key karaka for giving predictions to important persons.

In the second part of this book I have already given some instances outlining the role of Amatyakaraka.

In the third instalment of my research on Jaimini which appeared in the February issue of the Astrological Magazine in 1992 I discussed it. A reader complained that instead of giving bare horoscopes I should have given full details. I replied that I was not writing a book and within the space of 2500 words’ I could not have done that. It is being done now. No Jaimini scholar mad any technical attack on me while I did show an innovative approach which was giving results.

The Amatyakaraka

Till the secrets of Nadi amshas are unravelled it will not be possible for astrologers to make totally accurate predictions from birth to death of all the prominent events of a man’s life. When a consultor puts a question, concentrating on a portion of his life, astrologers very often give sound and dependable predictions. This is why astrology continues to hold sway as the only reliable and brilliant predictive science. The danger of more quacks and charltans entering the profession will get checked to some extent when the elitist classes take to the study of Astrology as seriously as is now happening in the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi.