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Fundamentals of Astrology
Fundamentals of Astrology
Fundamentals of
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Chapter 2
Fundamentals of Astrology
2.1 Astrology: The Eyes of the Vedas
Astrology is a very unique part of the rich body of Vedic knowledge.
“Jyotiṣa,” the authentic Sanskrit name of Vedic astrology, is one of the six vedāṅgas,
and is called the “eyes of the Vedas.” Jyotiṣa represents the knowledge of the light of
consciousness. The word “Jyotiṣa” means light and its knowledge allows us to really
see ourselves by shedding light on the relationships between consciousness and
matter, and the subtle balance between free will and predestination.
In essence, we are all beings of light, and the purpose of our lives in this
physical realm is for the awareness of “being the light” to penetrate and coexist with
the experience of the limitations of the relative. As we enter this physical state, and
the soul joins the body, some degree of this experience of being light comes along,
but in different ways for different people. Jyotiṣa has the amazing power to tell us in
fine detail what our unique spectrum looks like, and where ignorance has blocked
out specific colors.
As per Parāśara, following are the names of eighteen ācārya. Nārada, Vyāsa,
Vasiṣṭha, Atri, Parāśara, Lomaśa, Yavana, Sūrya, Cyavana, Kaśyapa, Bhṛgu,
Pulatsya, Manu, Pauliśa, Śaunaka, Aṁgirā, Garga, and Marīci .
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2.3 Planets:
The planets according to Indian astrology are nine in number. The following
saṁskṛta verse will be worthy to be remembered to how the appellations of the nine
planets:
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2. Moon:
Mother; mind; government service , female deity; left eye; pearls, scent,
sandal wood, flowers, fruits, agriculture, grains, rice, salt, butter, marine products,
cows, milk, curd, ghee, food and drinks, consumption (T.B.), asthma, lung disease,
phlegmatic nature; silver; Satva Guṇa. 7
3. Mars:
Younger brothers and sister; land, houses, prowess, bravery, courage, brute
force, energy and motion; fire, cooking, wounds and fire accidents; blood, red
colour; engineering and mechanical skill; army, war, enemies; immoral practices;
small-pox; thief, falsehood; bilious nature, marrow of the bone and flesh; Tamo
Guṇa; small-pox, glutton, menstruation, carbuncle, gold, ram, goat, thorny trees;
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4. Mercury:
Maternal uncles, education and knowledge; trade, commerce and business;
Dvaita Philosophy (dualism); pure mathematics and accounts, astrology, messenger
and postal services; wit and humour; grammar; writing work, speech, intelligence;
architecture, fine art, ethics; emerald, green gram, planting, places of recreation;
green colour, three humours (vāta pitta kapha); Rajas Guṇa; Pṛthvī tatva; Earth
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(primordial element) fruitless trees, playgrounds, mixed diet; typewriting, printing,
sculpture; painting, drawing, brush work; leaves, green vegetables; brass,
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5. Jupiter
Issues(male); spiritual knowledge, intuition and abstract thinking; Yoga,
meditation, divine knowledge; intelligence, government, minister royal patronage,
titles and paraphernalia, honours; knowledge of veda, smṛti Scriptures, ethics and
moral code, philosophical researches; deva and Brahmins, justice, truth; self-
reliance; gold and, Bengal gram, roots and plantins; sacred rivers and places of
worship; treasury, money lending and banking, yellow colour; preceptor, astrologer,
saint, Satva Guṇa, ether ākāśa tatwa. 13
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6. Venus
Wife and conjugal life; female and sexual enjoyments; lust, temporal glory,
titles, music, dance, drama; sandal wood, flowers, musk, beddings, curtains and other
luxurious paraphernalia beauty, youth, wealth, garlands, honours, primary living,
luxurious vehicles; law, literature, poetry and dramatic works; diamond, rubies and
silver, utensils; sea trade; navy, marine occupations; foreign fashions, śrī vidyā
upāsanā, cows, milk, curd, beans, tamarind, minister; auspicious celebrations, Raja
Guṇa, Silk, water (Jala) tatwa,; semen, virility.15
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7. Saturn
Life, death and longevity; labour class, labourer, service, agriculture;
servitude, Iron; buffalo, blue colour; theft; causing loss; heavy work; imprisonment;
Punishment, dismissal from service; shame; indebtedness, funeral ceremonies;
alcoholic drinks and narcotic drugs, sexual enjoyment with sickly or aged females of
low caste widows travel in foreign countries, irreligious practices, reaming of wild
bears; Medical practice, false notion of philosophy, diseases pertaining to nervous
system; misery, humiliation, poverty, research work, immorality, Tamo Guṇa, and
torn clothes, heavy machinery vāyu Tatwa, head of a town or city; Oil-seeds. 17
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8. Rāhu
Grandparents, misconceptions, self-praise and talkative, jugglery,
mesmerisms, hysteria; buffoonery; imitation; thief, robber, dacoit; slavery,
emigration to foreign lands, irreligious; anti-social practices; gambling; illicit
connections with widows and sickly females: fear of poisons and venomous reptiles,
serpent, rheumatism, epilepsy and fits; carbuncle, eczema, skin-disease, impri-
sonment, jealousy and hatred, alcoholic drinks; onion and allied vegetables; bath in
holy rivers, performance of gomedha, Tamo Guṇa, worshipper of durgā.19
9. Ketu
Mother's parents, fallacious reasoning, false knowledge, low class habits,
emigration to I foreign lands, ulcers, carbuncles, cancer, dropsy; imprisonment and
severe punishment, dacoit, murders and infanticide, self-immolation, hatred,
jealousy, hysteria, snakes, treachery and bet rayal, lust, out caste, salvation, gaṇapatī
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2.5 Zodiacal Signs
The twelve signs of zodiac in order are:
Saṁskṛta Name English name
1. Meṣa ( ) Aries
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Saṁskṛta Name English name
2. Vṛṣabha ( ) Taurus
3. Mithuna ( ) Gemini
4. Karka ( ) Cancer
5. Siṁha ( ) Leo
6. Kanyā ( ) Virgo
7. Tulā ( ) Libra
8. Vṛścika ( ) Scorpio
9. Dhanu ( ) Sagittarious
10. Makara ( ) Capricorn
11. Kuṁbha ( ) Aquarius
12. Mīna ( ) Pisces
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The traits of these houses are as follows:
1. First house: Physique, appearance, intellect (or the organ of intellect i.e.
brain), complexion of body, vigour, weakness, happiness, grief and innate
nature of all.
2. Second house: Wealth, grains (food etc.), family, death, enemies, metals, and
precious stones.
3. Third house: Valour, servants (attending etc.), brothers, sisters, initiatory
instructions, journey and parents death.
4. Fourth house: Conveyances, relatives, mother, happiness, treasure, lands and
buildings.
5. Fifth house: Amulets, sacred spells, learning, knowledge, sons, royalty ( or
authority) and fall of poison.
6. Sixth house: Maternal uncle, doubts about death, enemies, ulcers and step
mother.
7. Seventh house: Wife, travel, trade, loss of sight and death
8. Eighth house: Longevity, battle, enemies, forts, wealth of dead and things
that have happened and are to happen (in the past and future births).
9. Ninth house: Fortunes, wife’s brother, religion, brother’s wife and visit to
shrines
10. Tenth house: Royalty (authority), place, profession (livelihood), honour,
father, living in foreign lands and debts.
11. Eleventh house: All articles, son’s wife, income, prosperity and quadrupeds.
12. Twelfth house: Expenses, history of enemies and one’s own death.
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Karma:
The simple and succinct definition of Karma is that “each and every physical
action or deed that you perform with the co-operation of the mind, right from
morning to evening during the whole day and night, during the whole week, whole
month, and whole year and during the whole of your life right from birth to death is
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All physical actions performed by human being with all senses, organs and
limbs, performed as influenced and propelled by the likes and dislikes, attachments
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and non-attachments and with the co-operation of your mind and intellect are called
'Karma'.
All these Karmas are divided into three categories according to their stages as
under;
1. Kriyamāṇa Karma: means an action done at the spur of a moment or time
in the present tense which instantaneously bears fruit and results in
reaction then and there.
2. Sañcita Karma (Cumulative Karma):
It means the actions done but not yet ripe to give fruits immediately or on the
spot but take some time to get ripened. Such Karmas are kept in abeyance pending in
the balance waiting for the opportune time to become ripe, to give fruits in future.
Till then they remain in balance and are accumulated. Until their fructification, these
Sanchit Karmas would not be neutralised.
3. Prārabdha Karma:
It is the accumulated karmas which have now become ripe and are ready to
give fruits. They are commonly known as destiny, luck, fate, fortune etc.28
As per vedic astrology, if the native has to confront diseases according to his
previous malefic actions, then nature of the disease, period of the disease, gravity of
the disease, possibility or impossibility of the disease, cure of the disease etc. will be
indicated by the planets relating itself with the ascendant and other houses in the
horoscope. Planets by their particular placements in the signs in birth chart indicate
the diseases that occur due to past sinful deeds of human being.
The diseases arising from known causes are curses, incantations and falls
from elevation. These should be ascertained from the 6th, its lord or the planet
aspecting the 6th or the planet occupying the 6th. If the lords of the 6th and 8th are
related, then the intensity of the diseases will be much. The diseases arising from
unknown causes should be known from the attack of evil spirits.
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1. Bile
2. High Fever
3. Burning of whole body
4. Epilepsy
5. Heart Diseases
6. Skin Diseases
7. Leucorrhea
8. Mental incompetence
9. Aching head
10. Raging fever
11. Wasting consumption
12. Dysentery
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4. Diarrhea
5. Carbuncle
6. Typhoid or malaria
7. Indigestion
8. Loss of appetitive
9. Jaundice
10. Mental Abnormalities
11. Impurity of blood
12. Venereal indulgence
13. Pallor
14. Catarrh
15. Inflammation of nose
16. Diabetes
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10. Psoriasis
11. Physical abnormities
12. Diseases affecting the upper extremities such as lungs, throat, ear, nose teeth
and tongue
13. Swelling of scrotum phlegm
14. Knotty tumors
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by those particular houses or planets. If Sun and Moon are lord of first house are lord
of eighth house, then they are not malefic.
2.14 Planets in Sixth house
Planets placed in sixth are also responsible for disease. When a house has its
lord in sixth, the eighth or twelfth or is occupied by the lord of one of these three, it
suffers annihilation, say those that know the traits of the houses. If such house is
aspected by a benefic planet, the effect will be different.
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When Sun and Mars without strength occupies eighth house and malefic
planets are in the second house, the astrologer should predict death from a bilious
complaint.
If the moon and Jupiter occupying watery sign be also in eighth house and
aspected by malefic planet, the astrologer may predict death from consumption.
When Venus occupies the eighth house and aspected by malefic planet, the
astrologer can predict death from rheumatism, consumption or diabetes.
When Mercury occupies Leo and is aspected by a malefic, the astrologer
should ascertain that death is to result from a disorder of three humors; or he may
declare that it will be brought on by fever.
When Rāhu is in eighth house and aspected by malefic planet, death will
occur from a head-generated disease such as boil, or from an injury infected by a
snake.
When Rāhu is in eighth house and aspected by malefic planet, death will
happen from an attack of smallpox and such other affliction or from a fall on by
biliousness.
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In Gadāvalī, it is stated that, if Moon is malefic then it causes diseases like
want of appetite, weak digestion, diseases arising from water, fever with cold fits,
jaundice, bladder diseases, diabetes, excess windy humor, phlegm, gases, dysentery,
blood diseases and cold affecting to nose.
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In Praśna Mārga, it is mentioned that both Jupiter and Venus are responsible
for diabetes. While describing about diseases causing form Jupiter, it is stated that
Spleen diseases (gulma), fever, sorrow, fainting, ear troubles due to phlegm,
diabetes; afflictions due to the removal of temple treasure and the curses of
Brāhmaṇa; troubles from Kinnara, Yakṣa, Deva and Vidyādhara; and diseases
caused by the anger of serpents and God Viṣṇu are the results due to Jupiter.
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Planetary Combinations for Diabetes
1. If malefic aspects first house and the lord of the first house is debilitated or
in the sign of enemy, and Venus occupies or aspects the 8th, the person suffers from
diabetes.
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3. If Saturn, Sun and Venus are in fifth house, then it causes diabetes.
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f) First house is aspected by malefic and is not aspected by benefic and
Jupiter is in conjunct with malefic.
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2. Effects like danger from the wrath of Brahmins, snakes, and the king
(government), possibility of affliction with diseases like stoppage of urine, diabetes,
pollution of blood, anemia, availability of only coarse food, nervous disorder,
imprisonment, loss of wealth as a result of penalties or fines imposed by
government, will be derived if Venus is associated with malefics in the 6th, the 8th,
or the 12th from the lord of the Dasha (Rahu).
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4. Frequent urination, weakness in the body, cold fever, danger from thieves,
intermittent fever, opprobrium quarrels, diabetes, pain in stomach, will be the results
if Rahu is associated with a malefic in Randhra or in 12th house.
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5. There will be danger from snakes, thieves, and wounds, loss of power of
thinking, headache, agony, quarrels without any cause or reason, diabetes, excessive
expenditure, antagonism with wife and children, going away to foreign land, loss in
ventures, if Ketu is in the 8th or in the 12th from the lord of the Dasha (Venus), or if
Ketu is associated with a malefic.
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6. If the 22nd decanate is the first decanate of Cancer, the reason of death
will be a crocodile (or a shark), wine, thorn or dreams. The second decanate will
cause end by beating or by consuming of poison. The terminating decanate indicates
death by respiratory diseases, urinary diseases (viz. gleet, diabetes etc.), spleenary
disorders, affliction to blood or by swooning caused by excessive labor.
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Endnotes:
1. B.J., p.66
2. Ibid
3. Ibid
4. E.L.E.A. p.29
5. Jy. p. 49
6. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.1
7. Jy. p. 49
8. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.2
9. Jy. p. 49
10. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.3
11. Jy. p. 50
12. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.4
13. Jy. p. 50
14. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.5
15. Jy. p. 50
16. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.6
17. Jy. p. 51
18. P.D. Ch.2 Shl.7
19. Jy. p. 51
20. Jy. p. 51
21. B.P.H.S. Ch.4 Shl.3
22. B.J. p.57
23. B.P.H.S. Ch.12 Shl.1-12
24. P.M. Ch.13 Shl.29
25. V.S.L. Ch.1 p.10
26. K.V.S. Ch.1 Shl.40-42
27. T.K. p.12
28. Ibid p. 13
29. P.M. Ch.12 Shl.18-24
30. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.2
31. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.75
32. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.6
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33. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.3
34. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.76
35. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.7
36. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.4
37. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.77
38. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.8
39. P. D. Ch. 14 Shl.5
40. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.78
41. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.9
42. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.6
43. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.78.5
44. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.10
45. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.7
46. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.79
47. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.11
48. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.8
49. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.79.5
50. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.12
51. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.8.5
52. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.81
53. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.13
54. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.80
55. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.14
56. P. D. Ch.14 Shl.8.5
57. Ibid Ch.14 Shl.1
58. G.D. Ch. 1 Shl.5
59. B.P.H.S. Ch.18 Shl.3-4
60. J.P. Ch.11 Shl.4
61. B.J.J. Ch.8 Shl.6
62. P.D. Ch. 14 Shl.14-15
63. J.P. Ch.5 Shl.87-92
64. P.D. Ch.14 Shl.7
65. J.P. Ch.2 Shl.79
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66. G.D. Ch.1 Shl.7
67. Ibid Ch.1 Shl.11
68. P.M. Ch.12 Shl.71
69. Ibid Ch.12 Shl.72
70. P.M. Ch.12 Shl.64
71. S.R. Ch.26 Shl.55
72. J.T. ṣaṣṭha viveka Shl.107
73. Ibid Shl.108
74. Ibid Shl.107-109
75. J.P. Ch.5 Shl.89
76. G.D. Ch.3 Shl.18
77. P.D. Ch.21 Shl.55
78. B.P.H.S. Ch.57 Shl.56-59
79. Ibid Ch.61 Shl.40-41
80. Ibid Ch.61 Shl.47-48
81. Ibid Ch.62 Shl.69-71
82. S.R. Ch.47 Shl.29-30
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