Tenth
Queries Regarding objects held in the mind or in the Fist
1. If on the ascendant the Moon or Mercury is situated and if there is the aspect of the Moon or Mercury on the ascendant the querist is thinking about some girl. If Saturn is placed in the ascendant, the querist is thinking about an old woman. The Sun and Jupiter similarly placed indicate a middle-aged woman while Venus and Mars would indicate a young woman. If the query relates to a male, these combinations have to be interpreted as indicating boy, old man, middle-aged man and a young man.
2. If Venus, the Sun and Saturn are placed on the 7th house, the thought is about the wife of another person. Jupiter indicates one's own wife. Moon or Mercury would show a courtesan. Saturn, Rahu or Ketu will show that the query is regarding a woman belonging to a low caste. From the degree of the Moon, the age of the woman under query is to be judged.
3. The query relates to one's own self, brother, son, mother, sister or enemy according as the planet endowed with strength is situated in the ascendant, third house, fifth house, fourth house or the sixth house.
4. The query is concerning one's wife, religion or proceptor, according as the strong planet is placed in the 7th, 9th or 10th house. The strength of the planet is to be guessed from its placement in own Navamsha, Navamsha of a friendly planet or the Navamsha of an inimical planet.
5. If on the ascendant, there rises a movable sign or the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Navamshas of a chara rasi, the query in the mind is regarding life abroad. If any planet moves further away from the 7th house and returns to the 7th house with retrograde motion, the person who has gone abroad will return. If the planet is not retrograde the person will not return.
6. The signs Libra, Scorpio, Leo and Virgo are long. Sagittarius, Capricorn, Cancer and Gemini are of medium length. Aries Taurus, Pisces and Aquarius are short. The length (or size) of an article is to be predicted from the length of the respective signs.
7. The Sun and Mars are red in colour. The Moon and Venus are white. Mercury is green. Jupiter is yellow and Saturn is black.
8. The Sun is square is form. Mars is round. Mercury is tall. The Moon is also tall. Jupiter is round. Venus is thin. Saturn has a long form. Thus has been told the forms and shapes of the planets. In the case of silent queries, the shape, colour and form of the article is to be divined from the shape, colour and form of the strongest planet at the moment of query.
9. Query regarding mineral, vegetable or animal : If a planet situated in its own Navamsa aspects its own Navamsa falling in the ascendant or a triangular house or is placed therein the query is relating to a mineral and this is certain. If the planet be situated in the Navamsa belonging to another planet but aspects its own Navamsa, falling on the ascendant or a triangular house, the query concerns a living being. If the planet is placed in the Navamsa of another planet and is aspecting the Navamsa of another planet falling on the ascendant or a triangular house, the query relates to a vegetable.
10. If the planet is placed in an odd sign the Navamsas denote query about mineral, vegetable and animal respectively. If the planet is posited in an even sign, this should be considered in the reverse order i.e., the first Navamsa represent, animals, the second vegetables and the third minerals. This in short is the method to be adopted in silent queries.
11. If the Sun and Mars are strong, they indicate a query regarding some mineral. If the Saturn or Mercury is strong, the query relates to vegetabes. If the Moon, Jupiter and Venus are strong the query is regarding some animal.
12. If Aries, Leo or Scorpio rises as ascendant and the same is conjoined with or aspected by Mars or the Sun, the query relates to some mineral. If Gemini, Virgo, Capricorn or Aquarius rises as ascendant and the same is conjoined to or aspected by Saturn or Mercury the query relates to a vegetable.
13. If Taurus, Cancer, Sagittarius, Libra or Pisces rises as ascendant and the same is conjoined with or aspected by the Moon, Venus and Jupiter the query will be concerning some animal. If planets of different kinds conjoin or aspect the ascendant, the query will be concerning mixture of the corresponding categories. (i.e., mineral, vegetable, and animal).
"Here ends the Chapter X of Daivajnavallabha entitled
"Queries relating to objects held in the mind or in the Fist."
