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8.0 CHAPTER VI

Beneficial Aspects and Conjunctions

If beneficial planets, viz., Full Moon, well-associated Mercury, Jupiter and Venus occupy the Lagna, she will have money, good clothes, ornaments, agreeable temper and attractive personality, happiness and prosperity. If evil planets, the Sun, weak Moon, badly associated Mercury, Mars, Rahu, Sani and Ketu occupy the Lagna, she will have the opposite results, viz., disagreeable personality, repulsive manners, poverty, short and unpleasant temper and misery. Full Moon and well-associated Mercury are classed as benefics. But when the Moon is weak like on a New Moon day, and Mercury with Rahu, Sani, Mars and Ketu, he is said to be evil. Here great differences must be made in the results.

Suppose Kanya is Lagna with Budha and Sani and Meena is Lagna with them. The results will be and must be different. In Meena, Budha is debilitated, and with Sani, he will give bad results. In Kanya, he is exalted, and with Sani, he will give better results. Suppose in Kanya they are joined by Guru and so also in Meena, there will be difference in results. If Sukra joins them in Kanya or Meena, the results will be quite different. In astrology, it is no joke to make correct predictions, for, the

astrologer has to remember all such details, analyse them as best as he could, balance the conflicting evidence, combine theory and practice, use common sense and intelligence, study the environments of the parties, consider the local, the political, the social and the religious conditions and then, after summarising all these, draw reasonable conclusions and make predictions with care and caution.

If Lagna is occupied by Chandra, Budha and Sukra or by Budha, Guru and Sukra, she will have excellent character, be happy, learned, intelligent, polite, attractive and command the services of servants. If Chandra and Sukra are in Lagna, she will be irritable, fond of happiness and have many gold ornaments. If Lagna has Budha or Guru and Sukra, she will be skilful in arts, fond of happiness and attractive. If Budha and Chandra are in Lagna, she will be happy and blessed with children. If Guru occupies Lagna, she will be very wealthy and will have sons and grandchildren. If Kanya or Mithuna rises as Lagna and Chandra and Sukra are there, she will be fond of happiness, will have a tendency to quarrel with her husband and will have free movements. The latter means, I suppose, she will be free with other men. Quarrels are not happy signs of domestic felicity. If Budha, Guru and Sukra are powerless, if Sani has middle strength and Ravi, Chandra and Kuja are powerful and the Lagna falls in an odd sign, the girt will be masculine in temperament and behaviour, will be free in her sexual intercourse, and will become a reputed woman. When a woman is free in her sexual matters, I am afraid she will be rightly entitled to become notorious rather than reputed.

Reputation always signifies right conduct and notoriety objectionable behaviour. Good reputation can never be the property of women, free in sexual matters. It is only a shameless woman who indulges in promiscuous intercourse. If Lagna falls in an even sign, the powerful Guru, Budha or Sukra joins with Chandra in any sign, she will have religious wisdom and philosophical knowledge, insight into many sciences and will become famous. if Lagna or Chandra is betwixt powerful evil planets, she will have all her wants supplied by her parents and she will cause extinction of her father-in-law’s house. If two planets are in the 6th and there is one malefic and one benefic in Lagna, the girl will become a Vishakanya. If the lunar day is 7th failing on Tuesday and Satabhisha ruling, or if the lunar day is 12th falling on

Sunday, ruled by Krittika, the girl becomes a Vishakanya. If Dwadasi or 12th lunar day, Satabhisha and Sunday join together or if Saptami or 7th lunar day, Visakha and Tuesday combine, the girl becomes a Vishakanya. If Lagna and Chandra fall in moveable signs, aspected by feminine planets and evil planets occupy kendras, the girl will have two husbands.

If Sani and Chandra occupy a moveable sign aspected by Sukra, her husband will be fond of other women, fickle-minded and born of adultery. This means that his mother is immoral and he is not the son of her reputed or registered father. If Sani occupies an even sign and the 7th is occupied or aspected by a benefic, her husband will be respected by the governing bodies and will be agreeable and happy. If Chandra and Sukra occupy the 7th, the husband will be old.

If the 7th is occupied by evil planets, she will become a widow early in life. If Ravi occupies the 7th aspected by an unfriendly planet, she will be neglected by her husband. If Kuja occupies the 7th and has the aspect of an unfriendly planet, she will become a widow in early life. If Sani occupies the 7th with unfriendly aspect, she becomes a young widow and will live as a widow till old age. If the 7th is occupied by good and evil planets, she will become adulterous. If the 7th is an evil sign and is occupied by Sani and Kuja, she becomes a widow, very early in life. If Kuja with an evil planet joins the 12th or the 8th and Lagna is occupied by Rahu, she will become a widow and immoral. If Lagna is occupied by Ravi or Kuja, she becomes poor. If Ravi, Kuja and Rahu occupy Lagna, she becomes a widow and immoral. If these combine with Sukra, she will be fond of her husband. There are extraordinary women who although they become widows at a very early age, preserve their chastity and command the highest respect from alt classes of people. They are domestic gems.

If there is an evil planet in the 8th from Lagna and when the subperiod of the lord of the navamsa occupied by that planet occurs after the marriage, her widowhood should be predicted. If the 2nd is occupied by benefics and the 8th by malefics, she will die before her husband. Such a death is coveted by all good women and that state or marital life goes under the name Sumangali. If evil planets occupy the 8th, the woman becomes a widow. If there is a malefic in the 8th and a benefic occupies Kumbha, she dies before her husband. If Lagna has evil and good planets and the second has benefics, her death occurs before her husband. If Lagna falls in Simha, Vrishabha or Vrischika, she will have few issues. If malefics occupy the 7th and the 9th houses, she will become a Sanyasin or one who renounces the world. If Kanya, Vrischika, Vrishabha or Simha joins Chandra or if the 6th is occupied by benefics or has their aspects, she will have few children. If Lagna is joined by Sani and Kuja or by Chandra and Sukra, and the 5th is aspected or occupied by malefics, she becomes barren.

If birth falls in Mesha, Vrischika, Makara or Kumbha and is aspected by evil planets, she becomes barren, If Ravi and Sani occupy the 8th or if any one of them occupies his own house other than Lagna, the woman becomes barren. If Guru and Sukra are similarly situated, she will have dead children. If Kuja joins with such Sukra. and Guru, she will have many abortions. If Kuja occupies the 7th and has the aspect of Sani, she will have abortions. If Sani occupies the 7th possessing the aspect of Kuja, the issues will be sickly. If Rahu and Ravi occupy the 7th, she will have dead children. If Chandra and Budha are in the 7th, she will have female children. If Guru and Sukra occupy the 5th, she will have many sons and daughters, prosperous, with good qualities, faithful and loving to husband and will do many charitable deeds. These results may be predicted for females, at the time of birth, at the time of marriage, at time when marriages are settled, at the time of query or questions and at the time of puberty. These results of female horoscopy have been selected from the Vriddha Yavana and other important works on female horoscopy. Who are Yavanas and where did they come from? What works have they written and when did they flourish? Vriddha Yavanas are the older ones. Yavanas are later emigration (see my History of Vijayanagar).