8.0 CHAPTER VII
Characteristics of the 12 Rasis
I will now give the description and characteristics of girls born in the 12 different rasis and these are to be taken with considerable modifications. For example, if a girl is born in Mesha without any planet or with Ravi, Chandra, Kuja, Budha, Guru, Sukra, Sani, Rahu or Ketu in all these ten cases the results will be necessarily different. This should be particularly borne in mind. But there will also be the general influences of the Rasi itself which will be strongly or weakly marked according to the strength or weakness of the Rasi itself, its lord and the planets who are there and who aspect it. Kuja in Mesha will be its lord. Ravi in Mesha will have exaltation, Chandra will be in a friendly house. Budha will be emerging from debilitation and in an unfriendly sign. Guru will be in a friendly sign. Sukra will be in an enemy's use. Sani will be debilitated. Rahu will be powerful. Ketu will be weak. Therefore, the results of a girl born in Mesha vary according to the strength and weakness of these planets and rasis. Then again we have double, triple, quadruple, multiple, sextile and separate combinations, each of which has its own strength and weakness. Therefore, when we give the results for Mesha, Vrishabha and so forth, the astrologer must be very careful in making his predictions.
1. A girl, who is born in Mesha, will be truthful, cruel, phlegmatic, quarrelsome and fond of relations.
2. A woman, born in Vrishabha, will be of cultivation, agreeable, polite manners, obey her husband, skilled in arts and fond of relations.
3. One, who is born in Mithuna, will use harsh language, passionate, bad character, cruel temper, windy and phlegmatic complaints and a spendthrift.
4. One, born in Kataka, will have many issues, handsome, wealthy, righteous, fondness for relations, pious, polite, attractive and happy.
5. One, who is born. in Simha; will have anger, phlegmatic, fond of quarrels and charitable.
6. One, who is born in Kanya, will have happiness, politeness, agreeable temper, faithful servants, fond of charitable deeds, virtuous, and skilful in arts.
7. One, who is born in Thula, steadiness, laziness, few friends, proud, heart-burn, avaricious and sinful;
8. One, born in Vrischika, will be handsome delightful, meritorious, virtuous, good Character and truthful.
9. One, born in Dhanus, good mind, masculine deeds, amenable to kindness, cruel, thinking ill of others and unkind.
10. One, born in Makara will be prosperous, truthful, fond of visiting holy places, without enemies , engaged in important work, good reputation, character and many children.
11. One, who is born in Kumbha, powerful from birth, bloody disease, fond of religious men, pure-minded, expensive, fond of merit and grateful.
12. One, born in Meena, will have children and grand children, fond of husband, respected by relations and friends, beautiful eyes and hairs, fond of worship, kindness and respect to elders.
In judging of these characteristics, the reader has to be careful. When the sign is powerful, well occupied, beneficially aspected and when its lord has good conjunctions and aspects then the characteristics sketched above will appear in full. But when the sign is weak and has evil conjunctions and aspects, its lord is not powerful, then the results can only have general traces and not in full. One or two examples will suffice to explain what I mean.
Take Kataka. If it is occupied by Kuja, if its lord Moon is both New Moon and debilitated in Vrischika, then there will be faint traces of the characteristics represented by Kataka. But if Guru is there and Chandra is full and exalted, then all the characteristics given for Cancer will be prominently visible. The task of an astrologer, if he wants to be honest and faithful to this science, is not only taxing but also laborious. Sciences, whatever they may be, are not for lazy fools or ignorant brains. Devotion, intelligence, patience and industry are wanted.
Results to the occupation of Chandra in the different Rasis:
1. When Chandra is in Mesha - fond of work, much skill, handsome person, leader, fond of husband and devoted to elders and Gurus.
2. Chandra in Vrishabha - good temper, tact, education, fond of fine arts, visiting holy places, blessed with children and grandchildren, acquisition of wealth and devotion to husband.
3. Chandra in Mithuna - well developed, handsome body, good character, profits from various engagements, good intelligence, helpful of others, charming eyes.
4. Chandra in Kataka - sickly, respected among relations, dignified, conquest over enemies, devotion to Gods and priests.
5. Chandra in Simha - leader among her class, good temper, fond of flesh, blessed with ornaments and clothes, engaged in large speculations, good marital life and handsome features.
6. Chandra in Kanya - many cattle, virtue, great wealth, over enemies, patience and righteous conduct.
7. Chandra in Thula - fond of religious rites, sympathetic and loving, virtuous, good children, high social position and little sexual passion.
8. Chandra in Vrischika - concealing sins, steady, skilful work, agreeable to elders, great wealth and unsympathetic.
9. Chandra in Dhanus - fond of religious rights, love for charities, sympathy, musical taste, love for fellow creatures, agreeable, attainment in desires, female issues and polite manners.
10. Chandra in Makara - terrible teeth, solar worship, agreeable, varied learning, truthful, handsome body, conquest over passions and enemies, and righteous.
11. Chandra in Kumbha - rounded body, attractive face, charitable, issues, wealth, good actions, reputation and self-respect.
12. Chandra in Meena - many male issues, charitable, good character, controlling passions, skilful in arts, great modesty, careful about reputation and agreeable.
When Chandra is in any particular sign, not aspected or conjoined by good or evil planets and the lord of the sign is powerful as has already been stated, then the characteristics detailed for that sign will be prominently seen. But when Conjunctions and aspects present are conflicting then there will be traces of these results. We say a girl is handsome. In beauty there are any number of varieties and the judgements on beauty also vary according to the tastes of nations, manners, customs, social functions and aesthetic development. Habit also has a great deal to do with our tastes and judgements. The darkest Negro, the Hotentat, the American, the Indian, the aboriginals of India, the European and the Asiatic nations all have their own ideas of beauty.
It will be seen that the thirty degrees of any sign will not exercise the same influences and it stands to ordinary common sense to think so. A man walks thirty miles. The road, the scenery, the nature of the soils, the varied phenomena on the way, the climatic conditions, the presence or absence of watery surfaces, hills, valleys, dales, mountains, vegetation, animals, birds, beasts, reptiles, the human habitations, their varied features, his own physical and mental changes, all these and many more necessarily change his mind, and make him miserable or pleasurable, according to these various influences. Similarly when a planet enters Mesha he will be affected in the 30 degrees with various sources of beneficial and malefic influences. Say the Sun enters Mesha in the 1st degree. We will explain the various influences in our colloquial language. First, he enters a friendly house; second, he enters his sign of exaltation; third, he enters his own Hora; fourth, he enters Kuja
Drekkana; fifth, he enters Kuja Navamsa; sixth, he enters Kuja Dwadasamsa; and seventh, he enters Kuja Thrimsamsa, we shall not go into further minor subdivisions. Here we have to take that Ravi is alone there, unaspected and uncombined and within respectable distances from other planets. Here again he travels in two and quarter stars in each sign which have their own peculiar influences. Aswini extends over 13 1/3 degrees and it does not exercise the same influence all through those degrees. The tenth degree or the end of the 3rd quarter is his deep exaltation where he is said to give the highest beneficial influence.
Till the 10th degree he is in the ascent and reaches the highest point in the 10th degree. From the 11th degree he is said to be in the descent, and gradually loses his powers. When he reaches the 30th degree he loses his power of exaltation and when he enters the 1st degree of Vrishabha, he comes to an unfriendly territory. From the 13 1/3 degree to the 26 2/3 degree of Mesha, he will be in Bharani which is quite different in nature, in its results from those of Aswini. Bharani has Yama as its Deity and has its influence. From the 262/3 degree till he passes the 30th degree or the end of the first quarter of Krittika he travels in a star governed by Agni. Bharani is governed by Yama or the dread judge who punishes all wicked people after their death. These are not easy lessons which could be learnt by casual glances. They require deep, intelligent and patient study.
