aspects

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Dear Robert,

As a struggling novice, I have difficulty incorporating Rahu's

many aspects in prediction. Rather than stir the amrita, I get Rahu 'soup'!.

No doubt this is something I will continue to struggle with...

Love

Ann.

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Namaste Ann,

 

At 06:57 PM 4/28/01 +1000, you wrote:

 

> Dear Robert,

> As a struggling novice, I have difficulty incorporating Rahu's

>many aspects in prediction. Rather than stir the amrita, I get Rahu 'soup'!.

>No doubt this is something I will continue to struggle with...

>Love

>Ann.

 

Thank you for your question - let me respond as follows:

 

Rahu has drishti, or sight, because he basically is an immortalized head

that resulted from the drinking of the amrita. Unfortunately for Rahu,

however, he was behead by Mohini Murti, a form of Vishnu, and thus in spite

of achieving an immortal head complete with a full spate of desires, his

body was severed thus making the pursuit of desire impossible. Rahu thus

has enmity with the gods, especially the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter, and thus

seeks to eclipse the former two, and challenge the latter by interfering

with the places of his drishti, or aspect. Thus since Jupiter aspects on

the 5th and 9th from himself, so does Rahu, in the mood of enmity, to

befuddle Jupiter's effects.

 

So take the 5th and 9th aspect of Rahu, both by rasi position and transit,

and see the effects. Certain texts also mentioned the 12th house aspect of

Rahu, which taken in reverse (due to the continual retrogression of the

nodes), gives his aspect on the 2nd from himself. Alex Jafee pointed out

appropriately in a previous post, therefore, that Rahu in the 12th from the

Moon will always pose difficulties so far as the emotional and mental

continuity of the native is concerned, because the Moon in the 2nd from

Rahu is thus aspected by him.

 

RASI DRISHTI

 

Parasara instructed the importance of rasi drishti in the BPHS, yet the

rank and file of astrologers neglect these. This is a great mistake, in my

opinion, as it leaves some very important information out. Rasi drishti

should *always* be taken into account vis a vis the signs in which Rahu and

Ketu are placed, and the signs/houses thus aspected. This is especially

important when analyzing a chart for medical or other physical/mental

challenges that a person may be confronted with. If anyone is confused as

to why in BPHS Parasara did not mention Rahu's drishti along with the

drishti's of other planets, yet gave voluminous "readings" concerning the

aspects of Rahu, then here is your answer.

 

Note also that in the Navamsa and other varga charts, rasi drishtis

apply. If signs aspect in the rasi chart, then why should they not in the

varga charts? This is the crux of the use of rasi dasas also, some of

which can also be calculated for specific varga charts. You can, for

example, calculate Padakrama dasa (Narayana dasa) for specific vargas, and

judge the results taking those charts as entities in their own right. That

is, you can have a dasa for the Dasamsa, with specific relation to timings

in career; then you can calculate a dasa for the Navamsa chart, with

specific relation to timings in relationships, etc.

 

Anyway, if you have a hard time believing how Rahu can have a drishti, at

the very least, never neglect the Rasis aspected by the signs that

Rahu/Ketu are in. This way, a greater dimension of chart interpretation

can be achieved.

 

ON JAIMINI

 

There is a reason why a contemporary of Parasara, named Jaimini, wrote a

summary study on Parasari astrology called "Maharishi Jaimini's Upadesa

Sutras". That is because the very specific uses of rasi drishti, Argalas

(intervention), rasi dasas (sign-based dasa systems), Arudha lagnas, and

three categories of karakas (viz. Naiskargika, Sthira, and Chara),

basically had been neglected, or at least not fully understood by the

majority of astrologers at the time. These are written about in BPHS, yet

astrologers even today do not talk about them much. So in the Upadesa

sutras, the use of these is shown is great detail. Yet, Jaimini never

asserted that he had created something new; whatever he wrote on these

subjects, was first instructed by Parasara in the BPHS. Thus, my

recommendation - apart from Rahu and his drishti, etc. - is to make a

thorough study of Jaimini. Sanjay Rath has written what is, in my opinion,

the clearest and most unambiguous translation and commentary on the Jaimini

sutras, published by Sagar: "Maharishi Jaimini Upadesa Sutras". Read that

carefully, and much of the ambiguity regarding drishtis, especially that of

Rahu, and uses of varga charts, Arudhas, etc., will be erased.

 

Best wishes,

Robert

 

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