Jyotish Approach

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

I have just read some interesting information from Linda Reid and Scott Winters

- Canopus Enterprises, Ltd. on their approach to evaluating a chart. For me, it

passes the common sense test. I would hope as we move along in this SJVC class,

the Guru's can also structure an approach that will help all sisya's with a

methodology to combine good evaluation with insight and intuition. I ask the

Guru's for corrections

to any of the concepts below that are outside of the teaching of SJVC.

Here's a few things that were mentioned in the article….

Understanding a Chart... three "must do's" :

Analysis. Gather together the facts as a basic premise;

Interpretation. You go on a metaphorical exploration, using symbolism and

imagination to derive meaning.

Synthesis. Pull the analytical and interpretative process together to form a whole picture

1. Analysis - itemize or take the components like planet, sign, house, Karaka,

Yogas, aspects and be conscious of their 'value' - to get a feel for the

priorities that certain themes might imply. This is the 'technical' side of

chart work

2.Interpretation - finding meaning in the technicalities. Assign meaningful

context to the planets - in its sign, the influence of its sign rulership and

aspects. Sound understanding of the core meanings of sign, house, Graha are

essential. We cannot interpret Venus in metaphors that rightly belong to

Saturn. There is never 'one' meaning but an array of levels and choices invoked

by allowing the 'factual' to extend into the 'metaphorical' - the right brain to

connect with and exchange information in exactly the dual way that Mercury

operates!

3. Synthesis - building a whole picture. Having initiated left and right brain

functions so that we have both signposts and landscape, now attempt to create

the whole picture, drawing the threads of fact and meaning into a composite

that describes the person whose chart we explore from a variety of

perspectives. Realistically we cannot ever expect to get 'every' nuance from

the chart - the task is to get enough to make meaning from the chart.

KEY TENETS of interpreting a chart:

a. Remember that the graha is moving and has the energy,

b.the sign is the descriptive value of how that graha operates - it's static,

c. and the house is where it ( the Graha's energy) is focused.