Anukula & Pratikul system

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One group of astrologers opines that gems should be used to "pacify"

harmful (Pratikul) planets; another group believes that gems should

be used to "strengthen" or to "boost" beneficial or auspicious

planets (Anukula)

 

Most devotee astrologers advise gems for the devotee's BAD planets,

and thus they inflict harm on them.

 

According to Late Great B.V. Raman, India's leading astrologer, "A

planet in it's own sign is rendered powerful to do good. A planet in

its sign of exaltation is rendered even more powerful to do good

than in it's own sign. A planet in it's sign of mulatrikona is

rendered powerful to do good similar to when in exaltation." Planets

that are in an enemy sign or which are debilitated usually have a

harmful or inauspicious influence. Thus Professor Raman also states

that planets which are debilitated give results opposite of when

they are in strong sign position - in other words, bad results.

(Ref. Astrology for Beginners. IBH Prakashana, Fifth Main,

Gandhinagar, Bangalore 560 009, India. 1983)

 

When using any planet's gem, the result will depend on the condition

of the planet in one's horoscope (as per the above conclusion of

Prof.

Raman). Gems DO magnify the energy and influence of a planet, but

gems DO NOT change the angle or position of a planet in one's

horoscope. The idea that gems will strengthen weak planets (like

those in an enemy sign or sign of debilitation) and thereby make

them auspicious is, in my opinion, an incorrect understanding.

 

This conclusion, which I believe to be erroneous, leads to the

belief that br providing the gem for a malefic planet, benefic

results will

follow: Which we have shown to be completely false.

 

I believe that a gem WILL increase the influence of it's ruling

planet, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, depending on the position or angle that

a planet is placed in one's horoscope. To make a BAD planet stronger

will only increase its bad influence.

 

For example, whenever people ask me what [gem] is good for them

(according to their janma-patri) I CANNOT point out their malefic

Mars and say that Coral for Mars is good for them. It is common

knowledge that having any planet malefic is NOT GOOD! Prof. Raman

says that it would be a BAD influence on the person.

 

In 1982 and again in 1988 I published a book called "Handbook of

Planetary Gemology." In this book I also advocated the negative idea

that gems should be chosen for bad (weak) planets to strengthen

their weakness. In fact, I actually practiced this negative or

PRATIKUL method of gem selection for clients from 1975 to 1990, and

now I can understand why my first 15 years were so discouraging. I

was not giving people what was GOOD for them; rather I was

dispensing the very worst gem they could use.

 

An illustration of this concept can be taken from one of my own

experiences with gem therapy. Saturn in particular is a krura-graha,

or cruel planet, and its position in my horoscope is even worse.

Still, I was advised by most sidereal astrologers to use a blue

sapphire, the gem for Saturn, in order to "pacify" or CHANGE

Saturn's harmful influence on me.

 

After a long search I found a flawless, unburned, top color Burmese

blue sapphire weighing just over 7 carats. I bought the gem, had it

set into a special gold ring, and on Saturday, two hours and forty

minutes before sunset (during the waxing Moon), and I installed the

ring after reciting the appropriate mantras to Shanideva.

 

I began having ill fortune as soon as I started wearing this most

auspicious and completely flawless blue sapphire, and the bad

influence was totally of a saturnine nature. It felt like I was into

a Shani Mahadasha period. I started getting frequent headaches and

my business started slowing down along with my energy level. Almost

everything I did was beset with obstacles and delays.

 

Finally, after using the gem for almost a year, I took it off in

frustration. And slowly I began to feel relief (Note: Our research

has shown that the influence of blue sapphire for Saturn takes about

30 days to wear off). So the blue sapphire didn't 'pacify' my cruel

Saturn, it didn't strengthen my so-called weak Saturn; rather it

increased Saturn's evil influence on me according to its bad

position in my birth chart.

 

Later I had the opportunity to show my birth chart to Pandit

Vidyadhar Shukla, the current Chief Brahmin Priest and leading Vedic

astrologer of Thailand, who confirmed that Saturn was indeed a bad

influence for me. He further suggested that as the blue sapphire had

made matters worse, this was a good case against the theory that

gems "pacify"

harmful planets.

 

In my chart Sun is exalted in Aries in the 9th house as lord of my

lagna, Leo. Pandit Vidyadhar suggested that I should wear a ruby

to "strengthen" the Sun in order to counteract or overpower Saturn's

harmful influence. Panditji also told me to "donate" a blue sapphire

in order to mitigate Saturn's harmful influence. Since following

this advice I have experienced much better effects on my health,

business and attitude.

 

II GEM DONATIONS (using gems to pacify harmful planets)

 

Gems CAN be used to 'pacify' bad or ill-placed planets, but the

method is to sacrifice or DONATE the gem(s) for one's bad planet(s),

not to wear the gem oneself. For example: To propitiate an evil (ill-

placed) Rahu in one's horoscope, it is recommended that one should

DONATE a fine hessonite (gomeda) gem to a leper on Saturday evening

during the waxing Moon. This is the recommendation for using gems to

PACIFY bad or ill-placed planet(s) in one's horoscope.

 

 

 

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The passage is from http://www.p-g-a.org

 

Mr. Richard S. Brown, GIA, PG Ref

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