Determining Atmakaraka and Amatyakaraka

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Hello everyone

 

I was playing around with JHora software to see when various transits

occur. In the course of that I found that on July 3, 2002 at a particular

time (7:18:11am) for the place I live in (96W20, 30N20, 6:00 West of GMT),

Jupiter and Mars are in exact conjunction, down to the fractions of a

second (29 deg 37 min 29.66 sec).

 

Now JHora tells me that Mars is AK and Jupiter is AmK. I realize that

because of rounding errors associated with floating point calculations,

one of the logitudes comes out as being greater than the other. My

question is, when we have such close conjunctions (or even when the

longitudes match but in different signs), is there any other rule that we

have to use to determine AK and AmK (like planet-sign relationship). Since

the AK determines several other factors (eg. Ishta Devata) it is important

to know which one to choose. The same situation can occur for any of the

other karakas also.

 

Another query unrelated to the above: From approx. midnight of July 4 for

about 6 hours, both the Gurus (Jupiter and Venus) are in Cancer. I am

tempted to think that this time period will be significant in some way and

would like the gurus on the list and others to point out any such

significance.

 

Thanks

 

Vinod

[Guest guest]

Om

 

Dear Vinod,

 

I will quote from Narasimhaji's book - "If two planets are exactly

the same longitude, then they will hold a karakatwa (significations)

together and the next karakatwa will have no ruler. We should use

the corresponding sthira karak in that case."

 

My impression is that to determine the Ista Devata we should look at

the 12th house/s in the Navamsa from both the "Atmakaraka" planets

and use the stronger of the two houses or planets in/associated with

the respective 12th houses. Learned members can guide us further.

 

Best Wishes.

 

Ashwin

 

vedic astrology, Vinod Srinivasan <vinod@t...> wrote:

>

> Hello everyone

>

> I was playing around with JHora software to see when various

transits

> occur. In the course of that I found that on July 3, 2002 at a

particular

> time (7:18:11am) for the place I live in (96W20, 30N20, 6:00 West

of GMT),

> Jupiter and Mars are in exact conjunction, down to the fractions

of a

> second (29 deg 37 min 29.66 sec).

>

> Now JHora tells me that Mars is AK and Jupiter is AmK. I realize

that

> because of rounding errors associated with floating point

calculations,

> one of the logitudes comes out as being greater than the other. My

> question is, when we have such close conjunctions (or even when the

> longitudes match but in different signs), is there any other rule

that we

> have to use to determine AK and AmK (like planet-sign

relationship). Since

> the AK determines several other factors (eg. Ishta Devata) it is

important

> to know which one to choose. The same situation can occur for any

of the

> other karakas also.

>

> Another query unrelated to the above: From approx. midnight of

July 4 for

> about 6 hours, both the Gurus (Jupiter and Venus) are in Cancer. I

am

> tempted to think that this time period will be significant in some

way and

> would like the gurus on the list and others to point out any such

> significance.

>

> Thanks

>

> Vinod