Mutual Placement of Mercury and Jupiter! (Power of Discrimination)

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Respected Narsimhaji

 

This post is really very good and informative and refines ones views

to look at Mercury and Jupitor astrologically. As they are considered

as bitter enemies towards each other still the concept behind Student

Teacher relations really helps to learn astrology in a different way.

 

Thank you very much for such a informative post.

 

Regards

KPK

 

 

 

 

 

vedic astrology, "Narasimha P.V.R. Rao"

<pvr@c...> wrote:

> Namaste Samarth,

>

> > From Jupiter .. Mercury in 1,4,7,10 = Poor

> > From Jupiter .. Mercury in 3,5,8,11 = Medium

> > From Jupiter .. Mercury in 2,6,9,12 = Excellent

>

> I want to add another perspective to this.

>

> Let us go back to Parasara's teachings and see which houses were

defined as good houses for Mercury from Jupiter and which houses were

defined as good houses for Jupiter from Mercury.

>

> Good houses for Mercury with respect to Jupiter are 6th, 8th, 11th

and 12th houses.

> Good houses for Jupiter with respect to Mercury are 1st, 2nd, 4th,

5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th.

>

> One may be surprised to find that 3 out of 4 benefic places for

Mercury with respect to Jupiter are dusthanas. After all, a good

student invariably causes a lot of trouble to his guru!

>

> Jupiter represents intellect (dhee) and Mercury represents

scholarship and learning ability as per Parasara. Intellect and the

spirit of learning are like guru and sishya.

>

> The 6th house is the middle house of artha trikona. It shows the

activity of overcoming obstacles in the process of serving purpose

(serving purpose is 10th). The purpose (artha) served by the

intellect (Jupiter) is to finally guide the mind (Moon) and self

(lagna). Mercury has no place in the final artha (10th house), but he

figures in the intermediate stage of overcoming obstacles. One's

spirit of learning and knowledge (Mercury) challenges (6th) one's

intellect (Jupiter) and that helps intellect (Jupiter) serve its

purpose!

>

> Just as a good sishya probes a guru and argues with him, one's

learning ability probes and challenges one's intellect (and that is

beneficial to the intellect).

>

> Learning ability (Mercury or student) is benefic when probing and

serving (6th) or forcing contemplation/tapasya (8th) or giving gains

to (11th - what are the desires of intellect? What are its gains?

Think!) or receiving from (12th) intellect (Jupiter or teacher)! That

is why they are the benefic places for Mercury with respect to

Jupiter!

>

> OTOH, Jupiter (intellect or teacher) is best placed in 1st, 2nd,

4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th from Mercury. Why?

>

> Teacher benefits a student when with him (1st). Note that a teacher

benefits a student merely by being with him, but a student does not

benefit a teacher when he is merely with him. He benefits teacher

only when engaged in 6th, 8th, 11th and 12th house activities of guru!

>

> Student (learning ability or Mercury) also benefits when teacher

(intellect or Jupiter) is placed in 2nd (resources), 4th

(learning/direction), 5th (abilities), 6th (probing/challenging), 9th

(sense of dharma), 10th (karma) and 11th (gains). A teacher should

stay with a student, be his resource, make him learn, impact his

abilities, probe him, define his dharma and karma and result in the

gain of knowledge.

>

> There is a lot of meaning hidden in ashtakavarga definition. Those

numbers are not arbitrary. Numbers used in each ashtakavarga and for

each planet have a clear meaning (that is intuitive!). The correct

understanding will require

>

> (1) understanding what each house stands for - not in terms of a

huge list of things, but in terms of a basic axiom of one thing per

house

> (2) understanding what each reference (lagna, Sun, Moon, Mars etc)

stands for (perhaps using real life analogies like teacher and

student)

> (3) being able to derive the meaning of each house with respect to

each reference

> (4) understanding the interaction between various planets and

things denoted by them (e.g. intellect and spirit of learning,

intellect and mind, soul and mind, initiative and mind etc)

>

> I'll be covering all the above in detail and then covering Moon

lagna and Sun lagna in greater detail, at this weekend's workshop at

Edison, NJ.

>

> If you are interested and need more details, please contact Narayan

Iyer at narayan@s... or naaraayana_iyer

>

> For info on all workshops, please go to

>

> vedic astrology

>

> and look for the file SJC_WW_2003_Schedule.doc.

>

> May Jupiter's light shine on us,

> Narasimha