Interpreting Vimsottari Dasa upto Six Levels

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Om Gurave Namah

Namaste friends,

 

I taught Vimsottari dasa interpretation at an SJC workshop at Edison, NJ on

Vijaya Dasami day (4th October 2003). I covered the interpretation of

Vimsottari dasa upto six levels (upto deha-antardasa). Pt. Sanjay Rath, my

guru, told me to write a small article on it on this list, so that those who do

not have access to the CD's also get this important knowledge. I did not get

chance to do that until now.

 

This topic was covered for 1.5-2 hours. The Vimsottari dasa workshop was for 2

days. I taught for 1.5 days and Narayan Iyer taught for half a day. Those who

want to go through the rest of the material and want to get the CD's when they

are ready may kindly contact Narayan at narayan (AT) (DOT) org.

 

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Warning

 

If there is an error of 1 minute in birthtime, Vimsottari dasa start dates can

change by upto 5 days! If there is an error of just 1 arc-min in the ayanamsa

used, Vimsottari dasa start dates can change by upto 9 days! Thus, the

Vimsottari dasa dates one has can be off by many days. So, it is pointless to

analyze Vimsottari dasa upto six levels without finely rectifying the

birthtime.

 

Even after the birthtime is finely rectified, it is possible that Vimsottari

dasa start days are slightly off by a few days. Even if the birthtime is

accurate and lagna and special lagnas in all divisional charts are correct,

still there may be a minute error in Moon's longitude and there may be an error

in the dasa dates because of it. This can be due to a minute error in ayanamsa

or many such reasons. For example, we take the gravitational center of Moon

when finding the longitude (sphuta) of Moon. It is possible that Moon's

influence on our fortunes is not due to gravitational force and due to some

other spiritual force that is yet to be understood by science. If that is the

case and the spiritual center of Moon is slightly off from the gravitational

center, that can also change Moon's longitude slightly.

 

Thus, it is important to do the following when using Vimsottari dasa upto six levels.

 

(1) Rectify the birthtime accurately, so that lagna and special lagnas in

various divisional charts make sense

(2) Rectify the dasa dates and adjust them slightly if needed

 

The standard example we will take was rectified by me, based on tens of life

events. The birthdata is: 4th April 1970, 5:47:13 pm (IST), Machilipatnam,

India (81e8, 16n10). Vimsottari dasa was further rectified by subtracting 1 day

4 hr 17 min from all the dates. This can be due to ayanamsa error or some other

error that we do not yet understand. Please be advised that this error is not

necessarily a constant for all charts (even if it is just an ayanamsa error).

 

[Note: The latest version of Jagannatha Hora commercial software allows the

users to play with the dasa dates and adjust them.]

 

Interpreting Six Levels

 

The following references can be used when interpreting the six levels:

 

(1) Mahadasa (MD): Sun

(2) Antardasa (AD): Moon

(3) Pratyantardasa (PD): Lagna

(4) Sookshma-antardasa (SD): Atma karaka (AK, and other chara karakas)

(5) Praana-antardasa (PAD): Pranapada lagna (and arudha padas)

(5) Deha-antardasa (DAD): Lagna

 

In addition, we can take the planet ruling a period as the reference when

judging the results of the next level periods. For example, PAD lord can be

taken as the reference when judging the DADs.

 

Examples

 

(1) The native got married on 1st August 1993 at 9:30 pm (IST).

 

The dasa calculations are given below:

 

Vimsottari Dasa (started from Moon):

 

Sat MD: 1975-12-29 (8:04:41) - 1994-12-29 (4:56:06) Jup AD: 1992-06-16

(2:18:46) - 1994-12-29 (4:56:06) Ket PD: 1993-07-23 (6:05:02) - 1993-09-16

(11:33:05) Ven SD: 1993-07-26 (12:03:05) - 1993-08-04 (18:36:08) Sat

PAD: 1993-08-01 (10:54:12) - 1993-08-02 (22:07:38)

 

Deha-antardasas in this PAD:

 

Sat: 1993-08-01 (10:54:12) - 1993-08-01 (16:28:52) Merc: 1993-08-01

(16:28:52) - 1993-08-01 (21:28:17)>>>> Ket: 1993-08-01 (21:28:17) - 1993-08-01

(23:31:35) Ven: 1993-08-01 (23:31:35) - 1993-08-02 (5:23:49) Sun:

1993-08-02 (5:23:49) - 1993-08-02 (7:09:32) Moon: 1993-08-02 (7:09:32) -

1993-08-02 (10:05:39) Mars: 1993-08-02 (10:05:39) - 1993-08-02 (12:08:55)

Rah: 1993-08-02 (12:08:55) - 1993-08-02 (17:25:53) Jup: 1993-08-02

(17:25:53) - 1993-08-02 (22:07:38)

 

Let us interpret this dasa using the navamsa chart, which was recommended by

Parasara for seeing one's marriage.

 

Saturn is the lord of Surya lagna. His MD is capable of giving marriage. Taking

Moon as the reference, Jupiter is the 7th lord in 7th. His AD is capable of

giving marriage. Ketu is the 7th lord from lagna and his PD can give marriage.

Though Mars is also a 7th lord, Ketu is the 7th lord in 5th and Mars is the 7th

lord in 8th. So Ketu is more capable of giving marriage than the other 7th lord

Mars.

 

The SD is of Venus. Why? Use chara karakas for SD. Moon is AK. Venus is in 1st

house from him. Moreover, he is the 7th lord from DK (Mercury). DK shows

spouse. The 7th from DK shows the native, from the point of view of interacting

with spouse. Its lord is Venus. The link between AK and the 7th from DK should

be seen for finding the SD of marriage. It is Venus here.

 

Pranapada lagna in navamsa chart is in Aquarius. From Aq, Saturn is the 1st lord

in 7th. Due to exchange with Sun, he in fact gives the results of 7th lord in

7th. So, he is the perfect candidate for giving marriage in his PAD. Finally,

DAD is again that of Ketu and it was explained earlier.

 

The native for married in Ketu DAD. Then all the guests had a dinner, but the

native and his wife had to wait. They did more rituals and got a chance to eat

only after Venus DAD started. They had dinner a little before midnight.

Considering that Venus is the 2nd lord in rasi chart, he can give nice food.

Being the 9th lord in rasi chart, he can also give rituals etc. The native and

his wife continued the rituals for a few more hours, after the nice wedding

dinner. They left for home early in the dinner and slept for a few hours.

During Sun DAD, the native was sleeping. It may be noted that Sun is the lord

of the 12th house of sleep. Especially, as Sun is placed in the 12th from PAD

lord (Saturn) in rasi chart, apart from owning the 12th house from lagna, his

DAD is perfectly capable of giving sleep.

 

(2) The native lost his job on 12th August 2002 at 4:15 pm (EDT).

 

The dasa calculations are given below:

 

Vimsottari Dasa (started from Moon):

 

Merc MD: 1994-12-28 (19:26:06) - 2011-12-29 (4:07:51) Moon AD: 2002-01-27

(1:32:55) - 2003-06-29 (2:15:01) Jup PD: 2002-06-27 (12:43:55) - 2002-09-06

(11:15:15) Ven SD: 2002-08-01 (13:33:03) - 2002-08-13 (9:16:40) Merc

PAD: 2002-08-11 (0:36:45) - 2002-08-12 (16:45:13)

 

Deha-antardasas in this PAD:

 

Merc: 2002-08-11 (0:36:45) - 2002-08-11 (6:18:00) Ket: 2002-08-11

(6:18:00) - 2002-08-11 (8:38:31) Ven: 2002-08-11 (8:38:31) - 2002-08-11

(15:19:57) Sun: 2002-08-11 (15:19:57) - 2002-08-11 (17:20:23) Moon:

2002-08-11 (17:20:23) - 2002-08-11 (20:41:09) Mars: 2002-08-11 (20:41:09)

- 2002-08-11 (23:01:38) Rah: 2002-08-11 (23:01:38) - 2002-08-12 (5:02:53)

Jup: 2002-08-12 (5:02:53) - 2002-08-12 (10:23:58)>>>> Sat: 2002-08-12

(10:23:58) - 2002-08-12 (16:45:13)

 

Let us interpret this dasa using the dasamsa (D-10) chart, which was recommended

by Parasara for seeing one's career.

>From Sun, Mercury is the 5th lord in 1st. His dasa does NOT show getting laid

off. But considering that this layoff was a small event in a 17-year MD, it may

not show up. Let us focus on AD and the levels below it.

 

Lord of AD is Moon. From Chandra lagna, Moon is the badhaka lord debilitated in

1st. Moreover, he is placed in the 7th from MD lord Mercury! The 7th house is

the 2nd house (maraka sthana/killer station) for the 6th house of service.

Thus, Moon MD can give a layoff and some uneasiness in career.

 

PD lord is Jupiter. From AD lord Moon, Jupiter is in the 3rd house of short

breaks. The 3rd house has virodha argala on the 6th house of service and breaks

the sukha argala (driving intervention) of the 9th house (fortune). Thus, 3rd

house withdrawal of the aid of fortune in one's career.

 

Moreover, PD should be interpreted from lagna. From lagna, Jupiter is the 7th

lord (again, 2nd lord from 6th, i.e. death of service).

 

When it comes to SD, go to chara karakas. The 6th from AmK shows service (that

is why palana devata is based on the 6th from AmK). Venus is in the 2nd from

there, showing the death of service again. In fact, due to parivartana, Venus

acts like Mercury, i.e. 2nd lord placed in 2nd (from the 6th from AmK). The

result is even stronger. This Venus is placed in the 8th from AK. While the

same Venus connected the 7th from DK with AK in a positive way in the last

example, he connects the 6th from AmK with AK in a negative way here. His SD

broke the career.

 

When it comes to PAD, we see that Sun is the 7th lord from pranapada lagna,

which is in Aq in D-10 too. Even taking the SD lord Venus as the reference, Sun

is the 3rd lord showing a short break. So, clearly, Sun is the planet to give

the result at the level of PAD. Because Sun and Mercury are together in D-10,

Mercury can give Sun's result. Thus, Mercury PAD gave the layoff.

 

Finally, when it comes to DAD, the answer is very clear. Always, the event

happens in the DAD of the strongest candidate from lagna to give the result.

When I started this example in the class, I asked people, without opening the

dasa calculations, to guess the DAD at the time of layoff. Some guessed

incorrectly at first. But, when somebody suggested Saturn, that was the final

consensus. The class thought it should be Saturn. Then only I opened the

calculations (we projected a laptop to the screen and had JHora running in the

laptop, so that people could see all the calculations and interactively look at

various things).

 

Why did people guess Saturn and reach a consensus on Saturn? I will leave it to

you to figure out. It's easy to see.

 

If you cannot figure it out, I will give a hint. In fact, I'll give two hints:

 

(1) 6th lord of service,

(2) marana karaka sthana!

 

Conclusion

 

These are just two simple examples. I covered many more examples in the

workshop. And, this was just a two hour session. There were two complete days

of the class, out of which I taught for 1.5 days. Almost anything conceivable

on Vimsottari dasa was covered, within the limited time. It is not at all a bad

idea to get the CD's. I think everybody will have something or the other to

learn. If I get time later, I will try to write more on other things covered at

the workshop.

 

Especially, Kashinatha Hora was another very good session by me. If I get time

later, I will try to post an article on it, so that the important knowledge

reaches everyone.

 

May Jupiter's light shine on us,

Narasimha