Lesser Benefic, Greater Benefic, Lesser Malefic, Greater Malefic

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In Tropical Astrology Jupiter is always named the Greater Benefic and

Venus the Lesser Benefic. Mars is the lesser Malefic, Saturn the

Greater Malefic and the Sun is not classified as a Malefic.

 

How about in Vedic Astrology?

 

Again there are two camps.

 

One camp follows the Tropic Astrology classification except that they

also classified the Sun as malefic with themes like combustion of

planets. The other camp names Jupiter as a lesser benefic and Venus

as the Greater Benefic. They also name Mars as the Greater Benefic

and Saturn the lesser Benefic. The Sun remains as Malefic for this

second camp.

 

It is true Jupiter and Saturn are big planets. Jupiter also is a

significator of many houses relating to wealth prediction (9th for

fortune, 2nd for wealth, 11th for gains etc.) But if one were to

adopt the position that what you see in the sky under visible eyes is

accorded more weight in Vedic Astrology, then the second camp of Vedic

Astrologers turn out to be correct.

 

One hint as to why the direction points to the second camp is to look

at the Moon. The Moon (whether dark or bright) is very important

because it is nearest to the Earth and therefore the most visible. As

scuh it is highly important in the Vedic Chart. If you have a bright

moon, a lot of your problems are solved eg. psychologically as the

Moon rules the mind.

 

Hence the greater benefics or greater malefics should be accorded to

the planets that are nearest to us. The Sun in this sense then is

also one of the greatest malefics as it lights up the sky above us.