Shadbala strenght

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Shiva wrote:

 

> Interesting, can it be that verbal abilities relate to the type and

> strength of the second houses they have instead. Since vedic takes 2nd

> as the house of speech. Maybe a research along that lines might bring

> something up.

> Shadbala is for planetary strengths. Is there a way to numerically

> assess the strength of a particular house?

 

Sari:

 

There is " Bhava Bala " , which is a similar way to evaluate the strength of

houses, but I haven't used it, so I cannot say if it works. I use shadbala

and I believe it has truth in it, though I'm not completely sure, what it

exactly tells. I don't think it tells about the auspiciousness of a planet,

like some say. Some even say that it tells about the evolutionary level of a

planet! I wouldn't be so sure about that either.

 

I basically think that it simply tells about the strength. Then we just have

to think what the planets really are about. If you think that shadbala

strength of Mercury in verbally / linguistically skilled people's charts is

not a deciding factor, then there's still the fact, that those people had

clearly less exalted or own sign Mercurys than average people - so, I don't

think that Mercury's connection with verbal skills is settled.

 

One way could be to systemically study the shadbala strengths of the 2nd

house rulers.

 

Therese wrote:

 

Bettina, from what I know about you, you are almost anti-Jupiter in

personality and outlook. ShadBala is one of those Indian ways of rating

planets that I question. I know it's supposed to have to do with how strong

the planets are in our makeup. ShadBala is just one more reminder that we

have to question almost everything we think we know about astrology.

 

Sari:

 

But here we come to the question, what Jupiter is about? What is a

Jupiterian personality like? I have too a very strong Jupiter in shadbala.

 

One possibility for shadbala strenght could be that it doesn't necessarily

tell about the nature of a person per se, but about the strongest themes in

a person's (outer) life, and also about things and people a person values

and feels drawn to. A person with a strong Jupiter draws Jupiterian

experiences and Jupiterian people to her life.

 

When a dasa period of a strong planet is running, a person has a lot of

stuff happening in the outer life, lot of powerful experiences, it will be

time remembered. On a dasha of a weak planet, the life is more quiet and the

it's more like " I don't feel like living, I'm just alive " , because the

current themes don't excite any strong passions. They may be things

happening, good things, bad things, but they don't feel that important.

 

I calculate dasas by Raman ayanamsa, so they're a bit difference to the ones

calculated by Lahiri/Krishnamurti. And this is only a hypothesis, not any

kind of final conclusion about the nature of shadbala strength.

 

Regards, Sari