Neech Bhanga - Breaking a Fall?

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Dear All,

 

I have a question I hope you will be kind enough to shed light on...

It concerns " Neech Bhanga " or the breaking of a fall, a.k.a " Cancelled

Debilitation " ?

 

Example - Saturn in Aries, house IV

 

Does being in a Kendra (Central house) mean that the Fall Saturn

suffers in Aries is broken?

 

Nalini Kanta (Tom Hopke) writes in " How to Read Your Horoscope " (pg. 41)

 

> " The most important situations which bring about cancellation of

> debilitation are given below.

>

> 1) If the debilitated planet is in a quadrant from the ascendant or

> the moon

>

> 2) If the lord of the sign that the debilitated planet is in, is in

> a quadrant from the ascendant or the moon

>

> 3) If the planet that is exalted in the sign that the debilitated

> planet is in, is in a quadrant from the ascendant or moon

>

> 4) If the debilitated planet is in its exaltation sign in the

> navamsa chart

 

That gives 25 cases which would cancel debilitation! That seems to

make it awfully hard for a planet to be debilitated.

 

Would you kindly chime in to let me know your opinion of this list. Is

it too inclusive?

 

Also, what are you feelings on a neech-bhanga planet? My feeling is

that if a planet is fallen, it is fallen. Period. If you get a break

in that fall ( " neech-bhanga " ) that's exactly what you get, a

" break " (as in " gimmie a break, fella " ). Your planet will be harmed,

but it wont be as acute as it would have been were there no break in

the fall.

 

In that light, 25 conditions that soften the intensity of debilitation

seems reasonable.

 

Thanks in advance for your input.

 

 

- Vic

 

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