Significance of Gulika - RajYoga and Evil !!

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Significance of Gulika

 

Dr. Suresh Chandra Mishra

 

Gulika holds a position of prime importance in the evaluation of a natal

chart. Also called as Maandi, it, like Rahu and Ketu, has no physical

existence. But it always makes a difference in the natal chart output.

Gulika is generally considered the most malefic entity in a chart.

According to the set standards of assessment of maleficence, it

surpasses all natural malefics. Gulika enjoys a special status almost

like an independent planet, and in astrological classics it is

considered as a minor planet or subplanet.

 

In the traditional astrological practice, the Gulika-Kundali (a

horoscopic chart, with houses reckoned from the position of Gulika) used

to be an essential component of the Janma-patri (the scroll carrying the

horoscopic details of a native, according to the traditional system of

making horoscopes in India).

 

Gulika and Maandi

 

In Vedic astrology, Gulika and Maandi are considered synonymous although

some people try to differentiate between them. Gulika denotes a certain

segment of time controlled by Saturn. The word `Maandi' is

derived from Manda or sluggish, another name of Saturn. According to the

Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra :

 

ukekUrja rq rL;So ekfUnfjR;fHk/kh;rsAA

That is: Of the same (i.e., Gulika), another name is Maandi.

 

Fixing the Gulika

 

The position of Gulika is different for daytime (from sunrise to sunset)

and night time (from sunset to

sunrise). The duration of the day or of the night (as the case may be)

is divided into eight parts. The segment belonging to Saturn is known as

Gulika. For daytime, the first segment (the first one-eighth of the

night) belongs to the planetary lord of the weekday that falls fifth

from the weekday under consideration. The subsequent segments belong

similarly to other planets that rule the weekdays in natural order. The

eighth part here too is without a lord. In each case the part belonging

to Saturn is called as Gulika.

 

The Controversy

 

The segment of Saturn during the day or during the night would have some

duration. Some people think that the ending moment of Saturn's

segment is the time to calculate the position of Gulika. They determine

the ascendant for the ending moment of Saturn's part; the cusp thus

obtained is considered the `longitude' of Gulika. However, the

above-mentioned concept results from an erroneous nderstanding of the

shloka from the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, which is as follows :

 

The cusp of the sign rising at the beginning of the Gulika segment is

considered as Gulika-from this the chart must be analysed.

 

There is a popular, but vague, method of finding out the Gulika.

According to this, for a day of 30 Ghatis, the rising time for Gulika

during the day, for the seven days from Sunday to Saturday, is at 26,

22, 18, 14, 10, 6 and 2 Ghatis from the time of sunrise. For night time,

the order from Sunday onwards is 10, 6, 2, 22, 18 and 14 ghatis from

sunset. This method is not accurate. The Prashna Marga, a south India

treatise, also refers to the Gulika and Maandi being the same.

 

Results of Gulika

 

• Gulika in the first house most certainly reduces the good results

of the chart. The impact is maximum in malevolence when the cusp of the

lagna and the Gulika are close in degrees. This means that birth taking

place at the commencement of the Gulika-kaala suffers the maximum

affliction. In such a situation, the Raja-yogas or other benefic yogas

lose their potence. The Phala-deepika states:

Determine all adverse results from Gulika's association.

 

• When the nakshatra of the lagna and Gulika are mutually trinal,

the basic benevolence of the lagna nakshatra lord (LNL) is lost.

Nakshatras 1, 10 and 19 are mutually trinal.

 

• Gulika spoils the benefic significations of most of the houses by

occupying them. Thus, all troubles ensue when Gulika occupies the lagna.

In the second house, it curtails family comforts and financial savings.

Poor social status results when Gulika occupies the fourth house. In the

fifth, it leads to troubles from progeny. And so on.

 

• Of all the sub-planets, Gulika and Yamakantaka (the subplanet

represented by Jupiter's segment) surpass all others in maleficence

and beneficance respectively.

 

• Only in houses 3, 6, 10 and 11 does Gulika generate benefical

results. In the tenth house, however, it indicates delay in getting

established

in a career.

 

• The good results of Gulika (from its placement in the above

houses) are lost when the rashi and navamsha lords of Gulika are neecha

(debilitated) or combust.

 

Gulika with Natural Karakas

 

The association of Gulika with a natural Karaka (significator) always

destroys the good effects of that

Karaka. Classics hold the opinion that Gulika conjunct with the Sun

creates lack of comforts for father, with the Moon it is bad for mother,

and with Mars it is adverse for brother. When Gulika joins Mercury, the

native becomes mentally disturbed. With Jupiter, the native becomes a

hypocrite. Gulika with Venus brings troubles from women and ruins

marital life. Association with Saturn leads to disease and skin

disorder, with Rahu it leads to proneness to infection, and with Ketu

fear from fire.

Gulika can alter the results of other planetary yogas in the chart. All

good yogas are lost when the birth time and the Gulika-Kaala coincide

together with another inauspicious factor like Mahapaata, Gandanta,

Visha-Ghati, etc. (refer to our article: `Pitfalls in

Astrology', vide the Vedic Astrology Vol. 5, No. 3, May-June 2001

issue).

 

In Chart 1 (born on May 6, 1982; at 11:30 hours; in Nepal), the lagna is

Karka (Cancer), at 23º06'. Gulika lagna is 2S11º54', associated

with Rahu. The native is mentally retarded. A Mahapaata birth is also

confirmed here.

 

A Special Rule

 

A point 180º from Gulika is also considered as acutely malefic in the

natal chart. This point must be taken into consideration when the lethal

potential of a planet is to be determined. This is better known as the

Pramaana Gulika in Vedic astrology. The dispositor of Gulika or Pramaana

Gulika may prove fatal during its dasha, etc., displacing the other

maraka or killer planets.

 

Dashas and Transits

 

• The dasha periods of the dispositor of Gulika or its navamsha lord

may prove hazardous.

Chart 2 (born on October 17, 1955; at 17:30 hours; at Pune) belongs to

an erstwhile famous ?? actress, Smita Patil. Her lagna is Meena (Pisces)

while Gulika occupies Makara (Capricorn) in the eleventh house. She died

of meningitis in the Saturn-Mars period. Saturn is the rashi lord of

Gulika while Mars is its navamsha lord.

 

• Gulika in houses 1, 5 or 9 authorises the lagna lord to disburse

the maraka effect during its dasha.

 

• Trouble results during the dasha of a planet that happens to be an

associate of Gulika in the rashi chart.

 

• Severe troubles are also likely during the dasha of any planet

associating with Gulika in the navamsha or the dwadashamsha charts.

 

• Specially adverse results ensue during the dasha period, of

Jupiter or Saturn when they associate with Gulika in the navamsha, or

the dasha of the Sun when it associates with Gulika in the dwadashamsha,

or that of the Moon associating with Gulika in the Trimamsha chart.

 

• The Pramaana Gulika deserves the same treatment as Gulika (vide

supra).

 

• The transit of Saturn and Jupiter over the navamsha sign lord of

Gulika, that of the Sun over the Dwadashamsha sign lord of Gulika, and

that of the Moon over the Trimshamsha sign lord of Gulika, put the

native in trouble. This is according to the Prashna Marga.

 

• All trikona (1, 5, 9) rashis should be considered in application

of transits.

 

Gulika and Accidents

 

• Gulika is extremely important as an active killer in Vedic

astrology. It is used in the judgement of longevity, along with dasha

and transit.

 

• The lagna, the Moon and Gulika falling in Dwiswabha (dual) or

Sthira (fixed) signs prompt multiple ailments and fatality. In Chara

(movable) signs, it leads to good health and long life.

 

• The lagna, the Moon and Gulika falling in mutual trikonas in the

navamsha chart, particularly in rashis 4, 8 and 12 are fatal. Such a

native is disease prone and accident prone. This is according to the

following dictum of the Prashna Marga: sphnt

vU;ksU;a ;fn rs f=dks.kHkxrk Hkkxk egkjksxnkA

n` " Vk eksgdjk ;qrk ej.knk% dfdZf=dks.ks n`<+e~AA

 

Gulika and Longevity

 

For the calculation of longevity, the lagna, the Moon the Sun and Gulika

are all important. A special rule for assessment of longevity involves

using the cusp of the lagna and the longitudes of the Sun, the Moon and

Gulika. This is as follows:

Lagna ´ 5 + Gulika = Prana Sphnt

Moon ´ 8 + Gulika = Deha Sphnt

Gulika ´ 7 + Sun = Mrityu Sphnt

When the sum of Prana and Deha is more then the Mrityu, the native is

likely to live long. However, if Mirtyu is bigger than the Sun of Prana

and Deha, a rudder end of life is indicated.

Chart 3 (born on November 19, 1917; at 23:11 hours IST; at Allahabad)

belongs to the Late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Here, the lagna

is 3S27º22', the Sun is 7S04º7', the Moon 9S05º35' and Gulika

1S29º23'.

The sum of Prana and Deha is 1S2º16' while Mrityu is 2S15º04'. The

native met a tragic end.

 

• Although Gulika is favoured in the third house, it turns

death-inflicting when joined by or aspected by Saturn.

 

• Gulika in the third with the Moon or receiving the full aspect of

the Moon causes tuberculosis or other internal fatal disease.

 

Daily Results of Gulika

 

• Add the cusp of the lagna to the `longitude' of Gulika.

The month when the Sun transits the resultant sign leads to troubles and

miseries.

 

• The most hazardous day is when the Moon transits the sign obtained

from adding the longitude of the Moon to that of Gulika.

 

• Add the lagna, the Moon and Gulika. The resultant `rashi'

is to be considered fatal. The month, the day and the lagna indicated by

the sum obtained above must be avoided in all major ventures.

In the example (chart 3) given above, Gulika is at 1S29º23'. This

indicates Kanya (Virgo) navamsha, Mesha (Aries) Dwadashamsha and

Vrishchika (Scorpio) Trimshamsha for Gulika. The native was shot dead on

October 31, 1984 at around 10:00 hours IST, at Delhi (Chart 4). The

ascendant is Vrishchika, with Saturn in Tula along with the Sun, Jupiter

and Gulika are in Dhanu (Sagittarius). The Moon is in Makara (Capricorn)

while the navamsha lagna is Meena (Pisces).

Adding the Moon and Gulika of the native of chart 3, we get Meena

(Pisces). This is in time with the

rising lagna of chart 4 as well as with its navamsha lagna. The natal

Gulika was in Mesha (Aries) Dwadashamsha (Chart 3). At the time of the

fatal mishap, Jupiter and Gulika were in times of Mesha

(see chart 4).

 

Gulika and Progeny

 

• Gulika in the fifth house, particularly in rashis 3, 6, 10 and 11,

leads to lack of children. In such a situation, the native is likely to

have some defect in his generative organs.

 

• Gulika may ensure successful conception when: (i) Gulika and the

Moon are in the same sign; (ii) Gulika is with the fifth lord; (iii)

Gulika is aspected by the fifth lord; (iv) Gulika in the other sign of

the fifth lord; (v) Navamsha lords of Gulika and the Moon are related

mutually.

 

• A successful conception results when Jupiter transits the times of

Gulika rashi or Gulika navamsha rashi. When Gulika is in any of the

first six rashis (Mesha to Kanya), consider the transit of Jupiter

from the Gulika rashi. When it is in the last six signs (Tula to Meena),

consider the transit from Gulika navamsha rashi.

 

Gulika in Special Lagnas

 

• Gulika in houses 1 or 7 in the Pada Lagna causes grey hair, ill

health and serious disease of the stomach.

 

• When AK and Gulika occupy the Karkamsha lagna and both are

aspected by the waxing Moon,

there ensue losses from repeated theft.

 

• The native dies of poisoning if Gulika in Karkamsha lagna is not

aspected by any planet.

It may be noted that the same aspects, as applicable to the natal chart,

are to be applied to all the special lagna charts like Karakamsha, Pada,

Upa-pada, Navamsha, etc.

 

Raja-yoga from Gulika

 

The dispositor of Gulika, a its navamsha lord, placed in a kendra or

trikona,

or in its own sign or in exaltation, mollifies the adverse effects of

Gulika and gives yoga effects, though its lethal propensity (markatwa)

would remain intact.

 

 

The Phaladeepika states:

Let the Gulika be in a kendra, a trikona, or be strong, in its own

house, or in exaltation or in a friendly house. A potent Raja-yoga

results from this disposition.

 

In chart 3 (vide supra), Gulika is in the eleventh house. Its sign lord

Venus is strong, in its own navamsha. The Gulika navamsha rashi lord in

time shows a good and strong Raja-yoga.

 

In the horoscope of Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu (Chart 5, born on April 27,

1951; at 6:30 hours IST; at Hyderabad), the lagna is 0S22º16'. Gulika

is 1S08º37'. Gulika rashi lord Venus and navamsha lord Jupiter, are

in there own signs. Its Dwadashamsha lord Sun is exalted. A strong

Raja-yoga is formed and the native becomes powerful during Jupiter

dasha. During Jupiter-Venus, the Raja-yoga results would be enhanced.

 

Ms Jai Lalitha (Chart 6) was born on February 24, 1948; 14:34 hours IST;

at Chennai. Gulika is at 1S20º14' in the twelfth house. However, its

rashi lord Venus is exalted in the tenth house. This exhibits a

potential Raja-yoga.

 

To Mitigate the Evil

 

The evil of Gulika must be neutralised by prescribed remedies. Parashara

recommends that one should worship lord Shiva regularly in the evening,

bow down to the Sun-god and lord Vishnu in the morning, and light a holy

lamp of `ghee' before a Shiva temple. This would defy the evil

arising out of an adverse disposition of Gulika.

 

 

 

 

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Gulika/Mandi is widely known as terrific, But they form a Raja Yoga

also. This is from my collection, Sharing it with Group, I dont care

what few mellow tounged but selfish says, I m here with new thoughts and

new light - Lalit.

 

Significance of Gulika

 

Dr. Suresh Chandra Mishra

 

Gulika holds a position of prime importance in the evaluation of a natal

chart. Also called as Maandi, it, like Rahu and Ketu, has no physical

existence. But it always makes a difference in the natal chart output.

Gulika is generally considered the most malefic entity in a chart.

According to the set standards of assessment of maleficence, it

surpasses all natural malefics. Gulika enjoys a special status almost

like an independent planet, and in astrological classics it is

considered as a minor planet or subplanet.

 

In the traditional astrological practice, the Gulika-Kundali (a

horoscopic chart, with houses reckoned from the position of Gulika) used

to be an essential component of the Janma-patri (the scroll carrying the

horoscopic details of a native, according to the traditional system of

making horoscopes in India).

 

Gulika and Maandi

 

In Vedic astrology, Gulika and Maandi are considered synonymous although

some people try to differentiate between them. Gulika denotes a certain

segment of time controlled by Saturn. The word `Maandi' is

derived from Manda or sluggish, another name of Saturn. According to the

Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra :

 

ukekUrja rq rL;So ekfUnfjR;fHk/kh;rsAA

That is: Of the same (i.e., Gulika), another name is Maandi.

 

Fixing the Gulika

 

The position of Gulika is different for daytime (from sunrise to sunset)

and night time (from sunset to

sunrise). The duration of the day or of the night (as the case may be)

is divided into eight parts. The segment belonging to Saturn is known as

Gulika. For daytime, the first segment (the first one-eighth of the

night) belongs to the planetary lord of the weekday that falls fifth

from the weekday under consideration. The subsequent segments belong

similarly to other planets that rule the weekdays in natural order. The

eighth part here too is without a lord. In each case the part belonging

to Saturn is called as Gulika.

 

The Controversy

 

The segment of Saturn during the day or during the night would have some

duration. Some people think that the ending moment of Saturn's

segment is the time to calculate the position of Gulika. They determine

the ascendant for the ending moment of Saturn's part; the cusp thus

obtained is considered the `longitude' of Gulika. However, the

above-mentioned concept results from an erroneous nderstanding of the

shloka from the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, which is as follows :

 

The cusp of the sign rising at the beginning of the Gulika segment is

considered as Gulika-from this the chart must be analysed.

 

There is a popular, but vague, method of finding out the Gulika.

According to this, for a day of 30 Ghatis, the rising time for Gulika

during the day, for the seven days from Sunday to Saturday, is at 26,

22, 18, 14, 10, 6 and 2 Ghatis from the time of sunrise. For night time,

the order from Sunday onwards is 10, 6, 2, 22, 18 and 14 ghatis from

sunset. This method is not accurate. The Prashna Marga, a south India

treatise, also refers to the Gulika and Maandi being the same.

 

Results of Gulika

 

• Gulika in the first house most certainly reduces the good results

of the chart. The impact is maximum in malevolence when the cusp of the

lagna and the Gulika are close in degrees. This means that birth taking

place at the commencement of the Gulika-kaala suffers the maximum

affliction. In such a situation, the Raja-yogas or other benefic yogas

lose their potence. The Phala-deepika states:

Determine all adverse results from Gulika's association.

 

• When the nakshatra of the lagna and Gulika are mutually trinal,

the basic benevolence of the lagna nakshatra lord (LNL) is lost.

Nakshatras 1, 10 and 19 are mutually trinal.

 

• Gulika spoils the benefic significations of most of the houses by

occupying them. Thus, all troubles ensue when Gulika occupies the lagna.

In the second house, it curtails family comforts and financial savings.

Poor social status results when Gulika occupies the fourth house. In the

fifth, it leads to troubles from progeny. And so on.

 

• Of all the sub-planets, Gulika and Yamakantaka (the subplanet

represented by Jupiter's segment) surpass all others in maleficence

and beneficance respectively.

 

• Only in houses 3, 6, 10 and 11 does Gulika generate benefical

results. In the tenth house, however, it indicates delay in getting

established

in a career.

 

• The good results of Gulika (from its placement in the above

houses) are lost when the rashi and navamsha lords of Gulika are neecha

(debilitated) or combust.

 

Gulika with Natural Karakas

 

The association of Gulika with a natural Karaka (significator) always

destroys the good effects of that

Karaka. Classics hold the opinion that Gulika conjunct with the Sun

creates lack of comforts for father, with the Moon it is bad for mother,

and with Mars it is adverse for brother. When Gulika joins Mercury, the

native becomes mentally disturbed. With Jupiter, the native becomes a

hypocrite. Gulika with Venus brings troubles from women and ruins

marital life. Association with Saturn leads to disease and skin

disorder, with Rahu it leads to proneness to infection, and with Ketu

fear from fire.

Gulika can alter the results of other planetary yogas in the chart. All

good yogas are lost when the birth time and the Gulika-Kaala coincide

together with another inauspicious factor like Mahapaata, Gandanta,

Visha-Ghati, etc. (refer to our article: `Pitfalls in

Astrology', vide the Vedic Astrology Vol. 5, No. 3, May-June 2001

issue).

 

In Chart 1 (born on May 6, 1982; at 11:30 hours; in Nepal), the lagna is

Karka (Cancer), at 23º06'. Gulika lagna is 2S11º54', associated

with Rahu. The native is mentally retarded. A Mahapaata birth is also

confirmed here.

 

A Special Rule

 

A point 180º from Gulika is also considered as acutely malefic in the

natal chart. This point must be taken into consideration when the lethal

potential of a planet is to be determined. This is better known as the

Pramaana Gulika in Vedic astrology. The dispositor of Gulika or Pramaana

Gulika may prove fatal during its dasha, etc., displacing the other

maraka or killer planets.

 

Dashas and Transits

 

• The dasha periods of the dispositor of Gulika or its navamsha lord

may prove hazardous.

Chart 2 (born on October 17, 1955; at 17:30 hours; at Pune) belongs to

an erstwhile famous ?? actress, Smita Patil. Her lagna is Meena (Pisces)

while Gulika occupies Makara (Capricorn) in the eleventh house. She died

of meningitis in the Saturn-Mars period. Saturn is the rashi lord of

Gulika while Mars is its navamsha lord.

 

• Gulika in houses 1, 5 or 9 authorises the lagna lord to disburse

the maraka effect during its dasha.

 

• Trouble results during the dasha of a planet that happens to be an

associate of Gulika in the rashi chart.

 

• Severe troubles are also likely during the dasha of any planet

associating with Gulika in the navamsha or the dwadashamsha charts.

 

• Specially adverse results ensue during the dasha period, of

Jupiter or Saturn when they associate with Gulika in the navamsha, or

the dasha of the Sun when it associates with Gulika in the dwadashamsha,

or that of the Moon associating with Gulika in the Trimamsha chart.

 

• The Pramaana Gulika deserves the same treatment as Gulika (vide

supra).

 

• The transit of Saturn and Jupiter over the navamsha sign lord of

Gulika, that of the Sun over the Dwadashamsha sign lord of Gulika, and

that of the Moon over the Trimshamsha sign lord of Gulika, put the

native in trouble. This is according to the Prashna Marga.

 

• All trikona (1, 5, 9) rashis should be considered in application

of transits.

 

Gulika and Accidents

 

• Gulika is extremely important as an active killer in Vedic

astrology. It is used in the judgement of longevity, along with dasha

and transit.

 

• The lagna, the Moon and Gulika falling in Dwiswabha (dual) or

Sthira (fixed) signs prompt multiple ailments and fatality. In Chara

(movable) signs, it leads to good health and long life.

 

• The lagna, the Moon and Gulika falling in mutual trikonas in the

navamsha chart, particularly in rashis 4, 8 and 12 are fatal. Such a

native is disease prone and accident prone. This is according to the

following dictum of the Prashna Marga: sphnt

vU;ksU;a ;fn rs f=dks.kHkxrk Hkkxk egkjksxnkA

n` " Vk eksgdjk ;qrk ej.knk% dfdZf=dks.ks n`<+e~AA

 

Gulika and Longevity

 

For the calculation of longevity, the lagna, the Moon the Sun and Gulika

are all important. A special rule for assessment of longevity involves

using the cusp of the lagna and the longitudes of the Sun, the Moon and

Gulika. This is as follows:

Lagna ´ 5 + Gulika = Prana Sphnt

Moon ´ 8 + Gulika = Deha Sphnt

Gulika ´ 7 + Sun = Mrityu Sphnt

When the sum of Prana and Deha is more then the Mrityu, the native is

likely to live long. However, if Mirtyu is bigger than the Sun of Prana

and Deha, a rudder end of life is indicated.

Chart 3 (born on November 19, 1917; at 23:11 hours IST; at Allahabad)

belongs to the Late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Here, the lagna

is 3S27º22', the Sun is 7S04º7', the Moon 9S05º35' and Gulika

1S29º23'.

The sum of Prana and Deha is 1S2º16' while Mrityu is 2S15º04'. The

native met a tragic end.

 

• Although Gulika is favoured in the third house, it turns

death-inflicting when joined by or aspected by Saturn.

 

• Gulika in the third with the Moon or receiving the full aspect of

the Moon causes tuberculosis or other internal fatal disease.

 

Daily Results of Gulika

 

• Add the cusp of the lagna to the `longitude' of Gulika.

The month when the Sun transits the resultant sign leads to troubles and

miseries.

 

• The most hazardous day is when the Moon transits the sign obtained

from adding the longitude of the Moon to that of Gulika.

 

• Add the lagna, the Moon and Gulika. The resultant `rashi'

is to be considered fatal. The month, the day and the lagna indicated by

the sum obtained above must be avoided in all major ventures.

In the example (chart 3) given above, Gulika is at 1S29º23'. This

indicates Kanya (Virgo) navamsha, Mesha (Aries) Dwadashamsha and

Vrishchika (Scorpio) Trimshamsha for Gulika. The native was shot dead on

October 31, 1984 at around 10:00 hours IST, at Delhi (Chart 4). The

ascendant is Vrishchika, with Saturn in Tula along with the Sun, Jupiter

and Gulika are in Dhanu (Sagittarius). The Moon is in Makara (Capricorn)

while the navamsha lagna is Meena (Pisces).

Adding the Moon and Gulika of the native of chart 3, we get Meena

(Pisces). This is in time with the

rising lagna of chart 4 as well as with its navamsha lagna. The natal

Gulika was in Mesha (Aries) Dwadashamsha (Chart 3). At the time of the

fatal mishap, Jupiter and Gulika were in times of Mesha

(see chart 4).

 

Gulika and Progeny

 

• Gulika in the fifth house, particularly in rashis 3, 6, 10 and 11,

leads to lack of children. In such a situation, the native is likely to

have some defect in his generative organs.

 

• Gulika may ensure successful conception when: (i) Gulika and the

Moon are in the same sign; (ii) Gulika is with the fifth lord; (iii)

Gulika is aspected by the fifth lord; (iv) Gulika in the other sign of

the fifth lord; (v) Navamsha lords of Gulika and the Moon are related

mutually.

 

• A successful conception results when Jupiter transits the times of

Gulika rashi or Gulika navamsha rashi. When Gulika is in any of the

first six rashis (Mesha to Kanya), consider the transit of Jupiter

from the Gulika rashi. When it is in the last six signs (Tula to Meena),

consider the transit from Gulika navamsha rashi.

 

Gulika in Special Lagnas

 

• Gulika in houses 1 or 7 in the Pada Lagna causes grey hair, ill

health and serious disease of the stomach.

 

• When AK and Gulika occupy the Karkamsha lagna and both are

aspected by the waxing Moon,

there ensue losses from repeated theft.

 

• The native dies of poisoning if Gulika in Karkamsha lagna is not

aspected by any planet.

It may be noted that the same aspects, as applicable to the natal chart,

are to be applied to all the special lagna charts like Karakamsha, Pada,

Upa-pada, Navamsha, etc.

 

Raja-yoga from Gulika

 

The dispositor of Gulika, a its navamsha lord, placed in a kendra or

trikona,

or in its own sign or in exaltation, mollifies the adverse effects of

Gulika and gives yoga effects, though its lethal propensity (markatwa)

would remain intact.

 

The Phaladeepika states:

Let the Gulika be in a kendra, a trikona, or be strong, in its own

house, or in exaltation or in a friendly house. A potent Raja-yoga

results from this disposition.

 

In chart 3 (vide supra), Gulika is in the eleventh house. Its sign lord

Venus is strong, in its own navamsha. The Gulika navamsha rashi lord in

time shows a good and strong Raja-yoga.

 

In the horoscope of Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu (Chart 5, born on April 27,

1951; at 6:30 hours IST; at Hyderabad), the lagna is 0S22º16'. Gulika

is 1S08º37'. Gulika rashi lord Venus and navamsha lord Jupiter, are

in there own signs. Its Dwadashamsha lord Sun is exalted. A strong

Raja-yoga is formed and the native becomes powerful during Jupiter

dasha. During Jupiter-Venus, the Raja-yoga results would be enhanced.

 

Ms Jai Lalitha (Chart 6) was born on February 24, 1948; 14:34 hours IST;

at Chennai. Gulika is at 1S20º14' in the twelfth house. However, its

rashi lord Venus is exalted in the tenth house. This exhibits a

potential Raja-yoga.

 

To Mitigate the Evil

 

The evil of Gulika must be neutralised by prescribed remedies. Parashara

recommends that one should worship lord Shiva regularly in the evening,

bow down to the Sun-god and lord Vishnu in the morning, and light a holy

lamp of `ghee' before a Shiva temple. This would defy the evil

arising out of an adverse disposition of Gulika.