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rohiniranjan
Age: 56 Zodiac: 
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 Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:18 am |
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PRIMARY CONSIDERATIONS:
When learning astrology, one first learns about the zodiac and planets and houses. Rashis themselves are neutral, they have good, bad and mixed attributes in different segments of the 30 degree span but are also separated in groups that are satwic (brahmin rashis, karka, vrischika and meena), rajasic (kshatriya, mesha, simha, dhanu), vaishya - a combination of rajasik and tamasika with a tiny bit of satwik (mithuna, tula, Kumba) and shudra or tamasik (vrishbha, kanya, makar). This is often mistaken to mean the properties of the rashis. Actually, it is not so. Planets that are of one of the four qualities are likely to perform their intrinsic character best in the sign that allows natural amplification. Jupiter the brahmin will express best when in karka, vrischica and meena, while a rajasic planet like mars would be at its best in mesha, simha and dhanu.
It must be obvious now that planets, unlike rashis have personal attributes that fit into the four castes used in the hindu culture and abused in more recent times in India! By recent I mean the last few centuries, of course.
The houses, though in essence same as rashis are different from their cosmic framework (as Rashis are above, so Houses or Bhavas are below...) because they have gunas and are not neutral! While rashis may work more as amplifiers or reflectors (if you [planet] have the light it will shine in a certain rashi, bhavas can be amplifiers as well as active reducers or prisons for planets, indeed not allowing them to express to their best potential. An exalted planet placed in a malefic bhava can lose its potential and remain an underutilized gift for the lifetime. This can, of course, be modified through the use of astrology! Hence rather than being a doom and gloom prospect, it becomes an opportunity to exercise wisdom and flow with the ‘tides’ of TIME in other words!
Beginners make the mistake and sadly encouraged by some teachers who want to make technicians of them and pump them confusingly choc-full of ill-digested techniques, mazes of timing periods and mutually contradictory yogas and arishtas. I am not saying that these are not important, to add to ones repertoire particularly where confusing indications show up in a few charts, but certainly cause and create more confusion in many students than otherwise.
If I were teaching someone to learn astrology, I would ask them to focus a lot of time and attention to just the basic chart and to really decipher the meaning of the rashis, planets and bhavas in a given chart, studying each planet as an entity, a deva – a Cosmoanthropomorphic entity, a planet personified if you will. Once this has been done, then one looks at the roles the planets play in the chart, roles such as their association with houses or bhavas through their variety of roles: as rulers; as karakas - different types as described in my article published in Express Starteller (May 2007, Karako Bhav Nashaya), through association with other planets (friendships etc). As these complex networking becomes incorporated and better understood, we then can begin to look at yogas. Against the background of our complete understanding of the planets, it would be easier to look at yogas and combinations as fruitful, ineffective, or those that are sitting on the fence and waiting to be influenced the right way, through the actions and free-will of the nativity (remedies)!
But that is unglamourous to most, a tedious trek through a field of tall grass! And that is why I say that the fears often expressed by jyotishis who are worried about the secrets of jyotish falling into wrong hands – are baseless! Jyotish has a built-in protection...!
RR (c) Crystal Pages, 2007
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