By Shree PVR Narasimha Rao
There was a discussion on samudaya ashtakavarga (SAV) a while ago. Someone gave a few counter-examples to some standard SAV principles. For example, Bill Gates has scores of 24, 27 and 27 in 9th, 10th and 11th houses. Successful people like him are expected to have scores over 30 in those 3 houses.
I said at that time that there may be errors in standard understanding of SAV. I also said I did some research and will share it with others when the time comes.
Today is Magha Sukla Panchami. It is known as "Sri Panchami" and a day supposed to be dear to goddess Saraswathi (the goddess of knowledge). She is worshipped today. On this auspicious day, I have decided to bow to Her and share my research finding with the Jyotish community. You don't have to accept it or even test it. If you get the inspiration from inside, you may try it and see how it works. I do expect people to resist my idea, as what I am saying is different from what everybody else taught until now.
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When finding the strengths of various houses in SAV, people normally consider houses from lagna alone. Suppose lagna is in Gemini. Then, to see the strength of 9th house, the 9th from Gemini (i.e. Aq) is taken and scores in Aq in all the eight ashtakavargas are aggregated. Aq may be the 2nd house from Sun, 5th house from Moon, 7th house from Jupiter and so on. Still, scores in Aq in all the eight bhinna ashtakavargas (BAV) are added up. This is somehow supposed to give an indication of how strong the 9th house is overall.
The whole idea of ashtakavarga is that lagna is not the only reference. Seven planets can be used as references along with lagna. When that is the whole idea, how logical is it to take the houses from lagna alone when finding the strengths of houses?
Aren't the 9th houses from Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn good for nothing? Should the strength of the 9th house be decided solely based on the 9th house from lagna? When we say "the 9th house" are we to totally ignore the 9th houses from other references, or is the "9th house" a combination of all the eight 9th houses?
My idea was to add the score in the 9th house from Sun in Sun's BAV, the score in the 9th house from Moon in Moon's BAV, the score in the 9th house from Mars in Mars's BAV and so on, to see the strength of the 9th house. This total is a reflection of how strong the 9th house is overall. The overall 9th house in a chart is combination the eight 9th houses (from lagna, Sun, Moon etc)!
This is very simple and you can do the calculations manually. But, if you need a software, this variation will be available in version 7.0 of Jagannatha Hora software planned to be released on Magha Pournima (2005 Feb 23). I will make this calculation available in the free version.
In Bill Gates case, the scores in 9th, 10th and 11th houses using this approach are not 24, 27 and 27. They are 31, 34 and 37.
I have used this reckoning of house strengths using SAV in many natal charts and dasa pravesha charts and was satisfied. If my idea sounds appealing to you, please feel free to try it.
By the way, ashtakavarga can be found in divisional charts. You may try this approach of assessing the strengths of houses using SAV in divisional charts also.
May Jupiter's light shine on us,
Narasimha
Bill Gates
Natal Chart
Date: October 26, 1955
Time: 9:17:59 pm
Time Zone: 8:00:00 (West of GMT)
Place: 122 W 20' 30", 47 N 36' 32"
Spokane, Washington, USA
Altitude: 0.00 meters
Lunar Yr-Mo: Manmatha - Aswayuja
Tithi: Sukla Ekadasi (Ma) (36.42% left)
Vedic Weekday: Wednesday (Me)
Nakshatra: Satabhishak (Ra) (19.46% left)
Yoga: Dhruva (Ke) (96.14% left)
Karana: Vishti (Sa) (72.84% left)
Hora Lord: Mercury (5 min sign: Sc)
Mahakala Hora: Moon (5 min sign: Le)
Kaala Lord: Sun (Mahakala: Mars)
Sunrise: 6:48:49 am
Sunset: 4:57:23 pm
Janma Ghatis: 36.2152
Ayanamsa: 23-14-40.97
Sidereal Time: 23:27:48
Body Longitude Nakshatra Pada Rasi Navamsa
Lagna 24 Ge 00' 05.50" Puna 2 Ge Ta
Sun - PK 9 Li 46' 32.17" Swat 1 Li Sg
Moon - MK 17 Aq 24' 19.51" Sata 4 Aq Pi
Mars - PiK 15 Vi 34' 48.06" Hast 2 Vi Ta
Mercury - BK 21 Vi 36' 48.78" Hast 4 Vi Cn
Jupiter - GK 4 Le 15' 32.36" Magh 2 Le Ta
Venus - AmK 24 Li 28' 05.59" Visa 2 Li Ta
Saturn - AK 28 Li 07' 10.08" Visa 3 Li Ge
Rahu - DK 26 Sc 20' 03.43" Jye 3 Sc Aq
Ketu 26 Ta 20' 03.43" Mrig 1 Ta Le
Maandi 11 Vi 23' 38.91" Hast 1 Vi Ar
Gulika 1 Vi 45' 07.12" UPha 2 Vi Cp
Bhava Lagna 16 Ta 27' 53.88" Rohi 2 Ta Ta
Hora Lagna 23 Sg 45' 22.65" PSha 4 Sg Sc
Ghati Lagna 15 Li 37' 48.95" Swat 3 Li Aq
Vighati Lagna 5 Sc 00' 00.46" Anu 1 Sc Le
Varnada Lagna 24 Pi 00' 05.50" Aswi 1 Pi Sg
Sree Lagna 13 Ar 56' 52.17" Bhar 1 Ar Le
Pranapada Lagna 5 Sc 36' 07.52" Anu 1 Sc Le
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Ashtakavarga of Rasi Chart:
Ar Ta Ge Cn Le Vi Li Sc Sg Cp Aq Pi
As 4 2 4* 5 4 4 3 5 6 5 4 3
Su 7 5 5 5 4 3 3 5 3 4 1 3
Mo 5 2 4 5 6 2 2 5 5 3 5 5
Ma 4 3 4 6 4 2 2 2 3 3 2 4
Me 3 5 7 6 4 5 3 5 3 5 3 5
Ju 3 3 7 5 4 5 6 4 6 2 5 6
Ve 3 7 5 5 5 3 3 3 5 5 6 2
Sa 4 2 4 5 6 2 1 3 3 3 3 3
29 27 36 37 33 22 20 27 28 25 25 28
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