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• Key Jyotisha Factors for Predicting live birth or adoption of Children

• Planetary Yogas for Gain of Children

  • Aputra Yoga

• Timing of Children by natural birth

• Adoption

• Timing of Children by Adoption

• Miscarriage and Therapeutic Abortion

• Finding children in the chart

• Selected Parashari Rules for Children

• See also Putra Bhava

• Grandchildren (coming soon)

• Fertility Indicators

• Judging the character of a child from the mother's chart

Child Indicators:

1. bhava-5 and L-5

2. bhava-9 and L-9

3. bhava-1 and L-1

4. Guru and 5th-from-Guru

5. Chandra and 5th-from-Chandra

6. Saptamsha and the D-7 amsha lord of radix L-5+L-9, As the amsha lord behaves in radix

7. Navamsha and the D-9 amsha lord of radix L-5+L-9, As the amsha lord behaves in radix

• Vimshottari Dasha periods of radix L-5+ L-9, and Guru

Fertility Indicators:

• Shukra represents `shukla' or `semen' as the male fertility indicators

• Kuja represents `sonita' or female power to generate life.

If a child lives with criticism, one learns to condemn.

If a child lives with praise, one learns to appreciate.

If a child lives with hostility, one learns to fight.

If a child lives with tolerance, one learns to be patient.

If a child lives with ridicule, one learns to be shy.

If a child lives with encouragement, one learns confidence.

If a child lives with shame, one learns to feel guilty.

If a child lives with approval, one learn to like oneself.

If a child lives with fairness, one learns justice.

If a child lives with security, one learns to have faith.

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, one learns to find love in this world.

"The birth of children is highly likely, especially during Jupiter periods."

Material-social results for children should be judged from the lord of the 5th-from parent's radix lagna and from character of Guru. Material-social results include a child's power to successfully incarnate, their health and profession, their wealth and their marriages etc.

• Naturally if the child has two active parents, there can be two different parental relationships with the child and two different (ideally compatible) views and expectations regarding the character of the child and what style of trait development most benefits the child.

Emotional results particularly the happiness of the child-parent relationship and general fortune of the child should be judged from the parent's Chandra lagna.

• Note the graha which rules the 5th-from-Chandra =the first child,
• the graha which rules the 7th-from-Chandra = the second child,
• the graha which rules the 9th-from-Chandra = the third child.

Timing of Birth of Children

As a rule the first child will be born during the Vimshottari dasha periods of:

1. L-5, L-9, or L-1

2. Guru

3. 5th-from-Guru

4. Rahu/Ketu

   • if Rahu-Ketu occupy house-5 or house-9

   • if Rahu-Ketu occupy the rashi of: L-5+ L-9, or Guru

Typically conception of the first live child will occur during a key transit of gochara Rahu-Ketu which contacts:

1. Axis of natal Rahu-Ketu

2. Axis of natal Moon,

3. Axis of lagna

4. Axis of navamsha or Saptamsha lagna or nodes.

After the first child has been born, a second child can occur under a variety of subsequent  child-positive bhukti peridos. (The rules are a little more flexible for subsequent children.)

• Long-lasting bhukti periods of Guru or L-5 or L-9 (or Rahu/Ketu) can potentially produce two or more children within their span.

• If the subsequent bhukti is child-positive in any way, more children may easily be forthcoming. E.g. if bhukti-pat is L-5 or L-9 from important lagna's such as radix lagna, radix Chandra, even the radix lagnesha or the current mahadasha-pati, additional children come easily.

One way to determine if additional children will arrive, is to examine the radix of child-1.

• If the house-3 of child-1's radix receives drishti from Mangala or Budha, there will very likely be siblings for child-1.

• Other less potent but favorable significations for siblings include favorable drishti upon L-3, and other sibling-karaka relationships such as a planet in parivartamsha yoga with L-3 or 3rd-from-Chandra.

Miscarriage and Therapeutic Abortion

Vimshottari periods of radix L-6 = 2nd-from-5th and (less often) L-11 = 7th-from-5th = both natural abortion (miscarriage) or therapeutic abortion (medically assisted) .

As lords of 2nd-from-putra bhava and 7th-from-putra-bhavaL-6+L-11 are the temporal karakas for death of children.

To be a strong karaka for Natural Abortion or Therapeutic Abortion, the graha who is radix L-6+L-11 should have some additional malefic qualities.

This malefic graha should be either:

• A natural malefic (Kuja, Shani)

• Or dominated in degree by L-6+ L-8, or L-12

Rahu = karaka for sudden or wild changes.

Periods of Rahu can amplify the experience of either natural abortion (miscarriage) or therapeutic abortion (medically assisted)

• if Rahu lord = L-6+ L-8+ L-3 (8th-from-8th) or L-11.

Adoption

• According to Das, putra bhava = rashi of Budha or rashi of Shani; L-5 in 1 or L-1 in 5 =

• The lord of the 1 is in 5
• or the lord of the 5 is in 1
• or 5 is aspected by Saturn
• or Gemini is in 5
• or Virgo is in 5
• or Aquarius is in 5
• or Capricorn is in 5

Timing of Adoption

Timing of adoption of children, whether they are adopted at birth or school age or even nearly adults, will be identical with timing of arrival of natural children.

That is, adoption of the first child occurs during periods of:

• Guru

• L-1+ L-5 or L-9

• Rahu/Ketu - especially if Rahu gives the effect of Guru+ L-1+ L-5 or L-9.

  • Rahu is commonly implicated in trans-national or cross-cultural adoptions.

• gochara Rahu-Ketu will normally be transiting the adoptive mother's radix Moon, radix nodal axis, or radix lagna - at least for the arrival of the first child

See this example of vimshottari dasha timing of Acquisition of three school-age stepchildren. In this case, the stepmother's child-karaka planets give the expected timing, even for late-in-life acquisition of older stepchildren.

Finding children in the mother's nativity:

Judge the material attributes of the child such as their bodily appearance, their wealth, their spouse, their profession etc.from the mother's radix lagna.

Judge the quality of the psycho-emotional relationship between the mother and each child by measuring from Chandra lagna. (Usually the psycho-emotional relationship is much more potent than the physical.)

1. 5th from Chandra = child 1

2. 7th from Chandra = child 2

3. 9th from Chandra = child 3

4. 11th from Chandra = child 4

5. Chandra lagna = child 5

6. 3rd from Chandra = child 6

7. To find additional children, count three houses forward from previous child

Additional considerations for locating children in the parental nativity:

• Even those pregnancies which ended as stillbirths, or either natural or therapeutic abortions, may be important to recognize in birth order counting. But not always.Much depends on mother's psychic attachment to terminated pregnancies - whether an unborn child was named, talked to, etc. More details at putra bhava page.

• As a general rule, incomplete pregnancies often "try again" and the being who was not quite properly adjusted to the first attempt often succeeds in taking an incarnation with the same mother during a subsequent pregnancy.

• For a fuller profile of each child, also identify each child by counting houses from Chandra-lagna.

• Palm lines outside edge of hand under little finger will confirm number of children

• find the bhava of the child in question, within the mother's radix chart

• e.g., first child = bhava-5, 2nd child = bhava-7, 3rd child = bhava-9, etc.

• locate the lord of that domain. For example if the lord of bhava-5 = Guru, then find Guru in the mother's radix

• use the lord of the domain as the lagna from which to judge the affairs of the child

• e.g., if the lord of bhava-7 for the 2nd child is Shani, then the child has effectively Shani in lagna. S/he is hardworking, sensitive to the common folk, given adult responsibilities at a young age, etc. Much work is expected of this child with relatively little praise or attention (unless Guru or Shukra also cast drishti upon Shani).

• Proceed from this lagna to evaluate the child's wealth, small groups, home life, marriage, parents, career, and end of life. E.g., 2nd-from-this lagna will show the child's overall accumulated wealth, 11th-from this lagna shows their large groups associations and income, 7th-from this lagna shows their marriage, 4th-from is their parents, 6th-from their health, and so forth.

• There should be significant correlation between parents and children's radix and navamsha charts, such that the mother should be recognizable in the 4th-from this child lagna, siblings in 3rd-from, etc.

• These judgments should be made from the radix chart of the natural or adoptive parents, or from the siblings, of the child.

Aputra Yoga

• L-5 occupies a dushtamsha (bhava-6, bhava-8, or bhava-12)

Certain planetary combinations are distinctively inauspicious for producing children. These combinations typically result in the creative energies being diverted into non-procreative creativity - e.g., the native may produce great works of art, theatrical performance, spiritual achievement, leadership service, or other glorious outcome. With Aputra yoga, the prognosis for fleshly children is dim.

Aputra yoga is not guaranteed to prevent children, however. Very favorable Guru who casts drishti to bhava-5 or bhava-9, combined with a period of Guru located in an angle or trine from the Mahadasha pati, can indeed produce a child, even with Aputra yoga existing in the nativity. This is usually a "surprise" child born to a long-infertile couple, or a couple who have been told that they cannot conceive, who have typically resigned themselves to childlessness.

Not only can a strong Guru overcome Aputra Yoga, but also L-5 in 6 is known to create a healthy child who develops animosity toward the native, and if the graha are acquisitive+ L-5 in 6 can indicate a "purchased" or adopted child.

In the old days in European culture (and still common enough in villages in traditional lands) a family without sons could pay to acquire a child. The acquired son might work as an indentured servant or trade apprentice (6) but such a child after their training was completed could also legally inherit their custodian's business..

"If Putra's lord is in Ari Bhava, the native will obtain such sons who will be equal to his enemies, or will lose them, or will acquire an adopted or purchased son."

Remedies:

Gemstones for Guru and the L-5 may be helpful. Seva offered in settings with many small children and in service to mothers of small children may also be quite helpful.

Anapatya Yoga

to deny children, all the following graha must be weak:

• Guru, the lagnesha, lord of putra bhava, and lord of yuvati bhava

"Anapatya" is an excellent yoga for celibate religious practice in a quiet monastic community. The native is blessed with a natural humility. Vocationally, one may be called into any form of selfless service except teaching. (Teaching requires a strong Guru and a fairly strong L-1 too.)

"Motherhood has meant that I have written four fewer books, but I know much more about life. "

-- A. S. Byatt