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Advanced Educational Standing, Professional Educators, Knowledge-Worker Vocations
Educational diploma completed in period of L-4, L-7, or Budha
L-9 & dharma bhava
L-10 & karma bhava
Arudha Lagna
Navamsha: Attitude toward education is a major predictor of educational success.
Siddhamsha: gifts & amazing talents
Profile for a successful teacher - 10th-from-L-4
Is there a different educator profile for teaching adults vs. teaching children?
Profile for educators in K-12, college-university, or training for government/corporate settings?
How can I know if I will complete college, graduate or professional school? Vimshottari periods of L-4
Can I predict the educational achievements of my children? Vimshottari periods of L-8
Budha (Mercury)
Chandra-Budha [Moon-Mercury] yoga
Guru
Profile for a successful learner
Sample knowledge-worker charts (educators, trainers, programmers, researchers, etc.)
"For as God was the help of our reason to illuminate us, so should we likewise turn it every way,
that we may be more capable of understanding His mysteries;
provided only that the mind be enlargened, according to its capacity, to the grandeur of the mysteries,
and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind."
--- Francis Bacon
from L. educatus, pp. of educare "bring up, rear, educate,"--> educere "bring out," from ex- "out" + ducere "to lead" -- www.etymonline.com
In the West, the term 'education' can refer to a variety of different functions.
basic socialization, "cultural literacy", including customs, manners, often basic literacy & numeracy - domain-4
apprenticeship, skill & craft training - domain-3
philosophical inquiry & religious tradition - domain-9
Folks often ask about their Education prospects, for themselves and for their children.
I find it is necessary to determine exactly what they intend & expect from an 'education'.
Is 'education' for them basic socialization which ensures respectful treatment in one's society?
Is is specific skills training which can create a useful livelihood?
Is it reflective, conceptual thought or wisdom that they are trying to "bring out"?
Depending on their answers, the Jyotishi will look into domain-3, domain-4, or domain-9.
Education through Basic Socialization (house-4) affects everyone.
House-4: Bandhu Bhava, & L-4
4th-from-4th: Yuvati Bhava, & L-7
karaka Budha & 4th-from-Budha
4th-from-Chandra
Siddhamsha (D-24 divisional chart)
L-4's navamsha lord, in radix
Dasha & bhukti periods of radix L-4, L-7, and Budha
Education through Training & Skills Development (house-3) is commonplace and productive:
Domain-3: & L-3
3rd-from-3rd & L-5
karaka Budha & 3rd-from-Budha
3rd-from-Chandra
L-3's navamsha lord, in radix
Dasha & bhukti periods of radix L-3, L-5, and Budha
Q:
Which house governs education - house-4 or house-5?
A: According to Prasna Marga and all the commentaries of Parashara Hora, the 4th house is said to govern "education".
The 5th house indicates "intelligence" or medha. If this can be included in education, then the fifth house can also be said to include "Vidya".
-- B. V. Raman, A Catechism of Astrology, p. 93
Education in Domain-4
My own experience is that house-4 is the basis of all matters regarding education.
K-12 teaching, and vocational education for adults such as offered at most modern universities, is an extension of parenting.
The purpose of house-4 is to shelter & protect. Bandhu bhava is a conservative, inward-pulling house.
House-4 always governs primary education, which is fundamentally about training youth in the common customs of their people, especially social ethics.
Strong career planets such as lagnesha in 4, Surya in 4, L-10 in 4 etc will produce a professional who teaches about "good" & "bad" social behaviors in addition to transmitting non-ethical, technical knowledge.
Education in Domain-4
Traditionally, domain-4 represents Education. However it is important to keep in mind that domain-4 represent Education in the sense of Basic Socialization or what we might call Cultural Literacy. Everyone undergoes the type of education encompassed by domain-4. Everyone learns basic manners, customs, and 'propriety' in the childhood home, typically from their mother.
The Education encompassed in the portfolio of domain-4 is an extension of the world of the Mother. Traditionally, most basic socialization educators are indeed women.
This type of education is not necessarily profitable financially, but it does provide the native with social & emotional security within their own social culture.
There is no age limit on education in domain-4, but in the West it is generally associated with preK-to-grade 16 (end of 'college'). The middle-class Western person is fully socialized by approximately age 27 (=108*4).
Education in Domain-3
Domain-3 = human hands, and everything these amazing appendages can do.
Skills training or craft apprenticeship is an extremely valuable but distinctively hands-on type of education which is limited to a range of mental or physical manipulations.
Domain-3 = *literacy* = reading and writing, essential components of modern education.
The range of hands-on learning activity in domain-3 may include keyboard typing, typesetting, painting, sculpting, arranging, carving, writing, business skills (sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, meetings, schedules etc.) All of life's day-to-day skills required for home and business life, are including in domain-3. The repetitiveness and perfectability of the skills is what marks them as contents of domain-3.
Domain-3= business administration and commerce. Domain-3 is active, competitive, team-focused, and busy.
In contradistinction to domain-9's focus on wisdom-knowledge, Domain-3 is focused on commercial applications and "information"-knowledge. The information handled in domain-3 activities is practical and profitable.
Domain-3 = 11th-from-5th, 'fruits of intelligence' = self-made wealth.
There is no age limit on education in domain-3. Bhratru bhava is associated not only with young apprentices but also 'continuing education' such as seminars for professional relicensing.
House-3 signifies matters of mental process & technical communication.
Often strong sahaja-bhava planets will produce a career instructor in a technical field of study. The instructor is explicitly concerned with "hands-on" application of the information in the commercial world. The first question in this line of education is "what can I *do* with this training?"
Many modern university instructors have excellent planets in domain-3 or a strong L-3. These teachers are effective for their targeted purpose if the domain-3 graha are strong, but it is important to appreciate that they are a practical folk who are explicitly not domain-9's moral educators.
Education in Domain-9
Religious, philosophical, moral, or intellectually conceptual education is the purview of domain-9.
Much of traditional temple-based education is more in domain-3, skillful manipulations.
The unique features of education in domain-9 are expansive scope, personal reflection & cosmic self-awareness.
This Jupiterian expansiveness is not required (and is indeed counterproductive) in the education processes signified by domain-3 and domain-4.
Domain-9 education is an expansion of the world of the father, zdu+piter. Indeed traditionally, most domain-9 teachers are males.
There is no age limit on education in domain-9, but the nature of the reflective wisdom provided through guru and the priesthood of higher education requires a certain minimum maturity.
It is associated with theological seminary, mystical schools, and university 'graduate' school, particularly with 'big picture' thinking in the conceptual sciences.
House-9 = Guru = "gurus" who "show the way" in the style of an ideal father.
If L-9 is favorable, the native may be a recognized spiritual guide in the priestly traditions. S/he may teach by preaching or role-modeling or a combination.
Dharma bhava = 6th-from-4th. The purpose (and style) of L-9 spiritual teachers is actually in conflict with the goals basic socialization education of house-4.
House-4 is about stabilizing and normalizing the child, continuing the cultural roots, defining physical and cultural boundaries. Most spiritual teachings, in their core truth, are quite disrespectful of physical and cultural boundaries, and disruptive to the status quo.
Dharma teachers are empowered to show the way out. Their task and their style is to break out of conformist behaviors in order to achieve spiritual freedom. They are liberal and outward-looking by character.
They will not be found guiding basic socialization, nor delivering technical information in a (supposedly) value-neutral package like house-3 or house-4 educators. Rather, as a class (gana) this group of educators often represent (apparently) anti-social forces, guiding their students to focus *up* at their divine inspiration rather than *down* at their social roots.
Education in Domain-5
Domain-5 is actually *not* a house of Education!
Domain-5 = Surya = Life Force.
Domain-5 represents Intelligence and Creativity.
Domain-5 does not involve indoctrination, rules, or externally imposed structures of any kind.
Domain-5 is extremely independent & self-motivated. It is the house of Genius, or Natural Self. Clearly this is not the terrain of socialization, learning rules & customs, or training of any kind. :)
The native blessed by a strong domain-5 may or may not do well in school!
"Educational success" is measured by conformity to standard models shared by large social cultures.
The individual's "success" in institutional education depends on the condition of L-3, L-4, & L-9.
If domain-5 is strong, the native will find a creative and adventurous path whether one has the 'advantage' of a highly structured education or not.
House-5 = Surya = independent genius: authors, actors, agents of creative expression.
Putra bhava's intelligence (sometimes brilliant & sometimes perverse) is powerful and their goal is to express themselves as dramatically as possible. Most domain-5 skills are a form o theatrical performance, which is in essence a celebration of life.
House-5 is not a socialization or security function but rather builds on the secure base of knowing the normalizing customs of the people (house-4) then stepping forward to do something creative on the basis of bandhu bhava's foundation.
To create brilliant literature one first must learn to read & write properly (house-4) then *if* the genius to do something highly creative arises, it will arise out of house-5.
Sometimes putra-bhava planets will create a teacher. A teacher with strong putra bhava features is rarely concerned with molding their students for a productive & secure future, unless this native also has strength in domain-4 (e.g. for Thula lagna, the yogakaraka Shani can give equal strength to domain-4 and domain-5; Thula natives are excellent teachers for this reason.).
The focus of domain-5 is individual genius and charisma. Domain-5 generates unique, non-repeatable performances that channel the spiritual life force.
A highly charismatic individual might find it convenient to use a university classroom or corporate seminar as a venue for individual performances. House-5 performers might be able to transmit educational materials in a very entertaining way (which makes them popular teachers!).
The big difference is that domain-5 educators' motivation is strictly dramatic. These educators need a test audience for their brilliant ideas! Although the actor-teacher type is highly entertaining and popular, often a celebrity in their institution, they tend to lack structure and cannot abide the constant repetition and drill which are important for skills learning. This type of educator often moves into another career such as presentation sales.
Education in Domain-2
Domain-2 is not a house of education per se.
Domain-2 rules language and speech. In most cultures, speech is the vehicle of education and one who is blessed with effective speech will do well in education.
However the type of knowledge which flows from domain-2 is fairly passive, which is learning about one's own cultural history & traditions, imbibing those values. As 11th-from-4th, domain-2 rules accumulated wealth. The fruits of a secure childhood home and good basic socialization are wealth and strong values. But these are fruits - not the education itself.
Education in domain-12
House-12 produces a type of teacher who is predominantly a researcher.
House-12 = 9th-from-4th. Vyaya bhava produces reflective, careful, narrowly focused personalities who can guide advanced students (university level) through the formal rigors of graduate training with great success.
These instructors are highly intuitive. They generally work with only a small group of advanced devotees, often at the international level (house-12 rules sojourns in foreign countries).
Their teaching and research work occurs in a cloistered setting such as a laboratory or think-tank.
Professional Educators:
The professional educators who serve these diverse realms of 'education' will have the appropriate markers in nativity.
Basic socialization educators (the vast majority) have strong L-4 and domain-4 indicators. See connections to domain-10, Shani & L-10 for career.
Manipulative craft & skill educators are also widespread. These will show L-3 and domain-3 in strength, with connections to domain-10, Shani & L-10 for career.
Philosophical & reflective educators are relatively rare. These will show L-9 and domain-9 in strength, with possible connections to domain-10, Shani & L-10 for career. However the 'career' of L-9 gurus may be quite obscure. Look for L-9 & Guru primarily.
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
-- Albert Einstein
From B.V. Raman:
"Q. 87 Can educational qualifications be determined?
Ans.
The 4th house indicates education. 5th house denotes mental advancement. The 2nd house denotes vocal powers. Hence the three houses may be examined in detail.
Regarding planets
the Sun indicates philosophy,
Moon - medicine,
Mars-surgery and agriculture,
Mercury- mathematics,
Jupiter - literature and aerial sciences,
Venus - plant life, and
Saturn - history and politics.
From these, we can study the other sciences also. "
-- B. V. Raman, A Catechism of Astrology, pg 70
Bandhu bhava & L-4 as leading indicators of education
Bandhu bhava is all about social security, foundations, shelter & protection. Bandhu bhava is the fortress, the strong place.
Education is the strongest long-term protection available to an individual,
even more than wealth or magical powers. Education is the double-bond between an individual & his/her family, and again between an individual & his/her society.
Education in social "mores" (shared cultural customs) bonds the individual to his group through basic "moral" agreement.
Education, regardless of the subject matter, is always essentially "moral" education in the broader sense of "more" - because the topics of study are sanctioned by the tribe or culture as valuable & worthy.
Education is the strongest form of social security.
The socially approved process of training for various roles - from housewife to shaman to corpse-carrier to national politician - confers legitimate standing & protection within one's culture or tribe. Having completed a legitimizing education according to tribal standards is the sine-qua-non for future leadership positions. Even hereditary leadership roles depend on careful selection of a primary-educator mother, and presume special tutelage for the offspring..
Essential social protection through Education is gained in modern classroom settings, in traditional apprenticeships, via military & religious training, learning from in-home tutors, guided travel, etc.
Mother as Teacher (house-4)
Mother, the key person of house-4, has been the primary moral educator throughout known time. Mother is the essential socializer who prepares the children to behave appropriately in their culture.
By the time children leave their mother's tutelage, they should have emotionally absorbed all the basic information about who they are and how, from that standing, they are expected to treat others.
Father as Teacher (house-9)
After leaving the mother's province (house-4), children move into the education care of the father (house-9).
Traditionally, father instructs the child on higher social awareness: social protocol in his larger community, rational decision-making, skill development, and right conduct in the larger group appropriate to the family's standing, and the human community's relationship to the spirit world which surrounds us (priesthood).
However the father's educational task is not "basic" psycho-emotional self-definition. The father is guru, or public-religious teacher. If secure personal moral foundations are not laid properly by the mother, the father's later public moral training will fail.
Licensed Teachers
In modern societies, the amount of mother's role is often extended into the publicly licensed & funded role of pre-university educators.
The father's traditional guru role is often extended into the publicly licensed & funded role of university (professional) educators.
Sahaja bhava & L-3 for career educators
For small-group process, faculty meetings, educational administration - L-3 must be suitably strong for career educators.
Modern K-12 and university level teaching increasingly focuses on teamwork, collaboration, and small group production. Rote memorization and elimination-by-competition are increasingly seen as destructive to creativity and eventually damaging to the next generation of social leaders.
Traditional classroom one-to-many authority structures are increasingly being replaced with cooperative work tables and multi-use creative spaces. Lectures are interspersed with conferences. Interactive is a key concept.
All these sibling-based, group-think behaviors are the province of house-3.
Educational diploma in periods of L-4, L-7, or Budha
Expect to see completion (diploma/official completion) of formal education during periods of
L-4
L-7 (4th-from-4th)
Budha
L-4 signifies the strongest level of social security achievable by the native. Mercury gives peak reading-writing-speaking competence. If L-4 is yuti Budha, educational achievement may be very high.
Professional careers often require the native to achieve a series of certifying diplomas, only the last of which is fully validating.
E.g.,
Ph.D. programs will often issue a master's degree midway through the doctoral program. However if the candidate intends to work as a university professor, they must still complete their Ph.D.
students progressing toward the American university BA/BS diploma may obtain an interim "associates degree" from a community college. However if the student's chosen career requires a full college education, the intermediate A.A. diploma is only a stepping-stone; it does not mark the final educational achievement at undergraduate level.
technical professions e.g., computer technology, medicine, engineering, etc. can require long & demanding specialty certifications such as "residencies" which are essential proofs of competency but are still part of a larger degree program
These types of "intermediate" or stepping-stone diplomas would likely not be obtained during periods of L-4/L-7/Budha; but rather, during other auspicious periods such as bhukti of L-11 or L-9.
Example of Vimshottari periods in Education:
Bill Clinton's nativity provides a good example of potency of diplomas during periods of L-4/L-7/Budha versus role of diplomas earned in other Vimshottari periods.
Clinton graduated from a semi-rural high school in the American South during a period of L-4 Guru. Clearly earning his High School diploma was a significant achievement for Clinton. His HS grades & public service works earned him admission to a prestigious Eastern university. Clinton's high school graduation was a key step in his progress toward the USA presidency and world leadership.
As his student life progressed, Clinton obtained a B.A. in international affairs from Georgetown U. in period of L-11 (goals & achievements) and shortly afterward, a diploma in world history from Oxford in period of Rahu who gives effect of L-9 (priesthood).
Both of these diplomas represent blessings of significant knowledge obtained, yet neither will validate the career. It is only the final diploma in his formal education, the J.D. Clinton next obtained from Yale Law School in 1973 in a period of L-4 Guru, which marks the conclusion of his studies and embarkation upon legal & political career.
Guru, L5, L9
Jupiter = karaka for children & wisdom,
L-5
L-9 (5th-from-5th)
are the three grahas which produce children & wisdom in their Vimshottari periods.
Budha, L-4, L-7
Mercury = karaka for speech & writing
L-4
L-7 (4th-from-4th)
are the three grahas which in their Vimshottari periods produce educational achievement - diploma, successful thesis defense, graduation, and completion of studies.
House-5 produces children, and so does 5th-from-5th, house-9. Jupiter, L-5 and L-9 both produce children in their Vimshottari period.
House-3 produces writing & collaboration, and so does 3rd-from-3rd, house-5. Therefore Vimshottari periods of L-3 and L-5 - and Budha - will give achievement of literary & theatrical publications, authorship, curriculum design, and other creative ego-expressive projections.
Q:
Dear Madam, Namaste,
Would you be kind enough to give your response for the followings:
1. Is it possible to know , whether an person can achieve the higher education like Ph.D. etc from the birth chart? if, it is so then what/when is that possibility ? Also which area of subject (for Ph.D.) will be favourable for the native ?
2. What is the future prospects in terms of Job/profession/Wealth etc.
A:
Ph.D. capability depends on:
Most important houses. Confirm the strength of each house lord in both navamsha & dashamsha.
house-3 [writing & business administration] & its lord
radix 3/9 axis must be strong
house-4 [education & social validation] & its lord;
house-5 [intelligence, creativity & luck] & its lord;
9th lord for guru status
house-11 [goal achievement & associations] & its lord..
house-12 which rules *research* must be advantageous
Mental processing = Mercury
Budha should be exalted, neecha bhanga, swakshetra, or have some other mark of unusual intellectual acuity to involve the person is creating new theories or doing high level intellectual analysis
Language expression = Jupiter
to perform well as a student in college & graduate school, native must show favorable Vrihaspati position
Classroom teaching =
L-3 (classroom management)
L-4 (curriculum & testing)
L-5 (theatrical talent)
3/9 axis is collegial fellowship, the priesthood of higher educators, and the vast administrative complexity of university business.
5/11 axis brings true love for one's subject, the global network of peer scholars, personal authority & expertise, literary creativity, good luck, & charm.
3/9 and 5/11 should optimally both be strong for the native to thrive in university teaching.
Administrators & less charmed instructors need strength only in the 3/9 axis;
leaders in creative scholarship must have the 5/11 also.
5/11 lacking support from 3/9 will typically leave the university & pursue independent scholarship.
(Successful independent literary authors in any genre must have house-3 and house-5 strongly blessed.)
4/10 axis commands basic social legitimation, which encompasses earning of legitimizing diplomas & prestige leadership titles. College education is the necessary basis for full social security in the West and increasingly elsewhere also.
Professional/graduate education beyond college, requires more planetary support than basic college diploma:
for professional diplomas strength in both house-4 for legitimation and house-5 for good fortune from charitable acts in past lives, personal charm, & literary talent.
Writing:
Ph.D. dissertation (& years of coursework leading to the dissertation) involves a tremendous focus on writing. Most Ph.D. holders are good writers; & after obtaining their diplomas they will continue to write extensively throughout their lives.
The amount of writing & the style of writing depend on house-3 and house-5.
Technical, administrative writing that communicates information in an impersonal style = house-3.
Creative, entertaining, or innovative writing that communicates information in a personal style = house-5
House-3 controls the physical act of writing, the brain-eye-hand connection. If house-3 is damaged no amount of talent in house-5 will be able to emerge.
Ph.D. diploma may be granted in Vimshottari period of L-4, L-7, L-11, or karakas Budha & Guru. However, there is some variation in the Vimshottari timing due to variation in the social role & purpose of the Ph.D. itself.
If the social purpose of the Ph.D. is primarily as a university teaching credential, L-4/L-7 timing is most likely.
If the Ph.D. is instead a research/funding or other authority-entitlement credential, L-10 may be the attainment trigger.
Occasionally a person will complete their Ph.D. as a strictly personal goal which is not needed for their work. The period of L-11 brings goal achievement..
Area of deepest happiness in studies is always from Chandra. Look to nakshatra of Chandra, his house D-1 and D-9, and aspects, to find deepest intuitive affinity with subject matter. After all the relationship with one's doctoral studies continues for life. For happiness this subject cannot be chosen by others, by common sense, by what the market commands, by the parents or other well-wishers -- but only by the native, according to his natural affinities. Such a well-chosen area of expertise will yield emotional and intellectual happiness.
Prognosis for job/career is determined mainly by three things:
10th house aspects, 10th lord as well as 10th navamsha will tell the nature and prestige of your profession
7th house [10th-from-10th] aspects, 7th lord as well as 7th navamsha shows what you really do on a day-to-day basis
Ravi and all of his attributes will reveal ego-performance style and rational behavior that naturally position the individual in society and the global marketplace.
Dasha/bhukti of 10th and 7th lords, Dasha/bhukti of lord of 10th navamsha and lord of the sign which is occupied by L-10 in navamsha, plus periods Surya when He is auspiciously placed, are always beneficial for advance in public standing and career.
Hope this is helpful for you.
Attitude toward education- sample charts
"Dharma" or "perspective" on education is a major predictor of educational success. To see dharma of education, look in navamsha:
To find the psycho-emotional seeds of one's motivation toward education:
determine L-4
look for the sign which L-4 occupies in navamsha
locate navamsha lord of L-4, in the radix
The planet which is L-4's navamsha lord will, in its radix role, manifest the native's core motivation and expectations (perhaps completely hidden in his subconscious) regarding the social credentialing & validation of the education process, one's entitlement to social protection, a secure home, etc.
E.g., if radix L-4 = Shani and Shani occupies Simha navamsha, then navamsha lord of Shani = Surya. Look to Surya in radix to determine the individual's core motivation, commitment, professional connections, etc. regarding education.
Periods of L-9 are not for Social-Bonding Education!
Dharma bhava does carry out the Piter's moral agenda, but dharma bhava signifies something quite different from basic social validation of house-4.
L-9 periods are not for education, but rather for spiritual awareness & meta-moral empowerment.
As a result periods of L-9 brings great good fortune - but not, normally, foundational social-educational events.
House-9 is actually 6th-from-4th, which means that activities of dharma bhava are in conflict or out-of-balance with basic social agreements, bonding, fortress-protection, survival & strengthening of the tribe.
House-9 is about priestly awareness and voicing of unseen powers (2nd-from-8th). Matters of house-9 are apples-and-oranges incommensurable with matters of house-4.
House-4 assumes that everyone we interact with is in agreement. The business of house-4 is to bond through moral agreement. When we are with mother, we are all loved unconditionally; we are all equal in her eyes; everyone we interact with loves us; we are all the same; we are all protected.
When we are with father, we learn to recognize the various social markings of different types of people in the world outside the home. We learn the moral rules for proper behavior in a mixed universe, whose citizens have different abilities, backgrounds, and characters. We learn how to interact with entities who do not share our culturally-enforced moral agreements.
From a provincial point of view, dharma bhava can become "immoral"! True religion is cosmic and inclusive (house-9). True religion is always the natural enemy (6th-from) of the nation-state (house-4)
America's success as a nation-state is due in large part to her decision to "take no position" on religion. Thus the First Amendment frees our nation from the perpetual debilitating conflicts inherent in the human condition: tribal moral loyalty embedded in "our view is the only right view" bonding from house-4, versus the meta-philosophical transcendently "disloyal" true-religion view that all ways are the right way, so long as they lead to successful communication with the Divine.
No incarnate being is ever really freed of this conflict, but in political terms our First Amendment does a pretty good job of national damage-control. Our famous "separation of Church & State" has liberated so much energy that would have otherwise been wasted in perpetual conflict, that we have achieved *both* a world-leading education system and a healthy, well-funded religious community.
House-9 is the realm of higher social awareness, evolved religious philosophy, and very importantly, the world of religious ritual where we interact with deities & spirits who come from an entirely different realm of consciousness.
Periods of L-9 bring high awareness, call up credit from good works stores deep in the subconscious memories, and cause great good fortune.
But L-9 is not associated with the social-security function of education, so we do not expect socially validated educational achievement in its periods. Rather, wisdom-building activities such as travel to holy lands & pilgrimage to religious shrines, spiritual initiations & taking of religious vows, engaging in religious or advanced philosophical training which has no application to conventional university credentialling...
Marriage, being yuvati bhava 4th-from-4th, is not exclusively or even primarily a religious vow. Marriage is an extension of the security function of home & mother.
It is true that the quality of the marriage partner is the fruit of one's religious awareness or dharma, because house-7 is 11th-from-9th, results (11th) of dharma (9th).
However, the marriage itself is not exclusively a promise between the native and the spirits, as a religious vow of poverty or chastity might be. Rather, the marriage vow really involves four partners: the two spouses, the Divine, and the society at large - represented by one's parents (4 & 10).
That is why the kendra houses 4 & 7 & 10 are anchors of the radix chart - while bhagya houses 5 & 9 - as nice as they are - are not really essential to survival in social life.
Bandhu & L-4 for Career Educators
If house-4 or L-4 is damaged, education will be incomplete and the native is permanently insecure, has employment troubles, often self-esteem issues. This fourth-house insufficiency will be proven in a poor relationship to mother, unstable early home, etc.
If L-4 is swakshetra, in lagna, lagnesha, yuti Chandra, or otherwise key to the native's identity, s/he will obtain social validation through formal education (however much struggle that may require!) and will enjoy social protection as a result.
Career educators frequently have core-identity markers such as lagnesha or Chandra in bandhu bhava. Should L-4 occupy a kendra, the native will also be professionally allied with the education industry, although this professional destiny may be expressed in a variety of social settings - not bound to the conventional classroom at all.
Traditionally, basic education happens in youth, when the parents begin indoctrinating their young so as to protect the children's future.
However, fundamental advancement in social standing through validated education can occur at any time in life. It is no longer unheard-of for people to finish a doctoral dissertation in their sixties. Empty-nest mothers returning to law school in their menopausal years has become practically a commonplace! Clearly, education-driven improvements in social standing can occur at any time in the lifespan.
Karaka of mentality, analysis, dialog, gesture, writing, and technical knowledge, Budha has a major influence on educational achievement.
Uccha Budha (in Kanya) is a sure sign of capable mentality. Reading is easy & natural for them. They speak quickly & clearly (presuming no negative drishti). They understand logical & organic systems of all kinds, including systems of language. They are natural organizers and analysts.
Uccha Budha natives will, eventually, find their way into knowledge-worker positions involving analysis and report.
If Budha is uccha only in navamsha, this too is helpful for articulation. Navamsha shows our true attitude, expectation, and dharmic perspective on things. Uccha Budha in navamsha gives an intelligent, organized worldview and inherent (although not always manifest) articulation capability.
Budha (like Moon) is extremely impressionable, so drishti upon Budha will definitively shape the native's spoken and written articulation. However, with even moderately good drishti, uccha Budha will do well in K-12, finish university without much resistance, and quite probably complete professional school as well.
For any house or sign of the impressionable Budha, drishti from L-6, L-18, L-12; Shani; Kuja, or Rahu; will alter articulation in a negative way.
Drishti upon Budha from L-2, L-3, L-4, L-5, L-7, L-9, L-10, or L-11 are generally helpful in school and career. Even fallen Budha can become a career educator if Budha is yuti L-4. This man has a fallen Budha which is yuti L-4, with drishti from L-9. He is a college professor.
Fallen Budha (in Meena) with no rescuing aspects will generally signify a native who is unable to grasp or articulate technical knowledge. This native might have other compensating forms of intelligence such as mystical intuition or brilliant pattern-recognition, but they will lack the linear speech-and-writing level of articulation which modern society requires of its knowledge workers. They tend to do less well in school
Neechha banga Budha can signify true genius. When fully cured through neechha banga (see Albert Einstein) Budha points toward cosmological thought of the broadest and most profound character. Such a neechha Budha makes a natural mystic.
However neechha Budha while rescued intellectually, will retain His fallen character in the emotional world. Expect emotional struggles to understand & articulate feelings, which can cause family bonding or intimacy problems for the native.
Periods of L-4, L-7, and Budha bring educational achievement & validation in the form of diplomas, certificates, graduation ceremonies, etc.
Chandra-Budha [Moon-Mercury] yoga
It's important to note that Mercury tells us very little about non-analytical forms of intelligence, such as intuition, imagination, and emotional sensitivity.
Mercury is primarily concerned with the speech-and-writing expressions, which are generally linear and "left-brain". To know about intuitive capabilities (which are usually more important to spiritual development) we must examine the Moon and Jupiter.
Mercury aspect to Moon will open both halves of the brain, showing a person with simultaneously developing intuitive and analytical intelligence. It may not always be easy to express both types of perception effectively, but the person is aware and registering on both levels.
Society (ruled by Saturn) likes to pigeonhole people, as a method of optimizing resource distribution. (Thus caste systems.) Saturn's relationship to any Chandra-Budha yoga will determine how society treats a person who is both analytical and
Siddhamsha
Another place to look for confirmation of good fortune in Education, is the Siddhamsha - the divisional twenty-fourth chart or "D-24".
Traditionally, the Siddhamsha confirms a person's fortunes in the areas of Education, Intelligence, Creativity, and Fame.
Radix L-4 (educational credentials) and L-5 (personal creativity, celebrity-fame, & intelligence) should be strong in D-24 chart to bear full fruit.
Arudha Lagna
Many perfectly intelligent people do not get socially validated for being smart or being information resources. They remain unrecognized, "hiding their light under a bushel basket" as my Midwestern parents would say!
Brilliant eccentrics often get written off as weirdos and outcastes. It is well known by professional educators that the smartest, most creative students can be permanently alienated from education by a rigid, conventional school system.
So it's important to examine the difference between "smart on the inside" versus "smart on the outside" to gain a fuller view of the native's karmic reality.
The Jaimini concept of Arudha lagna helps us discriminate between a person's external social reality - how they are judged by society - versus their internal psycho-emotional reality - how they feel about themselves.
According to Jyotish Pandit Narasimha Rao, these are some key points in forming a full judgment of the person's intelligence and their capacity to have that intelligence socially validated.
[These arudha effects live inside a person and do not manifest in the world in a material form.]
Pandit Rao says:
Influences on the 5th house from radix lagna show one's *true* intelligence, abilities and potential.
Influences on the 5th from arudha lagna show how people *perceive* one's intelligence, abilities and potential.
Influences on the arudha of the 5th house show things that manifest materially in the world and that are supposed to come out of one's intelligence, abilities and potential. Examples are awards, trophies, prizes, victories etc. [These manifest/rise in the world in a material form. Of all things we talk about in astrology, these are the only things that are really there for everyone to see!]
Influences of the arudhas of planets (as opposed to planets themselves) upon 5th show what one thinks about his own intelligence.
Argala on the Education Houses:
"Argala is a very important concept in Vedic astrology. Literally speaking, Argala means “a bolt”. Argala on a house shows the influences that intervene in its affairs and decide some aspects of it and close the bolt on it, so to speak.
A planet or house in the 2nd, 4th and 11th houses from a house causes primary Argala on it. This simple concept can be better appreciated if some examples are given.
The 4th house stands for education. The 2nd, 4th and 11th from the 4th house are 5th, 7th and 2nd houses respectively.
One’s intelligence (5th),
interaction with others (7th)
and overall character and samskara (2nd)
make or break one's education. If Jupiter is in 5th house, he will give intelligence and his Subhargala (benefic intervention) on 4th will help one’s education. If Rahu is in 5th house, his Papargala (malefic intervention) on 4th will cause obstacles in one’s education by way of poor intelligence.
Similarly, benefics and malefics in the houses causing Argala cause good and bad intervention. Basically, the point is that intelligence, interaction and samskara are the things that decide one’s education."
~~ Pandit Sanjay Rath of Sri Jagannath Center -- http://srijagannath.org/learn/practical_use_of_argala.htm
Sample knowledge-worker charts
showing Education Profession, high attainments in Formal Education, & Social Position:
Education 1: Four professors, four teaching styles
Education 2: Three men showing different Dharma (perspective) toward Education, & the results of that attitude in educational achievement
Education 3: Jyotisha Profiles of Two Middle School Teachers
Education 4: Jyotisha Profiles of Two Elementary School Teachers
Education 5: Jyotisha Profiles of Two Medical Doctors ( M.D.)
Education 6: Jyotisha Profiles of Two drop-outs who returned to college in mid-life (and graduated)
Ph.D. Psychology after a long struggle - neechha bhanga Budha
Education 7: Jyotisha Profiles of Two Psychologists (Ph.D. Clinical Psychology)
Education 8: Jyotisha Profiles of Three Attorneys (Barristers)
Education 9: Jyotisha Profiles of Five High-School Dropouts
Albert Einstein, mystic physicist, professor: neechha banga Budha
"I find that giving a discourse based on religious texts is a good way of showing that religion has a lot to tell us, no matter what situation we find ourselves in.
However, I am better at it now than I was in the beginning.
In those days I lacked confidence, although it improved every time I spoke in public.
Also, I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn."
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquility. www.snowlionpub.com
"...at Bodh Gaya, [Shakyamuni] displayed the ways of becoming fully enlightened. Then in stages he turned the three renowned wheels of doctrine.
- In the first period, at Varanasi, Buddha turned the wheel of doctrine that is based on the four noble truths; he did this mainly in consideration of those having the lineage of Hearers (Sravaka).
- In the middle period, at Grdhrakuta, he set forth the middle wheel of doctrine, which is based on the mode of non-inherent existence of all phenomena; he did this mainly in consideration of trainees of sharp faculties who bear the Mahayana lineage.
- In the final period, at Vaisali, he set forth the final wheel [which is based on discriminating between those phenomena that do and those that do not truly exist]; he did this mainly in consideration of trainees of middling and lower faculties who bear the Mahayana lineage.
The teacher Buddha also appeared in the body of Vajradhara, setting forth tantric doctrines."
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama, The Buddhism of Tibet. Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans.& Ed.). www.snowlionpub.com
"According to Buddhist theory, there are some things that belong to the subtle consciousness, or subtle mind, that are independent from the body, from the brain.
There is no assertion in Buddhism that there is a 'thing' called a soul or a 'thing' called consciousness, some 'thing' that exists independently of the brain.
There is no such 'thing' existing independently of the brain or being dependent upon the brain. But rather, consciousness is understood as a multifaceted matrix of events.
Some of them are utterly dependent on the brain, and at the other end of the spectrum, some of them are completely independent of the brain.
There is no thing that is the mind or the soul."
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama. Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism. Zara Houshmand, R.B. Livingston, & B. A. Wallace (Eds.); Snow Lion Pub.
Plan ahead -- It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Crucial to the hermeneutical approach is the Mahayana principle of the Four Reliances. These are:
1. Reliance on the teaching, not the teacher
2. Reliance on the meaning, not the words that express it
3. Reliance on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional meaning; and
4. Reliance on the transcendent wisdom of deep experience, not on mere knowledge.
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama, The Path to Tranquility. www.snowlionpub.com
"You should understand the whole purpose of listening to teachings, taking teachings and studying them is to put them into practice, just as after having learned how to prepare a certain dish, you utilize that knowledge to make the dish and derive full nutritional benefit from it.
What you know should be put into practice immediately; you can thus derive the benefit of having some transformation within your mind.
Even though it might be a very minor effort, a very small practice just leaving imprints within your mind, still you must think that it is worthwhile to do. Otherwise your knowledge of dharma will be quite fruitless, and like merely playing something on a tape."
~~ H.H. Tenzin Gyatso, Path to Bliss: A Practical Guide to Stages of Meditation. Geshe Thubten Jinpa (Trans.), Christine Cox (Ed.). www.snowlionpub.com
"The root of all the vows for laypersons and for monks and nuns is the ethics of the abandonment of the non-virtues.
Three physical actions (killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct),
four verbal actions, (lying, divisive talk, harsh speech, and senseless chatter),
and three mental actions (covetousness, harmful intent, and wrong views)
are to be abandoned."
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama at Harvard: Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace. Snow Lion Pub.
"The ability to look at events from different perspectives can be very helpful. Then, practicing this, one can use certain experiences, certain tragedies, to develop a calmness of mind. One must realize that every phenomenon, every event, has different aspects. Everything is of a relative nature.
For example, in my own case, I lost my country. From that viewpoint, it is very tragic--and there are even worse things. There's a lot of destruction happening in our country. That's a very negative thing.
But if I look at the same event from another angle, I realize that as a refugee, I have another perspective. As a refugee there is no need for formalities, ceremony, protocol. If everything were status quo, if things were okay, then on a lot of occasions you merely go through the motions; you pretend.
But when you are passing through desperate situations, there's no time to pretend. So from that angle, this tragic experience has been very useful to me.
Also, being a refugee creates a lot of new opportunities for meeting with many people. People from different religious traditions, from different walks of life, those whom I may not have met had I remained in my country. So in that sense it's been very, very useful.
It seems that often when problems arise, our outlook becomes narrow. All of our attention may be focused on worrying about the problem, and we may have a sense that we're the only one that is going through such difficulties. This can lead to a kind of self-absorption that can make the problem seem very intense.
When this happens, I think that seeing things from a wider perspective can definitely help--realizing, for instance, that there are many other people who have gone through similar experiences, and even worse experiences.
This practice of shifting perspective can even be helpful in certain illnesses or when in pain. At the time the pain arises it is of course often very difficult, at that moment, to do formal meditation practices to calm the mind.
But if you can make comparisons, view your situation from a different perspective, somehow something happens.
If you only look at that one event, then it appears bigger and bigger. If you focus too closely, too intensely, on a problem when it occurs, it appears uncontrollable. But if you compare that event with some other greater event, look at the same problem from a distance, then it appears smaller and less overwhelming."
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler, M.D., The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. Snow Lion Pub.
updated: 17 July 2008
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