Graha * Gochara

Budha = Mercury

message, measure, media, meddling, mentality

Polarities, Pairs-of-Poles, Halves, Couples, Complement,

Duplicate, Diploma, Twin, Twice, Two

Budha brass statue from ExoticIndia.com

~~ James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village

"The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."

1. Budha in bhava-1 * dikbala
2. Budha in bhava-2
3. Budha in bhava-3
4. Budha in bhava-4
5. Budha in bhava-5
6. Budha in bhava-6
7. Budha in bhava-7
8. Budha in bhava-8
9. Budha in bhava-9
10. Budha in bhava-10
11. Budha in bhava-11
12. Budha in bhava-12

1. Budha in Mesha
2. Budha in Rishabha
3. Budha in Mithuna
4. Budha in Karkata
5. Budha in Simha
6. Budha in Kanya * uchchamsha
7. Budha in Thula
8. Budha in Vrischika
9. Budha in Dhanushya
10. Budha in Makara
11. Budha in Kumbha
12. Budha in Meena * neechchamsha

agency of "trans" and "com-con-col"

transfer - transmute - transmit - transubstantiate - transitory - transition - transportation - transit systems - transcendence - transactions - transnationalism

trade

currency, coins, units of "money" (named for the goddess Moneta, patron of the coin-stamping factory in ancient Rome)

Merchants, merchandise, mercantilism, marketing, le marche, mercado, including all of the handy (Budha) trading activities of commercial business

-- however the greater marketplace, the interconnected economies and ecologies of the broader community, belong within the purview of bhava-11 "earnings"

• German biotan, bieten

• Anglo Saxon beodan

• English bid, buy

• Greek = Ἑρμῆς = Hermes

Here you all are, racing to try and get where you already are when all you have to do is relax into it, to allow it.

Take your head off, hmm? Take off your head and put it somewhere else.

Your logical mind, which is wonderful, indeed, is to be your servant.

You are not to be its slave."

• 12 Rashi Qualities of Budha

• combust Budha [moudhya]

• Hands, hand-to-eye coordination

• 12 Domain Qualities of Budha

• Mulatrikona Budha

• Short journeys, short-term projects

• Budha yuti other Graha

• Neechchamsha Budha

• Nose

• Vimshottari dasha of Budha, from BPHS

• Uchchamsha Budha

• Scripts, writings, Texts, dialogs, protocols, formalized communications

• Budha and Business: 12 domains for Commercial Profit

• Telepathy

• Graha in 3rd-from-Budha

• Chandra as Enemy

• cleverness, discrimination

• Welcome in Mithuna and Kanya

• workgroups, teams, neighbors , sibling-cousin groups

• Explanation, Description, Instruction, Argument

• The Calculator

• Professions: Sales, marketing, advertising, public relations

• Information vs. Wisdom vs. Truth

• Speech

• Herb (Bhasman) for Budha

• Planetary Neutrality

• Genius

• Shri Krishna Avatara (in some traditions)

• Mentality; The Mentalizer

• Skills Training

  Education

• Budha's Two "Teenage" mentality houses - Sahaja and Ari

• Intellectualization

• Internal and External Narrative, communication, conversation

• mental process, conceptual thought

• Drishti to Budha

• Sexuality, interpersonal relationships

movements in the northerly direction are forecast during many periods of Budha

Budha gives His best results when Budha =

• in exaltation,

• in his own Rashi,

• in a friendly Rashi,

• or in Labha, Putra, or Dharma,

• Achyranthes = Apamarga-bhasma

• Digestive herb

• Ayurveda: it is bitter, pungent, heating, laxative, stomachic, carminative and useful in treatment of vomiting, bronchitis, heart disease, piles, itching abdominal pains, ascites, dyspepsia, dysentery, blood diseases etc.

Ayurvedic Preparation:

• Apamarga Taila, Agnimukha etc.

Chemical Constituent:

• Plant yields achyranthine.

"Budhi is endowed with an attractive physique

and the capacity to use words with many meanings.

He is fond of jokes.

He has a mix of all the three humors."

"Mercury rules

• Veda, writing, sculpture,

• medicines,

• expertise, minister-ship,

• speech, jokes,

• birds, couples, fame,

• Vanas-pathi (i.e. a large forest tree which bears fruit apparently without any blossoms)

• and gold. "

preserve sound judgment and discernment,

do not let them out of your sight;

they will be life for you, an ornament to grace your neck.

Then you will go on your way in safety,

and your foot will not stumble. "

"An afflicted Mercury indicates an increase in low class association and opponents,

loss of wealth, fear of being confined,

mean speech and an unsteady mind. "

BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43

"The 6th from Budha be also considered in regard to indications derivable from Ari Bhava. "

".. Mercury is a malefic if He joins a malefic ... "

Mercury

Thinking, examination, analysis, discrimination, logical argument,

publications, printing, media-production, messengers + messaging, angels + evangelism,

mail, email, postings and announcements, reports, advertising,

scheduling, planning, problem-solving, definition, articulation,

explanation, instruction, recipes and formulae, lists and agenda,

writing, painting, hand-craft, manual skills, meetings, cooperation, collaboration, teamwork,

conversation, meddling, gossiping, talk, chat, nose, hands, arms, fingers, signatures and signs

B. V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations.

(10th ed., Delhi, 1991). Originally published in 1947. :

Peenasa-roga Yoga, #278:

"Mercury is the planet associated with the nose

and therefore any afflictions to him may find expression in the shape

of the person suffering from nasal complaints."

• zazAGka (hare-marked);

• mRgAGka (deer-marked);

• zItagu, zItarazmi, zizirAMzu (having cool rays);

• himakara, himarazmi (causing or producing cold) etc.

from L. Mercurius "Mercury," the Roman god, originally A god of tradesmen and thieves, from merx "merchandise"

The planet closest to the sun so called in classical Latin (c.1386 in Eng.). Sense of "silver-white metal, quicksilver" is first recorded c.1386, when elements were commonly associated alchemically with the planets. This one probably so associated for its mobility."

budh

• To wake , wake up , be awake ; to recover consciousness (after a swoon)
• To observe , heed , attend to
• To perceive , notice , learn , understand , become or be aware of or Acquainted with
• To think of, i.e. present a person
• To know to be , recognize as
• To deem , consider or regard as
• To be Awakened or restored to consciousness
• To wake up , arouse , restore to life or consciousness
• to revive the scent (of a perfume)
• To cause (a flower) to expand
• To cause to Observe or attend , admonish , advise
• To make a person acquainted with , remind or inform of. impart or communicate anything to
• To wish to observe , desire to become acquainted with
• To have an insight into , understand thoroughly

Budha:

• Awaking
• intelligent , clever , wise
• A wise or learned man , sage
• A god
• A descendant of Soma, hence also called saumya, saumAyana
• Author of RVand father of Puru-ravas
• identified with the planet Mercury Mercury (regarded as a son of Soma or the moon)
• Wednesday

Budha = malefic or benefic?

B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations . (10th ed., Delhi, 1991, 1947).

"Malefics, Benefics, and Neutrals"p. 6

"Budha is

• Benefic as lord of

  • 2 and 5 for Taurus,

  • 9 and 6 for Capricorn

  • 9 and 12 for Libra.

• Neutral as lord of

  • 1 and 4 for Gemini,

  • 1 and 10 for Virgo,

  • 5 and 8 Aquarius,.

• He is malefic as lord of

  • 3 and 12 for Cancer,

  • 4 and 7 for Pisces

  • 7 and 10 Sagittarius,

  • 8 and 11 Scorpio,

  • 2 and 11 Leo

  • 3 and 6 Aries "

When combust , Budha becomes subjectivized.

• The mentality develops a solipsistic character.

• the native 's mentality is unable to objectify information.

• One tends to personalize the information-interpretation process.

Moudhya Budha has difficulty to see the world from another person's perspective, which can hamper effective problem-solving and reduce articulated expressions of compassion.

Traditional rules for combustion of Budha:

• Budha occupies a position within 13 degrees of Surya

• if Budha is retrograde: within 11 degrees of Surya

Budha = the natural regulator of Sahaja bhav bhava-3 (announcements, reports) and bhava-6 (logical argumentation, problem-solving). Budha is the lord a small island of rational thought within the great ocean of "Mind" (Chandra). It is the Island of Rational Thought.

• Most of Budha's thinking is pragmatic (He is a friend of Shani) and most of the outcome of Budha's activities is directed to the material plane.

Mercury determines the native 's ability to profit from measuring and managing the matters of Budha's immediate environment.

Budha is capable of conceptual thought.

• His calculations are not limited to perceptions of the five physical senses.

Yet even when Budha is operating in the world of abstract philosophy, He is busy measuring cycles, setting rhythms, and "making meter".

• Budha measures objects and the relationships between objects in the field of psycho-mental perception.

A fundamental premise of Budha's weltanschauung is that the world, and one's true self, is naturally split in half .

• Reality consists of infinite numbers of opposite pairs and partners, connected by that permanent copula which is the Self.

• (In English grammar, the "copula" = "to be".)

Budha is a coupler.

Budha = natural enemy of Chandra.

Budha =lord of

• 3rd-from-Karkata (writing about home and homeland)

• 12th-from-Karkata (dissolution of security, threat of invasion).

Some commentators opine that the USA is a premier land of Mithuna, because every citizen has a split identity : inside the USA, one can never be simply what the outside world considers as 'American'. Rather, patriotic self-definition in the USA has, since 1776, required a split self. One must acknowledge one's still-valid past identity even as one confirms a full embrace of the new: thus, Irish-American, Polish-American, African-American, Native American, etc.

Many attempts to eradicate this "two-ness" in USA society have failed.

For example,

• To destroy their tribal identity, Native American children were forcibly taken from their parents to be raised in government boarding schools (run by Christian missionaries). However, at the end of their ordeal, the children almost universally returned to their parents, their land, their tribal religions, and their customs.

• In the years leading up to WW-2, the presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge both ran aggressive campaigns against "hyphenated identity" on the logic that any form of split identity amongst Americans was dangerous to national security. Naturally, both men have Chandra in Mithuna; and Mithuna natives tend to believe that all options are equal. The campaign failed largely because non-Mithuna people realize that humans will defend the land one lives upon; not the land in which a particular language is spoken, or where one was born.

• As the USA continues to accept immigrants from an ever-increasing diversity of ethnic and religious backgrounds, the "two-ness" of American identity both deepens and persists. New identities such as "Muslim-American" and "Mexican-American" are re-stimulating the historic debate (Budha) about patriotic loyalty. The answer to the old doubt about bifurcated identity however remains the same: two-ness is a form of strength in any narrative. But repression of duality and dogmatic insistence on artificial unity is a weakness in any debate .

It turns out that FDR and Silent Cal had relatively little to be worried about. Budha's split-mindedness encourages His karaka activities of commerce, administration, siblings-teamwork, manual skills, publications and media production.

• Budha created first an "industrial economy" based on machine (Budha) technology, followed by the current information (Budha) economy based on electronic counting (Budha) machines (computers).

• The development process of financial, social, biological, conceptual economies (Shani) constantly engages the mental dance (Budha) of compare and contrast, polarity and unification, opposition and union, coupling and uncoupling, on and off, up and down, in and out... All Budha-mind, all the time!

• Other nations (notably India) are in the process of establishing or re-establishing a conscious culture of pluralism = Buddhistic conscious-plurality of permanent bifurcation of identity. In a pluralistic national culture, national "passport" identity can be flexibly paired with a community identity (race, caste, religion) . The economy of those nations can be expected to prosper due to increased communication (Budha) between its citizens which facilitates commerce.

• The more people are allowed to possess complex pluralized identities, the more economic diversification and development is encouraged, and the wealthier people may become through their own mental-manual efforts (bhava-3, self-made wealth, mentality, hands).

Conversely, the more rigid the limitations (Shani) on which characteristics can be coupled (Budha) in the national and personal identity (such as in theocratic or mono-ethnic states, where only one ideology, class, or religion is allowed), the faster the economy dies.

Budha controls that great port, the mind's freight-container thought-switching-yard, which is the active repository of all the accumulated conversations of this and previous lives.Human "mind" in Jyotisha encompasses a vast realm, consisting of Chandra's huge ocean of astral emotion that surrounds the relatively small island of Budha's explicitly verbalized thought.

In Budha's small but hyperactive terrain, "minding" as a performative verb gives a function of "A budh" or "attending to".

Chandra = the greater "mind " whereas Budha, Saumya son of Soma, is a subset of mind that is defined by the mirroring function of "remind"

Budha = the mentalized repetition of apprehended experience = the specialized naming, articulating, explaining and organizing functions of "mind".

Budha's bhava-3 is typically a busy, chatty, administrating, interactive domain concerned with this repetitive, rationalizing subset mental process.

Soma and Budha = Father and Son

In Jyotisha lore, Budha is the son of Soma called Soumyasa.

• The myth says that father and son have a rather contentious relationship.

• Soma and Budha have the classic "senex" relationship exemplified in the Greek tragedies Odyssey and Oedipus Rex, and Shakespeare's: the young buck tries to usurp the power of an elder, thinking that youthful speed and clever innovation will surely win over age and outmoded habit.

• Chandra is the Old One: mature, settled, does not rush to conclusions, knowing, Budha the kumara (teenager) is considered immature, adolescent, unsettled, making fast decisions often based on insufficient evidence, too quick to retort.

• Historically, the rational, naming, objectifying part of the mind is a later addition to the human being. Thus Budha is much 'younger' and less well adapted to the psycho-emotional totality of human experience than the much elder part of the brain-mind which is Soma.

Budha = Neutral in rashi of Shani

Hostility from Guru and Mangala

• If conditions are ideal (e.g., uchcha Vargottamsha Budha in kendra not combust in same rashi with the Sun) the native may be spectacularly intellectualized.

• Nevertheless, if Surya and Guru lack strength, even a great analyst may not be Wise.

Drishti

graha drishtifrom malefics can reduce messaging capabilities.

Drishti from benefics can expand and enhance communication skills.

Shani Drishti

Drishti from Shani restrains the articulatory capacity.

If Shani owns and aspects Budha's rashi, the native may struggle to message effectively.

When Shani has inordinate impact on Budha, the native tends toward unclear speech.

he mechanics of Shani-influenced Budha include a tendency to reduce meaningful sounds and truncatewords, lopping off final syllables, reducing essential vowels, and dropping final consonants even if the language being spoken requires these items for clear meaning.

he handwriting may become illegible.

the native 's resistance toward full articulationof the signal-marks (letters, diacritics, connectors, separators, punctuation, etc.) in the script makes the output too minimized and the marks become difficult to distinguish.

Writing becomes a slow and laborious process. Grasp of writing implements may be impeded by some manual handicap.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

• How to See Yourself As You Really Are
• translated - edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.

The theory of dependent-arising can be applied everywhere. One benefit of applying this theory is that viewing a situation this way gives you a more holistic picture, since whatever the situation is --good or bad -- it depends on causes and conditions.

An event is not under its own power but depends on many present causes and conditions as well as many past causes and conditions.

Otherwise, it could not come into being.

• When you think from this viewpoint, you can see much more of the whole picture, and from this wider perspective, you can see the reality of the situation, its interdependence.

• With the help of this relational outlook, the action that you take will be realistic.

...Failure to look at the whole picture means realism is lost.

• The attitude that money aloneis sufficient leads to unforeseen consequences.

• Money is certainly necessary; for instance, if you thought that religious retreat in meditation alonewas sufficient, you would not have anything to eat.

Many factors have to be considered.

With awareness of the fuller picture, your outlook becomes reasonable, and your actions become practical, and in this way favorable results can be achieved.

For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed."

That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzong-ka-ba and Jeffrey Hopkins,

• Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins

Into any rashi and any bhava, Budha will bring His portfolio behaviors:

• talking, gesturing, reporting, writing, painting, tool-using, technology-applying,

• arguing, criticizing, explaining, instructing, training,

• short-term, near-goal travel.

Budha in any condition will use that condition for purposes of

• selling, trading, administration, marketing, advertising,

• holding meetings, going to conferences,

• and participating in rapid-cycle communications within team-groups.

Budha the Businessman does commerce and conversation, and He must stay Busy.

Das / Behari says:

• "It is difficult to find Mercury alone in the Zodiac. Therefore, this planet cannot give good or bad results alone.

• It is pliant and supple and ready to absorb the characteristics of the sign posited in and the planets aspecting or associated with it.

• Mercury is known as being neutral, sexless and convertible."

[BPL note: 'sexless' = 'gender-less'. Budha is indeed a karaka for vibrant sexual communication, but Budha can take a variety of roles (mental, physical) in life's most fascinating discourse.]

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