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Graha
Chandra
- Chandrama - Soma
Abja - Abdhinavaneetaka - Amati - Amritadeedhiti -Amritadyuti - Amritakirana - Amritaamzu
- Anushnagu - Budhataata -
Grahaagresara - Himarazmi - Mrigaagka - Sin - Selena - Somaraaja - Ziitarazmi
- Zuci - Zazaagka
Dawa
(zlaka, Tibetan)
Directory of Chandra Pages "The emotions behind your thoughts determine the
speed at which you manifest."
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Light Source P'taah
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"We say that the powerhouse is
emotion and emotion is energy. You are in truth a
body of energy. Your cellular structure is energy and
your spiritual structure is energy. So if you have
this boundless, limitless energy at your disposal, it
would behoove you well to understand how it works, eh?
Else it would be like giving a babe a motorcar and
expecting it to drive. Well, most of you are not
driving very well!"
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from
Kindness, Clarity, and Insight 25th Anniversary
Edition by HH Dalai Lama, His Holiness Tenzin
Gyatso, ed+ trans Jeffrey Hopkins, co-ed.
Elizabeth Napper. p 20
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"In day to day life if you lead a good life, honestly,
with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then
automatically it will lead to nirvana....We must
implement these good teachings in daily life. Whether you
believe in God or not does not matter so much; whether
you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as
a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not
does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.
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And a good life does not mean just good food,
good clothes, good shelter.
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These are not sufficient.
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A good motivation is what is needed: compassion,
without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy;
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just understanding that others are human brothers
and sisters and respecting their rights and
human dignity.
That we humans can help each other is one of our
unique human capacities. We must share in other peoples'
suffering; even if you cannot help with money, to show
concern, to give moral support and express sympathy are
themselves valuable. This is what should be the basis of
activities; whether one calls it religion or not does not
matter.... In my simple religion, love is the key
motivation. "
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Chandra = significator for all things related to parents, nurturing
benefactors, care-takers, feeders, cooks, the mother in particular, food
and eating customs, water and all things liquid, oceans and marine life,
shelters and sheltering behaviors, protectors, protector deities, the
homeland, the house, security and secured places, protection and
defense, buildings, boats, vehicles and other protective shells, fish
and sea-foods, schools and school-teachers (extensions of the home and
the parents), folkways including the folk religions, gardens and
nature=spirits (who are usually the basis of folk-religion); the
"polis"= ancient walled cities, security of the polis via police,
policies (4) that are not law(10) but are deeply abided by custom,
customs officers and border police, licensers examiners and others
who give approval to practice; 'patriotism' toward the fatherland,
roots, establishment, basements and foundations. Earth's Moon is the
Mother of human incarnation. Moon is Mind. In esoteric history the Moon
was a site of deeply ancient civilization which is remembered only in
the deepest under-layers of the subconscious Mind.
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Feminine, intuition, cool, passive, Yin
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Home, mother, emotional security, happiness
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Water, cool fluids, cycles, circles, moistness,
fertility, eggs
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Mother
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Memories,
Mammary, The
Past
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Happiness
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Psychic Grounding [Emotional Security]
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Father and Maternal Grandfather
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navamsha of Chandra, evaluating
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Roundness, softness, wetness
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Nourishment, healing, acceptance
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Psychic sensitivity, connection to spirits,
dreams
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Home and Shelter
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Basic Socialization / Pre-university Education
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6th-from-Chandra_=_Emotional_Distress">
6th-from-Chandra
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Oceans and Emotions |
"I've learned that people will forget what you
said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how
you made them feel." ~~ Maya Angelou
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from:
How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life by His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, trans. ed. Jeffrey Hopkins<
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Practice of the morality of
individual liberation, whether lay or monastic, leads to
contentment.... Examine your attitudes toward food, clothes, and
shelter.
By reducing
expectations you will promote contentment. The extra
energy which is released should be devoted to meditation and to
achieving cessation of problems, corresponding to the fourth and third
noble truths. In this way, contentment is the basis, and the resulting
action is called "liking meditation and abandonment."
We should be contented in material areas, for those
are bound by limitation, but not with regard to the spiritual, which
can be extended limitlessly.
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Though it is true that a discontented person
who owned the whole world might want to own a tourist center on
the moon, that person's life is limited, and even the amount that
can be owned is limited. It is better right from the beginning to
be contented.
However, with regard to compassion and altruism
there is no limit, and thus we should not be content with the degree
that we have. We are just the opposite; in the spiritual field we are
content with slight amounts of practice and progress, but materially
we always want more and more. It should be the other way around.
Everyone needs to practice this, whether lay or monastic.
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Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them? A Scientific Dialogue
with the Dalai Lama
narrated by Daniel Goleman,
foreword by
the Dalai Lama. p.158 |
Distinguishing between constructive and destructive emotions is right
there to be observed in the moment when a destructive emotion arises--the
calmness, the tranquillity, the balance of the mind are immediately
disrupted. Other emotions do not destroy equilibrium or the sense of
well-being as soon as they arise, but in fact enhance it--so they would be
called constructive.
Also there are emotions that are aroused by intelligence. For example,
compassion can be aroused by pondering people who are suffering. When the
compassion is actually experienced, it is true that the mind is somewhat
disturbed, but that is more on the surface. Deep down there is a sense of
confidence, and so on a deeper level there is no disturbance. A consequence
of such compassion, aroused by intelligent reflection, is that the mind
becomes calm.
The consequences of anger--especially its long-term effects--are that
the mind is disturbed. Typically, when compassion moves from simply being a
mental state to behavior, it tends to manifest in ways that are of service
to others, whereas when anger goes to the point of enactment it generally,
of course, becomes destructive. Even if it doesn't manifest as violence, if
you have the capacity to help, you would refrain from helping. That too
would be a kind of destructive emotion.
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A Course in Miracles
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"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do,
but not for what you think.
The truth is that you are responsible for what you think,
because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.
What you do comes from what you think . "
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Cologne
Digital Sanskrit Dictionary
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candra =
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glittering , shining (as gold) ,
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having the brilliancy or
hue of light
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(said of gods , of water, and of Soma)
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The
moon (also personified as a deity)
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the most excellent among
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A lovely or agreeable phenomenon of any kind
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The
eye in a peacock's tail L. ;
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The
mark of the Vishargha (tantra)
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A kind of reddish pearl
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camphor
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water
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Kampilla plant
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A kind of sour rice-gruel
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A hall covered only at the top , awning , canopy
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cardamoms
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Cocculus cordifolius [BPL: Hindi = 'Gulancha']
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Serratula anthelminthica
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The
light half of a month
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The
moon-stone
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Monday
soma =
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juice , extract , (esp.) the juice of the Soma plant; the
Soma plant itself
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The
climbing plant Sarcostema Viminalis or Asclepias
Acida ,
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its stalks were pressed between stones by the priests,
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then sprinkled with water,
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and purified in a strainer;
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whence the acid
juice trinkled into jars or larger vessels;
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after which it was mixed with
clarified butter , flour etc. ,
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made to ferment,
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and then offered in
libations to the gods
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[in this respect corresponding with the ritual of
the Iranian Avesta]
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or was drunk by the Brahmans,
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by both of whom its
exhilarating effect was supposed to be prized
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it was collected by moonlight on certain mountains;
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it is
sometimes described as having been brought from the sky by a falcon
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it is personified as one of the most important of Vedic
gods ,
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in post-Vedic mythology and even in a few of the latest
hymns of the RV.
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[although not in the whole of the 9th book]
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as well as
sometimes in the AV. and in the Br. ,
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Soma is identified with the moon
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[as
the receptacle of the other beverage of the gods called Amrita ,
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or as the
lord of plants and with the god of the moon
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A drug of supposed magical properties
Abja =
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born in water
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The
conch ; the moon ; the tree Barringtonia Acutangula
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name of Dhanvantari (physician of the gods , produced at
the churning of the ocean)
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A lotus ; a milliard
Amati =
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"unconsciousness"
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form , shape ,
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splendor , luster
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time
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moon
www.etymologyonline.com = English word "Moon":
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BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43
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Whatever results are to be known from
Bandhu, Tanu, Dhana, Labha,
and
Dharma
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should also be known from the
4th of Chandra,
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from Karkata rashi
itself,
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and from the 2nd, 11th, and 9th from Chandra respectively.
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"The Moon indicates poets, flowers,
eatables, beads, silver, conch, salt, water,
arrow, robes, ornaments, females,
ghee, sesamum, oil
and
sleep." |
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BPHS Ch. 3, Shloka 24
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"The Moon is very windy and phlegmatic.
She is learned and
has
a round body.
She has auspicious looks and sweet speech,
is fickle-minded and
very lustful." |
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BPHS Ch. 84, Shloka 7
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Contemplate of Chandra white-coloured, dressed in white robes,
with two arms, carrying a mace in one hand and a Vara in the
other,
adorned with white-coloured ornaments and aboard a
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Beauty, conception, childbirth, blood, calmness, mental
condition, clothes, mother, emotions, feminine qualities, glandular system,
groceries, commodities, basics, overall health, overall life (like first
house), nocturnal, navigation, nourishing, passion, romance, peace, thinking,
vegetation, want of practicality, white, water, womb (list adapted from
Das)
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Soma rules the psycho-emotional
body, called the astral body.
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The astral body remains intact
after physical death. Emotional relationship never end, but are
suppressed at points in time and then reinvigorated when karma
requires.
Soma rules the core relationship of
life, the love bond with the mother (by extension, both
parents, but essentially, the mother.
Chandra rules the physical body's
water pump system, which is directly controlled by the emotions.
Chandra is the most complex graha
in the nativity. Chandra demands and rewards close, detailed
attention.
The full view of Chandra includes
not only radix Bhava, rashi, dristhi, but also a deep consideration
of Soma in navamsha. This view from Bhava only is
partial; please combine with other attributes before judging.
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A man will experience women
*emotionally* through the filter of his Chandra, which sets
up his expectations
of women based on his experience of his mother.
(Sexual relations, see Shukra.)
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A woman will experience other
women emotionally through her Chandra also. However a woman
typically does not filter her experience of other women through a set
of "expectations" but rather lives her emotions directly,
because of the female privilege of emotional access through Soma.
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BPL = karaka |
Homes and Home-Building, Roots, a place
within the family tribe and nation, belongingness, physical
and emotional security, generations, old age and the End of Life, transmission of the Root Culture ,
Schooling,
school-teaching, shelter and protection, licensing and
examinations, boundaries and defenses, oceans and oceanic products, feelings, caretaking, parents, infants, mother-child bond, Real Estate, Homeland and Defense,
property ownership, patriotism and nationalism,
stewardship and protectorates, stewardship of ethnic customs and
practices, parochialism, regionalism, clinging to the
past, parenting, custody, legal custodianship, mother and maternal attachment , nurture, stability
and foundations, milk, pale reddish and pale whitish things
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from
Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist
Perspective by the Dalai Lama, trans. Geshe Thupten
Jinpa |
Under the Turbulence of Mind = a Stable
Riverbed
"If there was some way you could put an immediate stop to the
flow from the direction the water is coming from and the direction
the water is flowing to, then you could keep the water still, and
that would allow you to see the bed quite clearly.
Similarly, when you are able to stop your mind from chasing
after sensory objects and when you can free your mind from being
totally "blanked out,"
Then you will begin to see under this turbulence of the thought
processes a kind of underlying stillness, an underlying
clarity of mind.
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...At the initial stage, when you begin to experience the
natural state of consciousness, it will be in the form of some
sort of vacuity, absence, or emptiness.
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This is because we are so
habituated to
understanding our mind in terms of external objects that we
tend to look at the world through our concepts, images, and so
on.
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So when you
withdraw your mind from external
objects , it's almost as if you can't recognize your
mind.
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The
re's a kind of absence, a kind of vacuity.
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However, as you slowly progress and get used to it, you
will begin to see an underlying clarity, a sort of
luminosity. "
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Chandra rules the astral body which contains all memories that
are typically labeled "the past". It is not normally realized that the
past is a mirror of the future - but it is - so indeed Chandra also controls the
future. The astral body precedes entry into the physical body and the astral
body survives physical death, time and again. So, the astral body which is
composed of psycho-emotional memories, is very long-lasting! Not eternal, but
robustly long-lasting.
A child's earliest memories are of their mother and indeed,
Chandra rules the native's mother, relationship to the mother, and overall
emotional constitution. All action-reaction emotional patterns, from
obsessive-compulsive to avoidance to projection, are grounded through the
Moon. Moon with Rahu hypercharges the emotional memories, and indicates a
vivacious mother. Moon with Ketu causes emotional withdrawal, typically due to a
mother who "needs her space". class="style5" o understand a person's past, examine their Soma position in
detail. "The past" is not a material reality, but it is a potent and
often crippling psycho-emotional reality. Remember the past is composed of
memories, and the core memory from our current lifetime is of life in utero.
Memories from past lives create the current life. So - por supuesto
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Chandra = malefic or benefic?
from:
B.V. Raman,
Three
Hundred Important Combinations
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(10th ed., Delhi, 1991,
1947). "Malefics, Benefics, and Neutrals" p.
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"The Moon
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Benefic
as lord of 1, 5 and 9 which is possible for
Cancer,
Pisces,
and
Scorpio.
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Neutral
as lord of 2, 12 and 8 which is possible for
Gemini,
Leo,
and
Sagittarius.
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He is malefic
as lord of 3, 6 , 11 , 4, 7, and 10
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The
Moon's portfolio includes the full range of our
psycho-emotional attachments. Chandra's characteristics define our mother (or
whomever served as our childhood
emotional sustainer). Chandra also indicates the nurturing container of the
childhood family as a whole,and the unconditional acceptance (or not)
we received from them. Ultimately Chandra signifies our emotional capacity
to form relationships with others - partners especially, but also our parentsand
our own children.
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Chandra does not represent the true Self (which is beyond the
planets) but rather the social-psycho-sexual-emotional core of the
ego.
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Some reincarnations are blessed with awareness of two non-ego
realms. They draw true peace from living either outside the ego - in the
world of compassionate altruistic action -- or deep within the core of
intimate divine communion -- which is buried in pre-ego childhood memory
underneath the adult ego. These being are sheltered from much of the emotional suffering to which the
normal ego-bound human is enslaved.
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However, the more one is attached to that frail prison of ego
attachments -- which is to say, the more one has been traumatized in childhood
-- The more essential it is to understand the birth condition of the Vedic
Moon.
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Most of us reading this page will be treading somewhere along
that path from total enslavement to ego- validation, to total freedom from all
compulsions.
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We fondly hope that some person, relationship, or experience will
come alongand heal our deepest inner trauma. Understanding the complex
implications of Chandra's role in rashi and (especially) navamsha varga will
help one to understand that deepest hope, so as to light the way toward our
goal of perfect wholeness.
It is a common truth in Jyotisha that if
a person is true to one's own Moon, one will be happy.
One might
not achieve wealth, fame, beauty, or worldly power - but one will be
happy.
The
psycho-emotional core of the ego is a fairly happy place
within
most incarnations. It is the place of joyful childhood, of unconditional acceptance
by the family,and of nurturing maternal love. If the Moon's needs
are met and sustained in adulthood, a person will feel emotionally sheltered
and
fairly whole.
Some
folks' spiritual ambitions will stop when they achieve basic emotional
grounding through human relationship. Some folks will want to use
the stability of adequate emotional grounding as a platform
for further spiritual adventures in knowing God and serving humanity. Whichever your choice, understanding
and
catering to the complex condition of one's astral Moon is very important.
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Mother |
Chandra
is the karaka
for Mother. First and foremost Soma indicates the birth
mother, because Soma's influence begins in the uterine fluids of conception.
A child who is adopted at birth or even much later will identify consciously
with the emotions of their adoptive mother, but the birth mother has the
primary subconscious emotional influence.
Other
Mothers signified by Chandra include spiritual mothers such as Tara the
Mother of Buddha, Mother Mary, spiritual preceptors such as Mother Superior
in a nunnery, the Muse, and all goddesses of the Great Traditions.
Profile the Mother(s) from rashi, bhava, graha drishti,
and other characteristics of Chandra in radix, navamsha, and
dwadashamsha. Although the
4th rashi from radix lagna, 4th navamsha, and 4th Dwadashamsha also
yield important components of the mother profile, the key information about a
person's mother, one's emotional needsand the behaviors one will exhibit when
trying to get these needs met - is contained in Soma.
Conscious individuals will notice that the
ten-year Vimshottari
mahadasha of Chandra is a period of reconnection with
the psychic, rational, and social aspects of the Mother.
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This awakening may be pleasant or painful or
both (depending on the Jyotisha characteristics of natal
Soma).
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It is wise to take full advantage of this
period of emotional and spiritual revelation about one's deepest
psychic needs.
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Use this essential self-knowledge to fullest
capacity during the ten-year mahadasha.
General patterns of Chandra period
include:
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if the Mother is still living, an intense period
of interaction with her -
whether the Mother is living or not, mahadasha
of Chandra attracts into one's environment numerous persons who
resemble the Mother on many levels -
emphasis on 'reactive' rather than 'proactive'
responses (infancy) -
if the native is an adult during the mahadasha,
one may form an adult understanding the role that the Mother played in
one's early personality and relationship development -
depending on Chandra's character, assignment to
major or minor caretaking roles, and need to interact emotionally with
those who are deeply dependent, cannot defend themselves, or cannot
make their own decisions -
if Chandra mahadasha occurs in middle age, one
may acquire dependent parents and need to 'parent the parent' -
strong emotionalization of the personality:
powerful intuitions, needs, feelings, and emotional bonding
In the nativity, look to Surya as the
primary indicator of Father; and Chandra as primary indicator
of Mother.
Soma is the strongest karaka for Mother, but
bhava-4 is complementary and secondary. (Similarly, bhava-9 also
indicates Father, but bhava-9 should be used as a complementary
and secondary indicator.) Use both to build the parental profile.
Consider Chandra - in Radix, Navamsha,
and Dwadashamsha - to show the core characteristics of the
Mother.
Catastrophic events which leave lifelong imprints of
emotional trauma, will involve drishti of a malefic graha onto
Chandra. For example,
Moon is the natural regulator of the 4th Domain. Read about
bandhu
bhava to gain a broader perspective on the Moon's portfolio.
In classical Jyotisha the Moon has equal or greater power to
the lagna (ascendant). Accurate readings cannot occur from the
rashi-lagna only. Accurate readings require At least two
preliminary scans: first from the rashi-lagna, second from
Chandra-lagna. (Then more detailed scans such as from the
mahadasha-pati, from the karaka, etc. are also required.) In traditional
India, where rural birth-times are unavailable or conflicting, accurate
readings are often given from Chandra lagna alone.
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Father and Maternal Grandfather
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Although traditional
texts indicate that Ravi and dharma bhava
provide key information regarding one's father, I have
found in practice that 9th-from-Chandra reveals more about child's perception of the father's true
character and position.
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The
child's emotionally raw perception remains most true
even after its authenticity has been buried under layers of adult
justification. As children mature and become more sophisticated social
operators, they tend to re-formulate the social presentation of one's own
father, focusing on external achievements and social position.
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Yet, the childhood emotional perceptions are core. One's
emotional relationship to one's father has many long-term implications, not
the least of which is the recreation of the child-parent pattern in the
adult marriages.
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Therefore 9th-from-Chandra should be used as
the primary lagna for Father ; once that bhava is known, then add
information about the father's public life from dharma bhava in radix and
Surya. Fine-tune the profile of the father from the role of Surya and L-9
within the D-12 dwadashamsha .
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If 9th-from-Chandra is well-disposed, one will generally enjoy a
good relationship with the father despite other tensions which may arise from
less favorable disposition of Ravi or dharma bhava
within the charts.
Should 9th-from-Chandra be troubled
... by difficult
occupants or aspects, there will be emotional strain in the relationship with
the father which can severely reduce any benefits which might accrue from
favorable situations in Ravi's character or in an auspicious 9th rashi.
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I suspect that the traditional
texts which emphasize 9th-rashi
and
Surya as primary indicators of the father did so because fathers do not play
an emotionally critical role in many historical cultures, including Vedic
culture.
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Rather, the father's central task is to prepare the child for
an honorable and productive adult life within their community; normally this task does
not really begin in the child's life until age seven.
In modern western culture, the father's critical
importance in the child's early emotional development is increasingly
recognized. Whether the father's culture tells him to relate emotionally
to the child or not, children have a natural expectation that the father will be
present, supportive, and available. So the child is watching the father
whether or not the father is watching the child! For this reason I think
we will get better information about the emotional connection between child and
father by examining 9th-from-Chandra.
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There can be some confusion in counting houses this way because
we would also expect 9th-from-Chandra to tell us about the mother's father, who
would be the maternal grandfather of the native. This is a
legitimate overlap. 9th-from-Chandra shows BOTH the native's mother's
emotional relationship to her own father, and the native's emotional
relationship to his own father.
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If 9th-from-Chandra is strongly positive, the native's mother
will have enjoyed a healthy emotional relationship with her own father, and would have entered her own parenting years with good expectations
for her male
co-parent, based on the good experience she had growing up with a fortunate
father.
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Similarly a damaged 9th-from-Chandra shows a history of troubled
fathers: both the mother's own father, who is the native's own maternal
grandfather, and the native's father, will share this troubled profile.
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reveals much regarding the emotional reality of
the native's parents' relationship. If Suryaand Chandra occupy a 1/7,
3/11, 4/10 or 5/9 angle to each other, the parents' relationship was likely
affectionateand respectful. However if Surya and Chandra occupy the less
fortunate 2/12 or 6/8 angles, the parents' emotional relationship contained
significant tension - which the native chose to be born into, of course, because
the native is working through that particular karma.
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Both Surya and dharma bhava will provide some valuable
information about the father's social position, his career,and family lineage.
If the Sun is well disposed the father may have been born into a distinguished
family or have developed a strong career.
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However if the Soma/Surya
relationship is 2/12 or 6/8, the father's energy would have been consumed
significantly by his own underlying emotional struggles (against his wifeand mother)and
thus he may have had limited emotional resources available to really
focus on advancing his career.
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it is critically important to
recognize the qualities of the
navamsha
Moon. If the rashi and bhava of
D-9 Chandra are ignored, only half the emotional core will be known and events
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Also, the navamsha Moon is mission-critical in evaluating what
type of nurturing support the native requires in their intimate relationships
such as marriage. The spouse's chart should afford some link to the
native's navamsha Moon, if deep emotional harmony is to develop within the
marriage. Also the choice of close friends is much dependent on the
navamsha Moon.
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However outside the social realm of relationships, one must
appreciate one's own navamsha Moon qualities if one is to make emotionally
positive choices all along the life path. Navamsha Moon will show a level
of deep need for validation, which can be consciously provided by choosing a
profession, studies,and avocations which put the person in contact with
psychically nourishing information.
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~~ H. H. Dalai Lama. (2002).
Illuminating
the Path to Enlightenment. (Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive). TDL
Publications.
The True Enemy: afflictive emotion
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"When
practitioners cultivate the recognition
that the emotional and mental
afflictions are the true enemy
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and that underlying them is fundamental
ignorance,
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they then engage in the methods for
eliminating this ignorance.
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Practitioners recognize that as long as they remain under the
control of the afflictions,
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If, based on its recognition, practitioners
then
generate a genuine and deeply felt aspiration to seek liberation from this
bondage,
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Liberation?
~~ H. H. Dalai Lama,
The Dalai Lama's Book of
Awakening
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"If we accept that liberation is possible, how
exactly is it to be understood?
In the scriptures, liberation is characterized in terms of four
features.
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The
first feature describes it as the
True cessation of the
continuum of afflictions.
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According to the second feature,
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liberation is true peace,
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the
state of total tranquility where the individual has attained complete freedom
from all defilements of the mind.
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It is described in the third feature as
totally satisfying,
because one has reached ultimate satisfaction.
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Fourth, it is described as
definite emergence,
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Constructive
Emotions
~~ H. H. Dalai Lama. (2005).
Many Ways to Nirvana: Reflections and Advice on Right Living,
Renuka Singh (Ed.) |
"According to some scientists, emotion is not necessarily negative.
Emotion is
a very strong feeling.
While some emotions are destructive, others are constructive.
In a meeting
with scientists, we concluded that there are emotions even in the Buddha's mind.
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There is a strong sense of caring and compassion and also the realization of
emptiness.
In the beginning, there is just a vague feeling of emptiness.
At that level,
there is no emotion, but once you become more familiar with it, then that
feeling increases.
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At a certain level,
The realization of emptiness also becomes
a kind of emotion.
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Therefore , in the practice of developing wisdom and loving-kindness /
compassion,
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you strengthen these inner qualities and then reach
a state where you have an upsurge of feeling called emotion.
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We can clearly see
This link between intellect and emotions. Thus, the brain and heart can go side
by side.
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I think this is the Buddhist approach."
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