Kala Sarpa Yoga example nativity - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha Vedic Astrology

Yes, KSY applies in your radix D-1 chart. According to Shri B.V. Raman, the standard or most commonly accepted definition of Kala Sarpa Yoga = "all planets hemmed in between Rahu and Ketu. "

You have the classic yoga.

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B.V. Raman is very clear in his writings that much of the superstition surrounding KSY is just that. There is too much focus in India on just a few simplified Jyotisha yogas such as KSY and Chandra-Mangala and Kuja Dosha.

KSY is influential but not life-defining. There are many influential yogas in every nativity. So, when evaluating KSY, keep in mind that items such as house lords and the present Vimshottari dasha lord have much more clout in daily life than a simple KSY.

Now, having said that, you do have the classic configuration, and that means there are a few mental habits you will benefit from and a few pitfalls to watch out for.

Marriage

The biggest area of impact for KSY that involves the 1-7 axisis marriage.

The mental habits of extending extra time and understanding to the spouse and interior personal acceptance that you are likely to get married to a very complex and emotionally reactive person will be helpful for inner peace.

p>Also, your spouse really likes to travel and see new things. Plan to travel a lot after marriage!

What to watch out for:

Emotional volatility in yourself, and being attracted to high-maintenance, high-drama partners. Remember the partner is only a mirror of one's own inner reality. We attract partners so that we can see parts of ourselves previously unknown in their reflection. Once you have the sought-after mirror information, it is OK to release from the bondage of a mentally overwrought relationships.

Career

You are conversationally open-minded due to a strong, angular Budha, and you can form relationships with people from many backgrounds and perspectives.

Budha/Mithuna/7 provides career talent in the legal profession, or any type of advising, counseling, or negotiating.

Your KSY is not overly harmful because Budha, who is the lord of your 7th house of unions and partnership, is in His home sign of Mithuna and He is the lord of two good angle houses: contracts/partnerships (7) and professional prestige+Leadership roles (10).

Plus Budha is with the Chandra-Mangala yoga in bhava-7.

You should think about law school if you are not already an attorney, because you can develop an excellent professional advising and counseling career. Immigration could be a specialty because of Rahu (which rules foreigners) in bhava-7 which rules the conflict-resolution and agreement-achieving process of the law courts. (bhava-7 is not criminal law, it's mainly the positive process of achieving harmonious social agreements.)

No matter what your advising or negotiating specialization, Rahu amplifies the career-lord Budha to prestigious effect, and Budha periods result in recognition, praise, offers of contract, or promotion on account of your ability to "think outside the [cultural] box".

I am delighted to hear about the diplomatic career path you have chosen - it is very much in line with your mentality and your culturally diverse background. When your Budha Mahadashastarts (age 55 running until age 72) you will experience the peak in career success with very high respect levels for your gracious and skillful negotiating powers. That seems like an appropriate career trajectory for a diplomat, no? One would expect to have a head full of white hair before the serious prestige starts coming one's way : )

p>At age 72, at onset of Ketu (in Mula) mahadasha, you will experience a terrible accident, followed by a magnificent spiritual awakening. Odd as it may sound, you will look back on this accident as the greatest blessing of your life.

From now until then, you will work your way through a fascinating array of complex relationships, both personal and professional.

Shani - Income

With exalted Shani lord of the house of savings in occupation of the house of earnings, you should do exceptionally well financially in middle age and afterward. The nativity shows a sold professional setup. Yet it will take time because Shani demands maturity and neutrality that usually come only with time.

Personal counseling in a therapeutic setting

If you have the resources, your KSY suggests that you would benefit from being in regular counseling support. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, it can be just a group of friends who meet once per month, or it can be a licensed therapist, or a pastor or elder -- any kind of counseling venue will help to talk about the complexities of your relationships and help you unravel the complex narrative of interactions before the blaming and grievances start building up.

You do have good fortune in confidential, sanctuary-based therapeutic support such as seeing your own counselor for a weekly "personal debriefing" due to Guru in bhava-12. (Guru blesses the realm of private sanctuary and exploration of the imagination.)

Agood safety device for handling the KSY.

weekly debriefing will prevent your busy, multi-lingual, multi-cultural, complex-problem-solving mind from getting overwhelmed with information and going into grid-lock.

KSY effects timed by Rahu-Ketu transits + Vimshottari Dasha

The other thing is to keep a close eye on your Vimshottari Dasha.

When you are coming into Vimshottari Dasha periods of Ketu, Rahu, Budha, Chandra, Surya, or Mangala -- yes those are six out of the total nine periods -- THEN check on where the nodes Rahu-Ketu are transiting.

IF you are in a period of a planet that is affected by Rahu-Ketu

p>AND Rahu-Ketu are transiting through

EITHER the Mithuna-Dhanau axis (duration = 18 mos.)
OR the Mesha-Thulaaxis (duration = 18 mos.)

The good news is that when Rahu-Ketu are transiting through the other signs, they won't bother you.

The bad news (or the exciting news) is that Rahu-Ketu are going to move into their "opposition" configuration, as they do for everyone age 26-28, starting Nov-2009 and ending in July 2011.

Rahu-Ketu enter Dhanau-Mithuna on 19-Nov-2009

When goachara Rahu enters Dhanau rashi, simultaneous with your Vimshottari Guru/Budha period, expect a bit of a roller-coaster in marriage-union and business partnerships.

Budha is your narrative, argumentative, communicative mentality. You'll really be on a roll with making complex agreements and your career will do very well, although not on a conventional straight-up trajectory.

Lots of foreigners (Rahu) will be involved in your contract-agreement building work. That's why immigration law comes to mind, for me, looking at your nativity. But other applications of your striking, unconventional intelligence for deal-making(7) can be international commerce and work with language and translations.

Right now you're still in a Shani bhukti -- until your Mercury period starts in Feb 2009.

It's Shani who's been wearing you down. Shani is a long haul of hard work -- for you since Aug-2006! But your Shani is the best kind. Your Shani is exalted, and in a VERY good house for earnings after middle age. You will always get results from your labors, even if the fruit is a bit slow-growing. I think you're just tired from the steady, disciplined, seems-like-treading-water effort that Shani demands just getting through the week.

Shani periods are hard on young people. (Older folks take them better in stride). But your Shani bhukti is just about finished [at this writing in Jan-2009].... you'll soon be moving into a new Budha-worldview.

Under Budha, the problem won't be your workload, it will be your mental habitsand the fascinating, uber-verbal new people who jump into your life and want to mix up your thoughts for you!

So, in conclusion -- yes, you do have the classic KSY, but no, it hasn't been active during your Shani bhukti since Aug 2006. However, it's going to get active pretty soon.

If you keep your wits about you(literally) KSY should be fun and profitable.

Q: I was wondering if doing a puja for KSY would remove the good and bad effects or KSY or just the bad. Good and bad is really all relative to me. Whatever happens takes one to the path which they are meant to be on.

A: Puja

Puja is OK if the intention behind the puja is to achieve deep personal surrender to reality as-it-is. If the puja ritual serves as a reminder that one is striving toward patience and greater understanding of the human condition, then Puja is a positive action.

Puja ideally is a respectful invitation to the spirits with whom one would like to enter into collaboration toward a specific goal. Puja is OK if it is a cooperative ritual where one asks for the support and intelligence of the deity to enter one's mind so that one may serve others with neutrality and compassion.

However, the mindless, ego-driven ritual of petitionary prayer (give me this thing, give me that power) is worthless. Very popular, but utterly dysfunctional, and spiritually worthless! The power is never outside oneself, it is always inside.

Blockage to power is always caused by negative beliefs. Puja is, at best, a neutral act of praise and appreciation; a thank-you to the collaborating spirits.

But in terms of getting results, i.e. removing blockage to success, Puja itself will not expose the negative thoughts which are causing the problem. Indeed, improper (petitionary) puja tends to mask the mental errors which are driving the dissatisfaction.

Seva better than Puja

My own recommendation, in preference to puja (which is so prone to corruption through petitionary motives) , is Seva - service.

I recommend to identify a problem in life (e.g., financial challenges of the university student) and then seek out a population who have the problem in a slightly worse degree (e.g., struggling, less educated, working class) and offer some targeted service to that population. E.g., volunteer at a free tax clinic at spring break, or teach high-schoolers or immigrants or young parents how to balance a checkbook, or how to make and keep a monthly budget.

The service should be offered to those who are fairly close to one's own situation, but who have the particular problem, at a slightly worse intensity. And the offering should be regular (e.g. weekly) and the activity = simple, like tutoring (not full service social work). The regular samplings allow one to see patterns in the data, over time.

The goal is not to solve anyone's problems for them, but to provide skills by which the beneficiaries may solve their own problems. The value of the Seva comes when one starts to notice that certain people are not able to use or accept your simple, regular offering of knowledge or skill. This is the 'aha' moment that exposes one's own subconsciously held resistance. It works like a charm to increase one's personal empowerment and progress.

Seva functionality

What happens in the intelligent Seva process is that one will start to recognize that the folks one is serving may display a pattern of ignorance, manifesting as negative beliefs. One notices that this net of negative expectations is consistently holding them in a state of financial/social/intellectual/emotional paralysis.

E.g., they may believe they are 'not good with math', or 'I will never understand English' or that taxes are immoral, or that the gov't is out to get them, or that it is impossible to understand the US banking system, or 'I always get cheated' ... or one of thousands of class-and-culture packaged, negative presumptions.

It's much easier and faster to see dysfunctional behavior in other people than in oneself.

Intentional, specifically targeted Seva reveals the essential, negative patterns through the actions of others. This is not an abstract teaching as in a book. It is real people, showing the results of their beliefs. Actions speak louder than words. Therefore, the Seva option is much more efficient than the Puja option, for purpose of exposing the negative beliefs which prevent success.

I recommend Seva as a superior alternative to Puja if the person wants to clear a blockage quickly. It is also OK to sit in deep meditation and scan the mind for blockages, if one has that sort of deep-stillness personality and the meditation practice is really established. But I believe that for normal (busy, intelligent, observant) people like you and me, going out into the community for a tightly structured, purposeful, targeted service, that closely matches the problem one is trying to solve oneself, is much more immediate, efficient and realistic.

KSY challenge: mental health, cultural narrative, love life

Your KSY challenge is to remain actively but neutrally engaged in the skillful negotiation of tremendously complex simultaneous narratives. I.e., you are responsible for telling a story from multiple points of view using multiple linguistically unrelated languages and often incommensurable cultural frames of reference. Yee-hah! This is a mental maelstrom!

Now, add emotions to the mix (Chandra) along with competitive-dominant athletic warlike testosterone (Kuja) plus moral-religious convictions (Surya) --- this is a major juggling act! The third from Budha = Shukra. Third-from-Budha is always a person's weak spot mentally, so it is your love life (Shukra) that can be the straw which breaks the camel's back.

So, who to serve? Probably, the people who are somewhere in the mental-breakdown process themselves. They are experiencing the culture surprise - culture shock - culture sickness - continuum, and at least part of their problem is negotiating conflicting marriage-behavior expectations. Domestic violence, suicide, other acts of war are the result.

Go serve them. They are usually immigrants to a new country, but not always... You'll notice a few patterns quickly. The people who go nuts during culture transitions usually don't have a 'release valve' in their personality. They hold cultural beliefs which prevent them from asking for help. They are like human pressure cookers. Watching them is like watching a movie about KSY!

Q: I noted in the chart that I have a pancha maha purusha yoga. Are the effects of this diminished by malefic planets or does it still have it's full potential to manifest?

A:Your Pancha-maha-purusham "Bhadra" Yoga + KSY

Pancha (5, penta) maha (major, great) purusham (person) ="five types of great person" = five graha which can give greatness in swakshetra-kendra

"Bhadra" in Sanskrit can mean 'lovely, gracious, well-to-do". But, when afflicted, "bhadra" can also imply 'a sanctimonious hypocrite'. When Bhadra is joined to the KSY (and also with the L-8 Chandra and the L-12 malefic Kuja) the fortunate results will not flow automatically.

You can indeed realize ALL the good implications of the Bhadra position. Yet you will have to consciously manage your own thoughts in order to prevent the disruptive psychic influences of Rahu + Kuja. Without conscious management, the active, instinctive, desire-driven effects of Rahu + Kuja could overwhelm the gracious but relatively passive behavior of the Bhadra Budha.

Yes, mental breakdowns are a threat with KSY involving pancha-maha-purusham Budha + Chandra + Kuja + Surya.

You can address the threat with proper awareness and training. I.e., your own personal internal "security force"

On the plus side, you have the L-9 Surya bringing strong wisdom about human nature and an ethical intelligence guiding your decisions. Surya is an executive graha and I am happy to see that Surya is strong and quite moral (not punitively moralistic, just clear-thinking and aware of heart-motivation).

Still, the answer to your question is that in order to realize the benefits of the Bhadra yoga, conscious and skillful management of One's own mental terrain is required. If you do the management work, you will get truly superior career results.

The eastern thought is more about " allowing" things to happen and unfold for you. The western thought is all about " making" it happen. Is there a way to balance these two thoughts? They both seem correct to me!

"Letting it happen" (east) vs. "making it happen" (west)

Reality is the result of one's expectations. Reality is produced when the subconsciously held thoughts, beliefs, and expectations are projected upon the blank movie screen of the "objective" consciousness.

East -

If one is OK with the contents of the movie, it seems fine to just let the karmic script, that is loaded into the deep subconscious mind, just run off. It is incredibly hard to dig down into the mind and make changes to the belief system. 99.9% of the people do not have the mental equipment to change their own expectations. They accept what their cultural programming provides.

For these folk, it's much easier and less stressful to just let the movie roll. It will help to sit far, far back in the movie theatre (e.g., in a mountain monastery) to avoid being psychically bombarded with the images. But certainly this is the passive-receptive, energy-conserving, meditative, inward path. It is the path of least resistance.

West -

If one is not OK with the contents of the movie, there may be some action-instinct to make changes in the projected images. For example, let's say the movie script includes relentless poverty, violence, exploitation, starvation, and disease. Let's say we're not patient people and we're tired of getting bombarded with all this negative imagery and pain. And let's say, the culture-of-origin has some engineering knowledge and a work-service ethic.

Can we change the movie? Yes. But it is extremely labor intensive to make the changes. A society full of such change-agents will be very active, very busy making revolutions in belief systems, and chaotic and resource-intensive with lots of social upheaval and running around like headless chickens using up a lot of energy in "movement without progress".

In the end, about 90% of the script will run as subconsciously programmed, regardless of intervention attempts, because we couldn't get to the underlying beliefs in time to divert the script. There will however be some measurable improvement in material conditions, from that 10% of genuine change that was accomplished "in time".

Budha recommends compassionate action toward the relief of human suffering, as the highest expression of gratitude for having received the privilege of human birth. This expression is the "making it happen" western path, the path of fierce resistance to the "default" karmic script. It's also the Mahayana Buddhist path of compassionate service. But this path is tricky! The eastern path is easy, calm, straightforward, and extremely efficient. The western path is noisy, chaotic, expensive, and extremely vulnerable to disruption by lower energies such as ego-desires.

Combining East and West, inward and outward results

I was raised in the West, and I believe in the value of material "progress" toward the relief of human suffering. However, I also appreciate that any possible material progress must originate in the elimination of the negative thoughts from which the material suffering is a projection.

The eastern path is safe and quiet, with very low risk also very low potential to relieve world suffering. The western path is high-risk and potentially high-yield.

p>Action without reflection is pointless and often violent. Reflection without action is selfish but at least it is not violent!

For you, choosing the balance of your path is part of your bigger juggling act.

Most of the great teachers recommend some combination of the East and West paths, according to the nature of the personality. Jyotisha and other historic divinatory methods can be helpful in describing the personality in order to select the most natural approach to Life Service. Truly wise spiritual advisors who are not simply projecting their own ego (a majority unfortunately) but who can evaluate one's character in neutral judgment, can also provide excellent advice on choosing the right personal balance.

Or, just listen to that still, small voice within.

There is an old story about three kinds of Buddhists - no doubt you have heard it?

p>As the story goes, three intelligent Buddhists are walking separately down a path during pilgrimage. The Theravedin Buddhistnotices a terribly poisonous bush growing at the side of the road. He says, hmm, that bush looks edible, but a hungry pilgrim who tried to eat its leaves would suffer a miserable death. Such is the karma of ignorance. He walks on.

The Mahayana Buddhistcomes next. Oh my goodness! he says, what a dangerous situation for hungry pilgrims coming down this path! He reaches into his bag, pulls out paper and ink, and writes a sign which he hangs on the bush, stating "Poison Bush. Do Not Eat." There, he says, that should destroy some ignorance and prevent unnecessary suffering.

The Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhist comes last. He sees the bush, decorated with a vivid warning sign. He immediately sits down and eats the entire bush.

p>As Socrates said, 'know thyself'. Some combination of active and passive practice-worldview will be appropriate for you. Typically, one continues to adjust the proactive-vs-receptive balance as age and wisdom reveal more knowledge of the self-world-self.

p>All the best,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha, www.barbarapijan.com

updated:29 April 2012

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