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This 30-something native reported a previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder issued by a licensed psychologist. The native hails from a culture where Jyotisha is accepted as a complementary diagnostic tool. He enquired about Budha's effect on his own mental health, from the Jyotisha point of view. Q: If mercury is ruler of 3rd and 12th bhava and is in the 1st house and you know that Saturn sun ketu tenant the 12th house. also that mercury is conjunct venus. Does it say that when I speak that I automatically have Saturn sun and ketu causing problems for me. or because mercury rules how one behaves or acts like does it mean that I act like this, expressing problems and disturbance. Thanks. A: My reasoning to interpret the surface level effects of Budha would be: as you say, Budha = radix L-3/L-12, and Budha occupies radix lagna. Along with Chandra, any graha in radix lagna helps to define the physical appearance on the gross material level. Our individual appearance forms the basis of how we are treated by others. Whether our fleshly bodies end up taking characteristics of tall, short, broad nose, high nose, blue eyes, brown eyes, copper skin, pink skin, thick hair, bald head etc. will all help to define the way we are treated within our larger society. Every society has some sort of caste system, overt or covert, & physical appearance plays a major role in determining social ranking. By contrast to radix lagna, Chandra lagna tells more about how we "appear" to our inner family members, and how we are treated socio-emotionally by them. However, Chandra can affect the physical appearance significantly, if Soma happens to be associated with lagnesha or has another prominent role. Budha in lagna plays an important role in representing you to your society. Budha's karaka significations include speech & gesture. Budha rules the repetitive daily mental transactions with self and others. Plus, Budha's lord Chandra occupies house-2 for speech. We know at minimum that you are blessed with a talkative nature, are an easy communicator, and probably strike folks as a friendly, accessible, sibling-type of fellow who makes an easy companion. Your frequent & mentally alert communications are strong surface effects of rising Budha. It would be necessary to investigate the many characteristics of Budha according to His rashi, bhava, nakshatra & drishti to gain the fullest description of Budha's "advertising" - i.e., the effect He makes on other people as Budha represents you to the world. One very beneficial trait is that Budha is uchcha in navamsha, which means that He offers the highest level of analytical thinking and He provides a good memory. The spouse will be intelligent. The drishti of Neechcha Guru has mixed effect: on the one hand, sociability is increased; on the other other hand, association with low folk is also increased because Guru is the neechha radix L-6 with tenant Rahu in 6. Budha is close to & dominated by L-4/L-11 Shukra - which increases the handsomeness, the natural attraction to material wealth, & provides no shortage of the company of females. Budha occupies the 2nd pada of Pushya nakshatra, a location associated with secrecy & confidential transactions. L-3/L-12 in lagna - the public presentation package - is a bit of a handicap in early life, but it gets better over time. L-3 is an Upachaya lord, who improves with maturity as the native learns to modulate their mental process & their resulting verbal output. Eventually, most people, even those who start out as compulsive communicators (saying every little thing that comes into their anxious head) do mature. Eventually they realize that what they say really does have lasting value and it really does affect other people. So the handicap of L-3 Budha rising is often one of mental over-activity combined with immaturity (Budha is the karaka for adolescence). Luckily, this improves for most people with the aid of time. Since Ketu is the "oldest" graha in Budha's 12th house, full maturity should occur about age 48. Budha's role as radix L-12 is a bit more substantial because of the large population of tenants in house-12. Vyaya bhava rules a private world of inner thoughts, imagination, private relationships, and confidential transactions. House-12 is the border between the past life and the present life. Some of the unfinished business from past lives is repeated over and over in the world of the imagination, in fantasies, and hopes/dreams/expectations carried around in the mind during the current life. When Vyaya sthana is a Budha-ruled house as it is for you, there can be a great deal of mental chatter. The particular grahas that are chattering are Shani, Ketu, and Surya. What are they chattering about? Mainly old grievances. Surya & Shani are enemies. Ketu has no patience with either of them. Ketu wants to meditate, disconnect, be liberated from this earthly vale of sorrow. But Shani has a duty to act out a karmic script. This script enacts inner psycho-mental oppression, repeating a theme of imprisonment in past lives. Surya has an anxious, threatened, compulsive need to argue with and try to defeat Shani the prison guard. Surya is rational, independent-minded, and not willing to accept Shani's style of lowest-common-denominator social control. So there is quite the fight going on in the inner world of the private mind, the imagination, the interior psyche. Natives with Surya occupying radix-12 frequently have some condition of foreign birth. Ego is somewhat compromised because the person is forced to negotiate at least two rational self-images: one from the birth country or the original culture/religion; one from the adopted country or the adopted culture/religion. As a result the person often has ethical (Surya) ambivalence (house-12) because they are not quite confident about what is expected of them Success comes only when a strong bicultural identity is established. It is not possible to abandon the belief system (Surya) of the foreign land despite having moved the physical body into the new land, speaking the language of the new land, etc. The old values & rhythms remain rattling around in the subconscious mind, interrupting smooth ego development, until the native achieves bicultural or multicultural integrated ethical consciousness. Until the issue is resolved the person always feels like they don't belong where they actually are, and they continue to hanker back to some imagined place where they are better more truly recognized (Surya) and accepted. Shani of course makes Surya's uncertainty more acute, because Shani does not want to admit that Surya's problems have any validity. Shani does not wish to discuss any imbalance, any unmet need, or provide any room for ethical discussion. Shani wants law and order: one single set of rules, imposed at any cost. Shani-in-12 is the karaka for non-permission and for 'skeletons in the closet'. It is not permitted within the native's family to discuss moral conflicts. As a result the native suffers retardation of ego development. The 12th-house confusion is exacerbated by Ketu, who attempts to spiritualize & make other-worldly those matters authentically need to be discussed (Mithuna) in a vocabulary that is properly ethical (Surya) and which also addresses matters of physical survival (Shani). Ketu should be angular to give conscious effect - otherwise, in hidden houses like 8 & 12, Ketu just obscures matters & prevents His embattled co-tenants from settling on the terms of the discussion. Ketu in vyaya bhava without other graha might provide a straight shot to liberation - but here, Ketu is disturbing a lower-level conversation which very much needs to happen in order for the native to develop an orderly social personality. All this is to say that you undoubtedly have ego development & stabilization issues that are highly complex and deserve to be talked through at great length with counselors who are sensitive to the multiple-belief-systems, cultural migration situation. You are in the unfortunate position of having internalized much of the conflict produced by using several languages, several different wealth-value systems, and several different roadmaps pointing the way toward spiritual freedom. Because Budha sits in lagna, Budha is a mouthpiece for this internal conflict & confusion. If Budha is energized, He will articulate the inner condition. What you say is sometimes genius, sometimes brilliantly insightful (Budha is after all uchcha in navamsha and He gains strength in lagna) but sometimes what you say will sound conflicted, bitter (Surya vs. Shani), irrational (Ketu) or adolescently imaginative (mercurial emanations of 12th house). Budha vents this inner chatter with particular vigor, when Budha is energized as bhukti-pat. Your recently concluded Budha bhukti would have been a very articulate time period, for good & for ill. Luckily there is no graha in 3rd-from-Budha, so you will survive Budha periods with no serious hazards. I do not recommend using drugs to calm the chatter, except for anti-psychotics to prevent the native from harming self or others if this seems medically warranted. Except for overt psychotic episodes (which are of course possible when the ego is split between multiple, conflicted belief systems) IMO talking with skillful master counselors is the healthiest approach to safely exposing and working out this embedded inner conflict. IMO the best therapeutic guide would be a licensed psychiatrist because they can prescribe safety drugs should a real threat to life arise. Skillful guidance into the interior of the deepest suppressed inner arguments may lead to a carefully crafted reintegration of the ego. You are a very complex person, who is carrying a large amount of conflicted information in your head. Sorting out the conflicts in a conversational setting with a well-traveled, well-read, multi-culturally-trained psychiatrist will give good results. The condition is *not* permanently disabling. It begs for conversational inquiry leading to conscious knowledge. Conflict in human needs & expectations IS permanent on a larger, social scale so it is valuable for you as an individual seeking better mental health, to gain an education in social psychology. There is permanent human struggle to control (what are perceived to be) scarce resources. There is permanent human struggle to control access to the Divine (very silly, very ingrained human perception). You personally do not have to live out your life as a victim of this rather perpetual human struggle To Be Right & Just. You can make conscious choices about, for example, which wealth system to use; which ritual religion; which after-life philosophy, etc. You can pick one to use and to live by, while studying the other options, and appreciating that other people may make THEIR choices based on difference assumptions. The key point is that their choices are NOT your responsibility! From a past-life divinatory point of view: when the 12th house is "loaded up" with tons of argumentative conflict between two big enemies Surya & Shani & confused as possible by Ketu, that you have been made the scapegoat in a moral conflict or punished to make you an example by a vindictive judge. So it can be speculated that you have died with much agony and bitter conflict about justice, and right, and punishment "on your mind". In the current life, the hope is that you will be able to live in healthy balance. The goal is to learn how to not slide into the default condition of a loaded high-conflict Mithuna 12th house, to not have your energy drained out by the insanity of constant switching between various options. Insanity means un-clean-ness. The mess that is caused by the unruly inner conflict about which of many choices is right or better, makes a person insane. It's messy thinking. The various voices representing different internal arguments start to shout and wrangle. Shani wants conformity and control. Surya wants independence and ethical truth. Ketu wants disconnected apathy leading to moksha. Of course they can't all be right, all the time. They were all in conflict at the time of death in a past life. No doubt the death was traumatic, took place in a culturally conflicted situation, and was the result of an argument. The psychic memory of mental thrashing, argument, and indecisiveness remains frozen in time, in your subconscious mind. Planets in the 12th house are carry-overs from past lives. Their behavior is typically compulsive because it is largely unconscious, but their behavior IS seen by other people and the native CAN become conscious of 12th-house contents through psychotherapy or other safe, exploratory healing methods. Budha the mouthpiece is rising so at times, this inner argument spills out into public speech. Then Budha can sound a bit crazy. So, talking it all out with a skilled psychiatrist is a good way to get all the arguments sorted out in an organized way. Then ideally the inner argument does not consume your life force with its contentious demand for attention! Talk therapy is probably the best way for Shri Ketu to make progress along His path to liberation. As always there is much more to say on the topic, since each graha's relationship to the total configuration in rashi kundali & navamsha is highly complex. However, this is my brief opinion. Yes, I agree with you, L-3/L-12 rising is a bit of a handicap for the reasons above, & you can probably think of many other effects which Budha creates in your life! (With your navamsha-uchcha Budha, you should be able to perform your own excellent analyses of these matters.) Prognosis for resolution of Budha-related matters is excellent because Budha inhabits the 9th navamsha, in His uchcha rashi. Beware of the drishti coming from neechha Guru. The voice of neechha Guru gives a false confidence that "everything will be alright". This is not true. Left to itself, the internalized past-life trauma which inhabits house-12 will cause the restless mind to lurch out of control. Inner arguing, thrashing between options & choices, indecisiveness & rationalization, swinging between extreme emotional poles (bipolar), excessive anxiety & reactivity in marriage & relationships, ego fragmentation, etc. are all possible consequences of the laissez-faire approach to mental health. You must be diligent & responsible in the task of maintaining your mental health. Articulate the unspoken conflicts & accept responsibility for resolving or releasing them. You have inherited from parents, past-lives, and from all of human history, some seriously unresolved mental conflict. You need help to choose one path and stick to it. Otherwise your energy will be squandered in pursuing one impulsive distraction after the next. I would recommend a path that involves mental training such as university academics in a subject that provides rich opportunities for research. You can have a solid lifestyle, well grounded & respected through L-4/L-11 Shukra, if the mind is provided an outlet that promotes conscious articulation of complex conflicts in making connections & choices. L-4 Shukra rising suggests you are a gifted & charismatic teacher in virtually any subject, and furthermore that you can earn well through the teaching profession. L-3 favors writings, and L-12 favors research. Of these, the research house 12 is clearly the strongest - and also the most difficult to untangle. Budha rules the dashamsha wherein Budha is also swakshetra. You might do extremely well in the academic specialty of international economics but you must also explore the field of psychology in order to pacify the mind. You must give yourself the opportunity to write and talk about the personal and cultural conflicts which arise when belief systems collide in the global marketplace. The personal must become the political. And the studies must be concentrated, they must be completed, and correctly -- they will not succeed if the lazy voice of uchcha Guru is allowed to sap your personal discipline. Right now you are in Rahu-Ketu period which should give you plenty of volatility along with abundant psycho-spiritual insight into Ketu's lord Budha. Budha will only make you insane if you ignore the inner conflict (which represents past-life trauma) or compulsively project the conflict onto other people. If you are willing to accept responsibility for managing your own mental health, which includes lifelong top-quality psychotherapy and disciplined academic study in economics & psychology, you can be a successful researcher & lead a good life. Dwadashamsha: Above all do not let other people exploit your vulnerability as a person who is willing to internalize a lot of mental conflict. For example, pay attention to good boundaries with your parents. It is tempting for parents to dump their interpersonal or cultural conflicts into their children's lives. Your 12th house looks like a magnet for attracting long, unresolved discussions. It may be easier for your parents to dump their psychically unresolved issues about who THEY are and what THEY believe is ultimately the right choice, into your space. That way they stay "clean" and successful while, surprise surprise, their offspring is having a lot of trouble coping. I mean no disrespect to your parents but when Surya occupies house-12 it is often the case that the native's parents push much of their ethical conflict into their own subconscious, and the native ends up carrying the guilt. (Guilt is unresolved conflict.) So, in your therapeutic discussions with a highly qualified psychiatrist, it will be valuable to explore the unresolved conflicts. Of particular importance will be the ethical issues created when they moved from their traditional value system into another incompatible system. This migration may have caused uncertainty or fear of doing something wrong, that the parents did not/could not articulate or admit, which therefore become inherited baggage for their offspring. Oy vey. But that's how it works. You have a psychic vulnerability to attract other people's unresolved conflicts and hold them in your own head. In order to prevent going insane as a result of this "service" you provide for others, you may have to stop offering the service! That may mean that for a period of healing time, you refuse to be the scapegoat for the conflicts that permeate your family and community. In order to remove this foreign psychic matter from your space, you will have to "return it" to the people who stored their conflicts in your head. You may have to stop renting out conflict-storage space as a convenient service so that people who don't want to admit they have conflict, can look all pure while you become the bad guy. You may have to stop helping the people around you pretend that they are pure & balanced (because they aren't) at the expense of having you seem so crazy. Everyone has conflict & moral compromise: every individual, every family, & every society. Everyone has a certain natural allocation of conflict, no more and no less. But there is a nasty practice amongst people whose intermediate ego development convinces them that they are somehow more pure by birth, of dumping their impurities into the psyches of other people. Light-skinned people blame their insecurities on dark-skinned people, rich people blame poor people, educated people blame uneducated people, and older people blame younger people. Unless one is a very conscious parent, it is extremely common and tempting to dump one's unresolved conflicts into the lives of one's children. This is a sad fact of human nature. I f the parents are also trying to maintain a public image of ritual purity, such that they only think good thoughts and do right actions, and they never have a moment of uncertainty because they are so clean and high-born, then they can of course blame their fears on lower caste people. But if they don't have easy access to that kind of dumping they can dump on their own children. In family psychology this becomes scapegoating, and when either Shani or house-12 are strong it is something the native must very proactively guard against. So, with all due respect to your parents, the rashi kundali suggests that some of their own unresolved conflict which they will not admit to having, has been transferred to you. They will benefit from the easy excuse of blaming a mentally ill son, claiming to be innocent victims of his illness. However, they may be secretly exacerbating an existing illness by refusing to talk about, discuss, air the conflicts which all normal people experience as they transition through life. The father especially may be very intolerant of your right to discuss ethical issues. With Kuja in house-9, he is likely to be punitive. Neechcha Guru Dwadashamsha lord is Guru and Shukra (radix L-4 for parents) in D-12 also occupies a rashi of Guru. This suggests that the parents' public voice = neechha Guru. Fallen Vrihaspati has a lulling, but misleading, mantraa that "everything is going to be OK". This comforting voice is dangerous because it masks a serious structural weakness (Makara, the bones) in the life situation. My point is that you have plenty of your own karma, so it is not necessary and in fact extremely unhealthy to act as the temporary storage container for other people's karma too! This includes the respected parents. If they are using you as a garbage can for dumping their own unresolved, unadmitted conflicts about their marriage (Guru occupies the marriage house in your D-1) -- then you may have to stop compounding your own struggles with the added burden of managing their denial too. Shani: uchcha in navamsha = good results with TIME Guru's lord Shani casts drishti upon lagnesha Chandra, upon mahadasha-pati Rahu who gives the effect of His lord neecha Guru for 18 years! And also Shani casts drishti upon yogakaraka Kuja - who is your "best bet" graha for getting out of difficulties. The psycho-mental oppression that Shani generates has tremendous negative impact in radix. However, although Shani may look unfortunate in radix, Shani is exalted in the auspicious 10th navamsha. Overall, the life prediction for good results from Shani is favorable. However TIME will be the key! Budha is a busy planet in your life! His many actions & effects will repay careful study. Handling Budha skillfully, which should include the option for high-quality psychotherapy, is the key to improving your mental health. Sincerely, B Pijan Lama |
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updated: 19 June 2010