Om Vasudevaya Namah

Summary of Nine Graha Lordships

for Vrishabha Lagna

Surya = L-4

Great pride in one's home, garden, vehicles and the products of schooling such as diploma, license, exam pass.

Surya karaka = soul, unique self, awareness of the presence of Divine Intelligence. Ravi controls the childhood home, and one's subsequent access to social and emotional security, including education.

Center-stage Roles

Surya = center-stage recognition. L-4 Ravi = prefers visible roles in realms related to bandha-sthana, such as home and homeland, structures, family care,shelters and fences, vehicles, schools and school-teaching, parenting, farming, fishing, caretaking, and patriotic protective functions such as military and police.

Environments

include the schoolroom, the early childhood home, real estate office, kitchens, building construction sites, land ownership and stewardship settings, national and local defense headquarters, shelters that offer protective care of the elderly and the very young, and maternal-child care settings such as medical and social-work clinics.

Chandra = L-3

As lord of 8th-from-8th, Chandra is a bit of dicey influence upon the life of the Rishabha native.

Chandra must be very well disposed into order to avoid the extreme fluctuations caused by tsunami-quality churning of the wheel of death and rebirth.

Sibling relationships are strengthened but conditions of life for the mother are prone to sudden upheaval, and the possibility of extreme emotional upset for the mother cannot be ruled out.

• Certainly if Chandra is associated with Rahu-Ketu, the mother's life may be subject to considerable psycho-mental volatility.

Mother may be quite commercialized. She is likely to have her own business. She would enjoy the administrative arts, and the daily chat of sales, marketing, advertising etc.. No doubt she is a splendid conversationalist - as generally is the native as well.

Still be on the lookout for underlying emotional instability due to the double uncertainties of tidal, habitual, predictable Chandra trying to rule a natural bhava of quick-thinking, million-ideas-per-minute Budha and the sudden unexpected changes associated with bhava-3 as 8th-from-8th.

The highly fluctuating and impressionable Chandra's assigned control of Budha's natural territory tends to infuse the mental habits with sensitive emotional feelings:

• mental tasking

• business administration

• writing and messaging communications

• Relationships with neighbors,

• co-workers

• routine daily interactions

the native feels more than average empathy in mundane interactions, and has a more psycho-intuitive approach to training and administration than normal.

Even routine daily conversations are personalized. Native can be moody and sensitive to slights or insults, especially within the circle of friends and family. Needs reassurance that he is wanted on the team.

Kuja

L-7+ L-12

Vital and competitive Kuja controls alliances, agreements, and private sanctuary. The spouse is naturally competitive, active, and sometimes perhaps aggressive (according to the character of Mangala in the Vrishabha nativity).

Spouse will work hard and play hard. Research (12) and physically vigorous, goal-oriented foreign travel (12) are favored. Sleep is less peaceful for these natives; the Vrishabha folk may take extreme measures to ensure one's sleep. Sitting meditation may be unfavorable due to mental restlessness; and bed pleasures are sexually (Kuja) activated.

Kuja dosha is less harmful for Vrishabha lagna because Kuja sends drishti to swakshetra Vrischika rashi, which tends more to give the spouse a strong personality rather than harm marriage relations.

Budha

L-2+ L-5

wealth and prestige

Budha wants to talk-about, instruct, explain, classify, discriminate, analyze, articulate, and announce re: matters of bhava-2 and bhava-5 = wealth and prestige:

• Banks and Collections (2): hoards of value, accumulation, acquisition, storage, history, memory, money, collections of value, records, libraries, archives; values, opinions, historical knowledge, beauty, face, mouth, teeth, voice, food, language, speech and song

• Children, politics, fashion, charisma (5): games and gambling - winning prizes, Awards and Trophies fortune and luck, creative arts + literature, Divine Intelligence, Speculation , Prestige, Fame, fashion, Theatre center-stage roles, Celebrations - Festivals - Amusement - Divine Light, Self-Expression

There are four main wealth houses: 2 = banked savings; 5 = gambling or speculative wins; 9 = assets provided for acts of faith; and 11 = earned income.

Conversational and sexual Budha becomes a highly auspicious L-2 / L-5 stored wealth graha for Vrishabha lagna. The sources of the wealth may be found in the bhava and rashi of Budha.

For Vrishabha lagna , presuming that Budha is fairly well disposed, periods of L-2+L-5 Budha can generate considerable wealth through family-of-origin hoarded assets and knowledge-values, as well as via creative genius, including children, speculation, theatre, romance, and games.

Kumara controls the domain of family history, wealth from hoarding and historical lineage values (2) and the domain of wealth from speculation, genius of divine intelligence, and creative production of children (5).

However the other maraka for Rishabha lagna =Mangala a natural aggressor> Mangala is generally more effective in the task of forcing (Kuja) the spirit to exit the flesh-body.

Guru = L-8+ L-11

Magical knowledge; expansion of the social, financial, and conceptual networks

Wise and expansive Guru brings abundant income, gains of wealth often assisted by access to secret or privileged information; generous and liberal friends; and assemblies gathered for purpose of receiving wisdom teachings.

The greater significance of a strong L-8 in the 10th bhava of leadership is that you will acquire public leadership responsibilities for regulation of social policy-and-planning such as disaster preparedness, emergency response, and public education (Guru) to get people ready for sudden changes such as natural storms or earthquakes.

With L-8 Guru in 10, you have a generous and positive style (Guru) of directing people to respect authority (10) and follow the rules (10). As L-8, lord Guru is an especially effective leader during times of social crisis such as an emergency.

Your psychic skills need to get stronger in this life. Public life in the government office is that place where your perceptive skills get tested. Lord Guru is trying to bring out your deeper intelligence about the mysteries of human motivation (8) . However the outcome is good. Everything produced by Lord Guru, even when the route is a bit hazardous, is good for the spirit.

In a female nativity, Guru = significator of the first husband

Vrishabha lagna or Vrishabha-Chandra indicates characteristics of 8 and 11 in the first husband. Tendency for first husband to be an abundant earner, gainful due to expansive friendliness, and well connected into regular networks of association (11). However as L-8 Guru connotes emergencies, intense and catastrophic transformation (emotional catastrophe, if Vrishabha-Chandra) the husband may produce sudden changes in the life of the native . While generous and inclusive (Guru) the husband acquires behaviors of secrecy and covert operations.

Favorable for a surgeon, psychiatrist, obstetrician, deep energy healer, or any professional who handles emergencies. If the L-8 function causes divorce, the couple may remain friendly after the legal termination of the marriage.

Shukra

L-6+ L-1

Sweet and sensual Shukra = also a disease maker, depending on His bhava, companion graha, and incoming drishti.

Shukra = the auspicious lagnesha while He is also lord of ari bhava. If there are dignified graha in 6, the Vrishabha native is often called into a practice of medicine.

If L-6 Shukra occupies Ari bhava, one becomes an agent of addiction to sweet foods, candies, ladies, alcohol, and numbing drugs.

In a male nativity, Shukra = kalatrakaraka = significator of the first wife.

• Vrishabha lagna or Vrishabha-Chandra indicates characteristics of Ari and Tula in the first wife.

• Tendency for first wife to to have health problems (6), difficulty to reach and maintain agreements, quick-changing and typically argumentative mentality, tends toward criticism.

• However the first wife is also visually attractive, has a strong vitality and well-developed social personality (1).

Shukra = a double-edged swordfor the Vrishabha native. Although Shukra = lagneshaand therefore Shukra = an agent of self-validation and designator of one's place in the world, Shukra = also L-6.

It is generally said that a graha which rules two bhava of a nativity will give the strongest results for its mulatrikona rashi. For Vrishabha, Shukra's mulatrikona = Thula

Mahadasha of Shukra which starts with a double period of Shukra will bring out the 6th-house effects, particularly the dissolution of marital agreement (potential divorce) and illnesses related to sugars, including alcohol.

Bhukti periods of Shukra, when Shukra occupies the 6th-from, 8th-from, or 12th-from the mahadasha pati, are problematic in the same way.

Shukra is an especially difficult graha for nativities in which Shukra = L-6 as measured from both radix lagna (material animosity) and Chandra lagna (emotional imbalance):

1. rishabhya radix lagna + rishabhya Chandra

2. rishabhya radix lagna + Dhanushya Chandra

3. rishabhya Chandra + Dhanushya lagna

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If Shukra occupies bhava-6 in Thula rashi, success in cosmetic or reconstructive medicine, import-export business (esp. artistic, design, or structural) and work in foreign lands, service work in temples as social events designer, decorator, artistic designer.

Shani

L-9+ L-10

L-9+L-10 Shani becomes Yogakaraka for 'Go' lagna.

One of the best characteristics of Vrishabha lagna is that hard-working and orderly Shani becomes the Yogakaraka L-9+L-10, and three bhava will receive the auspicious drishti of Shani as dharma-karma-adhi-pati. Three houses thus benefit from the drishti of the all-good ninth lord and the pretty-darned-good 10th-lord.

L-10 of course brings plenty of public responsibilities, and performing public leadership duties leaves one little time to pursue profitable personal business.

• Being 12th-from-11th and thus a profit-drainer is the reason that L-10 is a "questionable" Yogakaraka-maker.

(For example, the author of Bhavartha Ratnakarasays that Shani cannot be a Yogakaraka for Vrishabha lagna. Shri B. V. Raman, the translator of this Sanskrit work into English, most strenuously disagrees; Raman says "of course" L-9+L-10 is a Yogakaraka. But then Shri Raman was famously not afraid of hard work.)

Despite His taste for austerity and karma-yogi character, Shani is a reliable guide to wisdom as L-9.

Although not as demanding and also not quite as powerful as L-4+L-5 Shani for the Thula lagna+ L-9+L-10 Shani for Vrishabha will slowly, via force of education and the discipline of the intelligence, produce a public servant of surprising leadership capability.

The spatial and social location of highly dignified and somewhat priestly duty performance is shown via Shani's bhava and rashi.

For example,

• OSHO Rajneesh = yogakaraka L-9+L-10 Shani in 8 provides priestly or moral leadership via hidden knowledge or secret money

• UK- Queen Victoria I = yogakaraka L-9+L-10 Shani in 11 provides priestly or moral leadership via marketplaces and social networks

Shani mahadasha may bring a series of respected, responsible positions in government or the very large corporations

However it is nearly always the case for the Vrishabha lagna that due to pull-back by competing interests in world travel and orthodox religion (9) that the native cyclically gains and loses a series of these positions.

Shani is lord of both the karmabhava for leadership roles AND the dharmabhava for loss-of-impetus (12th from) in leadership roles.

It is rarely the case for Vrishabha to obtain one leadership role and hold it for extended periods.

Rather, within a persistently financially comfortable and respectable range, during which the native holds basic decency and indeed a remarkably steady level of luxury (so long as Shukra is well-disposed) there is a cycle of gain and un-gain.

With Vrishabha the placid bovine, there is likely not too much ambition to "get to the top" but rather a pleasant, competent, lawful routine regularity of professional practice dignity that allows respect without too much pushing for recognition.

The most productive period for public reputation and social recognition occurs during Shani mahadasha; but along the path, each briefer Shani bhukti is a step toward your longer-term credibility in management and executive roles.

If the Shani mahadasha occurs during middle age (ideal for Chandra in a nakshatra of Surya, Chandra, or Mangala) then the career becomes quite dignified in maturity. There is no need to fight off competition or push against nature. Slowly and steadily, one rises into visible positions of social responsibility that are much appreciated and generally well-paid.

In a female nativity, Shani = significator of the second husband

The second husband as well as the native during this second marriage will be well-known or possessed of a high public dignity and responsibility in one's community (10). The husband-agent-2 is significantly involved in being a father, moral guide, and possibly an ethnic priest.

L-9 Shani = the badhakalord for Makara lagna (Badhakaor"harming"houses = the 9th from a fixed lagna, 7th from a changeable lagna, and 11th from a cardinal lagna.)

bhava-9 from Vrishabha lagna = Makara = the primary "Badhaka" or harm-causing domain.Fixed lagna typically has some trouble from the father, guru, professor, religious or moral teacher, temple, religious teachings etc.

• If Guru occupies Makara, the native may experience considerable trouble when dealing with an Over-confident Orfraudulent father or teacher.

Periods of Shanimay bring forward an agent in the figure of a father, father-role, guru, priest, professor, or some abstract personage known through wisdom-teachings, who (often inadvertently) causes harm to the native via punitive or materialistic behavior, intolerance for alternative viewpoints on matters of ritual order, and strong need to impose conformity in belief.

This badhaka agent must be handled with compassion, in the knowledge that this harm-causing agent is merely a projection of one's own unrealized fear of the deeper truth of religious teachings, the permissiveness of the higher philosophies, materialism in the priestly orders, and with self-proclaimed teachers of "only one right path" versions of truth.

Difficult graha in occupation of dharma bhava or Shani drishti upon bhava-9 may exacerbate the badhaka agency.

Rahu

Rahu's effects for Vrishabha lagna depend significantly on Rahu's bhava, rashi, and drishti. Rahu's effects for Kumbha lagna depend significantly on Rahu's bhava, rashi, and incoming drishti.

Rahu amplifies the effect of any graha who share Rahu's house; and also Rahu magnifies the effects of the lord of His occupied Rashi.

• Rahu and Ketu are said to give positive results in the 3rd, 6th, and 11th bhava counted from the lagna or counted from Chandra.

• In addition, some authorities posit that since R-K are exalted in Vrishabha-Vrischika (per BPHS), R-K will give good results when Mangala and Shukra are well-disposed.

• Numerous other schemes for evaluating the elusive aprakasha graha also exist. (More details in the summary provided by Dr. G.S. Kapoor .)

Rahu is co-lord of bhava-10 Kumbha.

Karmasthana is not a trine angle from Vrishabha.

However, during the major period of Rahu , the Rahu-ratna (gomedha) may become a beneficial gem for purposes of enhancing the career (10) and high-visibility public leadership roles (10).

If institutional and bureaucratic Shani, lord of Lawful and Responsible Actions, is strong, then Rahu may be empowered to aid matters of professional recognition and acquisition and development of respected social positions.

However, even for these specialized targets, prescribe the Rahu-ratna only if Shani and occupants of 10 are highly auspicious. Otherwise, Rahu's somewhat lawless system-disregarding tendency to self-promote and self-elevate without concern for impact on others may create a public backlash toward the end of Rahu mahadasha .

Periods of Rahu-2-Mithuna are notable for acquisitive uprising, like a cobra from the snake-charmer s basket. Rahu triggers an ancient, urgent ambition to hoard and acquire items of perceived lineage value. In particular Rahu craves knowledge in the form of information .

Ketu

Ketu's effects for Vrishabha lagna depend significantly on Ketu's bhava, rashi, and drishti.

Ketu amplifies the effect of any graha who share Ketu's house; and also Ketu magnifies the effects of the lord of His occupied Rashi.

Ketu is co-lord of bhava-7 Vrischika. Therefore Ketu-ratna can, for certain specific purposes, become a beneficial gem for the Vrishabha native. Exceptional applications of the Ketu-ratna may be profitable if the native is positively involved in contract negotiation, advising professions, or relationship development. However even for these purposes, apply Ketu-ratna with caution and only if the lord of bhava-7 and its occupants are auspiciously placed.