Om Keshavaya Namah

Mithuna lagna - 9 Graha

Surya

L-3

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

Surya = karaka for divinely reasonable self, "enlightenment" and brilliance, soul, and ethical awareness, controls the house of self-narrative, announcements, writing and publications, business administration and commerce, sales, marketing, advertising, and talk. Handwriting and tool-using quality depends on the disposition of Surya.

Center of Attention, High-Visibility Public Roles

Surya= karaka for career as a vehicle for public recognition,

As L-3 for Mithuna, Ravi places the native in center stage in fields of business administration (3) and skills of writing, publishing, reports, announcements, planning, scheduling, meetings and teamwork (3) .

Surya's favored communications environments include sales, marketing, advertising, media production (films, internet content, video, visual arts, music, etc.) short-journey services (holiday and business travel), seminars and conferences, editing, technical training that has commercial utility; information-packaging; skilled work with the hands including painting, scribe or transcription, tool-using, type-setting, inks and literary press.

Chandra

L-2

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

Treasuries of wealth and knowledge

family of origin, historic values, lineage, stories and tales, speech + song, face + hair, right eye, money + death

Double-trouble from Chandra:

+ Chandra L-2 = an enemy of lagnesha Budha

+ Chandra L-2 = an enemy of Shukra the natural 2nd lord

The highly fluctuating and impressionable home-loving Chandra becomes a conserver, conservator and conservationist in His role as lord of the house of the Treasury.

There is a particular affinity for preservation of marine and sea-coast environments. Similar to Mesha lagna, the native may be happiest when making one's home near the sea.

• Chandra = emotionally motivated money-saver and "soft" maraka for Mithuna lagna and Mithuna-Chandra.

The lineage cultural values of the family history are deeply influenced by the condition of Chandra.

For example,

• if Chandra = yuti Ketu, the native 's family may be perfectly stable and organized, but the native will not learn to connect emotionally with others and may lack empathy - none of which is seen as detrimental by the family history, since they will value detachment and reserve as manifest by Ketu.

• The family historyproblems of the famed English writer Virginia Woolf are well documented. Woolf's Chandra = yuti neechcha Shani (a very difficult Nishturabhasi Yoga similar to Mother Teresa) occurring in bhava-11, bhava of the elder brother.

  • She was sexually abused by her brother(s) throughout childhood although the family did nothing to stop the behavior.

  • In addition her mother was absent and her parents carried on an emotionally destructive lifestyle.

  • None of this of course diminished her literary talent, and in fact may have fueled it.

  • Nevertheless her life ended in suicide, attributable partly to great karmic difficulties with Chandra = family.

By contrast, the Mithuna native with a strong and healthy Moon may enjoy a vibrant and deeply supportive relationship to the family historyalong with luxurious (Laxmi) wealth. The nativity of Bill Gates, Jr. shows a lovely Uttarabhadrapada Chandra in bhava-10, indicating ceteris paribushis parents' lifelong commitment to public service leadership in charitable works.

Mahadasha of Chandra L-2 indicates 10 years of values-accumulation, language and history learning, and "focus on family".

• One will speak from an emotional foundation, and generally one's speech will be hailed by the more conservative, historically inclined audience. It is not a time for innovation but rather for deepening the ethnic and cultural roots. the native becomes conservative, wealthy, knowledgeable, and well-fed.

• If Chandra is well disposed the native will eat and drink delicious nourishment.

• If Chandra is poorly disposed, matters of the mouth including tongue, teeth, and voice may become problematic.

• Chandra is a maraka for the Mithuna lagna; Guru-Chandra and Chandra-Guru periods are both candidate triggers for separation from the fleshly body.

• According to BPHS ch 43, the period of Chandra-Guru can be fatal.

Kuja

L-6+ L-11

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

"triple trouble"

Triple-trouble from Mangala:

+ Mangala L-11 = sees lagnesha Budha as an enemy

+ Mangala L-11 = enemy of Shani the natural 11th lord

+ Mangala L-6 sees natural 6th lord Budha as enemy

As lord of 6th and 6th-from-6th, Kuja is a highly adversarial graha for Mithuna lagna. Jyotisha assessment of Kuja's effects must be particularly careful.

• Kuja = by far the most difficult graha for Mithuna natives

  • although if Kuja = lord of a trine from Chandra, the negative effects may be mitigated.

The placement of Mangala will determine the range of animosity, debt, disease, divorce, and also the scope of gains of marketplace income and the condition of the friendship networks. No matter how well-placed Kuja might be, Periods of Mangala are likely to encourage marital conflict and personal illness or injury, even while these same periods are materially gainful. In general "gain from pollution, criminal deeds, exploitation, and broken contracts".

Vital and competitive Kuja controls the warlike house of enemies and disease, as well as the networking, profitable 11th house of goals and achievements.

• As L-11 = circles of friendship, Mangala lord of Mesha encourages the native to prefer muscular sport or dance as the means of group socializing.

  • the native has relatively few friends, but those few are straightforwardly physical people who enjoy a physical challenge and are generally competitive in business as well.

  As a general rule, Kuja is good for earnings if in a friendly rashi.

  Mangala yuti lagnesha Budha creates a personality that is highly contentious and verbally energized in the pursuit of gainful argument.

  • The best profession for this combination = "professional arguer and critic" nearly always an attorney, and if Mangala is strong in kendra, such a litigious individual may be very successful in handling even the most aggressive accusations against one's legal clients.

  • See environmental attorney for just such a splendid combination doing social good in the law courts and earning well, where normally the Kuja-Budha pair would be very unhappy together.

  Kuja mahadasha strengthens the relationship with the elder male sibling or cousin, who becomes a dominant force in the life during those six years. The elder sibling and later-life male friends and mentors are of sporting character, who enjoy vigorous and competitive outdoor activities.

  • If Kuja is ill-disposed (esp. in Kanya, rashi of Kuja's enemy Budha) it is quite unfavorable for friendship, as the native tends to criticize one's friends and eventually argue with them. However the Kuja-Kanya native will be gainful in the marketplace due to writing or editing skills. Excellent for the critical literary editor or writer.

  Mithuna Nativities with Chandra in a Nakshatraof Rahu or Guru will most likely not live long enough to experience the Mangala Mahadasha, and thus they escape the sustained effects of L-6+L-11 chronic animosity and illness that often harm a Mithuna native.

  • USA Pres. 26 Theodore Roosevelt

  ---

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

  • Mithuna radix lagna + Mithuna Chandra

  • Mithuna radix lagna + Vrischika Chandra

  • Mithuna Chandra + Vrischika lagna

  E.g., in the life of Albert Einstein = Mithuna lagna + Vrischika Chandra:

  • His Kuja mahadasha began in late 1931

  • he was forced to leave wartime Germany due to Adolph Hitler's Third Reich attacks on Jews.

  • After much upheaval, both personal and professional, his second wife died and he became ill.

  ---

  L-6 Kuja in bhava-1, bhava-4, or bhava-12

  • is very challenging for marriage, due to the L-6 = a natural malefic + agent of Kuja Dosha upon yuvati bhava.

  Of these, Kuja-Kanya in bhava-4 [ Bill Gates] is the most acutely disruptive of health and harmony in life.

  • Kuja-4 for Mithuna lagna = double-trouble due to Budha = natural regulator of 6.

  • Results = not only the typical hypocrisy of the Kuja-Kanya but also health problems for the mother, and profound marriage conflict.

  • The childhood home (4) is fraught with passive-aggressive conflict (L-6 in 4) and the siblings in the roots-home (Mangala) while articulate (Kanya) are also very critical.

  • the native tends to internalize the criticism of parents (Chandra natural regulator of 4) and siblings (Mangala in 4) which results in health problems. Females in particular tend toward female-lineage illnesses such as breast and reproductive cancers (4).

  • Disease patterns can be released by taking a strict lifetime vow against criticism of self or others, and separating both physically (Mangala) and emotionally (4) from those who practice angry belittlement of others.

  ---

Budha = L-1+ L-4

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

instruct, explain, classify, discriminate, analyze, articulate

Despite His kendra-adhi-pati dosha, conversational and administrative lagnesha Budha is a highly auspicious graha for Mithuna lagna and Mithuna-Chandra.

Budha grants articulatory capabilities in business, particularly in writing, as well as skill in acquiring property and vehicles.

Budha governs conditions in the early childhood home, where the Kumara supports a pragmatic foundational (4) education in the cultural literacy (Budha + 4) of one's people. If Budha is well placed, the native is well-indoctrinated and one easily completes examinations, obtains licenses, and earns diplomas.

Budha wants to talk-about, instruct, explain, classify, discriminate, analyze, articulate, and announce re: matters of bhava-1 and bhava-4 = life and home:

• Life Itself: conditions of biological life; human personality, physical body appearance, competitions, innovation, muscular movement, vitality and birth

• lands and properties (esp marine coastal), buildings, vehicles, property management, nature spirits in the land, deeds of title, boundaries and fencing, sovereignty, patriotism, parents and parenting, the ethnically based nation-state, ethnic customs of ownership and stewardship, schooling, curriculum, diplomas, examinations, licensing,

Example:

• lagnesha Budha = Dhanusha-7 = philosophical, humanistic (Dhanushya) legal contracts (7) re: landed property (4) esp. marine-estuary environments = protecting (4) biological life (1) = land-use lawyer

Lagnesha Budha in bhava-10 is a public figure, concerned with articulating an orderly regulatory environment (even a radically new rule of order: neechcha bhanga Budha for Albert Einstein).

Budha in theatrical Simha bhava-3 may be a genius of advertising and public relations - a media mogul. In randhra bhava, lagnesha Makara Budha (esp. if oppressed by drishti of Shani e.g. Virginia Woolf)

In bhava-4, the uchcha state, lagnesha Budha is a brilliantly analytical measurer and planner concerned with property and vehicle ownership, the securing of shelters, and matters of global education ( Bill Gates, Jr.).

Remedial and Supportive Gems for Budha: Panna (pure Emerald) for Mithuna Lagna

from ~~ Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 100

• "For the Gemini Ascendant, Mercury is the lord of the Ascendant and the 4th house.

• the native s of this Ascendant should Always wear Emerald as a protective charm.

• This will bestow them with good health, wealth, longevity, lands and property, domestic happiness, success in the field of education, a smooth and obstruction free fife.

• The beneficial results will be more apparent in the major period and sub periods of Mercury.

• If such a disposition will give rise to a very favourable yoga known as Bhadra yoga (one of the Panchamahapurusha yogas) then the beneficial effects of the yoga will be enhanced by wearing an Emerald."

BPL: example of Mercury be in his own sign in the 4th = Bill Gates, Jr.

Guru

L-7+ L-10

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

Wise and expansive Guru = L-10 plus L-10-from-10 = the double-career lord for Mithuna lagna and Mithuna-Chandra.

Guru periods bring energy into the career by expanding the range of responsibilities and scope of personal influence.

However, for all dvyatmaka (double-natured) rashi = Mithuna, Kanya, Dhanushya, Meena = the 'badhaka' bhava = 7.

Counted from Mithuna lagna or counted from Kanya lagna, Brihaspati = the "bad boy" badhesha who gives hindrance, harm, harrassment.

L-7 Brihaspati can generate a surprisingly troublesome experience in regard to growth expectations and humanistic fulfillment in relationships both personal and professional. Alliances are not as expansive or comprehensive perhaps as one thought.

even considering all of Brihaspati's natural auspiciousness, Guru's Vimshottari periods are likely to produce characteristically Guru-ized problems such as overconfidence, excessive or presumptive optimism, overexpansion, bloated expectations of one's children, overreliance on philosophical or religious beliefs (when hard facts of business may be more relevant) and generally misplaced faith in human goodness.

One tends to hear the slogans of unified purpose in organizational leadership (10, 7) but this chat may mask an underlying fractiousness; to see agreement (7) where there are competing interests rather than mutual alliance; to assume, presume, and expect loyalty (7) and coherent institutional direction (10) where it would have been more accurate (Budha) to re-analyze and re-calculate the less humanistic reality that was really governing (10) the situation.

If Guru + Rahu or Guru+ L-8, may produced a sudden shock of realizing that one's humanistic expectations were unrealistic and that one's leaders-advisers are much cruder than one realized.

Even if Guru is well-disposed, it can be a time of fall from leadership power and loss of collegial relationships due to overestimating the wisdom of one's advisers and superiors. In general, one may receive bad advice that is not malintended but simply unrealistic.

Marriage and Children, Grandchildren

Marriage and children are also affected by the badhesha function of Guru. As a general rule, the spouse is well-qualified and capable yet falls below expectation.

One may place high hopes in spouse and offspring based upon their university education (Guru) or religious vows (Guru) or world travels (Guru). One may believe that a reflective person who prays, meditates, appreciates fine music, or serves others in sanctuary (including animals, plants) must be a saint who can do no wrong. But saints are human.

There is a general life feeling overall for most Mithuna-lagna and Kanya-lagna natives that marriage and usually children too have not realized their growth potential. This feeling is not crippling unless Guru is badly neechcha. It mainly expresses as a general ennui,

Guru-ratna yellow sapphire recommendation for Mithuna lagna

from: Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 105

• Maraka

• "For the Gemini Ascendant Jupiter will be lord of the 7th and 10th houses.

• As a result of this he suffers from Kendra-adhipati dosha.

• Still if Jupiter is in the Ascendant, 2nd (where he will be exalted), 4th, 5th. 7th (In his own sign giving rise to Hamsa yoga), 9th, 10th (in his own Sign again giving rise to Hamsa yoga) or 11th, it will be useful to wear a yellow sapphirein his major and sub-periods.

  • If a native suffers set backs in his professional life, he should immediately wear a Yellow Sapphire irrespective of the major period that may be operating at that time.

• Those apprehending death on account of old age or some illness or in whose horoscope there are indications some illness or in whose horoscope there are indications of short life, should not wear Yellow Sapphire, as Jupiter is a strong death inflicting planet for this Ascendant.

Shukra Sweet Pleasures

L-5+ L-12

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

Shukra lord of Taste indicates possessiveness, acquisitive tendencies, sensual pleasures, satisfaction, treasures-and-pleasures, luxuries (Laxmi) and all types of sweets.

As lord of 5 and 12 for Mithuna lagna, Shukra is especially possessive of children and political power (5) and their realm of fantasy imagination or places of secluded retreat (12)

Shukra the Pleasurer = L-12 from lagna of Mithuna and Vrischika.

• For Mithuna, the 12th bhava of sanctuary and private rooms = Vrishabha the sweetly sensual paradise of taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound.

  • Shukra also rules bhava-5 = romance

  • Guru rules the yuvati bhava, suggesting multiplicity of alliances

• For Vrischika, the 12th bhava = Thula which seeks pleasure more through balance and harmony of social relationships rather than via direct sensual indulgence.

  • Shukra for Vrischika also rules bhava-7 = contracts and agreements, suggesting an awareness of the wealth of the marital estate and (in general) less inclination to disturb the accrued value of the core marital alliance

Shukra being 5-12 lord for Mithuna = stronger Mithuna-lagna tendency to indulge in clandestine, private sensual activities notably extramarital romance (12th = 6th from 7, enemies of the marriage). the native may be a delightfully indulgent (Shukra) aficionado of sensual amusements.

Naturally, conditions in 12th from Chandra and 12th from lagna as well as the upapada must be considered. Also Shukra in the moudhya state or otherwise weakened has less power to achieve its objectives.

• During Vimshottari periods of Shukra however both Mithuna and Vrischika natives are vulnerable to seek sweet pleasure in those places that are enclosed, shielded, largely invisible from public view.

• after age 50 read this proclivity more from the lagna of Mithuna-Chandra or Vrischika-Chandra

Sweet and Tasty Shukra controls the house of Divine Intelligence and Children as well as the house of Private Pleasures and dissolution of the social identity. Shukra's agency promotes reproduction and pleasures from theatre-politics-fashion, as well as pleasures of the more private variety association with the bedroom and long-term foreign residence.

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

Mithuna lagna or Mithuna-Chandra indicates characteristics of Bhaga and Vyaya in the first wife. Tendency for first wife to enjoy abundant creative and procreative intelligence (5). If Shukra is well placed there is much happiness from children from the first wife. In addition, the wife-1-agent is deeply imaginative (prone to sensual fantasizing) and may live in a foreign land or take long meditation retreats or otherwise seek private sanctuary, away from the native .

Remedial and Supportive Gems for Shukra: Flawless Diamond (hira) for Mithuna Lagna

from ~~ Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 110

• "For the Gemini Ascendant, Venus will be lord of the 5th and the 12thhouses.

• Being the lord of the 5th, a trine, Venus is an auspicious planet for this Ascendant.

• Moreover, Venus is a friend of Mercury and the lord of this Ascendant.

• Consequently wearing of a Diamond in the major and sub-periods of Venus will bless the native with children, happiness, intelligence, name, fame and good fortune.

• Wearing of Diamond with Emerald will always be of immense benefit to the native ."

Shani

L-8 / L-9

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

Pragmatic and conventional Shani is a mixed experience for Mithuna lagna and Mithuna-Chandra.

Because Kumbha the moolatrikona rashi = identical to Mithuna's dharmasthana., Shani = usually religiously minded, although in a predictably orthodox fashion which is more oriented to public piety and less to private prayer.

However what the all-good dharma lord Shani brings, the intensely transformative lord of randhra bhava may then take away. Occult interest may often exceed the motive for public piety, especially if social respect can be earned in some other fashion such as via professional career.

The parts of life which are controlled by Shani are

• religious wisdom teachings and teachers (9)

• death-and-rebirth, emergency changes, mysteries, and taxes (8).

In order to benefit from this mixed lordship, Shani should be strong by rashi and bhava with positive incoming drishti. Shani gives wisdom not only of the dogmatic 9 variety but also of the hidden 8 variety.

To extract good results from the dual-wisdom (temple truth and the loss of temple truth) the native must possess maturity, neutrality, and adult judgment regarding veracity of information. After about age 60, the L-8 Shani begins to give remarkably valuable wisdom about the cycle of deaths-and-rebirths. "

Remedial and Supportive Gems for Shani - Blue Sapphire (Nilam)

from: ~~ Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 115

• For the Gemini Ascendant, Saturn is lord of the 9th, a trine.

• We consider Saturn as an auspicious planet for this Ascendant.

• It will. therefore, be quite beneficial for the native to wear Blue Sapphire in the major period of Saturn.

• Mercury, the lord of this Ascendant, is a friend of Saturn.

• Therefore, wearing of an Emerald, with Blue Sapphire will prove more advantageous. "

Rahu

co-lord of Kumbha

L-9

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha

Ketu = 6 + 8

• Ketu's effects depend significantly on Ketu's bhava, rashi, and drishti.

• chidakaraka Ketu un-connects the effect of any graha sharing Ketu's house

• Ketu scatters the effects of His planetary lord

• For more detailed evaluation, see Ketu in 12 bhava.

• measured from Mithuna lagna, Mithuna Chandra, Mithuna navamsha