The body of the native of this lagna is well proportioned.

• Hands are generally long.

• The stature is above average.

• Face is broad with commanding appearance.

• Such natives have generally a good personality.

• [He is] a particularly determined individual.

He will crush the obstacles before him and move forward.

• He has a fertile imagination and sharp intelligence.

• He is emotional but possesses remarkable intuitive power.

• He has self assertion, courage, resolution, independence and forcefulness.

• He is highly sexy and has relations with many women.

A good Vrischika native evinces great interest in occult sciences and spiritual experiments.

• the natives of this lagna have a harsh tongue.

• they are revengeful and vindictive.

• they love to criticize Others and establish their superiority.

The domestic life of a person with this lagna can be happy

• only if every member of the family is submissive to him. "

Vishaka = abundant, expansive Guru

= Guru mulatrikona = Dhanushya bhava-2 = wealth accumulation, collections of value, historical knowledge, family of origin, pleasure from wisdom, internationalism

Anuradha "social structure" = Shani-social pressure-bones

* Shani mulatrikona = Kumbha 4th from Vrischika = schooling, vehicles, security, parenting, patriotism, homeland, citizenship, Old Ways, care of elderly, Habitual Rhythms of Life, "end of things"

• USA-Sen/VP Joe Biden

• Wikileaks, secret gov't documents Julian Assange

• industrialist automobiles Henry Ford

• USA Pres-29, Warren G. Harding women's right to national (4) vote, ethnic-minority rights

• fashion model Cindy Crawford

• feminist-ethics philosopher Simone de Beauvoir

• civil rights advocate, journalist Gloria Steinem

Jyestha = Budha-message-diva

= Budha mulatrikona Kanya = 11th counted from Vrischika * popularity and prizes, communities, economies and ecologies, distributive networks, connections, income, gainfulness, material achievements, marketplace, large gatherings, social progress activism, opportunities for economic participation, fan-clubs

• media mogul Oprah Winfrey

• dramatist, activist Jane Fonda

• dramatist-activist Jodie Foster

• diva, dramatic singer Maria Callas

• UK-Princess Diana Spencer

• India-PM 1966-1977; 1980-84 Indira Gandhi

• UK-Prince William Windsor

• Shah of Iran 1941-1979 Mohamed Reza Pahlavi

• USA Congressman Newt Gingrich

• USA-Sen 1962-2009 Teddy Kennedy

lifetime career advocate for greater economic-electoral participation of workers, women, ethnic minorities

• electrical entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison

• diva, icon of social change Elvis Presley

• dramatist-activist Amitabh Bachchan

• dramatist-activist Brad Pitt

• Beatle Paul McCartney

• iconic "rebel" dramatist Dennis Hopper

• fashionisto-activist Emilio Pucci

• Astrologer Dane Rudhyar

• writer, prize-winner Rudyard Kipling

• linguist-activist Avram Noam Chomsky

• rago-guna

(rajas,energetic action)

• jala tattva

(water element)

• Mangala and Ketu

(Mars and the Cauda Draconis)

1. Mithuna

2. Simha

3. Kanya

4. Thula

5. Vrischika

6. Kumbha

befriends "Kanya" types:

the mother's relatives,

the disproportionate

the toxic, the polluted

the unbalanced, ill and the argumentative;

the young and unmarried; the easily exploited, who has no equality no contract

the litigious and accusatory;

criminals and victims;

those who break promises;

the clinical physicians and human services ministers;

the exploited and disenfranchised;

one's servants and animals;

the conflict-oriented

those detached (12th-from) diplomacy and alliances

leaders (10th-from) in humanistic thought and teaching

Vrischika forms a network of friendships with service-providers, and often makes voluntary friendship with one's own servants or employees.

1. Surya ratna = no, because Surya = L-10 . (Certain exceptions regarding intention to enhance professional recognition, see below.)

2. Chandra ratna = yes! because Chandra = L-9

3. Mangala ratna = possibly, with caution for health effects - because Mangala = lagnesha and L-6 (will depend on position of Chandra)

4. Budha ratna = no, because Budha = L-8 and L-11

5. Guru ratna = yes, unless the person is near death, because Guru = L-5 and L-2

6. Shukra ratna = no, because Shukra = L-7 and L-12

7. Shani ratna = possibly, with caution - because Shani = L-3 and L-4 (will depend on position of Chandra)

8. Rahu-ratna = unknown, depends on Rahu's lord

9. Ketu-ratna = unknown, depends on Ketu's lord

There are exceptions to all of these general rules which are caused by the position of Chandra, the active Vimshottari time lords, and the native 's personal goals, inter alia.

For example if Vrischika-native is positively sure that one wants to gain money no matter the consequence, Budha ratna will stimulate L-8 for secret sources of funds and L-11 for marketplace earnings. The consequences of activating the L-8 can be quite shocking, including a life lived in clouds of suspicion and mistrust, being hunted by predators, minute-to-minute consciousness of the pending circumstances of death, etc. but yes indeed one will get income. Sane people will walk away from this opportunity as a rule but if Chandra occupies Mithuna and there are other good reasons, it is possible to prescribe a panna even for Vrischika lagna.

The "nodal house pair" = the two domains which are Afflicted by association with the "unholy trinity": Rahu-Ketu + Shani + Mangala.

These are the two domains which are controlled by Vrischika (Mangala + Ketu) and Kumbha (Shani + Rahu) respectively.

• Vrischika = re-birth = that (largely) invisible, psychic, soul-based transformation of the container of the vital energy which all sentient creatures continuously endure.

• In His capacity as natural regulator of randhra bhava, Mangala can enforce numerous transformations of the container for an individual vital being (virtual rebirths) within any apparently fleshly lifetime.

• For example major surgery, deep therapeutic healing, emergence from catastrophic change, tantrik magic, can all effect a vital rebirth.

• Mangala is the natural regulator of bhava-8. bhava-8 determines conditions of death; however it is important to understand that death is a VITAL PROCESS and certainly not the "end" of anything.

• Death is a point upon a cycle of continuous movement of vital energy from form to form which is directed by Mangala.

Vimshottari dasha each Budha period is always followed by a Ketu period.

• Budha = L-2 for Vrishabha and L-8 for Vrischika. Thus lord of 2 or 8, which is a divorce trigger, is followed by influence of "surrender" Ketu.

• Should the marriage be on shaky grounds before the Budha bhukti begins, and if other factors are present such as Budha ruling or located in an argumentative position,

• then marital disintegration may start in a Budha period to be followed by abandonment and an exclamation of "I give up" during the immediately subsequent Ketu period.

• During certain long mahadasha (Shukra, Budha, Rahu, Shani) the Budha and Ketu periods are proportionally quite long also, therefore the script of argument (Budha) followed by apathy, despair of improvement, and ultimately abandonment, is given a long playing time in the script.

Mangala + Surya

An exchange of Rashi between Karma's Lord and Lagna's Lord

will make the native associated with the king in a great manner.

~~ BPHS ,Ch. 40, Sl. 13

If the lord of the Lagna and the 10th exchange houseswith each other, then they form a Raja Yoga .

They will confer high position, reputation and power.

~~ BPHS,Ch. 5, Sl. 41

Kanya: befriends

• the mother's relatives,

• the unbalanced, ill and the argumentative;

• the young and unmarried;

• the litigious and accusatory;

• criminals and victims;

• those who break promises;

• those less concerned with promise-keeping, trust, diplomacy and alliances;

• the clinical physicians and human services ministers;

• the exploited and disenfranchised; one's servants and animals; the conflict-oriented

L-6 = Kuja

Vrischika lagna is more likely to have physically-based health problems.

• The physical manifestations of illness are not too mysterious. They tend toward the obvious fleshly wounding of the Mesha warrior aggressive actions: bruises, brain concussion, fevers from infection, cuts and gashes, breaks from collision or fall, blood disease.

• The origin of Vrischika's ailment = usually explicitly physical, and often traceable to sport or competitive contests with the brothers (Mangala), male peers (Mangala), soldiers, police, or animals (e.g. hunting injuries).

• L-6 = the contract-dissolver. In contractual relationships, during the period of L-6, the native will struggle with impulsiveness and a tendency to break promises (6). If other factors suggest impending dissolution of marriage, Mangala periods may signal divorce.

• However physical health will be robust

If L-6 Kuja also occupies the Vrischika radix lagna,

• the native 's life = fraught with physical conflict. The individual is exceptionally competitive to the point of chronic, often destructive, aggressiveness.

• However this is not an unfavorable situation because Kuja = lagnesha

• The physical frustration inherent in this configuration often drives the native to careers military or police service. If Shani is involved with Kuja (yuti or drishti or parivartamsha) the aggression can be channeled into corporate career "climbing" up the status hierarchy, often yielding material and social success.

Mangala in Makara + Shani in Vrischika- this yoga is the best for material gainbecause:

• lord Shani is the gainful 11th-from his tenant Kuja,

• while lagnesha Kuja is self-made-wealth 3rd-from his tenant Shani.

Mangala in Kumbha + Shani in Vrischika- this yoga is the best for public status, respect, and professional recognition because:

• lord Shani is the respectful 10th-from his tenant Kuja,

• while Lord Kuja is the social-emotional security 4th-from his tenant Shani.

Mangala in Makara + Shani in Mesha - this yoga is also good for public status and professional recognition because the same 4/10 yoga obtains.

• = emotional need to be in control

• needs a degree of secrecy and hidden psychological values in sexual relationships

• needs to pursue the forbidden and the unknown

• affinity for shocking revelations, esp in Vishaka

• often emotionally traumatized in childhood

• hides money

• the mother may be exceptionally invasive, controlling and prone to live in a state of constant emotional emergency

• may be a "crisis junkie" = wants things to be a in state of upheaval, disaster, threat to life, and will create an emergency even when there is none, in order to feel needed emotionally

• at the highest levels of consciousness, may be a tantrik yogi and healing facilitator of intentional cycles of self-destruction and rebirth

• Parental, sensitive and intuitive when in the presence of death.

• Can be a deeply healing figure at times of catastrophic change.

Surya-Chandra are the 10th-9th lords, so Vrischika rising is predisposed to assume teaching and leadership responsibilities. The self-concept is one of inherent capability.When the Scorpio lagna person looks in the mirror, s/he sees one destined to guide the people.

• The details of howthey guide their people depend largely on the house and sign position of Surya and Chandra, drishti's to the luminaries, and other adjustments to the general truth that when Ravi is 10th lord the person is born to rule, and when Chandra is 9th lord the moral and religious intuition is highly developed.

  • For example Vrischika rising with Surya/Chandra together in Ari bhava [Mesha rashi] will lead his people but through trade and financial services. This combination gives the Black Moon of course, so often the money rules him rather than him ruling the money!

  • By contrast Vrischika rising with Surya powerful in karmaa-dharma bhava [Simha rashi] while Soma occupies putra bhava [Meena rashi] is much more likely to express her leadership destiny in professional education and the literary arts. The yoga provides a 6/8 Sun-Moon angle, which is less favorable for smooth expression of leadership intelligence. Although she will be respected for her competence due to the powerful position of Surya, she may contradict herself due to the 6/8 and thus lose the people's trust. Inner and outer self are not fully coordinated/are imbalanced in the 6/8 Sun-Moon yoga.

  • Another arrangement might be Ravi in Kanya/11th while Chandra occupies Meena/5th. Chandra as dharma lord brings many blessings to putra bhava and when Ravi occupies the 7th from Chandra, the White Moon (full moon) obtains, giving smooth coordination of inner and outer self-concepts in the world. Professional expression is sensible to the public. Material gains [Surya/11] and honor are granted for work of creativity [Soma/5] and romance [7/7 yoga Sun-Moon].