and light will shine on your path.

~~ Job 22:28

Nine Graha measured from Kumbha Lagna

with Gem Recommendations

Surya

L-7

Surya = karaka for the rational and creative self, soul, and one's ability to channel divine intelligence. Ravi controls the marriage house, therefore for Kumbha lagna the condition of Ravi in the nativity becomes a strong indicator of the character of the spouse.

Career

• The dominant indicator of career is lord of 10th navamsha, and lord of 10th radix; however Surya = a lesser karaka for career and public recognition.

• L-7 Ravi: when Surya is strong, one feels confident(Surya) to undertake career roles and professional placements which feature consulting, advising, counseling, arbitration, mediation, etc. Paired, coordinated work such as partner dancing, partner skating, professional tennis, and various types of business partnerships are validating expressions of Surya when the Great Light is well placed. There may be a preference for contract-based professional service.

Marriage

• The Kumbha native often becomes the 'lesser partner' in marriage due partly to emotional volatility of Chandra = L-6.

• Surya, a karaka for center-stage attention, represents a high-performing, attention-seeking spouse.

• The spouse is charismatic, intelligence, radiantly confident, and the life of the party.

• In the event of divorce (which is sadly a common occurrence for Kumbha, due to the L-6 Chandra), most of the jointly held friends of the couple will stay with the more 'fun' partner (who is certainly not Kumbha).

Husband-and-wife teams can be successful, but the spouse should be the dominant partner, because Kumbha native tends to marry a strong-willed and self-determined spouse (s).

The spouse's own career and the spouse's leadership within the core partnering of marriage may significantly frame the native 's career choices. The Kumbha native often expects the spouse (whether male of female) to possess a more dominant or more professionalized career than oneself.

Because bhava-7 is also a maraka bhava, it is generally not recommended to use remedial ruby except in special circumstances.

As Dr. Kapoor notes, one of those special circumstances could be a very focused professional drive toward promotion or recognition in the institutional hierarchy. The larger the native 's network (Kumbha) of association, the better is the chance of Surya-ratna having a positive effect on the development of that infrastructure of consulting and advising relationships which underlies every successful public career.

Remedial and Supportive Gems for Surya - Manika (pure Ruby)

Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology . Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 90

Chandra = L-6 = "The Problematizer"

• Inimical view of father, king, and politics

• Disagrees with male (Ravi) privilege, claims of divine right, pretenders to royal charisma

• May feel victimized by those who claim to be brilliant, special, central to the scene, or above human law

bhava-7 = alliances, agreements and trusts.

bhava-6 = 12th-from-7th = dissolution of contract, disagreement and distrust. Most acute results during Chandra Mahadasha or Vimshottari periods of graha in 6/8 angle to Chandra.

The Kumbha native = often a spiritual aspirant with emotional and financial problems. One seeks moksha but an underlying emotional illness may prevent spiritual relaxation and release.

the native may feel oft beset with jealousy and mood swings, digestive problems and body pain of emotional origin, and financial problems due to indebtedness also originating in emotionally charged taking of loans.

• Chandra lord of mahadusthamsha Ripu bhava breaks promises and ruins agreements, making divorce and disagreement a common emotional reality for this lagna. While the child is growing up, the mother is plagued by sickness and regrets.

• The child may be accused of causing one's own problems. Blame-the-victim is a parental strategy to maintain emotional control over a child who is being used as a servant. If Rahu in 6 or Rahu involved with Chandra, higher likelihood of criminal extremes such as human trafficking.

• The lagnesha Shani also rules the retreating, reclusive Vyaya bhava. In a mood, the native will withdraw into one's imagination or travel to a distant place to get away from the emotional stress.

• One may be taken from the homeland (Chandra) at a tender age, and victimized or exploited by caretakers or parent-figures.

Due to awkward lordship for Chandra, Kumbha lagna is a fairly difficult life placement. Kumbha lagna nativities are somewhat less commonly distributed. Often, the only partner who can really understand Kumbha is another Kumbha.

Animals and Servants = Emotional Protective Instinct

• Chandra's Emotional Protective Instincts embrace and nurture denizens of bhava-6, who are primarily animals and servants, workers and the dispossessed.

• Kumbha natives will be found in satisfying emotional relationships to their house pets, cats dogs and horses, as well as even emotionally sensitiveprotective engagement with kine (cattle) sheep and beasts of burden.

• Kumbha may enjoy success as animal trainers, operators of animal shelters and rescue groups, and the native may find that when human companions disappoint, an animal companion will remain supportive and steadfast.

• Similarly, emotionally protective relationships with servants and dispossessed or marginalized persons can easily developed.

• Kumbha feels a great sympathy for the victim, the impoverished, the indebted, and the ill.

Trust Issues with Parents, Nurturers and Caretakers

Mal-parenting

• It is a dilemma that is profoundly acute and often painful for Kumbha: the parents, especially the mother = manipulative, unreliable and disagreeable. Extreme results can be criminal.

  • Due to the past-life unfinished business, in the present life one's very core of support and nurturing is polluted by the parents (esp mothers') adversarial feelings.

  • The parents may (consciously or more often unconsciously) victimize the native .

  • Parents-caretakers may then become accusers, blaming the victim for failure to maintain trust and unwillingness to honor the terms of contracts. They may exploit the native , forcing one into service. Extreme examples of parents involved with human trafficking of their own children are unfortunately not hard to find.

• Abuse by the maternal uncle (6 = 3rd from 4th) or someone posing in that role (e.g., a temporary companion of the mother addressed as 'uncle'.)

• Rahu drishti to Chandra or Rahu in Karkata can exacerbate the outcome.

• . For both men and women, lifelong 'problematicity' (a repeating argument involving several interlocked problems) with betraying women, esp one's own mother

• For a male, distrust of the mother of one's children.

• For a female, one's own nurturing capabilities are oddly handicapped by relationship breakdown, and the flow of parenting energy may be only intermittent. Often the mother is separated from her children by her feeling that she is not quite capable of providing daily routine and shelter.

• Unless Chandra is very well placed, the may be deep issues with animosity and distrust. Although these feelings (Soma) may be masked by a veneer of emotional responsiveness to others, at base the native is challenged to extract . Chandra well disposed in radix or navamsha may compensate socially with a stable public marriage but even a good placement of Soma cannot quickly erase the deep karma of early childhood harm by the parents. Especially acute with Chandra in a nakshatra of Chandra (Rohini, Hasta, Sravana).

• As L-6 for Kumbha lagna, the highly fluctuating and impressionable Chandra provides consistently frustrating emotional challenges in life.

• The very force of maternal caring and (ideally) unconditional acceptance by the mother is oppressed into service as the disagreeable L-6.

Chandra ruler of Core Emotions controls the awkward, unbalanced Ripu Bhava. A fundamental lack of trust in nurturers, and in those who have assumed caretaker or protector roles in the current incarnation, provides a significant challenge to one's attempt to achieve lasting agreements in emotional relationships.

• Even when Chandra is blessed with a gracious rashi and bhava, the fundamental emotional distrust and disappointment-in-advance regarding marriage partner behaviors, will be present.

Kumbha lagna and Kumbha chandra are both good indicators of success in monastic spiritual life. This success begins to accelerate when one understands and accepts the karmic predicament of Kumbha's emotional constitution in this life. The most satisfying emotional relationships happen between the Kumbha native and the ishtadevata.

However human emotional relationships with their complex and relentless expectation of compassionate nurturing acceptance will be systematically disappointed. Kumbha natives may attempt multiple marriages and marriage-type commitments in the fond pursuit of a lasting agreement, but even the most lovely Moon

Marriage and Alliances

Chandra unbalances relationships between individual partners, between individuals and various groups, and between the individual and society.

Emotional mandate (often unconscious) toward multiple marriages or no marriage. Underlying search for compensatory parenting, wants a caretaker spouse. Seeks shelter, protection, and nourishment yet this native is attracted to Simha-type spouses who are somewhat self-centered.

A peculiar pattern of matching energy occurs in the Kumbha marriage. Yet the spouse's imagination (12th from 7th) is so overcharged with animosity due to their own childhood, that when combined with the native 's own (matching) self-accusation and internalized blaming from the parents that sustaining a marriage may be an overwhelming emotional challenge.

Social isolation or Fringe identity

• The Kumbha native feels that one does not quite belong. In the best case, Chandra occupies swakshetra-6, leading to an exceptional career in maternal-child medicine or the care of the service class.

• Also good results may possibly arise from Chandra in the uchcha Vrishabha bhava-4, where the native may become a happy and prosperous owner of a great many real-estate properties.

• However no matter what material contentment the Kumbha native may find, it will fluctuate according to the nature of Chandra.

One tends to get in and out of relationships very quickly, due to the chronic emotional need to find one's place in life but followed shortly by the emotional reaction to the inevitable loss of agreement that is the hallmark of the lord of Ripu Bhava.

Chandra is an especially difficult graha for Kumbha nativities in which Chandra = L-6 from both radix lagna (material animosity) and Chandra lagna (emotional imbalance): e.g., Kumbha radix lagna + Kumbha Chandra (a fairly rare type of nativity) Chandra rules house-6: for Kumbha lagna.

• Kumbha natives are emotionally oriented toward providing service in exchange for security and protection. They are happiest in service roles that manage conflict, protect victims, regulate social power imbalances etc, such as police, social welfare, human rights, criminal defense, health workers, purveyors of medicines, etc.

• Chandra's radix and navamsha rashi's and any drishti to Chandra will show the native 's specific style of pursuing security and emotional fulfillment. (e.g., Moon ruled by Shukra gives service roles in beauty and fairness; ruled by Shani gives service roles in law enforcement; ruled by Surya service role in entertainment etc.)

• Typically these natives suffer a good deal of internal emotional conflict in their own lives. They tend to acquire debt during their pursuit of security and fulfillment. They are unusually prone toward illnesses and accidents. They feel deep empathy for animals wild and domestic, and for all types of victims.

• The Kumbha man will in particular feel outraged by the criminal (or nearly so) actions of the most motherly women in his life; it will be his high challenge to see these women, supposed to be queenly fountains of unconditional love (Chandra) as mere humans and frankly of the lowest human genre (6). All partnerships with women are colored by a fundamental unerlying disappointment in the moral weakness of women as a class.

L-6 Chandra = women in the parenting or caretaking roleare problematic in the lifetime.

Agents of breakdown of trust = virtually any person (male or female) vested in a parental, protective trust.

• Mothers, aunts, and grandmothers = may breakpromises or fail to protect

• schoolteachers and camp counselors;

• babysitters, including friends of the parents, or step-parents = may become exploitive or abusive

• nurses in home-care and hospitals;

• one's friend's mothers;neighbors who watch the children;

• schools and schoolteachers may misbehave, be domineering, assign task-lists of busywork, learning feels like slave-work.

• nurturers deprive one of nourishment

• the ocean and marine workers = imbalance in all things from the ocean, to the point of allergies to sea-food and ailment after ocean bathing; Kumbha is prone to be sea-sick.

No matter how fortunate Chandra's character by other measures, Kumbha natives face an underlying karma of disappointment from women in general.

One's own mother = victimizedby exploitive or domineering others. Perhaps she was forced to abandon a career she enjoyed in order to follow her husband's wishes; perhaps her servitude is more oppressive. She might have suffered a chronic illness or been obliged to repay another's debt. One may feel that the mother's taste in husbands was degrading in some sense.

Seva:

• The disabilities of L-6 Chandra can be mitigated via selfless service to ignorant, enslaved, or victimized women.

Kuja

L-3 / L-10

Vital and competitive Kuja controls daily mental process and leadership roles. During Kuja's period if the native has strong administrative business inclinations and Kuja is reasonably auspicious at birth, it may be OK to apply coral and other gems of Kuja.

Remedial and Supportive Gems for Kumbha lagna

According to Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 98

"For the Aquarius Ascendant

• Mars will be lord of the 3rd and 10th houses.

• Red Coral can be worn in the major period of Mars

  • for promotion and success in the professional field.

• If, however, Mars is in his own sign in the 10th,

  • this disposition will give rise to Ruchaka Yoga ...

  • and the native can wear a Red Coral with advantage whenever necessary. "

Budha

L-5 / L-8

Intelligence and the Occult

Budha wants to talk-about, instruct, explain, classify, discriminate, analyze, articulate, and announce re: matters of bhava-8 and bhava-5 = Intelligence and the Occult:

• 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

• Destruction and Rebirth (8): emergencies, disasters, secret instructions, confidential information, privileged information, transformative process, insider knowledge, psychology, detection, digging, drilling, plunging, plumbing, mining, penetration, emergence, surgery, excavating, discoveries, revelation, rejuvenation, reconstruction,

Budha's rulership of Mangala's natural bhava-8 is somewhat problematic because Budha and Mangala are enemies. Budha wants to talk while Mangala wants to act.

• If Budha is not well disposed, the native may develop a reputation for blustering and boasting about knowing occult secrets, detecting hidden resources and making transformative changes. Kumbha may acquire a social reputation as the "New Age type" who seems to babble on (Mithuna) about occult topics in a confused, superficial, or psuedo-scientific way.

Conversationally active and sexually curious, Budha the Analyzer will give mixed results over the period of a lifetime. Good results for children, creativity, performance arts, games and amusements.

Remedial and Supportive Gems: Flawless Emerald (panna) for Budha

"For the Aquarius Ascendant,

• Mercury is lord of the 5th and 8th houses.

• On account of his lordship of a trine Mercury is accepted mostly as an auspicious planet for this ascendant.

• The lord of this Ascendant Saturn is a friend of Mercury.

• Therefore, if Emerald is worn with blue sapphire it will prove very beneficial to the native .

• Similarly beneficial will be the combination of Emerald and Diamond

• As the ruler of the latter Venus being a friend of Mercury is a yoga karaka for this Ascendant on account of his lordship of the 4th and the 9th houses.

• The same applies in the case of Capricorn Ascendant where also Venus is a yoga karaka planet on account of his lordship of the 5th and 10th houses."

Guru

•   material wealth = L-2 + L-11 Guru

• family, face, food (2)

• values (2)

• knowledge of history and languages (2)

• marketplace earnings (11)

• associative distributive networks (11)

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

Wealth

Optimistic and inclusive Brihaspati becomes a highly auspicious L-2 + L-11 wealth generator for Kumbha lagna.

Wealth according to the bhava and the rashi.

For Kumbha lagna, presuming that Guru is fairly well disposed, periods of L-2+L-11 Guru generate considerable wealth via family-of-origin hoarded assets and knowledge-values, as well as via earned income from the marketplace of goods and services.

Wise and expansive Guru controls wealth in this nativity via bhava-2 (savings, hoards, accumulations) and bhava-11 (gains of income and achievement of goals).

Guru and Shani are neutral toward each other, therefore during periods of Guru the pushkaraja, "pukhraj"is good to wear. However the Yellow Sapphire is generally prescribed ONLY in periods of Guru.

Mahadasha of Guru emphasizes values both scholarly and material (language, knowledge of history, speech, art, music, and money) . In addition to substantial wealth, all periods of Guru including any bhukti wherein Guru occupies a favorable angle from the mahadashapati can also be expected to bring the realization of clearly articulated goals and objectives in life.

Via the "elder brother" or someone in a mentoring role, the native will receive generous help in bringing one's goals into material reality.

Remedial and Supportive Gems: yellow sapphire (pushkaraja, "pukhraj") for Guru

Apply the pukharajaratnawith caution, appreciating that L-2 is a powerful marakaalso.

Although a maraka graha, Guru will normally not kill the native early in life, unless Brihaspati is also lord of 2nd or 7th from Chandra. Therefore Kumbha natives should avoid the "Pukh-raj" when Chandra occupies Vrischika, Kumbha, Kanya, or Mithuna.

Otherwise, as Dr. Kapoor notes, those not under imminent threat of death may enjoy the fruits of wealth and a broad network of friendly association by enhancement from the Guru Ratna.

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

Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 108:

"For the Aquarius Ascendant,

• Jupiter will be lord of the 2nd and the 11th houses.

• Saturn, the lord of this Ascendant, is an enemy of Jupiter.

• Still yellow sapphire can be worn in the major period of Jupiter particularly when it is in his own sign in the 2nd or the 11th, to gain wealth, children and other comforts.

  • However, those who are apprehending death because of old age or some illness or on account of indication of short life in their horoscopes, should not wear Yellow Sapphire

  • as Jupiter being lord of the 2nd house, is a death inflicting planet for this Ascendant. "

Shukra

L-4+ L-9

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

Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994).Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 113:

"For the Capricorn and Aquarius Ascendants,

• Venus will respectively be lord of the 5th and 10thand the 4th and 9th houses.

• Therefore, Venus is considered an excellent and Yogakaraka planet for these Ascendants.

• the native s of these Ascendants will do well in every sphere of their life by wearing a Diamond.

• In the major period of Venus, wearing of a Diamond is a 'must' for those who have faith in the divine power of gem stones.

• The results will become pronounced if Diamond is worn along with Blue Sapphire."

Shani

L-1+ L-12

Pragmatic and conventional Shani controls both identity and loss of identity.

Shani for Kumbha lagna plays a special role in the lifetime. While not granting extraordinary vitality in the physical body (such as the lagnesha can normally do) Shani may help the native to cultivate a practice of mature withdrawal from the frenzy of modern life, pragmatic service to others, ability to see the common traits in all sentient beings, and a dedicated meditation practice. Shani may be the agent of acquisition of a great inner peace.

Periods of Shani

• often evoke foreign travel (12), loss and of identity (12), various material losses and dissolution (12), heightened nervous sensitivity (1) and increased clairsentience (12), hospitalization or long sanctuary in meditation (12), animosity from the spouse (12), bed pleasures (12),new identity via new clothing, new appearance, or new social attributes (1).

• the native is prone toward meditation and pilgrimage.

Even in middle age, undertaking long sojourn abroad during Shani period is easy for the Kumbha native due to the identity-dissolving effects of 12 combined with the new-clothes or new-attributeseffect of 1.

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

One may cautiously apply the Nilamand Shani's lesser stones during Shani periods.

• Shani-ratna may increase the native 's intuitive awareness of the existence and psychic traffic along the bridge between the astral and material planes. Dream recognition and comprehension of symbolic communicative meanings will increase, as well as one's inclination toward meditation and austere spiritual retreat.

Dr. G. S. Kapoor. (1994). Gems and Astrology. Ranjan Publications, New Delhi. p. 117

"For the Capricorn and Aquarius Ascendants

• Saturn is the lord of the Ascendant.

• Blue Sapphire should be worn by the native s of these Ascendants as a protective charm all their life.

• It will bestow good health, long life, prosperity, wealth, happiness and success in their ventures.

The effects of Blue Sapphire will be strengthened

• if a Diamond, the gem stone of Venus, who is a Yogakaraka for these two Ascendants, is worn along with it. "

Rahu

Rahu's effects for Kumbha lagna depend significantly on Rahu's bhava, rashi, and incoming 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 are sharing 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 from the lagna or 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 .)

Remedial and Supportive Gemstones

Rahu-ratna

Rahu is co-lord of kendra bhava-1 Kumbha,

• therefore Rahu-ratna (gomedha) may be a beneficial gem for matters of personality development and the vitality of the physical body -- if and only if the lord of bhava-1 and its occupants are auspiciously placed.

Ketu = 8 + 10

• 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.

• Ketu = temporal co-lord of bhava-10 = 3rd-from-8th = Vrischika

• Ketu = the natural co-regulator of bhava-8.

For Kumbha lagna, Lord Ketu = associated with

• Mangala = temporal co-regulator of 10 + natural co-regulator of 8.

• Mangala = enemy of lagnesha Shani

• Budha = temporal lord of 8-Kanya.

• Mangala = enemy of Budha.

to predict the effects of Ketu Mahadasha, measure:

• the influence of Ketu's planetary lord

• the disposition of both Budha and Mangala

Mangala can be an engine of self-destructive sexual coupling (Mangala-Budha) for Kumbha nativities. Ketu-ratna Vaidurya is unlikely to be a beneficial gem except for matters of self-explanatory narrative esp mystical-transformative writing and publication. Even for those special purposes, prescribe the Ketu-ratna only if the lord of bhava-3 and its occupants are auspicious.

Under certain carefully assessed circumstances, if the lord of bhava-10 and occupants of karma bhava are auspiciously placed, and a "scattering" non-discriminating effect could be perhaps helpful, the Cat's Eye might aid special cases of iconic public recognition (10). These are rare circumstances but they do occur.

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