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Budha
Soumya, saumayana (Son of Soma/Moon) --
Kumara (teenager) - Rauhineya
German biotan, bieten Anglo Saxon beodan English
bid
Mercury
Mentality,
thinking, instruction, discrimination, conversation, publication,announcement, analysis,
logical argument, problem-solving,
articulation, writing, hand-craft, manual skills, cooperation, collaboration,
teamwork, chat "The root function of language is to control the universe
by describing it." ~~ James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village
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Intelligence
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The
Calculator
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Professions: Sales,
marketing, advertising, public relations
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Information vs. Wisdom vs. Truth
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Speech
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Herb (Bhasman) for Budha
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Planetary Neutrality
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Genius
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Shri Krishna Avatara (in some traditions)
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Mentality
The
Mentalizer
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Skills Training
Education
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Budha's Two "Teenage" mentality
houses - Sahaja and Ari
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Intellectualization
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Internal and External
Narrative, communication,
conversation
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mental process, conceptual thought
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Drishti to Budha
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Sexuality , interpersonal relationships
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12 Rashi Qualities of Budha
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Combust Budha [moudhya]
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Hands,
hand-to-eye coordination
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12 Domain Qualities of Budha
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Mulatrikona
Budha
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Short journeys, short-term
projects
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Budha yuti other grahas
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Neechcha Budha
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Nose
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Vimshottari dasha of Budha, from BPHS
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Uchcha Budha
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Scripts, writings, Texts, dialogs, protocols, formalized
communications
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Budha and Business: 12 domains for Commercial Profit
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Graha in
3rd-from-Budha
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Chandra as Enemy
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cleverness,
discrimination
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Welcome in Mithuna and Kanya
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workgroups,
teams, neighbors
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sibling-cousin groups
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Budha = malefic or
benefic? |
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Mercury:
from L. Mercurius
"Mercury," the Roman god, originally Agod of tradesmen and
thieves, from merx
"merchandise"
- "c.1150, from L. Mercurius
"Mercury," the Roman god, originally a god of tradesmen and thieves, from
merx "merchandise " or
perhaps from Etruscan infl. by merx. Later
he was associated with Greek Hermes .
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- The planet closest to the sun so called
in classical Latin (c.1386 in Eng.). Sense of "silver-white metal,
quicksilver" is first recorded c.1386, when elements were commonly
associated alchemically with the planets. This one probably so associated
for its mobility."
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~~ www.etymologyonline.com
budh
- To wake , wake up , be awake ; to recover consciousness
(after a swoon)
- To observe , heed , attend to
- To perceive , notice , learn , understand , become or be aware of or
Acquainted with
- To think of, i.e. present a person
- To know to be , recognize as
- To deem , consider or regard as
- To be Awakened or restored to consciousness
- To wake up , arouse , restore to life or consciousness
- to revive the scent (of a perfume)
- To cause (a flower) to expand
- To cause to Observe or attend , admonish , advise
- To make a person acquainted with , remind or inform of. impart or
communicate anything to
- To wish to observe , desire to become acquainted with
- To have an insight into , understand thoroughly
Budha:
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class="style11">Awaking
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class="style11">intelligent , clever , wise
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class="style11">A wise or learned man , sage
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class="style11">A god
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class="style11">dog
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class="style11">A descendant of Soma, hence also called saumya, saumAyana
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class="style11">Author of RVand father of Puru-ravas
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class="style11">identified with the planet Mercury Mercury (regarded as a son of Soma or the moon)
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class="style11">Wednesday
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Cologne
Digital Sanskrit Lexicon
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class="style19">A
ccuracy, analytical adjustment, not originality, averse to
love/devotion, communications, editing, comprehension, research, computer
knowledge, convertible nature, sexless, diplomacy, discrimination, elegance,
eloquence, fun, liberal, general success, green things, idealism, averse to
wisdom, intellectual knowledge, wit, intuition, memory, logic journalists,
mathematics, medicine, astrology, medium of truth, sciences, messengers, public
speakers, polarization = its central quality, publishers, scholars, short
distance, day to day travel, skin-touch, virility, speech, writing, study,
books, education, Vishnu (god). (Adapted from
Das)
BPL:
communications media production ,
films, books, magazines, computers and software, audio-video, programming,
calendars, schedules, administration, writing ,
reports and announcements, narrative , script, hand-craft,
tools, artisan skills, event planning, publication of
text, gesture,
speech and song, every variety of commerce ,
youth-oriented, embrace, sexual mating, mental activity,
prescriptive medicine (vs. diagnostic medicine = Guru), drugs and potions,
brief or local ravel (vs. Guru for world travel)
conversations, image-manipulation; nose, ears, hands, arms; advertising, sales and marketing; argument; fraud, greenish things
| "Budhi is endowed with an attractive physiqueand
the capacity to use words with many meanings. He is fond of jokes. He has a
mix of all the three humors." ~~ BPHS Ch. 3
[Planetary
Charactersand Description], Shloka 26
[Planetary
Charactersand Description], Shloka 26
"Mercury rules Veda, writing, sculpture, medicines, expertise,
minister-ship, speech, jokes, birds, couples, fame, Vanaspathi (i.e.
a large forest tree which bears fruit apparently without any blossoms) and gold.
" ~~ Saravali, Ch. 7-13
.. Mercury is a malefic if He joins a
malefic ...
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BPHS Ch.
3 (Graha Characteristics and Descriptions), Shloka 11
An afflicted Mercury indicates an
increase in low class association
and opponents, loss of wealth, fear of being confined, mean speech and an
unsteady mind.
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Das / Behari
6th from Budha be also considered in regard to indications derivable from
Ari Bhava.
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BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43
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| Peenasa-roga Yoga, #278 --
"Mercury is the planet associated with the nose and therefore any
afflictions to him may find expression in the shape of the person suffering from
nasal complaints."
~~ B. V. Raman, Three
Hundred Important Combinations
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(10th ed., Delhi, 1991). Originally published in 1947.
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Budha = malefic or benefic?
"The Moon.and
~~
B.V. Raman,
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(10th ed., Delhi, 1991,
1947). "Malefics, Benefics, and Neutrals" p.
6
class="style54"> The
Mentalizer
Budha = the natural lord of domain-3
(announcements, reports) and domain-6 (logical argumentation,
problem-solving).
Budha is the lord a small island of
rational thought within the great ocean of "Mind" (Chandra). It is the
Island of Rational Thought.
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Most of Budha's thinking is
pragmatic (He is a friend of Shani) and
most of the outcome of Budha's activities is
directed to the material plane.
Mercury determines the native's ability to profit from
measuring and managing the
matters of Budha's immediate environment.
Budha is capable of conceptual thought.
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His
calculations are not limited to perceptions of the five physical senses.
Yet
even when Budha is operating in the world of abstract philosophy, He is
busy measuring cycles, setting rhythms, and "making meter".
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Budha measures objects and the relationships between objects in the field of
psycho-mental perception.
class="style53"> Split-ness
class="style18">A fundamental premise of Budha's
weltanschauung is that the world, and one's true self, is naturally split in half .
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class="style18">Reality consists of infinite numbers of
opposite pairs and partners, connected by that permanent copula which is the Self.
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class="style18">(In English grammar, the "copula" = "to be".)
class="style18">Budha is a coupler.
class="style53"> Budha and Emotional or Physical Insecurity
Budha = natural enemy of Chandra.
Budha =lord of
- 3rd-from-Karkata (writing about home
and homeland)
- 12th-from-Karkata (dissolution of security,
threat of invasion).
class="style53"> Budha and Cultural Pluralism
class="style18">Some commentators opine that the USA is a
premier land of Mithuna, because every citizen has a split
identity : inside the USA, one can never be simply what the
outside world considers as 'American'. Rather, patriotic self-definition
in the USA has, since 1776, required a split self. One must acknowledge
one's still-valid past identity even as one confirms a full embrace of the
new: thus, Irish-American, Polish-American, African-American, Native
American, etc.
class="style18">Many attempts to eradicate this "two-ness"
in USA society have failed. For example,
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class="style18" o destroy their tribal identity,
Native American children were forcibly taken from their parents to be
raised in government boarding schools (run by Christian missionaries).
However, at the end of their ordeal, the children almost universally
returned to their parents, their land, their tribal religions, and
their customs.
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class="style18">In the years leading up to WWII, the
presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Calvin
Coolidge both ran aggressive campaigns against "hyphenated
identity" on the logic that any form of split identity amongst
Americans was dangerous to national security. Naturally, both men have
Chandra in Mithuna; and Mithuna natives tend to believe that all
options are equal. The campaign failed largely because non-Mithuna
people realize that humans will defend the land one lives upon; not
the land in which a particular language is spoken, or where one was
born.
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class="style18">As the USA continues to accept
immigrants from an ever-increasing diversity of ethnic and religious
backgrounds, the "two-ness" of American identity both deepens and
persists. New identities such as "Muslim-American" and
"Mexican-American" are re-stimulating the historic debate (Budha) about
patriotic loyalty. The answer to the old doubt about bifurcated
identity however remains the same: two-ness is a form of strength in
any narrative. But repression of duality and dogmatic insistence on
artificial unity is a weakness in any debate .
Budha and Economy
class="style18">It turns out that FDR and Silent Cal had
relatively little to be worried about. Budha's split-mindedness encourages
His karaka activities of commerce, administration, siblings-teamwork,
manual skills, publications and media production.
class="style18">Budha created first an "industrial
economy" based on machine (Budha) technology, followed by the
current information (Budha) economy based on electronic counting (Budha)
machines (computers).
class="style18"> All economies (whether financial, social, biological,
conceptual) depend upon the mental dance
of compare and contrast, polarity and unification, opposition and union,
coupling and uncoupling, on and off, up and down, in and out... All Budha,
all the time!
class="style52">As other nations (notably India) take up
the culture of two-ness, so that a national identity can be
flexibly paired with a community (race, caste, religion)
identity, the economy of those nations can be expected to prosper due to
increased communication between its citizens.
class="style52"> The
more that people are
allowed to possess complex identities, the more economic diversification
is encouraged, and the wealthier people may become through their own
efforts (domain-3, self-made wealth).
class="style52">Conversely, the more rigid the
limitations (Shani) on which characteristics can be coupled in the national and
personal identity (such as in theocratic or mono-ethnic states, where only one
ideology, class, or religion
is allowed), the faster the economy dies.
class="style18"> Internal narrative .
class="style18">Budha controls that great
port, the mind's freight-container
thought-switching-yard, which is the active repository of all the
accumulated conversations of this and previous lives.
Human "mind" in Jyotisha encompasses a
vast realm, consisting of Chandra's huge ocean of astral emotion that
surrounds the relatively small island of Budha's explicitly verbalized
thought.
In Budha's small but hyperactive terrain,
"minding" as a performative verb gives a function of "A
budh"
or "attending to".
Chandra = the greater " mind "
whereas Budha, Saumya son of Soma, is a subset of mind that is defined by
the mirroring function of " remind ".
Budha = the mentalized repetition of apprehended experience = the specialized naming, articulating,
explaining and organizing functions of "mind".
Budha's Domain-3 is typically a busy,
chatty, administrating, interactive domain concerned with this repetitive,
rationalizing subset mental process.
Soma and Budha = Father and Son
In Jyotisha lore, Budha is the son of
Soma. The myth says that father and son have a rather contentious
relationship. Soma and Budha have the classic "senex"
relationship exemplified in the Greek tragedies
Odyssey and
Oedipus Rex,
and Shakespeare's: the young buck tries to usurp the power of an elder,
thinking that youthful speed and clever innovation will surely win over
age and outmoded habit. But,
Chandra is the Old One: mature, settled,
does not rush to conclusions, knowing, Budha the kumara (teenager) is considered immature, adolescent, unsettled, too quick to
.Historically, the rational, naming, objectifying part of the mind is a
later addition to the human being. Thus
class="style18">Budha is
the karaka of neutral, skillful communication.
class="style18"> 6th-from
any house indicates animosity, exploitation, or disease in matters of that
house.
class="style18"> The house which is 6th-from-Budha will
indicate any "imbalance of neutrality" or "loss of
agreement" in communications. The native's behavior in regard to matters of
this house will be less concerned with the interests of others, inimical to
balanced agreements, independent exhibit behaviors areas,
which are all the effects of imbalance (Ari being 12th-from-7th, loss of balance)
in the body, mind, spirit,and pocketbook :)
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You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were
walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick
up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket.
he friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?"
" The
picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil.
"That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend.
"Oh, not at all," the devil replied. "I am going to
help him organize it." ~~ Jiddu
Krishnamurti
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Intelligence:
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Budha is not really the karaka for Intelligence. Divine
intelligence emanates from Surya, the Sun (Vishnu). -
rue human intelligence, in
the form of Wisdom, is the province of Guru.
"The relinquishing of the present happiness and the
pursuit of a future one is never the policy of intelligent people. " ~~ Mahabharata, Shanti Parva,
140.36
class="style25"> Discriminating: Information vs. Wisdom vs. Truth
Budha describes "mental
thinking".
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Budha, natural lord of domain-3 for team communications,
and domain-6 for arguments and disagreements, is the darling of the Information
Economy. (Budha is a major karaka for commercial
business.
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Budha represents a somewhat superficial layer of the
personality that facilitates human-to-human communication.
Guru describes "wise
knowing".
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Guru, natural lord of domain-9 for the house of
worship, and domain-12 for the meditation cave, is the inner priest and the
inner professor.
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Guru represents the religious (9) and psychic (12)
knowledge passed from generation to generation through the priestly
lineages.
Surya describes " The
brilliant light of truth".
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Surya, natural lord of domain-5, is the karaka for
Genius. Surya is the Light of Truth at the center of all religions.
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Surya represents the human soul's connection to the
Divine.
Planetary
Neutrality
Budha's machinery is strictly neutral toward the
information it is processing.
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Budha carries no inherent values and continues no karmic
legacy. Budha carries out the agenda of His lord.
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In the hierarchy of graha, Budha is similar to the
"Prime Minister" who provides essential information and guidance to
the King. However it is (or should be) the King who makes the ultimate ethical
decision.
class="style54"> In Swakshetra
In Mithuna rashi and Kanya rashi, Budha is almost
perfectly neutral toward the information He is processing (barring the effect of
drishti).
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Budha processes information as it is
found, with no agenda except "data in, data out". -
Incoming
sense data, largely determined by the bhava Budha occupies, is interpreted,
logically organized, and messaged out.
class="style54"> Budha is Friendly with Surya and Shukra
Budha always sees The King (Surya) and the Minister of
Sense Pleasure (Shukra) as friends. Surya is neutral toward Budha, while
Shukra accepts Budha as a friend.
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Budha feels welcomed in Vrishabha, Simha, and Thula
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Parivartamsha yoga between
Surya and Budha gives a highly confident, elitist, but ethical communication
style. The native is a fact-based decision-maker.
Examples:
Parivartamsha yoga between Budha and Shukra gives a
pleasant communication style which flourishes in businesses of high
civilization which are highly populated by women. The native's thinking is
oriented toward facilitating the pleasures of self and others. A
mentalized sensualist.
E.g., literature and literary publishing, physical
and dramatic arts, delicious oils and wines fashion, jewelry and
textiles diplomacy and human relationships and items of gracious
pleasure.
Examples:
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U.S. Pres. G.H.W.
Bush (Sr.) - Budha Vrishabha + Shukra Mithuna
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U.S. Pres. Harry
Truman - Budha Vrishabha + Shukra Mithuna
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Jiddu
Krishnamurti - Budha Vrishabha + Shukra Mithuna
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Meryl Streep (prize-winning actor, extraordinary
skill with speech accents) - Budha Vrishabha + Shukra Mithuna
A much more problematic parivartamsha occurs when Budha
occupies a rashi of Shukra and Shukra occupies His neechcha position in Kanya.
The two graha are mutual friends, but Shukra is ill-disposed. The native has
social and commercial success in non-romantic business relationships and
relatively little trouble from men. Yet, there is usually a history of
perfectionistic,
over-compensating women due to the neechcha
Shukra.
Examples:
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Prince Charles
- Budha Thula
+ Shukra Kanya
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Jack
Welch (historic CEO of General Electric megacorp) - Budha Thula
+
Shukra Kanya
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brilliant but tragic philosopher of social history,
Michel Foucault - Budha Thula
+ Shukra Kanya
class="style54"> Budha is Neutral in rashi of Shani
Hostility from Guru and Mangala
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In Mesha,
Vrischika, Meena and Dhanau, mentalistic Kumara is not welcome. Although Budha
is neutral toward His hosts when Budha occupies a rashi of Kuja or Guru, those
hosts are hostile to Budha as a tenant.
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Wisdom-lord Vrihaspati dislikes Budha's
superficial, day-to-day perspective which cannot accommodate Guru's "big
picture" cosmic understanding. Kuja dislikes Budha's habit of talking
when Kuja would prefer to fight. -
Budha loses some of His objectivity when He resides in
the signs of those who dislike Him. Budha tends to "talk too big" (or too
vague) when in a rashi of Guru. Budha tends to speak too aggressively (or too
selfishly) when in a rashi of Mangala.
class="style25"> Budha sees His true but illegitimate father
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Chandra
as an Enemy
In Karkata, Budha loses much of His natural neutrality
and becomes uncomfortably emotionalized.
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Drishti from Chandra is also mentally destabilizing to
Budha, in the sense that psychic instincts to obtain and protect emotional and
physical security will tend to over-rule Budha's neutral assessment of the
facts.
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The native
's Objective logic is
compromised
by feeling of imminent threat of home (or homeland) invaders.
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Budha in Karkata:
George
W.
Bush, Jerry
Falwell Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, Fidel Castro
Who is welcome in Mithuna and
Kanya ?
Kuja
Although accepted as a neutral into Mithuna rashi and
Kanya rashi, Mangala is very uncomfortable in those analytical, argumentative,
verbally dominated places. Kuja is looking for a way to fight and compete.
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In Budha's signs, Kuja is forced to fight with words
(criticism, sarcasm) which does not give Mangala the dominating, physical
power He wants.
Guru
Although accepted as a neutral into Mithuna rashi and
Kanya rashi, Vrihaspati is very uncomfortable in those analytical,
argumentative, verbally dominated places. Guru is looking for a way to expand
wisdom and understanding.
Mentality
Kumara ('the teenager') is the karaka for one's
personal mentality. Kumara is quick, incomplete, reactive not reflective, and "smart".
He reveals the internal and external mental processing and messaging
style.
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hus, Budha's role in the Jyotisha nativity shows the
native's power to organize and develop the day-to-day
information
which humans need to interpret their world.
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Budha regulates that adult mental-skill toolkit of
heuristic devices - aphorisms, mnemonics, rules of thumb, models - which speed
thinking and promote accuracy.
"The best remedy for sorrow (dukha) is to not think
about it. Thinking about sorrow increases it, rather than decreasing it.
"~~ Mahabharata Stri Parva
2.27
Intellectualization
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If conditions are ideal (e.g., uchcha vargottama Budha in
kendra not combust in same rashi with the Sun) the native may be spectacularly
intellectualized.
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Nevertheless, if Surya and Guru lack strength, even a great analyst may
not be Wise.
Drishti
Drishti from malefics can reduce
messaging capabilities.
Drishti from benefics can expand and enhance
communication skills.
Shani Drishti
Drishti from Shani restrains the
articulatory capacity.
If Shani owns and aspects Budha's rashi, the native
may struggle to message effectively.
When Shani has inordinate impact on Budha, the native
tends toward unclear speech.
he mechanics of Shani-influenced Budha include a
tendency to reduce meaningful sounds and words, lopping off
final syllables, reducing essential vowels, and dropping final consonants even
if the language being spoken requires these items for clear meaning.
he handwriting may become illegible.
The native's
resistance
toward full articulation of the signal-marks (letters, diacritics,
connectors, separators, punctuation, etc.) in the script makes the output too
minimized and the marks become difficult to distinguish.
Writing becomes a slow and laborious process. Grasp of
writing implements may be impeded by some
manual
handicap.
Combustion
When combust, Budha becomes
subjectivized.
The mentality develops a
solipsistic
character. The native's mentality is unable to objectify information. One tends
to personalize the information-interpretation process.
Combust Budha has difficulty to see the world from another
person's perspective, which can hamper effective problem-solving and reduce
articulated expressions of compassion.
Traditional rules for combustion of Budha:
Mulatrikona
Budha's mulatrikona
range = 16-20 degrees of Kanya, within the nakshatra
of Hasta.
Within 16-20 Kanya, Budha's potential for clear articulation of
ideas, incisive reasoning, and freedom from articulatory limitation or distraction, is
optimized. However, should Shani occupy Karkata, Kanya, Dhanau, or Meena rashi,
the mental clarity of Mulatrikona Budha will be reduced.
The
Calculator
Budha is often called "the
calculator" because He rules the
repetitive mental actions.
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Budha measures, rates, And paces.
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Budha makes maps, routes, programs And
plans.
Whichever domain Budha occupies, the native
is busy calculating matters of that environment.
If Budha is well disposed, the native can also
articulate and explain what has been measured and project future plans based
on continuous cycling Of the established repeating
mental pattern.
"Intelligence"
reconsidered
Naturally, as the "measurer", Budha
is a karaka for human language, mathematics, and music. br>All
mental pattern-recognition and repetitive mental behaviors fall into Budha's
portfolio, whether these mental processes are articulated through expressive
language or not.br>hus Budha is a karaka for "intelligence".
It is important to note that "wisdom" is
not included in Budha's portfolio (that is Guru) nor is "ethics" (Surya) nor
"love" (Shukra, Guru, Moon).
Budha is essentially a piece of
mental
machinery which compulsively weighs, measures, and rates. Budha delivers no
judgment on meaning or significance except as limited to agreed standards of
qualitative or quantitative measurement.
Budha is an absorptive, passive "neutral" graha whose
mechanical actions must be chained to a greater force in order to accomplish a
spiritual goal. Budha's lord has a great deal of power over the
outcome of Budha's behavior.
Uchcha
Budha, caveat emptor
Uchcha Budha becomes a "systems"
thinker, capable of consciously integrating simultaneous calculations regarding
multiple and diverse cycles.
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When Budha is uchcha or swakshetra and thus
lord of His own territory, His intelligence is unimpeded by a potentially
restrictive lord but also ultimately unconstrained by moral or aesthetic
concerns.
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Lacking direction from a supervising graha, Budha will blithely
categorize, organize, articulate and plan using information available in the
domain and rashi where He is placed.
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Sometimes the smartest people make the
biggest moral errors, especially in this materialistic age when Budha's
mechanical information processing abilities are so highly prized.
Speech
Quality of the speaking voice essential to the
educator's profession, is determined by conditions of the 2nd-house from
lagna however, 2nd-from-Mercury is also influential.
Neechcha Budha
Meena's lord Guru only has only one enemy
-- and that is Budha!
Fallen Budha in Meena
indicates vague, generalized, or inconsistent thinking.
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Guru's universal, mystical sign Meena is a tough
place for locally-focused, technically-minded Budha to function. The result is that
Budha/Meena tends toward inarticulate, incorrect,and distracted mentality with poor problem-solving skills.
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Budha/Meena with good aspects might be a remarkable
musician or artist, a compassionate servant of humanity, or galaxy-piercing
meditator who perceives huge universal truths. The native will
always struggle with practical, technical mental tasks and verbal articulation
of broad perceptions. -
The native
is sensitive to the presence of
intuitive pathways through the astral world, which are perceived in
meditation and the dream state.
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Yet, expressing The
perceptual
experience of moving along those pathways (in the dream world of
Pushan, the conductor) is very difficult and nigh impossible through the limited
logical mentality of Budha. It's a task that Budha can't perform unless Budha
receives
neechcha bhanga.
(Similar general difficulties attend most rashi conditions
for Budha in domain-12.)
Genius
Neechcha bhanga Budha gives
the most brilliant results of all. Neechcha bhanga Budha occupies Meena while also
in kendra from key points like lagna and/or Chandra.
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he second
prerequisite for neechcha bhanga is that Budha's dispositor should be extremely
strong. Ideally, positive drishti occurs. Then, emerges an amazing
genius like Albert Einstein.
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Despite genius for expressing the astral perceptions, these folks will continue to
struggle with mundane problem-solving. Although gifted to navigate the astral
plane of perception, the native is not equipped to navigate earth.
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Einstein for example could not
complete his own physics computations, frequently got lost in his own
neighborhood, and had famously poor relationship
communication within his own family.
Professions:
Although strength of L-4and L-7 is also required success
in higher academics (such as university
teaching and research careers) auspicious Mercury is also major indicator of
ability to articulate complex thoughts. Most people who earn Ph.D.'s will be found to
have the strong positions of Mercury signifying verbal and written
articulation and robustly analytical
intelligence.
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Permission to practice all three traditional
professions - teaching, law,and medicine - requires advanced graduate education,
so all practitioners of the professions will have some planetary combination
of Jupiter, Mercury,and L4-/L-7/L-10 which distinguishes their career as
intellectually distinguished.
However it is the professors and consultants in those fields who are the most intellectually
engaged with their subject matter. So,
when we see a strong Mercury in yoga with favorable Guruand a distinguished
kendra lord, we expect not only a professional position, but
also a degree of intellectual leadership within that profession.
Certain signs for Mercury are allied with specific
professions.
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Budha in Dhanusha
[Mercury in Sagittarius] is
quite helpful for practice of law, particularly at the teaching and policy
levels. If other factors collude, can be a professor of law or top
government policy maker. (Can usually see both the forestand the trees.)
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Budha in Yuvati
bhava in most signs gives a natural capacity to articulate contracts
and agreements. A natural negotiator. In Dhanau rashi, excellent
for the solicitor's profession, eventually becoming a judge.
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Uchcha Budha in Kanya
is supremely articulate,and will flourish in any field of structured inquiry.
This position has a natural affinity for medicine,and will often be found
teaching, writing, diagnosing and prescribing in one of the medical traditions - whether
tribal medicine, homeopathy, pharmaceutical, ayurveda, etc. Otherwise
excellent in all analytical professions. (Always a decision-making
professional of some stripe. See the gazillionaire investors Warren
Buffet, Bill Gates,and the
actor Christopher Reeves, who
earned millions by speakingand writing even while quadriplegic.)
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Swakshetra Budha in Mithuna
is also highly articulate but His focus tends toward rapid, short-term
communication and rather than Kanya-Budha's slower more comprehensive,
longer-term logical inquiry. Mithuna-Budha thrives in any fast-paced
business environment but they are easily bored in stodgy academics.
E.g., Budha in Mithuna/7 enjoys commercial law.
Graha in
3rd-from-Budha
Protective Herb of Mercury:
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Achyranthes or
Apamarga-bhasma -
Ayurveda: it is bitter, pungent, heating, laxative, stomachic,
carminative and useful in treatment of vomiting, bronchitis, heart disease,
piles, itching abdominal pains, ascites, dyspepsia, dysentery, blood diseases
etc.
Ayurvedic Preparation:
Chemical Constituent:
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Subject: Potato Garden
An old man lived alone in Idaho. He wanted to spade his potato garden,
but it was very hard work. His only son, Bubba, who used to help him, was in
prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his predicament.
Dear Bubba,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be
able to plant my potato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be
digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I
know you would dig the plot for me.
Love, Dad
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Dad,
"For HEAVEN'S SAKE, Dad, don't dig up the garden! That's where I buried
the GUNS!"
Love, Bubba
At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen FBI agents
and local
police officers showed up and dug up the entire area without finding any guns. they apologized to the old man and left.
Dear Dad,
Go ahead and plant the potatoes now. It's the best I could do under the
circumstances.
Love, Bubba
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Law of Logical Argument:
"The first mental abiding, setting the mind, occurs when you initially
withdraw the mind inside and place it on the object of observation, not
letting it scatter to external objects. This is a result of the first
power--hearing instructions on how to set the mind on an object of
observation.
- At that time, the mind, for the most part, cannot stay in place,
and thoughts come one after another like a waterfall.
- Due to this, you come to identify thoughts and even wonder whether
conceptuality is increasing.
- However the seeming cascade of thoughts is due to not having
previously identified the extent of your own thoughts, since you had
not directed the mind inward, whereas now you notice them due to
employing mindfulness.
With gradual cultivation, you develop the continuum of placement on the
object."
--from
Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats by H.H. the Dalai Lama,
Dzong-ka-ba and Jeffrey Hopkins, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins,
published by Snow Lion Publications
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How the Thoughts Got There
The Secret Life of Thoughts
Q: Many Buddhist and nonBuddhist teachers have taught us in their
traditions not to do negative actions but to do positive actions, and that
doing one or the other is the consequence of our thinking.
How does Buddha's teaching distinguish itself from the teaching of
others? Buddha's teaching lays emphasis upon doing positive rather than
negative actions through subduing one's mind completely.
hink vigorously about this.
Dependent arising is the Buddhist view , that all
phenomena which are beneficial or harmful to us, including pleasurable or
painful feelings, Arise merely depending upon their
respective causes and conditions.
heir own mere causes and
conditions .
In the Sutra of Dependent Arising, Buddha said:
Because this exists, this also exists.
Because this
has arisen, this also has arisen.
Because causes and conditions exist, from them arise different types of
pleasure and pain. And because causes and conditions exist, they too must
have been produced by their causes and conditions, as permanent
(unchanging) causes cannot produce pleasure or pain. This speaks about
how things are produced , from impermanent conditions.
Even the causes of pleasure and pain must have been
produced by their own conducive conditions, not others.
For instance, karmic action is produced by ignorance as
its condition. According to dependent arising, Buddhism tells us, things have not been produced by an external agent such as a
creator God rather, happiness or suffering arise from whether or not our
mind has been subdued.
... When we subdue our mind, positive actions increase, and negative
actions diminish, due to which we are able to have the happiness we are
seeking and to decrease unwanted problems.
Putting aside consideration of future rebirth, which may be far off,
people who have subdued their minds and are calm are happier than others
in this life. Such people can taste food better, sleep better and have
more friends, or at least find people less disturbing to them.
~~ Generous Wisdom: Commentaries by His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV on the
Jatakamala Garland of Birth Stories. (1992). Tenzin Dorjee
(Trans.) Dudjom Rinpoche (Ed.).
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