Navamsha = Navans = D-9 = Dharma-Varga

Attributed to Sahibdin, India, Mewar Krishna as the ideal hero and lover, leaf from the Rasikapriya of Keshava Dasa, c. 1630-1635

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**Accuracy of divisional charts depends entirely on accuracy of birth time.** Varga charts can be exceptionally useful. However, if accurate birth time is not available, divisional charts are misleading, and should be ignored.

 D-9

"Field of Psychic Expectation for Matters of Marriage and Spiritual Union"

Why is the 7th house articulated in the 9th harmonic?

Because marriage is considered to be the most prominent result of religious development in past lives. The spouse(s) we marry in the current life have been our spiritual partners in past lives. If we developed compassion and understanding for others in past lives, all should go well indeed. If not...

• Navamsha is an exceptionally valuable varga for the key questions of life, which all devolve upon how much and what kind of wisdom has been acquired in past lives.

• Generally matters signified by the "swamsha" (lord of navamsha lagna) and the house which swamsha rules in radix, are easy to accomplish in this life due to past-life build-up of skill & wisdom in those matters. (Not necessarily morally good or profitable or approved ... just easy! If swamsha is a criminal planet there will be an easy life of crime.)

• Navamsha gives a richly detailed micro-view ones' disembodied life conducted through psycho-mental projections. Navamsha represents our psychic field of perception, including hidden assumptions & expectations.

What one profoundly expects to happen, will happen!

(Not what one wishes or hopes or calculates, but subconsciously deeply expects.)

Particularly we live vicariously through the life of the Spouse. Predictions for Marriage, development of psycho-spiritual awareness, developments in intentional religious education, moral consciousness, and (following from spiritual intentionality) happiness in general are read through the navamsha.

The joy and also the unresolved conflict of one's marriage situation is founded upon the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual consciousness which obtained in past life (and which usually continues unconsciously into the present life).

A smooth and prosperous navamsha indicates committed spiritual work in previous lives. If you have reflected the divine in others so will others reflect the divine in you.

All Jyotisha predictions must consult the Navamsha

• When asked to review a Jyotisha nativity, one of my first assessments is a visual scan of the navamsha, D-9. If navamsha grahas are concentrated in only a few rashis, then the radix lords of those high-traffic D-9 rashis are going to be major players in the native's life.

Meaningful events trigger strong feelings.

• Ideally, these strong feelings can serve as signals of the underlying trauma to ego development, which can in turn help the conscious person to accept and heal childhood & past-life trauma.

• But unfortunately the default is simply to experience the feelings on schedule, and maintain a cycle of continuous, unconscious action/reaction and continuous seeking of someone else to blame..

• (Let us pray for conscious intervention!)

• D-1 grahas will indicate material manifestation of people and events. However, navamsha determines the psychic valence of an experience. As things happen "to" us and around us, we constantly react emotionally and infuse actions with personal meaning. E.g., having a chronically late partner may be a neutral fact for one person but a continuing crisis of rejection and abandonment for another.

• Our deepest psycho-emotional programming is carried forward from trauma embedded over many lifetimes. This trauma-triggered programming is acted out in relationships. The more intimate the relationship, the more psycho-emotionally intense our reactions.

• Navamsha can be dramatically determinative because our psycho-emotional reactions to a material person or event can be much more intense than our normal five-senses perception.

Predicting the tangible effects of Vimshottari dasha periods is a three-step process:

1. D-1: examine the bhukti lord in detail within radix, including His character, all drishti He receives, all yogas in which He participates

2. D-9: find the bhukti lord's position in navamsha.

3. Back to D-1: find the ruler the bhukti-pat's navamsha in D-1. The D-1 character of the lord of the bhukti-pat's navamsha will reveal the material effects triggered by the psycho-emotional trauma underlying the material events.

Radix shows reality but navamsha shows the meaning of those events. For humans, events have value only when they have meaning! Psycho-emotionally charged events such as major public validation through marriage, childbirth, professional awards, (or invalidation through divorce, death, firings etc.) are only importance because of the emotional meanings invested in those events.

Navamsha shows the psycho-emotional experiences in a person's life, initiated through relationships, which interpenetrate & color events on the material plane. The psycho-emotional qualities of a Vimshottari can be extremely vivid and even cause material decisions, especially if navamsha lords of the bhukti-pat are stronger than its radix lords. Therefore we always consider navamsha effects.

All of life's truly meaningful events (for good or ill) are trauma-triggered through the navamsha.

Here is an example of navamsha role in interpreting material effects. The actress Elizabeth Taylor is famed inter alia for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her eight marriages.

Aside from Ms. Taylor's tremendously empowered uchcha L-7 Shukra + Rahu (which is certainly a good basis for predicting an exciting marriage path!) what navamsha factors might lead to predicting eight marriages?

Ms. Taylor's nativity is powerfully dominated by Shani. In addition to the four graha in radix rashi of Shani, also five planets occupy navamsha rashis of Shani. The navamsha graha are:

1. Shukra (L-7, 1st marriage, all marriages in general)

2. Ketu (amplifies effect of Budha)

3. Budha (L-8, death of spouse/divorce; lord of 7th navamsha)

4. Surya

5. Guru (L-2, 2nd marriage/divorce)

The majority of her Vimshottari periods have psycho-emotional triggers than manifest through D-1 Shani.

What is going on with Shri Shanaicharya that would produce eight marriages?

The underlying psycho-emotional reality which triggers the remarriages is Perfectionism, Pessimism, and Depression.

Certainly this mental trouble is a classic effect of Shani in house-3 of mental process. And it is profoundly exacerbated because Shani owns Budha yuti Kuja. Because Shani casts His strongest (3rd) drishti upon Shukra (marriage) and also His 10th drishti upon Chandra (emotions), the most intense consequences of Shani's negative expectations manifest in those areas..

Behari says of Makara Shani/3,

"You appear to be leading a happy life, but suffer psychologically. You will be a miser, bereft of a good education, unhappy with children, and plagued with mental problems." (The depression may possibly run along bipolar lines, due to Shani's mutual drishti with uchcha Guru, and the presence of Matibrahmana yoga.)

In the D-9 above:

• 78% (7 of 9) of D-9 grahas are concentrated in the rashis of Budha & Guru.

• The Budha-Guru axes (Kanya/Meena; Mithuna/Dhanau) rule all D-9 kendras including of course the navamsha lagna.

• Guru & Budha will be the major psycho-emotional drivers in this native's life, because Guru & Budha predominate this native's perceptions regarding which persons & events are most meaningful and important.

• Guru & Budha require special attention in analysis of this nativity, due to the emotional power & complexity Guru & Budha acquire by hosting 78% of D-9 grahas.

• without embarking on a full analysis, one of the first assessments of this nativity would be to note that L-11 Budha & L-2/L-5 Guru are wealth-building planets, and L-2 also signifies the second spouse.

  • Except for the periods of Shukra & Kuja, all of this man's bhukti periods act in support of wealth-building. Combine this navamsha-based observation with a powerful Laxmi yoga in D-1, and predictions for significant wealth in the nativity are secure.

  • Also note: *no* D-9 planets trigger the effects of Chandra, Surya, or Kuja because those D-9 rashis are empty. Chandra, Surya, & Kuja are not psycho-emotionally charged grahas for this native; they evoke much less reactivity (for good or ill) in his relationships and therefore tend to give emotionally simpler results.

This native (same chart as above) experienced an extremely painful divorce in the period of Guru/Ketu.

Ketu is the karaka for separation and severing of connections.

• Budha and Guru are the two major trauma revealing/healing planets (default = revealing; ideal = healing!)

• Any planets inhabiting D-9 rashis of Budha & Guru will give psycho-emotionally dramatic results during their Vimshottari periods: (shown in Vimshottari sequence)

  • Budha

  • Ketu

  • Surya

  • Chandra

  • Rahu

  • Guru

  • Shani

• Because of the inherent order of the Vimshottari dasha, Vimshottari periods of Budha & Ketu give one long uninterrupted psycho-emotional trauma trigger, which is expressed in D-1's gainful but distrustful & conflicted Budha.

• (Similarly, in better times, the contiguous Vimshottari periods of Surya & Chandra give one long uninterrupted psycho-emotional trauma trigger, which is expressed in D-1's highly auspicious uchcha Guru in dharma bhava.)

• If we try to answer "why Ketu?" from a strictly D-1 perspective, the answer will not appear. D-1 Ketu does not give the results of either of the typical divorce lords: L-8 Budha or L-2 Guru.

• D-1 Ketu carries out the agenda of L-7/L-12 Shukra.

• Despite the troublesome drishti Shukra receives from Shani and Rahu, and even considering the negative implications of karako bhavo nashto, Shukra is still not a marriage destroyer. L-12 can create long distance, animosity and possibly spousal infidelity -- but not actual divorce.

The native had asked for predictions re: divorce timing many years previous to the actual divorce. (He intuited impending divorce as early as L-2 Guru/Guru period.) He wanted to know how much time he had to prepare his exit.

The Jyotishi presumed that the classic period of L-2 Guru/L-8 Budha would cause the actual divorce.

The period of L-8 Budha who occupies the imbalanced & conflicted 6th house did manifest abundant marital arguments & separations. But in truth, the native did not file his divorce & child custody petition, nor move out, until Guru/Ketu period.

To see why Ketu could be the divorce agent, note Ketu navamsha.

• First, note that Ketu is a karaka for any type of separation (see myth of Rahu-Ketu) and also Ketu in yuvati bhava creates a discontinuity of perception between the spouses, at least in the first marriage (typically caused by cultural differences), which perception gap is highlighted during Ketu periods.

• Ketu occupies a navamsha of Budha; in D-9, Ketu is also yuti Budha. From navamsha -- which is to say, from the subconsciously stored psychic agenda -- Ketu is empowered to effect the program of radix Budha.

• This is a separate and additional agenda from Ketu's radix role of effecting Shukra's mandate.

• Ketu period follows Budha period. Ketu continued Budha's job, and completed it.

• An amplifying transit of Rahu/Ketu across the Mesha degree of radix Budha was also occurring during the extreme marital conflict, this transit reciprocally energized Ketu bhukti.

This female native below has a much different trauma-trigger pattern which gives a different overall lifetime psycho-emotional experience.

The dominant navamsha rashis for this person are quite different than in the male nativity above.

The lords of D-9 rashis which hold clusters of grahas are: Kuja (3), Budha (2) and Surya (2). Therefore, Vimshottari periods of Ketu, Shukra, and Chandra will give psycho-emotional trigger to D-1 Kuja; periods of Surya & Kuja will trigger D-1 Budha; and periods of Shani & Guru will trigger D-1 Surya.

Ketu-Shukra being contiguous Vimshottari periods will give an uninterrupted psychic experience of D-1 Mangala. Vimshottari periods of Guru-Shani will also provide uninterrupted flow of effects from D-1 Surya.

By "psycho-emotional effects" are meant:

• for Surya: the typical significations: father's role in structuring the child's ego, and all the subsequent reactions to "father-figure" behavior of ethical authority, social position, etc. which we could articulate from all the details of Surya's role in D-1.

• For Mangala: periods psychically infused with the business of lagnesha Mangala (Ketu, Shukra, Chandra) will develop the psycho-emotional agenda underlying the physical appearance/social-identity ; advance Kuja's complex position in parivartana yoga with Shani & involving Rahu; act out His L-6 role etc. Essentially the periods which evoke D-1 Kuja are designed to develop this natives rather peculiar & conflicted but gifted psycho-emotional identity.

Proof of the pudding:

This native experienced a childhood under the mahadasha of uchcha Budha as one long oppression, forcing her to conform to the lowest common denominator. Looking only at radix Budha, such an experience does not make sense. It is true that Budha is L-8, but L-8 is not oppressive per se. L-8 releases hidden forces, is mysterious, healing, taboo etc. but not oppressive. And uchcha Budha is supremely intelligent, social, and gainful in 11! So from whence comes the report of a terrible 18 years of boredom, oppression by rules, forced conformity, and scarcity of resources?

See Budha in a navamsha of Shani, then check back to radix for qualities of Shani. Sure enough, Shani rises in a hostile sign, yuti Rahu, and parivartan with His arch enemy Kuja. This native spent 18 years chomping at the bit. While recognized as remarkably intelligent, she was also raised in a culture which valued conformity far more than creativity, disallowed personal taste, and reduced all expectations to the lowest common standard.

That's Shani!

Navamsha L-10 and career

1. Surya = politics and theatre,
2. Chandra = sheltering and feeding,
3. Mangala = military or sport,
4. Budha = words, commerce,
5. Guru = teacher, traveler
6. Shukra = money or pleasure,
7. Shani = law and order, manual labor,

Vargottama graha

Some planets are vargottama in both radix and navamsha. Vargottama = powerful.

Vargottama planets gain their power from being completely "reflexive" during their periods, having no secondary psychic dimension, giving strong and direct results. If the atmakaraka is also vargottama, the native may become very famous. (Cf. Elvis Presley.)

Vargottama planets will give beneficial results in their periods if they are benevolent by rashi and sthana, but they can also give doubly negative results if occupy a hostile rashi or dusthamsha.

Fruits of Dharma

All of the divisional charts show the "fruits", "attainments" or "results" of life's basic undertakings.

The goals, attainments, or "fruits" of any matter, are seen in the bhava which form a 3/11 angle to house-X.

• 11th-from-house-X shows HOW THE GOAL IS DEFINED

• 11th-from-house-X shows native's COURAGE TO REACH THAT GOAL

The house which occupies the 3/11 position from the matter in question can tell us whether a goal is properly set and properly energized to reach manifestation.

The "fruits of dharma" are shown by 11th-from-9th = radix house-7.

Therefore a major fruit of one's dharma is one's marriage, and the spouse who along with us creates the marriage.

Because the 9th-house is the "seed" which creates the "fruit" of marriage, to know more about the spouse & the marriage, we need to know more about the psycho-dynamics of the 9th house.

We find the internal interactions of marriage clearly defined in the divisional-9th-house, "Nav-amsha".

Dharma

The psycho-emotional or "astral" truth of the 9th house reveals the "seeds" of this dharma-fruit of marriage. The seeds display the true origins of marriage interactions, as these psycho-sexual dynamics arise first IN THE MIND.

"Dharma" means essentially "things as they are" or "phenomena". The religious implications of "dharma" meaning "right teachings" or "right behavior" result from a neutral, non-reactive viewpoint, seeing things "as they are" without anxiety.)

The "seeds" or repeating psycho-emotional patterns of any house, which are caused by accrual of past-life influences, are seen in the "amsha" of that house.

The "amsha" which shows the private, intimate "seeds" that eventually create the public, visible "fruit" of marriage, is the NAVAMSHA.

Of course, the "seeds of dharma" have a major effect on one's spiritual life, children, and fortune in general. That's why the Swamsha is SO important in Jyotisha.

Links between native's D-1 and partner's D-9

Almost always there is a powerful connection between the native's D-1 planets and the spouse's D-9 planets - & of course, vice-versa. That is because the D-9 shows "recessive" traits/knowledge/awareness which have been waiting for this particular person to mirror them to us as clearly as possible. When we find that person we feel whole.

All married people realize that getting along with the spouse requires being honest & getting along with one's self. We know we fell in love with them (or were otherwise bound to them) for a reason. That reason is that we are trying to become more like them, or at least to become maximally aware of their knowledge operating in our own space.

Dishonest marriages are painful affairs seething with anger & guilt, victimization & blaming. Honest marriages are exercises in developing consciousness. It seems terribly ironic but also is brutally logical to understand that in fact, in our next life, we will "be" our spouse.

Just as the student becomes the teacher, so the husband becomes the wife & the wife becomes the husband. Our dormant traits will -- through that spouse's evocative role-modeling-- become manifest. We will, oh yes, become exactly the opposite of the person we think we are, whom we have juxtaposed against this inscrutable Other. We will all become precisely those traits which we are SURE that we could never be!

To see spouse(s) in navamsha:

Look to the 1/7 axis in D-9 to profile the first spouse. Traditionally Jyotisha takes the sign on the 7th navamsha house and reads it as lagna for the first spouse.

• E.g., to see the first spouse's values/wealth, consider the 2nd-from-7th in navamsha which is D-9's 8th house (and its lord) within the D-9.

• To see the first spouse's mother, consider 4th-from-7th, or karmaa bhava in the navamsha (and its lord) within the D-9.

When reading the navamsha for spouse profile, keep in mind a peculiarity: 1st partner may be profiled from either 7th navamsha (most common) or 1st navamsha.

Try 7th navamsha for a first reading of spouse's character, but if 7th-navamsha really doesn't represent the spouse as you know them, be willing to read first spouse and all of their relationships - parents, children, previous spouses, etc. - from the D-9 lagna.

• Thus second spouse lagna would be the 8th navamsha, and second spouse's mother would be 4th-from-8th or the 12th navamsha. Etc.

If there have already been several marriages you can really test the profiles of previous spouses against the D-9 lagna vs. the D-9's 7th to see which is more accurate.

In fact, it may be that there is a correlation between folks who have multiple marriages and their navamshas, which must be read "spouse-wise" from the D-9 lagna rather than the D-9's 7th house.

If the birth time is correct and 7th-navamsha doesn't work, then reading from 1st navamsha will give truth.

In Light on Relationships, the respected Jyotishi-team deFouw and Svoboda discuss this D-9 lagna-as-spouse-lagna option.

The choice between using the navamsha L-1 or navamsha L-7 as lagna for the first spouse is not a big problem, because all 12 rashi-signs are "yoked" into six yoga-pairs.

For example, Simha must be understood never in isolation but always as the "solar" half of the Simha-Kumbha polarity. (There is no king without commoners; there is no politics without privilege.) So it will be second nature for the experienced Jyotishi to check the ruler of the opposite sign anyway.

There is one Best method to find the core character of the spouse. This link represents the aspect of their reality which keeps you linked to him or her. This link when articulated can explain what the native is trying to become (or un-become) in the marriage:

IMO, here is single most valuable technique for finding the point of matching energy which serves to attract the spouse. This matching energy maintains the work roster within the marriage until at least one of the parties has completed the transformation from ignorance into wisdom in regard to the contents of the link.

This small set of core characteristics forms the "matching energy link" that we are using to create consciousness of our own preconceptions, presumptions, and unconscious reactionary behavior.

The vehicle of marriage (including bhakti devotional marriages to a deity) provides the ongoing psychic laboratory for self-knowledge.

Want to see what you are working on and why?

1. find L-7, planetary lord of radix seventh house

2. locate radix L-7 in the navamsha.

3. determine the lord of this navamsha sign

4. then find this lord, who rules L-7's navamsha, back in the radix chart

5. study this planet carefully. Study its character, rashi influence, drishti by sign & house, everything about it. This is the matching energy point.

6. Your experience of the spouse is grounded in this point. If L-7's navamsha lord is a genial, wise planet in radix, your marriage relationship will be delightful. The celibate religious often have exquisite marriage planets! However, if this graha is in a rough spot, so will be your spouse.

7. The point is to take responsibility for the connection, the ongoing psychic tug-of-war with the Other. All those traits you have projected upon the spouse, are yours!

D-9 lagna and its lord: Basic Attitudes toward Marriage

When the lord of D-9 lagna, significator of the native's own behavior in marriage, falls into a dusthamsha (6, 8, 12), there are negative implications for marriage.

• 6 (Budha-ruled) = jealous and overtly warlike, with the likelihood of chronic animosity.

• 8 (Kuja-ruled) = secretive and conniving, with the prospect of catastrophic upheaval.

• 12 (Guru-ruled) = not conflicted but tends to become disconnected. The marriage energy gets dissolved by spiritual concerns.

When the lord of D-9 occupies radix lagna, the native's personality dominates the marriage. If the D-9 lord becomes strong and dominating, such as hot uchcha or swakshetra graha, spousal concerns must take a back seat" to the native's personality development and the spouse must often "take it or leave it" having little power to negotiate for accommodation or change which might conflict with the direct interests of the native's personality growth.

D-9 marriage signification By Rashi:

Rashi of Navamsha Lagna	Effects	Examples
Mesha	marriage is a primarily physical, competitive, and even athletic, relationship between the two partners. Understanding and expression of the marriage bond may be quite primitive, depending on the role of lord of D-9 in radix..	Napoleon Bonaparte , Mohandas Gandhi , Bill Clinton , Margaret Thatcher, Dale Earnhardt ,
Vrishabha	marriage is a hoard of wealth and sensual pleasures.	Deepak Chopra, M.D., Elizabeth Taylor, Bill Gates, Jr. ,
Mithuna	marriage is a twinning, a narrative exchange, a literary conversation,	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Mohamed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran; Rabindranath Tagore
Karkata	marriage is a safe shelter and parenting event.	Queen Elizabeth II , Julia Roberts,
Simha	marriage is a royal expression of joint celebrity and privilege. The native may believe oneself to be a very important person both within the marriage and in public. Marriage is a political relationship. Costume, performance, and noblesse oblige are important. Partnership is creative and dramatic, focused on channeling divine intelligence.	John F Kennedy, Rajiv Gandhi, Madonna, Marla Maples Trump, Tony Blair , Huey Kingfish Long, Angelina Jolie.
Kanya	marriage is an argumentation	Jennifer Aniston, Virginia Woolf , Meryl Streep, Edward "Teddy" Kennedy, George H. W. Bush -41, Jeddu Krishnamurti ; JFK, Jr. , Martin Luther King, Charles de Gaulle, Barbra Streisand
Thula	marriage is a harmonious balance of mutual interest.	UK Prince Charles Windsor, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Jimmy Carter
Vrischika	marriage is a deeply confidential, almost secret relationship between the two partners.	George W. Bush-43, Mother Teresa, Jack Welch , Adolph Hitler , Richard Nixon , Lisa Marie Presley, Theodore Roosevelt
Dhanusha	marriage is a religious vow, undertaken largely for the purpose of producing and teaching children. For a male, marriage is a vehicle toward fatherhood; for a female, the moral priesthood.	Brad Pitt ; Elvis Presley; Steve Jobs ; Tom Cruise; George Harrison (Beatle) ; Eleanor Roosevelt. Britney J. Spears; Catherine Zeta-Jones
Makara (Shravana)	marriage is an act of public duty, designed to uphold the leadership reputation and ensure social dignity.	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Indira Gandhi
Kumbha	marriage is one important link within a larger network of associations.	Marilyn Monroe, Diana Spencer
Meena	marriage is a dream, a fantasy, a private enclosure.	Rush Limbaugh, Albert Einstein, Edgar Cayce, Katie Holmes, Jawaharlal Nehru , Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, Winston Churchill, Rudolf Steiner

Navamsha and "Soulmate"

• The navamsha will in fact define your "soulmate" (or soulmates) if "soulmate" can be defined as the person(s) with whom one is karmically contracted to partner in this lifetime.
• Navamsha shows the profile of one's partner(s) with whom one has agreed to partner - long before the current birth - for the purpose of advancing one's spiritual development.
• The disjunct between the modern western concept of "soulmate" and the profile of spouse in navamsha is, however, that the "soulmate concept" has been commercially marketed.
• It tends to be sugar-coated and unrealistic.

By contrast, Authentic Marriage is one of the most difficult spiritual practices available.

As Dr. Phil says,

• "Marriage is not a long date.
• It's a partnership.
• Partnerships involve give-and-take and sacrifice.
• Men are really bad about understanding this."

If one's concept of "soulmate" can mature into the full expression of committed partnership, with all the ego-stress & material difficulty that long-term commitment enforces, then one will discover that the navamsha of one's own nativity gives a very accurate picture of one's "soulmate".

file update: 05-Jul-2010

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