Chaturthamsha = D-4 = Bandhu-Varga

The 1/4 Portion = Fourth Divisional [Harmonic] Chart

**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.

From: David Frawley. Astrology of the Seers. p. 186: Each sign is divided into four equal parts. The first 1/4 (00° 00'-07' 30') is the same as the sign itself .The second 1/4 (7° 30'-15° 00') is under the next sign of the same Quality. The third 1/4 (5° 00'-22° 30') follows the following sign of the same Quality, and the last 1/4 (22° 30'-30° 00') is of the final sign of the same Quality. For example, the first 1/4 of Aries is Aries, the second is Cancer, the third is Libra, and the last is Capricorn. Hence, if Venus is located at 20°15' Aries, it would be in the third harmonic fourth, that of Libra, the third Cardinal sign from Aries.

D-4

Field of Psychic Expectation for Matters of Owned Properties, School and Fixed Abode = House

1. To determine the prognosis for Luxury, [Laxmi] look first (of course) to all the effects upon dhana bhava [the 2nd house of wealth] itself.

2. The house which defines and energizes wealth rooted to a fixed place sits in 3/11 angle to the money-house: it is Bandhu bhava, the 4th house of home, mother, education, and the earthly place to which one is bonded = roots.

3. D-4 can confirm the character of graha which produce the foundational physical and cultural securities: look within the D-4 to confirm the actualization potency of karaka Chandra, the radix L-4, and L-4 from Chandra.

4. Examine Bandhu bhava in the radix. Will the radix 4th house generate the community support (11) and personal courage (3) necessary to realize its goals?

5. Outcome depends on the relationship between the 3/11 houses, their rulers and their occupants.

6. Once the radix 3/11 relationship is established, look for confirmation of the fruits of the 4th house in the fourth divisional chart: D-4/Chaturthamsha. Chaturthamsha reveals fine detail of how the results of mother's early training will manifest.

7. The central result of mother's love and training being good fortune for her children, we gain from Chaturthamsha (presuming an accurate birth time) a confirming level of detail regarding luxury, wealth, good fortunes.

Predictions that can be partially confirmed via analysis of Chaturthamsha:

• Overall happiness is a term often used for the D-4.

  What is meant by happiness ?

  In context of D-4 and its protectress, Chandra, happiness = physical roots, social stability, psychic grounding, and emotional security. In particular, the D-4 can confirm the whether the native will enjoy an environmentally sensitive and psychically rooted relationship to oneand#39;s earthly Place.

  • Thus the D-4 can confirm whether one will acquire earthly property and care for it, or otherwise receive the happiness of deriving from stewardship of earthand#39;s oceans and lands.

  • The D-4 can confirm whether one will enjoy a strong cultural affinity to the peoples who occupy oneand#39;s birth place. The strength and prestige of the habits of the motherand#39;s culture can also be measured via D-4. Are the cultural mannerisms learnt from the mother and caretakers likely to benefit the native? By practicing the manners learned in childhood, and fulfilling the behavioral expectations Do these customs form a stable foundation for social recognition and a secure place in the world?

• Schooling - D-4 to the extent that it confirms security will confirm schooling. In a tribal village the schooling may be dance lessons from elders, or instruction in how to collect bee-honey from caves. In a big modern city the instruction will come from parents, then teachers, then professors and post-doctoral mentors. The quantity of security gained by learning the ropes and knowing what is expected of one will be the same.

• D-4 assessment can assist query into whether the native will change residence. Transits through the D-4and#39;s bandhu bhava, or transits affecting the radix L-4 within the D-4.

  • Caution: D-4 markers are secondary confirmations and not leading indicators of a move.

  • L-3 of radix (12th-from-4th) or L-12 of radix (sudden change of home, 8th-from-4th) should be affected as a first indication of house-move, whether across town or as international emigration to another continent.

  • Going away to dormitory-school or leaving home for the first time can also be registered in D-4.

• Marriage

• In traditional cultures where the bride leaves her home for the very first time upon marriage and reassignment to her husbandand#39;s home, the D-4 is used as an indicator of timing of female marriage. Also in those cultures (e.g. Tibetan) which have a provision for male-dowry, in the case of parents having only one child who is female, they will pay to have a boy married to their daughter and the boy then enters their home as a proxy son. For this situation the D-4 also indicates male marriage.

• However in the modern age, this utility of using D-4 as a marriage chart would seem to be fading,

file update: 05-Jul-2010

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