9 Graha = 7 classical planets plus Rahu-Ketu

12 rashi = 12 zodiacal signs

12 bhava = 12 houses

names of the 12 houses in Sanskrit and English

27 Nakshatra [lunar constellations]

Chandra in 27 Nakshatra Graha and Chakra

Vimshottari Dasha

• Vimshottari Dasha:Forgivenessand Closure during Final Bhukti Of each Mahadasha

• Vimshottari Dasha: Bad Angles between major timelord and sub-period lord

Upagraha - shadow planets

Varga- divisional charts

Pushkara Navamsha - table of 108 zones of good fortune, via the empowered karaka

Dwaadamsha = Table of 144 divisional assignments

The Four Trines: Dharma Artha Kama Moksha Kshetras

Vakri = "crooked", Retrograde

Planetary Combinations = Yoga= traditional significations, and calculation options

The Self-Puzzle: Acquiring the Pieces, Putting the Pieces Together

Marriage and Partnership

• Spouse character via seventh-from Chandra and other lagnas

• Shukra = Marriage Wealth vs. Surya = Ideals Children Romance - Know the Difference!

• Female nativity examples of Guru and Shani = husband-karaka

• Lord of Chandra's Nakshatra : a Leading Factor in Compatibility

• Marriage sequence and profile of husbands 1-2-3 for Angelina Jolie

• Attributes of the First Spouse, judged from lagna of house-7

Divorce and Separation

Parents: finding Family members in the Jyotisha chart, Mother and Father

• Case study: Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie diversity of parenting styles

Siblings: Brothers and SistersChildren, step-children, grandchildren

• Health and Dis-ease

• Leadership and Career

• Wealth and Collections

• Politics and Theatre

• Writers

• Education and Socialization

• Spirituality and Religion

• Death and Rebirth

Planetary Gem Remedies Planetary Bhasman = herbal ash

Contemporary Astrological Practice Issues- including counseling philosophy and practical psychic steps

Divination is a method of symbolic pattern recognition.

The Sanskrit word according to Wikipedia, the term "Jyotisha" derives from Jyoti meaning "Light".

• Jyotisha is a vidya: a body of partly mystical, partly mathematical knowledge which apprehends and interprets the "lights" of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.

Jyotisha, as it is practiced worldwide today, is An ancient prediction system rooted in the scriptures of brilliant Indo-Aryan astronomer and astrologer Vahara Mihira. Jyotisha is often called "Vedic" astrology, although the name may be a misnomer since "vaidik" priests of ancient India actually used a a particular lunar astrology in their rituals which is quite different from the solar Jyotisha that is widely used today.

• Nevertheless in my pages one may read the term "Vedic" used as a blanket term for "scripturally traditional Indian" and referring to a large and extremely diverse lore of ancient = starting circa 1500 BC and medieval Indian = including south-Asian, Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Mediterranean = astrological literature that far extends beyond the original portfolio of the "vaidik" priesthood.

• Skilled Vedic astrologers, or Jyotishi (daivajna), can evaluate health, wealth, love, marriage, children, career, art, and death by using a series of astrological techniques developed within the ancient Vedic traditions, over the course of the last 25 centuries (at least).

Jyotisha can be understood as a s on the correct application of "Counting Rules".

Jyotisha requires careful application of universal accounting principles. Ideally Jyotisha can yield a complete and accurate itemization of every single experience which the native's subconscious image-projecting machine might produce in this lifetime.

In principle, everything should be accounted for, with no remainders.

TThe system is valid. However, the issue of correct labeling due to limitations of vocabulary and a cramped sense of possibility (self-limiting beliefs) has produced at the present time in history a set of mental conditions which impose some serious handicaps upon practicing Jyotishi.

The two essential components of any language -- whether natural (human spoken) or artificial (e.g. computer languages) =

• (1) lexicon = vocabulary

• (2) grammar = syntax

Jyotisha can be modeled as a language, with its own grammar and lexicon.

Jyotisha grammar consists of its underlying principles for the construction of rational propositions, its definitional rule-base, and its lawful step-wise procedures for correct accounting.

The grammar of Jyotisha defines the mechanical rules which drive the experience-projection machinery of the human Mind. In this sense Jyotisha is an ancient and ever-lasting "science of the mind". Correct application of these scientific rules can generate accurate predictions of future experiences for an entity which has its own Mind.

AAs comprehension of the vocabulary of Jyotisha increases, the community will be able to practice more and test more the underlying Jyotisha grammar.

The polite and delightfully poetic human language = Sam-skrita has been the carrier language for Jyotisha traditions for a number of millennia. All pranams to Sanskrit for its noble service of protecting and preserving the vidya during long dark times.

However the Jyotisha conceptual system far predates the linguistic origins of Sanskrit language. Sanskrit itself is a linguistically organic development from earlier languages. Before languages as we know them were needed due to the down-cycle of the yuga wheel, highly telepathic signal systems that were used for countless eons to communicate value and meaning from one generation to the next.

Knowledge of Sanskrit vocabulary at this time in history remains an essential tool of Jyotisha practice. However expertise in the grammar of Sanskrit is less important that expertise in the grammar of Jyotisha.

To facilitate the development of a worldwide Jyotisha community it is important IMO to begin translating Sanskrit terminology or introducing Sanskrit terms into the modern commercial languages. (E.g., as the Skt words 'yoga' and 'karma' have entered the lexicon of modern English.)

The birth of each New Age in the great cycles of history is marked by a major set of translations from the great works of previous cultures. I believe that a large-scale translation-interpretation of Jyotisha texts and commentaries from their protective sanctuary languages (Sanskrit, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Newar, Bodkye-Tibetan, Avestani, and others) will signal the birth of a new age of consciousness in the literate cultures worldwide.

• Every person is creating their own unfolding experience of life, in every moment of every day.

• The process by which life experience is generated = projecting stored subconscious images and expectations onto today's reality.

• Learn to follow the inner teacher (in-tuition) who is the guide to that massive inventoryof thoughts, hopes, dreams, fears, expectations, terrors, aspirations, memories, desires, knowledge, skill, and genius stored in the great warehouse Of thesubconscious.

• You will see the Programming.

• You will see the your Path.

• Absolutely no one outside oneself ever has - or ever could have - full access to your truth and your path.

• One of the major vehicles for self-realization in the modern world is the intense mirroring of intimate relationships. The threat of starving to death has receded for a big portion of the world's population, so now we are privileged to move into a new level of pain: anxiety, fearful worrying, and psycho-emotional suffering!

• Indeed the human person is a complex entity. Gathering all of the pieces takesreflective time and study, as well as some tolerance for emotional pain. If you have the courage to work through it, using the map of the Jyotisha nativity (and any other reflective tools which may provide intuitive guidance) it is possible to make great progress in reclaiming the lost parts of one's identity.

• In a difficult marriage? Disrespected at work? Parents invasive and manipulative? Sick child? All of these phenomena = dharma = purposeful. They are trail-blaze marks which show that one is on the proper path.

• Find their indicators in the Jyotisha nativity, and reclaim your connection to the full range of human experience.

• The painful and exhilarating experiences, the worry and the gratitude, are the textbookfor studying one's own life purpose. See your path winding though the field of projections.

There is nothing "good" or "bad" in this world, there is only one's fearful or accepting reactionsto the projections. At the moment when all reactions have ceased and the full range of one's internal projection can be seen objectivelyin its awesome totality, at that moment one sees how amazingly creative the mind is! Wow! Every leaf on every tree, every glance from every other human and animal, every pang of love and sorrow - one's own mind created all that!

The Jyotisha chart can provide a useful one-page agenda, to guide the self-interpretive process. Life purpose and path to enlightenment is actually less complex than it may first appear, because there is so much repetition:old fears = Shani . Old resistance comes back in new guises, almost indefinitely until conscious intention aborts that infinite feedback loop. Jyotisha dasha patterns can expose the repetition cycles.

Like any good story, the Jyotisha narrative has repeating psychological themes which express with intriguing variation and nuance = to keep the reader-native entranced! Yet a competent literary analysis will show that each lifetime has a fixed structure, and that the core dramatis personae = body, siblings, parents, children, servants, spouse, advisers, boss, God, friends = all fit on one page, just like a Shakespeare play.

A favorite spiritual teacher of mine once said: each person is a heroin their own movie. Each movie has an inspiring theme song. Each person wins an Oscar for Best Actor! She would say, what is your movie theme song? What are the production values? Is it is good script?

In the final 60 seconds of life, we all have to watch the replay of our self-movie. Will one feel proud of one's own performance at the Final Showing?

Jyotisha can help expose the structure of the script, so that one can do one's most heroic job in the role.

Yes of course - the script is determined by one's ultimate thoughts and beliefs, and beliefs can be consciously changed.

But here is the chuckle. Most folks, having achieved the consciousness to appreciate the literary structure of one's own script = via Jyotisha or otherwise) do realize that this script has authenticity, integrity and purpose.

It is unique and perfect.

The path is perfect. One may make small adjustments here and there. That is the entitlement of consciousness:one gains the intelligence necessary to change one's originating internal imagery in order to change the resulting external imagery.

As above, so below.

However, seeing that the path is unique and perfect, one tends to keep it just as it is, as a gift from God, and merrily wend one's way through the forest of illusion, battling the demons of fear and doubt, in gratitude for the privilegeof the incarnation.

Jyotisha is helpful for its ability to predict when the demons (of subconscious fear) will emerge, and what shape they will take.

But it is up to the native to destroy one's own self-generated illusions along one's own path.

• As Trulshig Rinpoche used to say, "that's just how it is".

When one acquires all the pieces of this self-puzzlethrough owning and appreciating the elaborate complexity of one's own projection, one is consciously whole. At that moment of wholeness, one knows one's inherent identity with God = all that is . Simultaneously, one is able to see everyone else's identity with God. (All those people are projections too!). It is a lovely moment, called Enlightenment.

It is possible to repeat the moment at will, simply by remembering how one's projections are all connected. It is possible to advance on the path toward realization using any environment, any set of relationships, any mirrors we choose.

Jyotisha can provide a reminder, and a map to the territory.

Jyotisha *can be* a mirror showing your Path to Enlightenment/Unburdenment

Remember: under no circumstances do things happen "to" one.

Reality is constantly being created by a mechanism of projection of accumulated expectations, many of them fear-driven, upon the blank screen of consciousness.

The privilege to have such a blank screen is indeed a great gift!

The priceless opportunity of a human birthis the privilege to even have:

• The possibility of learning what's in the inventory = skanda.

• seeing the cycle of subconscious projection in action

• learning to manage it (with compassion and skill)

• And eventually to unloadall of the fear and desire

• which provide the fuelthat keeps the incarnational recycling machine (samsara) going!

• That keeps us recycling through endless heavens and hells of "experience"

"The nature of the twelve houses commencing with Lagna or the rising sign is thus described:

1. Lagna or the first house governs body

2. Second house governs relatives

3. Third house governs brothers

4. Fourth house governs friends

5. Fifth house governs sons

6. Sixth house governs enemies

7. Seventh house governs wives

8. Eighth house governs death or terminus vitae

9. Ninth house governs auspicious qualities and the general state of the moral conditions

10. Tenth house governs profession, honors, and dignity

11. Eleventh house governs income and finance

12. Twelfth house indicates expenditure.

The sixth, tenth, eleventh, and the third bhava = Upachaya = "improving"

although some authors say that they are not always improving."

1 Mesha [Aries]

• Chandra in Mesha

• 12 bhava from Mesha lagna

• 9 Graha from Mesha lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Mesha lagna

• Kuja lagnesha for Mesha lagna

7 Thula [Libra]

• Chandra in Thula

• 12 bhava from Thula lagna

• 9 Graha from Thula lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Thula lagna

8 Vrischika[Scorpio]

• Chandra in Vrischika

• 12 bhava from Vrischika lagna

• 9 Graha from Vrischika lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Vrischika lagna

• Alcoholism

9 Dhanusha [Sagittarius]

• Chandra in Dhanushya

• 12 bhava from Dhanushya lagna

• 9 Graha from Dhanushya lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Dhanushya lagna

10 Makara [Capricorn]

• Chandra in Makara

• 12 bhava from Makara lagna

• 9 Graha from Makara lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Makara lagna

• Chandra in Kumbha

• 12 bhava from Kumbha lagna

• 9 Graha from Kumbha lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Kumbha lagna

12 Meena[Pisces]

• Chandra in Meena

• 12 bhava from Meena lagna

• 9 Graha from Meena lagna

• Vimshottari dasha for Meena lagna