[ { "category": "Prashna (Horary)", "item_key": "pkp_method_intro", "title": "Origin and Scope of Prashna (Horary) Astrology", "keywords": "prashna, horary, Shat Panchashika, Prithuyash, Varahamihira, Daivagya Vallabha, question chart", "content": "Prashna (horary) astrology judges a matter from the chart cast at the exact moment a question is asked, reading the lagna (ascendant) and grahas of that instant. This knowledge-base draws on the Shat Panchashika (also titled Artha Gahana) composed by Prithuyash, son of Varahamihira, who begins by bowing to Lord Surya and states he created this profound prashna vidya for others' benefit. It also uses the twelve-bhava significations from Varahamihira's Daivagya Vallabha, and the Tajik Neelkanthi's Prashna Tantra with its aspects and sixteen yogas. The same significations may be read either in a birth chart (janma kundali) or in a prashna chart. The whole method rests on examining which houses, planets, signs and yogas are strong or afflicted at the question-moment to declare whether the matter succeeds or fails, and when." }, { "category": "Prashna (Horary)", "item_key": "pkp_multiple_questions", "title": "Handling Several Questions Asked at Once", "keywords": "multiple questions, lagna, Chandra, Surya, Guru, Budha, Shukra, rotation", "content": "When a querent asks several questions at the same sitting, the Tajik method assigns each a different reference point so all may be satisfied. Judge the first question from the lagna, the second from the Moon (treating the Moon as ascendant), the third from the Sun, the fourth from Jupiter, and the fifth from whichever of Mercury or Venus is stronger. Each is then read according to the forms of the signs described in the Sanjna (signification) chapter. This rotation lets one chart yield answers to a cluster of simultaneous queries without confusing their significations." }, { "category": "Prashna (Horary)", "item_key": "pkp_reference_points", "title": "House Reference Points for a Question", "keywords": "lagna, fourth house, tenth house, seventh house, travel, position, downfall, return", "content": "The Shat Panchashika fixes the houses from which key matters are judged in a prashna. Downfall or loss of one's position (patan) is seen from the lagna; growth or gain of position (vriddhi) from the fourth bhava; travel or a journey (pravasa) from the tenth bhava; and returning from a journey (nivritti) from the seventh bhava. Whether a traveller has already returned home is seen from the fourth bhava. All of this is declared on the basis of the lagna and the planets at the time the question is asked. These anchor points let the astrologer route each specific query to the correct house before weighing the strength and affliction of that house and its lord." }, { "category": "Prashna (Horary)", "item_key": "pkp_subject_of_question", "title": "Identifying What the Question Is About", "keywords": "Chandra, Moon, lagnesh, labhesh, strongest planet, querent concern, subject of prashna", "content": "To discover the matter weighing on the querent's mind, the author gives his own tested principle: the question concerns (1) the house the Moon occupies, (2) the house the Moon aspects, (3) the house the Moon rules, or (4) the house occupied by the lord of the Moon's sign. The translator adds two verses: from the stronger of the lagna-lord and eleventh-lord, note the house the Moon has entered, whose matter troubles the querent; and from a strong Moon, note the house the lagna-lord has fallen into. Separately, whose person is the concern is read from the strongest planet's house: in lagna, oneself; 3rd, a brother; 4th, mother or sister; 5th, a child; 6th, an enemy; 7th, the wife; 9th, a matter of dharma; 10th, a guru or elder." }, { "category": "Prashna (Horary)", "item_key": "pkp_success_assessment", "title": "Judging Success of a Matter from Lagna and House Lords", "keywords": "lagna, benefic, shubha varga, shirshodaya, karya siddhi, house lord, papagraha, effort", "content": "A bhava conjoined or aspected by its own lord gains strength and gives increased results for its matters; if it is neither aspected nor joined by its lord but is aspected or joined by a papagraha (malefic), the results for that house turn inauspicious. A key nuance: a malefic merely seated in a bhava can give good results, but a malefic aspecting the bhava gives bad results. For overall success (karya siddhi): if a benefic occupies the lagna, the lagna falls in a benefic's varga, and the lagna is a shirshodaya (head-rising) sign, the work is accomplished; the opposite indicates failure. If two of these three conditions hold, the matter succeeds through personal effort (purushartha). This may be read in either the birth or prashna chart." }, { "category": "Prashna (Horary)", "item_key": "pkp_who_to_answer", "title": "Whose Questions to Answer and Judging the Querent", "keywords": "Tajik, Prashna Tantra, querent sincerity, faithless, devoted, distressed, lagna assessment", "content": "The Tajik Prashna Tantra warns that prashna knowledge fails when applied to the base or mean, the hypocrite, the cunning, the faithless, and one who asks merely in jest. But the devoted, the suffering, and the humble-faced must always be answered; an astrologer who refuses them sees his own knowledge fail. Before pronouncing, first test the querent's nature from the lagna, judging whether he is straightforward or crooked. A benefic in the lagna shows a sincere querent; a malefic shows a crooked one. If the Moon and Jupiter aspect the lagna and the seventh house, the querent is sincere; a hostile aspect of Mercury or Jupiter on the seventh marks him crooked. One who answers a single well-considered question does not speak falsely." }, { "category": "Core Concepts", "item_key": "pkp_dhatu_navamsha", "title": "Navamsha Test for Dhatu, Jiva or Mula Concern", "keywords": "navamsha, dhatu, jiva, mula, odd sign, even sign, aspecting planet, concern", "content": "To decide whether the querent's hidden concern is about a mineral (dhatu), living (jiva) or vegetable (mula) object, examine the navamsha of the planet aspecting the lagna, fifth or ninth and the navamsha in which that aspected point lies. If the planet is in its own navamsha and aspects a point also in its own navamsha, the concern is dhatu. If it aspects from any navamsha a point in its own navamsha, the concern is jiva. If it aspects from any navamsha a point that is also in any (other) navamsha, the concern is mula. When the prashna lagna is an odd sign, count the results of the verses in the order dhatu-jiva-mula; when it is an even sign, reverse the order to mula-jiva-dhatu. The rule is stated briefly and admits many subvarieties when expanded." }, { "category": "Core Concepts", "item_key": "pkp_graha_avastha", "title": "The Dipta and Other States of the Planets", "keywords": "avastha, dipta, dina, mudita, svastha, supta, combust, planetary states, results", "content": "Planets are read in defined states (avastha) whose bala and results are stated. Dipta: exalted, giving accomplishment of the matter. Dina: debilitated, giving sorrow. Mudita: in a friend's field, giving great joy. Svastha: in own house, giving fame and Lakshmi (wealth). Supta: in an enemy's field, giving fear and calamity from enemies. Nipidita: defeated in a planetary war (of two conjoined planets the one with greater northern declination wins), giving loss of wealth and torment from foes. Mushita: combust, giving destruction of work and wealth. Parihina: base-desiring, giving ruin of work and wealth. Suvirya: high-aspiring, giving gain of elephants, horses, gold and gems. Adhivirya: full-rayed and in a benefic's varga (not combust), giving gain of wealth. The astrologer weighs these to grade a planet's promise." }, { "category": "Core Concepts", "item_key": "pkp_graha_bala", "title": "Strength and Weakness of Planets (Kuttha and Duruf)", "keywords": "bala, kuttha, duruf, strength, weakness, kendra, combust, retrograde, day night", "content": "In the Kuttha yoga a planet is strong; in Duruf it is weak. A planet is strong when in the lagna (strongest), then in a kendra, then in a panaphara; when it aspects the lagna; when in its own, exalted, hadda, drekkana or navamsha; when its transit motion is slow; when risen; when direct and joined or aspected by a benefic. Male planets (Sun, Mars, Jupiter) are strong by day, female planets (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Saturn) by night; planets are strong in fixed signs and in the sign of the Sun's navamsha. A planet is weak when in the 6th, 8th or 12th; when retrograde, in an enemy sign, debilitated, combust, or joined by a malefic; when aspected by a malefic's 1st, 4th, 7th or 10th glance; when in the mouth or tail of Rahu; when it does not aspect the lagna; or when in the ast (setting) navamsha. The Moon is specially weak when twelfth from the Sun, waning, or shunya-marga." }, { "category": "Core Concepts", "item_key": "pkp_harsha_sthana", "title": "Harsha (Joy) Places of the Planets", "keywords": "harsha, joy, house placement, Sun ninth, Moon third, Mars sixth, day night gender", "content": "Each planet rejoices (is harshita) in a particular house, adding to its capacity to give good results. The Sun rejoices in the 9th, the Moon in the 3rd, Mars in the 6th, Mercury in the 1st, Jupiter in the 11th, Venus in the 5th, and Saturn in the 12th. Every planet also rejoices in its own sign and in its exaltation sign. Female planets rejoice in houses 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 and 9, and male planets in houses 4, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 12. Additionally, female planets rejoice by night and male planets by day. A planet in its harsha place supports the matter it signifies in the prashna." }, { "category": "Core Concepts", "item_key": "pkp_lagnesh_karyesh", "title": "Lagnesha and Karyesha: the Core of Tajik Prashna", "keywords": "lagnesha, karyesha, karyesh, lagnesh, kaaryesh, Chandra, ithasala, judgment axis", "content": "The whole Tajik prashna judgment turns on two planets. The lagnesha is the lord of the ascendant and stands for the querent. The karyesha is the lord of the house signifying the matter asked, so the house of the question fixes the karyesha (for wealth the 2nd or 11th lord, for a spouse the 7th lord, and so on). Whether the matter fructifies is decided by the relationship between lagnesha and karyesha, especially whether they form an ithasala (applying) yoga, and by the dignity of each. The Moon is the third pivot, linking the two. Yogas such as ithasala, kambula and nakta are always examined between the lagnesha and karyesha; malefic interference (manau) or separation (isaraf) between them spoils the matter." }, { "category": "Core Concepts", "item_key": "pkp_object_categories", "title": "The Three Categories of All Objects: Dhatu, Jiva, Mula", "keywords": "dhatu, jiva, mula, mineral, animal, vegetable, lost object classification", "content": "The Shat Panchashika divides every object in the world into three classes, so that a lost or asked-about thing can be identified by kind. Dhatu (mineral) covers everything inert, from gold down to clay, that is, all lifeless matter and metals. Jiva (animate) covers every moving creature, from man down to the smallest insect. Mula (vegetable) covers all that grows up from the ground on the strength of a root, from grass to the greatest trees. When a querent's concern is unstated, the astrologer first determines to which of these three categories the object belongs, then reads its recovery or fate. This threefold scheme is the foundation of the lost-object and hidden-concern techniques." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_1", "title": "First Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "first house, lagna, health, longevity, body, self, arogya, ayushya", "content": "In a prashna the first bhava (lagna) is judged for health (arogya), worship (puja), one's qualities and virtues (guna), conduct and behaviour, longevity (ayushya) and age (vay), caste (jati), blamelessness or innocence, happiness (sukha) and affliction (klesha), the body's figure and characteristics (akriti, lakshana), form, beauty and complexion (rupa, varna), and the nephew's (sister's son's) wife. It represents the querent himself and his physical well-being, so any question about the asker's own body, vitality, or general state is read here. Both the Daivagya Vallabha and Tajik Neelkanthi lists agree on these bodily and self-related significations for the ascendant." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_10", "title": "Tenth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "tenth house, travel, authority, father, rain, weather, honor, kingship, position", "content": "The tenth bhava is judged for information about the sky and weather including rain, one's place or position, the father's work, comfort, honour (maan), great merit (punya), kingship and authority (adhikara), coin or currency (mudra), and decline or fall (padati). It is also the root cause of an undertaking. In the Shat Panchashika this is the house of travel (pravasa) itself, so a journey and its prospects are read here. Questions about career, status, power, the father, and rainfall or celestial events are judged from the tenth." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_11", "title": "Eleventh Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "eleventh house, gain, labha, wealth, vehicles, father-in-law, recovery, fulfillment", "content": "The eleventh bhava is judged for the increase of one's work, selling acumen, and gain (labha): elephants, horses, vehicles, clothes, grass, grain, gold, a woman, learning, and the attainment of all such things. It also covers the bed (shaiyya), the seizure of wealth, the gain of a maiden (kanya-labha), and the father-in-law and his side. As the house of labha, it is decisive for recovery and fulfilment: a strong benefic in the eleventh brings a lost object back quickly, and in the practical charts the querent's matter completes when the transiting Moon enters the eleventh and grows strong. Questions of profit, fulfilment of desires, and gains of every kind are read here." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_12", "title": "Twelfth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "twelfth house, loss, expenditure, foreign travel, marriage, charity, moksha, defeat", "content": "The twelfth bhava is judged for renunciation (tyaga), enjoyment (bhoga), the desired object, marriage (vivaha), charity (daan), farming, and every kind of expenditure and outflow (kharcha), together with decay and loss (kshaya), the paternal uncle (kaka), maternal aunt (masi), the maternal uncle's wife (mami), the witnessing of war, and defeat in war. In the author's charts the twelfth clearly signifies foreign lands (pardesa), so questions of going abroad and of visas are tied to the twelfth and its lord; it also signifies moksha, liberation, in a death enquiry. Questions of loss, expense, foreign travel, and letting-go are read here." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_2", "title": "Second Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "second house, wealth, gems, gold, metals, grain, trade, commodities", "content": "The second bhava is judged for precious things and wealth: rubies, pearls, gems (manek, moti, ratna), metals (dhatu), money and substance (dravya), clothes, gold, silver, and matters connected with horses and vehicles. It governs grain (dhanya) and the trade or commerce in every kind of commodity, and also information about roads and routes. Questions about earnings, valuables, merchandise, and dealings in goods are read from this house. It is essentially the house of movable wealth and the buying and selling of tangible things." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_3", "title": "Third Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "third house, siblings, servants, welfare, courage, communication, messages", "content": "The third bhava is judged for younger brothers and sisters, welfare and safety (kshema-kushalata), sound intelligence (sadbuddhi), gain, servants and maids (dasa, dasi), and bhatakarma, the work of a soldier, policeman or watchman. It carries worry about one's brothers and their affairs. In the author's practical example charts the third house also strongly signifies communication and news (sandesha vyavahara), so that when the Moon relates to the third, definite word or a message about a missing person arrives. Thus questions of siblings, subordinates, personal courage, and the arrival of news are read here." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_4", "title": "Fourth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "fourth house, home, land, mother, treasure, field, water, return home", "content": "The fourth bhava is judged for the house and home, buried treasure (nidhi), entering caves, great medicinal herbs, fields, threshing floors and gardens, friends, water, and rites performed for the ancestors (pitru). It covers journeying and entry, village comfort, the gaining or losing of a place, house-entry (griha pravesha), growth, mother and father, and the affairs and gains of one's country. Crucially in prashna it shows whether a traveller has returned home. Questions about property, land, dwellings, the mother, and domestic matters are read here; in the example charts a defect or affliction of the fourth house indicates a flawed or haunted house or tainted ground." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_5", "title": "Fifth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "fifth house, children, mantra, learning, intellect, embryo, statecraft, treaty", "content": "The fifth bhava is judged for various mantra practices and ritual experiments, humility (vinaya), sacred books (grantha), disciples (shishya), learning (vidya), statecraft and policy (rajaniti), intellect (buddhi), mantras, treaty or alliance (sandhi), the embryo (garbha), offspring (santana), and wisdom (prajna). It is the primary house for questions about children and pregnancy, education, mantra sadhana, and counsel. In the practical charts a benefic in the fifth or a benefic aspecting it favours the return of a missing person and confirms matters concerning offspring." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_6", "title": "Sixth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "sixth house, enemies, disease, litigation, servants, maternal uncle, theft fear", "content": "The sixth bhava is judged for ill-health and bad circumstances, enemies (shatru), servants, cruel and fierce deeds, the actions taken by enemies, doubt or suspicion, war, the maternal uncle (mama, the mother's family), buffalo, and disease (roga). The Tajik list adds fear of thieves, disputes and litigation with enemies (court cases), donkeys and camels, and general danger and unwellness. Questions about illness, enemies, quarrels, lawsuits, debts, service and job-work, and the maternal side of the family are read from this house." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_7", "title": "Seventh Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "seventh house, spouse, trade, dispute, going and coming, return, theft, pregnancy", "content": "The seventh bhava is judged for the sale of anything, health, trade and dealings (vyavahara), dispute and debate (vaad, shastrartha) and lawsuits, going and coming (jvu-avvu), the wife (patni), the arising of desire (kama), servants, theft, retirement or cessation (nivritti), and the nephew. It shows a traveller's return and the coming-and-going of people. A notable Shat Panchashika rule used repeatedly in the charts: Mercury in the seventh (or in the lagna) confirms that a woman is pregnant. Questions of marriage-partner, business dealings, opponents, travel-return, and open enmity are read here." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_8", "title": "Eighth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "eighth house, death, longevity, lost object, obstacles, secrets, fort, river crossing", "content": "The eighth bhava is judged for longevity, opposition (virodha), death (mrityu), kingdom, secrets (bheda), scandal to one's kinsmen (kalanka), difficulty, a fort or rampart, the wife, the slaying of an enemy, and the crossing of a river. The Tajik list adds obstacles met on a road, danger from the enemy, lost or stolen objects, war, and hidden matters. It is the decisive house for death and danger: in the author's charts, the Moon or the lagna-lord placed in the eighth, or the Moon moving to meet the maraka or eighth lord, points to death. Dreams and the uncanny are also read here." }, { "category": "Houses (Bhava)", "item_key": "pkp_bhava_9", "title": "Ninth Bhava in Prashna", "keywords": "ninth house, dharma, pilgrimage, guru, temple, water bodies, initiation, in-laws", "content": "The ninth bhava is judged for health, initiation (diksha), the temple (mandir), pilgrimage (yatra), coronation (rajyabhisheka), the guru, religious duty (dharma-karya), water reservoirs such as wells, ponds, stepwells and roadside water-stalls, and certain relations by marriage (brother-in-law, husband's younger brother, and sister-in-law). It is a trikona (trine) of fortune, so a benefic such as Jupiter here favours the recovery of a lost object and the return of a missing person. Questions of religion, long journeys and pilgrimage, teachers, and good fortune are read from this house; in the charts a lost article is often recovered from a religious place when the ninth is strong." }, { "category": "Planets (Graha)", "item_key": "pkp_planet_gender", "title": "Male and Female Planets in Prashna", "keywords": "purusha graha, stri graha, male planet, female planet, day, night, odd sign, even sign", "content": "Planets are divided by gender, which matters for querent-nature, child-gender and strength. The male (purusha) planets are the Sun, Mars and Jupiter; the female (stri) planets are the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn. Male planets are strong by day and female planets by night. Male planets are strong in odd signs and female planets in even signs. Female planets gain strength from the 4th house through the 9th, while male planets gain strength from the 10th through the 3rd. A male-planet aspect on the lagna in a child question points to a son; the placement and gender of the planet in the 7th indicates the type of partner; and a benefic (Moon-Jupiter) aspect marks a sincere querent." }, { "category": "Signs (Rashi)", "item_key": "pkp_jala_rashi", "title": "Water Signs (Jala Rashi) for Rain Questions", "keywords": "jala rashi, water sign, rain, Cancer, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, waxing Moon", "content": "For rain questions the text distinguishes the water-element signs from the jala rashi proper, the signs whose very symbol denotes water. The jala rashi are Cancer, Virgo, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces (signs marked by water in their emblem). Rain is indicated when the lagna is a water sign, the Moon is in the bright fortnight (shukla paksha), and benefics stand in water signs in the third house or a kendra. This is separate from the general Venus-Saturn rainfall combinations, and all such yogas are to be pronounced only during the rainy season." }, { "category": "Signs (Rashi)", "item_key": "pkp_sign_mobility", "title": "Fixed, Movable and Dual Lagna in Prashna", "keywords": "sthira, chara, dvisvabhava, fixed sign, movable sign, dual sign, outcome speed, Moon", "content": "The mobility of the prashna lagna governs whether things change or stay put. A fixed (sthira) lagna, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius, means the journey does not happen, the sick man does not die, the lost object is not destroyed, the illness is not cured, and the enemy is not defeated, that is, matters remain as they are. A movable (chara) lagna, Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn, gives the opposite: motion, change and swift outcome. A dual (dvisvabhava) lagna gives mixed results. The Moon's sign is judged the same way alongside the lagna. A benefic aspect on lagna and Moon brings much good. In practice, a movable lagna (or a dual lagna past 15 degrees, counted as movable) signals a quick result." }, { "category": "Signs (Rashi)", "item_key": "pkp_special_sign_groups", "title": "Human (Nara) and Quadruped Signs in Prashna", "keywords": "nara rashi, human signs, quadruped, chatushpada, treaty, war, enemy retreat", "content": "Certain sign-groups carry special force in prashna. The nara (human) signs, Gemini, Virgo, Libra and Aquarius, favour human, civilized outcomes: with a nara lagna and benefics in the lagna, or benefics in nara signs in the 11th and 12th, kings quickly make a treaty; but malefics in dual signs bring war between them. Benefics in the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 11th, and benefics in the nara signs Libra, Virgo, Gemini and Aquarius, give favourable results. The chatushpada (quadruped) signs, Aries, Taurus, Leo and the latter half of Sagittarius, when falling in the 4th house cause an enemy to be defeated and flee, whether or not a planet occupies the house." }, { "category": "Nakshatras", "item_key": "pkp_nakshatra_andha", "title": "Blind (Andha) Nakshatras and Lost Objects", "keywords": "nakshatra, andha, blind, Revati, lost object, three days, recovery timing", "content": "Among the practical timing lore in the author's example charts, the nakshatras are classed by their seeing-power for lost-object questions. When the Moon or the question falls in a blind (andha) nakshatra, such as Revati, a lost article is recovered within about three days. In one case a motorcycle lost on a day ruled by Revati, a blind nakshatra, was found within a few days at a religious place, just as the rule for andha nakshatras predicts. This nakshatra classification supplements the house and Moon-transit methods for judging how soon a missing thing returns." }, { "category": "Aspects (Drishti)", "item_key": "pkp_tajik_drishti", "title": "The Four Tajik Aspects", "keywords": "Tajik drishti, pratyaksha sneha, gupta sneha, gupta vaira, pratyaksha vaira, melapaka, kala", "content": "Tajik astrology uses four kinds of planetary aspect, needed to work its yogas. Pratyaksha Sneha (open friendship): a planet's glance to the 5th and 9th, also called melapaka, worth 45 kala, accomplishing every matter. Gupta Sneha (hidden friendship): the glance to the 3rd and 11th, accomplishing matters, worth 40 kala in the 3rd and 10 kala in the 11th. Gupta Vaira (hidden enmity): the glance to the 4th and 10th, worth 15 kala, which destroys good works and gives strife such as war. Pratyaksha Vaira (open enmity): planets in conjunction or opposition see each other with this glance, worth 60 kala, destroying good works and giving conflict. All four operate within a 12-degree orb." }, { "category": "Yogas & Combinations", "item_key": "pkp_yoga_isaraf", "title": "Isaraf (Musarif) Yoga", "keywords": "isaraf, musarif, separating aspect, separation, decline, benefic, malefic, Hillaj", "content": "Isaraf (also musarif) is the separating counterpart of ithasala. It forms when the faster planet has already moved even one degree past the slower planet (within orb) while the two still hold an aspect relation, so the connection is departing rather than applying. If both the faster and slower planets are malefic, the matter is destroyed; if both are benefic, the intended work still succeeds, which is the view of the teacher Hillaj. In practice isaraf signals a separation or a slipping-away, and in the author's charts an isaraf that later turns into a sneha ithasala shows a delayed but eventual success." }, { "category": "Yogas & Combinations", "item_key": "pkp_yoga_ithasala", "title": "Ithasala (Muthashila) Yoga", "keywords": "ithasala, muthashila, applying aspect, faster planet, slower planet, diptamsha, karya siddhi", "content": "Ithasala (muthashila) is the central success yoga of Tajik prashna, judged between lagnesha and karyesha. Of two planets the one with greater motion is the faster (shighra) and the one with less motion the slower (manda). When the faster planet, standing at fewer degrees, is applying to the slower planet placed ahead of it within the faster planet's diptamsha (orb of rays), and the two mutually aspect, the faster gives its tej (power) to the slower and the desired work is accomplished. Present ithasala (both in one sign at nearly equal degrees) is a 100% yoga giving the matter now; current ithasala forms when the faster is at a sign's end and the slower in the next sign; future (bhavishya) ithasala forms when the two are still far apart, so the matter fructifies later. The result belongs to the lagna." }, { "category": "Yogas & Combinations", "item_key": "pkp_yoga_kambula", "title": "Kambula Yoga and Its Sixteen Grades", "keywords": "kambula, Chandra, Moon, ithasala, uttama, madhyama, adhama, sama, sixteen types, outcome quality", "content": "Kambula arises when the lagnesha and karyesha form an ithasala and the Moon also forms an ithasala with one of them, binding the querent, the matter and the Moon together. Sixteen grades result from the dignities of the Moon (the first term) and of the lagnesha-karyesha pair (the second term). The dignity levels are: uttama (own or exalted sign), madhyama (own hadda, drekkana or navamsha), adhama (debilitation or an enemy's sign), and sama (none of these). Thus uttama-uttama (uttamottama) gives an excellent result obtained easily, madhyama grades give a good result with some delay or effort, sama grades give an ordinary result, and adhamadhama gives the matter only with great difficulty or scarcely at all. Kambula therefore grades both the quality and the ease of the outcome." }, { "category": "Yogas & Combinations", "item_key": "pkp_yoga_manau", "title": "Manau Yoga: Malefic Robbing the Significator", "keywords": "manau, Mars, Saturn, tej harana, obstruction, work destroyed, kendra yoga", "content": "Manau is a spoiling yoga in which Mars or Saturn robs the light of a key planet. It forms when Mars or Saturn sits just ahead of or behind the faster of the lagnesha and karyesha (or within its degrees) and aspects it by conjunction, the fourth or the seventh glance, thereby seizing that planet's tej. A second variety forms when, although the lagnesha and karyesha make an ithasala, Mars or Saturn is conjunct one of them within orb and carries off its power. In either case, even a formed ithasala is ruined and the desired matter is destroyed. In the author's charts a Mars-Saturn degree-close square on the karyesha repeatedly cancels marriages, land deals and jobs." }, { "category": "Yogas & Combinations", "item_key": "pkp_yoga_minor_tajik", "title": "Other Tajik Yogas (Ikkabal to Duruf)", "keywords": "ikkabal, induvar, gairikambula, khallasar, radda, dufalikuttha, dutthotthadivira, tambira, kuttha, duruf", "content": "The sixteen Tajik yogas also include: Ikkabal, all planets in kendras and panapharas, very auspicious, giving kingdom and comfort; Induvar (Idvar), all planets in apoklimas (3,6,9,12), inauspicious. Gairikambula: the Moon, shunya-marga, moves into the next sign to make ithasala with an exalted or own-sign planet, giving results like kambula (good if the planet has dignity, bad if not). Khallasar: the shunya-marga Moon makes no ithasala with lagnesha or karyesha, nullifying kambula's fruit. Radda: a weak karyesha (combust, debilitated, retrograde, lightless) cannot hold the tej, so the matter fails or forms then breaks. Dufalikuttha, Dutthotthadivira (both weak, but a strong third planet completes the work through another), and Tambira concern light transferred at a sign's end. Kuttha means all planets strong; Duruf means all planets weak." }, { "category": "Yogas & Combinations", "item_key": "pkp_yoga_nakta_yamaya", "title": "Nakta and Yamaya (Intermediary) Yogas", "keywords": "nakta, yamaya, intermediary, mediator, collecting light, lagnesha, karyesha, agent", "content": "When the lagnesha and karyesha do not aspect each other but a third planet stands between them and aspects both, that middle planet collects the tej of the faster planet behind it and hands it to the slower one ahead, completing the matter through an intermediary. If the connecting middle planet is itself fast-moving, the yoga is Nakta; if it is slow-moving, it is Yamaya. Both accomplish the work, but through a mediator, so the result comes by the help of some third party, a minister, agent or go-between. The author's examples read these as gains of a wife or a kingdom obtained through another person's assistance." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_child_gender", "title": "Predicting a Child's Gender and Confirming Pregnancy", "keywords": "son, daughter, Saturn odd house, male sign, purusha graha, Mercury seventh, pregnancy, navamsha", "content": "Two methods judge a child's sex. By Saturn: if Saturn is in an odd house (1,3,5,7,9,11) a son is born, in the remaining houses a daughter; and Saturn in an even house means a man gains a wife, in an odd house a woman gains a husband. By the male-female test: a male (purusha) sign lagna, the lagna in a male sign's shadvarga, the lagna in a male navamsha, and a male-planet (Sun, Mars, Jupiter) aspect on the lagna, or a male planet seated in the lagna, indicate a son; the reverse indicates a daughter. Strong female planets (Moon, Venus) on the lagna and fifth, an even lagna and even navamsha, indicate a daughter. Mercury in the lagna or in the 7th confirms that the woman is pregnant. The author found these Shat Panchashika rules highly reliable in his cases." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_death_timing", "title": "Longevity and the Timing of Death", "keywords": "death, longevity, Moon eighth, maraka, Ketu, eighth lord, twelfth lord, moksha, timing", "content": "In a longevity or critical-illness question, the Moon or the lagna-lord placed in the 8th house (the house of death) makes death likely. The moment of death is timed to when the Moon transits the 8th, when the Moon reaches the degrees of Ketu, or when the Moon goes to meet the maraka lord (2nd or 7th lord) or the 8th lord. When the dying person's Moon instead moves on to meet Jupiter as lord of the 12th (the house of moksha), especially within each other's diptamsha, liberation is indicated rather than mere death. A malefic aspect on a prushtodaya lagna adds the danger of death or a fatal accident. The author's case charts repeatedly confirmed the death at the very transit-point his rules named." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_enemy_movement", "title": "Whether an Enemy Comes or Retreats, and When", "keywords": "enemy, invasion, fixed lagna, movable lagna, malefic fourth, retreat, timing months, navamsha", "content": "Enemy movement is read from the mobility of the lagna and Moon. A fixed lagna means the enemy does not come; a movable lagna means he comes; a dual lagna, mixed. Malefics in the 5th and 6th mean the enemy turned back on the road; a malefic in the 4th makes even a near enemy retreat disheartened. Quadruped signs in the lagna or 4th turn the enemy back. A movable lagna with Sun, Saturn, Mercury or Venus in the lagna brings the enemy quickly; if such a planet is retrograde he does not come (the Sun never retrogrades). For timing, the house-number of the strongest planet from the lagna gives the months until the enemy retreats, doubled if that planet is in a fixed-sign navamsha and tripled if in a dual-sign navamsha." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_general_success", "title": "General Success or Failure of an Undertaking", "keywords": "success, kendra, trikona, benefic, malefic, eighth house, honor, wealth, Moon tenth", "content": "For any undertaking, if benefics occupy the kendras and trikonas and malefics occupy houses other than the kendras and the 8th, all works succeed; the reverse means the work fails. Benefics in the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 11th give gain, and in the nara signs Libra, Virgo, Gemini and Aquarius give good results, while malefics there give ill. Benefics in the 10th and 7th give position and place; benefics in the 1st, 2nd and 5th give honour and wealth; malefics in the 11th and 12th are inauspicious. The Moon is not good in the lagna but is good in the 10th. If Jupiter aspects a 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 10th or 11th Moon, good comes through a woman." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_illness_recovery", "title": "Recovery of a Sick Person", "keywords": "illness, recovery, benefic first fifth seventh eighth, Moon third sixth tenth eleventh, health", "content": "For a question about a sick person, recovery is indicated when benefics occupy the 1st, 5th, 7th and 8th houses and are themselves aspected by benefics, while the Moon stands in the 3rd, 6th, 10th or 11th house; this combination is auspicious and the patient gets well. In the author's chronic-illness charts the reverse, the Moon in the 6th or 8th, the lagna-lord weak or in a maraka house, and malefic (Saturn, Mars) aspects on lagna and Moon, points to a grave or incurable disease. The fixed or movable nature of the lagna further shows whether the condition lingers or resolves quickly." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_lost_object_found", "title": "Recovery of a Lost Object", "keywords": "lost object, full Moon, lagna, Jupiter, Venus, eleventh house, recovery, timing", "content": "For a lost or misplaced article, a full (purna) Moon in the lagna aspected by Jupiter or Venus brings the object back at once; likewise a strong benefic in the eleventh house (labha-sthana) recovers it quickly. A full Moon or benefic in the lagna, with the lagna a shirshodaya sign aspected by a benefic, means the lost or stolen thing will return. In the author's example charts the object is typically found when the transiting Moon reaches a certain sign and goes to meet Jupiter or Venus, or when it enters the eleventh and grows strong; benefics (especially Jupiter) in the 3rd or 9th also confirm swift recovery." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_marriage_question", "title": "Whether a Marriage Will Take Place", "keywords": "marriage, vivaha, Moon third fifth sixth seventh eleventh, Jupiter, Sun, Mercury, kendra trikona", "content": "To judge whether a marriage will happen, examine the Moon and benefics. If the Moon is in the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th or 11th house and is aspected by Jupiter, the Sun and Mercury, the marriage takes place. Benefics placed in the kendras and trikonas also confirm that the marriage will occur. In the author's practical charts, an ithasala between the lagnesha and the 7th lord (karyesha) supports the union, while a manau yoga (Mars or Saturn robbing the karyesha's light) causes the match to be refused or to fall through." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_rain_prediction", "title": "Whether It Will Rain", "keywords": "rain, varsha, Venus, Saturn, seventh from Moon, fourth eighth house, water sign, rainy season", "content": "Rainfall is judged mainly from Venus and Saturn. If Venus and Saturn are respectively seventh from the Moon and the Sun, rain falls; and if Venus and Saturn are together seventh from the Moon, rain also falls. Venus and Saturn in the 4th and/or 8th from the lagna give rain, as do Venus and Saturn in the 2nd and 3rd. A water-sign (jala rashi) lagna with a waxing Moon and benefics in water signs in the 3rd house or a kendra gives rain. All three Venus-Saturn combinations, and these rules, are to be applied only during the rainy season." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_relationship_type", "title": "The Kind of Partner in a Relationship Question", "keywords": "relationship, seventh house, maiden, courtesan, another's wife, planet in seventh, partner type", "content": "The type of woman or partner is read from the planet in the lagna or the 7th. Waxing Moon and Mercury indicate a maiden; Saturn an old woman; Sun or Jupiter a matron (a mother who has borne children); Mars or Venus a shrewish woman. In the 7th specifically: Sun, Venus and Mars point to another man's wife; Mercury and Moon to a courtesan; Saturn to a low-caste woman. By house, the 7th shows the wife, the 4th a concubine or secondary woman, and the 12th a woman only for pleasure. The same logic applies for men, and the partner's age is judged from the Moon's condition." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_stolen_wealth_location", "title": "Location of Stolen or Hidden Wealth", "keywords": "stolen wealth, thief, fixed lagna, vargottama, drekkana, direction, distance, yojana", "content": "When the prashna lagna is a fixed sign, its navamsha is a fixed sign, or it is vargottama, the stolen wealth is still where it was and the thief is a member of the household. The drekkana of the lagna tells its place: the first drekkana means near the door of the house, the second means inside the house, the third means outside the house. The direction the wealth has gone is judged from a strong planet in a kendra, or if no planet occupies a kendra, from the sign in the lagna. Its distance is measured by counting how many navamsha past the first five the lagna has reached, that many yojanas away the stolen wealth has gone." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_thief_identification", "title": "Identifying the Thief by Drekkana", "keywords": "thief, drekkana, dweshkana, appearance, caste, direction, Varahamihira, stolen object", "content": "In a theft question the kind of stolen object is known from the lagna's navamsha, the thief from the drekkana, and the time, direction and country from the sign; the thief's age and caste from the lagna-lord, taking the Moon's sign. Each of the three drekkanas of the twelve signs carries a vivid figure describing the thief's sex, complexion, dress, ornaments, weapons, physical form and temperament, drawn from Varahamihira's drekkana descriptions. For example the first drekkana of Aries is a red-eyed, dark, fierce-looking man of the weapon-class with an axe raised in his lifted hand; the second is a thirsty woman in red robes fond of gems and food. The astrologer matches the ruling drekkana's figure to describe the culprit." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_traveler_harm", "title": "Harm, Illness or Death of a Traveller", "keywords": "traveller harm, prushtodaya lagna, malefic aspect, Saturn ninth, Saturn eighth, killed, bound", "content": "Danger to a traveller is read from a prushtodaya (back-rising) lagna aspected by a malefic with no benefic aspect: the traveller has been slain, bound, ruined or cheated. If all malefics are in the 3rd house (no benefic aspect), he is killed or imprisoned; if malefics are in the 6th and/or in a kendra without benefic aspect, he is destroyed. For his condition abroad, Saturn in the 9th joined by a malefic and neither joined nor aspected by a benefic shows the traveller is suffering illness in a foreign land; the same afflicted Saturn placed in the 8th shows the traveller's death. In the charts a prushtodaya lagna aspected by both Saturn and Mars warns of death or a fatal accident." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_traveler_return", "title": "Return of a Traveller or Missing Person", "keywords": "traveller, return, second third fifth house, Jupiter, Venus, Moon eighth, timing days", "content": "A traveller or missing person returns when planets (especially all seven) occupy the 2nd, 3rd or 5th houses; benefics there also recover a lost thing or person, and Jupiter with Venus there brings a swift return. One planet in the 6th or 7th with Jupiter in a kendra, or Mercury or Venus in a trikona, likewise brings the traveller back. The Moon in the 8th with no malefic in a kendra and a benefic in the 11th means a safe return. For timing, count the sign of the first occupied house from the lagna and multiply by twelve to get the number of days to the return, or the traveller comes when that planet turns retrograde; in practice, return is timed to when the transiting Moon reaches a linking planet." }, { "category": "Predictions", "item_key": "pkp_victory_defeat", "title": "Victory and Defeat in Conflict", "keywords": "victory, defeat, first seventh tenth house, Mars Saturn ninth, defender, attacker, treaty", "content": "For questions of conflict, benefics in the 1st, 7th and 10th houses give victory to the city-lord, that is, to the querent; Mars and Saturn in the 9th give defeat; and Mercury, Jupiter or Venus in the 9th give victory. The six houses from the 3rd belong to the defender (the townsman) and the six houses from the 9th to the attacker; whichever side's houses hold benefics prospers, while malefics in the 10th, 11th and 12th are inauspicious for the town. With nara (human) signs, benefics in the lagna, and benefics in the 11th and 12th, kings quickly make peace; malefics in dual signs bring war. Benefics in the kendras that also aspect bring friendship and treaty; malefics there bring battle." } ]