Principles
The memory table will be expanded now to make it a complete scheme. But before
learning them, it is necessary to understand some technical terms of astrology which
are used more commonly.
1. Kendras (Quadrants) – The Lagna, the fourth, seventh and the tenth houses of
the lagna are called kendras and the lords of those houses are called lords of
kendras, wherever they may be placed in a horoscope.
2. Trikonas (Trines) – The lagna and the fifth and the ninth houses from the lagna
are trines. The lords of the fifth and ninth houses have been described as trikonas
which is a fallacy. The word 'tri' in Sanskrit means 'three'. In what is known as the
ashtakvarga, in trikona shodhana , the lagna, the fifth and the ninth houses are
taken. Thus lagna lord is both a kendra lord and also the trikona lord.
3. Panapharas (Cadent) – The second, fifth, the eighth and the eleventh houses
are known as panapharas. Then a special term used is Upachaya house which are
the third, sixth, tenth and eleventh houses and their lords.
4. Apoklimas (Succudent) – The third, sixth, ninth and the twelfth houses are
known as apolklima. But since the ninth house is trikona, it is generally omitted
from this category.
Points to Remember
In understanding the meaning of P.A.C. the combinations of the lords of these houses,
or the aspect of one of them on a house or a planet or the mutual aspects of the lords of these houses reveal the secrets of horoscope. It is an area of ever-expanding research, very simple apparently, but very complex.
In the example horoscope, kendras are Kanya, Dhanu, Meena and Mithuna.
Trikonas are Kanya, Makar, Vrisha.
Panapharas are Tula, Makar, Mesha, Karka.
Apoklimas are Vrishchika, Kumbha, Vrisha (Omit it) and Simha.
It will be good if a reader gets used to these terms after understanding how these
terms come into a writer’s articles in so natural a way that the writer does not know
that they may appear foreign to many.
The permutations and combinations of these, lords of kendras, trikonas, panapahars,
apoklimas and upachayas are used for predictions.
Persons whom these Planets Represent in
Daily Life
Now, if we take the normal day to day, mundane affairs, these very planets represent
the following worldly persons.
The Sun
The king of the solar system, is the king always and everywhere. The level of regal
splendour he shows will depend on his condition in a horoscope.
Family – The father in a family and paternal relations, the Sun is also a dignified
administrative authority.
Society – The King in a monarchy, the Sun is the dignitary in modern democracies
and represents highly placed persons whether in government service or private
firms.
The Moon
Like the Sun, the other planet representing royalty is the Moon.
Family – Represents the mother and everything connected with mother.
Society – The wise men (Dwija) of the society, popular person and in
democracies, the Moon aspected by Saturn represents the charisma some
personalities develop.
Mars
Mars is the natural commander-in-chief in astrology.
Family – Brothers, sisters.
Notable – Some astrologers following the Bhrigu system of Hindu astrology give
to Mars the role of a woman in a man’s life. While many astrologers do not accept
this, there is strong enough reason to go deeper into this aspect as some of my
researches prove this to be very valid.
Society – Mars gives an important marital point which pertains to marriage which
is why in Hindu astrology so much stress is laid on Mangalya (happiness of a
marriage) and also Kujadosha (Kuja is a synonym for Mars). In social life, Mars
represents the army, the police and men in uniform, administrators, men in high
position, rulership, estate agents etc.
Mercury
In astrology Mercury is the prince.
Family – Cousins, maternal uncles.
Notable – In Uttar-Kalamrita, Kalidas attributes to Mercury some other special
significations: maternal grand-father, and younger coborns and or brothers and
sisters.
Notable – In a woman’s life Mercury represents, if afflicted by Saturn a husband
with less or no sexual virility.
Society – Mercury represents knowledge and in modern life, business. So this
planet has many great significations of very wide variety. Mathematicians, sculptors,
astrologers, astronomers, scholars, speakers, writers, men who know the secrets of
mantras and yantras. In modern age, Mercury is the financial expert, accountant,
auditor, journalist, newspaper man, paper merchant etc.
Notable – The association of Mercury with certain planets in some rashis from the
lagna is the clue to finding it out. Lot of new researches will have to be done in this area.
Jupiter
Jupiter who is given the honored place of being the guru of gods, represents, the
divine, the sacred.
Family – Children, elder brother, respected elders in the family (whose
intervention and advice helps solve family problems)
Notable – In Uttar Kalamrita, the other significations given to Jupiter are
grandsons and also grand-father.
Notable – In Bhrigu astrology, Jupiter is said to represent the husband of a
woman just as Mars is said to represent the wife of a man.
Society – Traditionally, the priest, the scholar, the adviser to the king (in ancient
times), Jupiter represents many new modern professionals.
Notable – The judge, the teacher, the lawyer, the adviser in new modern forms
become legal experts, the management experts, the psychologists, the bankers etc.
Venus
Venus, traditionally the guru of asuras (monsters), is described as the lord of sixtyfour
arts, meaning that Venus represents, culture and sophistication.
Family – Represents the sex-life of married partners in a tradition-bound society
otherwise, the sex-life of an individual. Generally Venus has been treated as wife. For those born after sun-rise Venus is said to take the place of Moon and becomes the
mother.
Notable – Generally Venus represents family prosperity, conveyances, jewellery,
and precious possessions.
Society – Venus being representative of arts, all form of arts, fine or commercial,
dance, song, drama, literature, poetry being its sole domain, dramatists, poets,
dancers etc. are Venus-dominant personalities.
Notable – In modern context, the perfumers, hoteliers, owners of restaurant,
computer-software men and even those who deal with flesh-trade fall under the vast
Venusian umbrella.
Saturn
Hindu astrologers are mostly superstitious in their understanding and treatment of
the significations of Saturn. True, Saturn represents, trouble, sorrow, old age,
sickness. Yet in all the great classics of Hindu astrology Saturn has been given some
other beneficent roles which are overlooked. My best research given
emphasise the positive side of Saturn with many illustrations.
Family – Old men and servants in the family. Old, dilapidated houses specially
made of bricks. For those born at night Saturn represents father, taking the place of
the Sun, the natural significator of father.
Society – If the Sun is the aristocrat, Saturn is the democrat while Mars is the
dictator. These hints help us in making predictions about the type of government a
nation will have at a given point of time. Lower classes, democrats, crippled persons,
old men, are represented by Saturn in traditional astrology.
In the changed socio-economic times of ours, Saturn is the seeker of powers through
elections to democratic bodies, iron-smiths and also industrialists (in cooperation
with Mars), a psychologist in cooperation with Jupiter, an artist in cooperation with
Venus, a sculptor in co-operation with Mercury etc.
Notable – Astrologers who fail to seek the very wide and sweeping range of all
new professions created by Saturn will fall into thousands of errors of judgments.
Rahu
Next to Saturn the most condemned planet is Rahu. Unless astrologers do new
researches and see the positive side of these planets, more damage will be done to
astrology than has already been done so far.
Family – Paternal grand-parents (though Uttar Kalamrita also uses Rahu for
maternal grand-parents), old, sick person in the family and those that become nonconformist's.
Society – The foreigner, the engineer, the architect, the space engineer, the
politician, air hostesses, aeroplane pilots and manifold new technical and semitechnical professions fall in the domain of Rahu.
Ketu
Ketu is the most baffling planet in astrology, spiritual, divine on the one hand and
baffling in a medical sense.
Family – Represents maternal grand-parents (though Uttara Kalamrita takes
paternal grand-parents), the slightly unorthodox members of the family.
Society – Ketu is the planet which plays key role in shaping a doctor or other men
in semi-medical or alternative systems of medicine. Ketu, combined with other
planets, produces inventors, men dealing with subtle secrets of nature around our
world.
Notable – Some hints have been given here about the persons represented by
different planets some of them are traditional and some of them are additional. For
instance Ketu represents languages and linguists. These days when people learn
computer it naturally falls under Ketu because there is computer language to be
learnt.
If planets combine, aspect each other in certain houses from the lagna, the meaning
of this should be interpreted with an open mind. The classical principle should never
be overlooked and the new meaning must be discovered otherwise astrological
research will remain stagnant.
