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VI RECTIFICATION OF BIRTH TIME

I shall now tell you some methods by which you can rectify the noted time of birth. However, 1 have to warn you against depending solely on them. One of the methods is the following :Convert the time of birth in Ghatis etc. after Sunrise into Vighatis. Multiply this by 4 and divide the product by 9. The remainder will indicate the number of the star of birth counted from Asvini, Magha or Mula. If you apply this rule to our example horoscope; you get 525 Vighatis. Then 5254/9=233 and a remainder of 3. But the 3rd star from Mula would be Uttarasadha. This is not correct. We must get Satabhisak. If you take 8g-30v as the time of birth in Ghatis, you get a balance of 6 which gives us the star of birth exactly. So according to this the correct time of birth should be 8 Ghatis and 30 Vighatis after Sunrise. Another method is to multiply the ghatis etc. by 4 and add to it the number of the Rasi the Lagna represents from Mesa and again add 5, 10 or 15 according as the Lagna is movable, fixed or dual. Divide this sum by 27. Take the balance into consideration. If the birth is in the bright fortnight count the remainder from Asvini, and if in the dark fortnight, count from Citra. That star should be the natal star or one of its trines. In the given example this rule does not hold good. But if you take 8-31.5 ghatis, you get a remainder of 6 which gives the required star Satabhisak. Yet another method is this : Multiply the time of birth in ghatis by 6. Add to this the particular date of the solar month. This total would reveal the number of degrees by which the Lagna is removed from the very commencement of the sign occupied by the Sun. It was the 24th day of Simha month. If you add this to 50-70, which is the product you get by multiplying the Istaghati by 6, you get 75-10'. According to this rule the cusp of the first house or Lagna must be 75-10' farther from the beginning of Leo, because t the Sun is situated in that Sign. But actually our Lagna-sphuta is 6-32'-4" i.e. 2s-10-32'-4" removed from the initial point | of Leo. However, this will help us in locating the Ascendant broadly. I shall give you yet another method :Note the Rasi and Navamsa occupied by Mandi as well as by the Moon. Now the Lagna of birth will have some connection with this Rasi. The Lagna may be the 7th, 5th or 9th from the sign or Navamsa of Mandi or the Moon, whichever is stronger of the two. In our example Mandi is in Makara in sign and Leo in Amsa. The Moon is in Kumbha Rasi and Makara Navamsa. But the latter is stronger. Here the Lagna is actually in the 9th house from the Moon, the degrees of both being exactly the same i.e. llth. Acceding to another view, the Lagna may be trine to the lord of the sign or Amsa of the Moon or Mandi. There are some simple rules to find out the sex of the child. In this case too you have to be doubly careful before pronouncing judgment. Convert as before the Istaghatis etc. into Vighatis. Divide this by 225. Now you may have a remainder upto 225. What you have to do with the remainder is this : have five groups of 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, i.e. from 1 to 15 first group, 16 to 45 second, 46 to 90 third, 91 to 150 fourth, and 151 to 225 fifth. In the odd groups male births are indicated. Take our example. Divide 525 by 225. You will get a remainder of 75. This fallc in the third group. So the child must be male. Another method is to multiply the Istaghati by 4 and to add to it the number of Rasis alone in the Lagna-sphuta. Divide the result by 8. If the remainder is an even number, it is male, and if odd, it is female. In our example, 8-454 plus 6 41. Leave off the Vighatis. In this case there are no Vighatis. By dividing 41 by 8 you get one as remainder, which being an odd number indicates female birth. Hence the time of birth will have to be suitably modified. I shall tell you another interesting point in this context. From the Lagna of birth you can find out the direction of the lying-in-chamber in the house. If the Ascendant be Aries, Cancer, Libra, Scorpio or Aquarius, the chamber would be in the eastern portion of the house; if Leo or Capricorn, in the south; if Taurus, in the west; and if Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces, in the north. Before making any pronouncement you will have to see which of the two viz. the Lagna or its Navamsa, is stronger. In case the Navamsa is stronger, then you will have to give the direction indicated by that sign and not by tne Lagna-Rasi. What do you mean by the Navamsa being stronger ? See if that particular sign whose name the Amsa bears is well aspected or occupied and also see if its lord is strong, in benefic house and has the aspect of and association with benefics. You can similarly find out the direction which the lying-in-chamber faces. The planet that occupies a Kendra position in the birth chart gives the direction. You know the quarters presided over by the planets. Suppose there are many planets in Kendras, then you will have to declare the direction from the strongest of them. The women or obstetricians etc. in attendance on the expectant mother would depend on the number of planets posited between the Ascendant and the Moon. The number of persons standing or waiting outside is equal to the number outside that range. The quantity of oil in the lamp will correspond to the portion of the sign yet to be covered by the Moon in the particular Rasi occupied by her. The part of the wick remaining is to be guessed from the part of the sign of Lagna that has not yet risen. The nature of the lamp whether movable or fixed is to be deduced from the nature of the Rasi occupied by the Sun.

These details may not be needed now in view of the existence of maternity homes and electric lights. Still I have given them because of their scientific character and interest. It is said that if in the chart the Moon does not aspect the Ascendant, the child's father must have been away from home at the time of birth. This means that the Moon should be in the 7th house from the Lagna for the father to be at home. I advise you not to take this Yoga too literally. See if the lord of the 9th house is in the visible hemispheresix signs counted backwards from the Lagnaand in a fixed Rasi or Amsa and has some sort of connection or aspect on the Lagna or its lord and the Moon or the lord of its Rasi. If these conditions are satisfied, you can say the father was at home. In the above condition i.e. when the Moon does not aspect the Lagna, if the Sun is posited in the 9th or 8th house, which is movable, fixed or dual sign, the father is in another village, in his own village or on his way home respectively.