ASHTAKAVARGA PREDICTION

Ashtakavarga is a very sophisticated and unique transit system. There is nothing else like it anywhere in the world. In Vedic Astrology, there is such a plethor a of techniques to choose from. According to Parasara, to make the process of pr ediction a lot simpler, Ashtakavarga can be used. To practice Ashtakavarga effec tively, it is important to be very familiar with the qualities and actions of ea ch planet as a karaka and the qualities and actions of each house. This is the k ey. In Ashtakavarga, Varga charts are not used. A transit of a planet through a Sign has many layers of meanings. For example, w hen Jupiter is transiting a Sign, you judge the effect of Jupiter transiting to all the planets plus the Ascendant. You judge the transit of Jupiter to not only the natal Moon, as in Gochara, but also to the natal Sun, natal Mars, natal Mer cury, natal Jupiter, natal Venus, natal Saturn and the Ascendant. The transit of Jupiter is judged from eight places, hence the name of Ashtaka (Eight) Varga (D ivisions). A planet is favorable or unfavorable from where it is transiting from a particular planet. Ashtakavarga is more important than Gochara. It is a more precise measurement be cause it measures a planet s strength from every planet, not just the Moon. Gochar a is just 1/8 of Ashtakavarga. If a planet is transiting a house with high point s in Ashtakavarga, but a bad house from the Moon (Gochara), then the results of Ashtakavarga trump the results obtained from Gochara. For example, Saturn transi ting the 12th, 1st and 2nd from the Moon is considered inauspicious, but Saturn may be very auspicious in other respects, as in the case of Saturn transiting a house with high Ashtakavaraga points. In this case, Saturn would be able to perf orm very well and give auspicious results. Ashtakavarga takes a more accurate an d holistic look at the transiting planets than just those transits from the nata l Moon. A planet transits a sign. Based on this placement, it either receives a 1 or a 0 depending on whether it is auspicious or inauspicious from a certain planet. Fo r example, Saturn transits Aries and in the birth chart, Saturn is in Cancer. Sa turn in the 10th from itself is not auspicious, so Aries received 0 points. Whenever a planet is transiting a sign with low points, low points being below 4 , it is always going to give trouble to that sign and trouble to the planet s sign ifications. 0, 1, 2, or 3 points = Bad; 4 points =Average; 5, 6, 7, or 8 points = Good. Jupiter will tend to have more than 4 pts in every sign. Saturn will rarely have more than 4. Jupiter and Venus are favorable in transit to most planets and Sat urn is unfavorable in transit to most planets. The following is a tabulation of where each planets give points from it s natal pl acement, from all the other planets natal placements and from the Ascendant. Sun The Sun gives a point in the following houses from 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. From 11th. From Mercury: 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th 6th, 9th, and 11th. From Venus: 6th, 7th and 12th. 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th. himself, Mars and Saturn; the the Moon: 3rd, 6th, 10th and and 12th. From Jupiter: 5th, From the Ascendant: 3rd, 4th,

Moon The Moon gives a point to the following houses from himself: 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th,

10th, and 11th. From the Sun: 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th. From Mars: 2nd , 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 11th. From Mercury: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th. From Jupiter: 1st, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th. From Ven us: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th. From Saturn: 3rd, 5th, 6th and 11th. From Ascendant: 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th. Mars Mars give a point to the following houses from himself: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th. From the Sun: 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th and 11th. From the Moon: 3rd, 6th, and 11th. From Mercury: 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 11th. From Jupiter: 6th, 10th, 1 1th and 12th. From Venus: 6th, 8th, 11th, and 12th. From Saturn: 10th and 11th. From the Ascendant: 1st, 3rd, 6th, 10th and 11th. Mercury Mercury gives a point to the following houses from himself: 1st, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th,10th, 11th and 12th. From the Sun: 5th, 6th, 9th, 11th, and 12th. From the M oon: 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 11th. From Mars and Saturn: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th , 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. From Jupiter: 6th, 8th, 11th and 12th. From Venus: 1s t, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, and 11th. From the Ascendant: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6t h, 8th, 10th and 11th. Jupiter Jupiter gives a point to the following houses from himself: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th. From the Sun: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th. From the Moon: 2nd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th. From Mars: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th. From Mercury: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th and 1 1th. From Venus: 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, and 11th. From Saturn: 3rd, 5th, 6th and 12th. From the Ascendant: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th. Venus Venus gives a point to the following houses from himself: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5t h, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th. From the Sun: 8th, 11th and 12th. From the Moon: 1s t, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th. From Mars: 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 1 1th and 12th. From Mercury: 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 11th. From Jupiter: 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. From Saturn: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. From t he Ascendant: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. Saturn Saturn gives a point to the following houses from himself: 3rd, 5th, 6th and 11t h. From the Sun: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th. From the Moon: 3rd, 6th and 11th. From Mars: 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th and 12th. From Mercury: 6th, 8th , 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. From Jupiter: 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th. From Venus: 6 th, 11th and 12th. From the Ascendant: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 10th and 11th. For each planet, add up all of the points given and combine them into one chart. Each planet should have a chart with its corresponding Ashtakavarga points. In each house, the points will number between 0 and 8. 0 3 is inauspicious, 4 is av erage, and 5 8 is auspicious. When a planet transits a house where it gives more than 4 points, then it will affect that house and its inherent significations p ositively. The most important planets to watch for transits are Saturn, Jupiter, and the dasa lord. If you want to know about a specific area of life, like for example vehicles, you would also look at the transit of the house lord. For vehi cles, watch the transit of the 4th lord and Venus. When these two planets transi t houses that have 4 or more points, then you will have auspicious experiences w ith vehicles. When these two planets transit a house with 3 or less points, a pe rson would have inauspicious experiences with vehicles. Determining Important Ages Important ages are best explained by using an example. Let us take for our examp le Jupiter. To find the important ages for Jupiter, add up all the points in eac

h house beginning with the Ascendant to the house that contains Jupiter. The tot al of those points will give an important age in the person s life for Jupiterian things, like wealth, children, knowledge, religion or philosophy, finding a spir itual teacher, meeting one s husband if the person in question is a woman. The sec ond step is to add up all points from Jupiter to the Ascendant and that will als o be a very important age for Jupiterian things. Then we combine all of the poin ts we just added up and that will also be an important year for Jupiter. The anc ient texts say that the ages of Saturn are the most important ages. These are th e times the person meets with many Saturnian experiences. The person will experi ence long term, life changing events in these years. Auspicious Directions Each planet s Ashtakavarga has auspicious directions. For example if Venus has the most Ashtakavarga points, in Libra and Pisces, then a person will have more luc k with Venusian type things like romance, the bedroom and comfort from the direc tions of West and SE, because Libra rules the West and Pisces rules SouthEast. T he directions are tabulated based upon the South Indian Rasi Chart and the movem ent of the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere. When the Sun is at the farthest North , it is in Cancer and Leo, when it is farthest South, when it is coldest, it is in Capricorn and Aquarius. There is another system as well that is based upon th e elements fire signs rule the East, earth signs rule the South, water signs rul e the North and air signs rule the West. The auspicious directions method can be effective when used in relationship with your home. Another example would be Ju piter having the most Ashtakavarga points in Capricorn. In this case, keeping yo ur valuable in the South of your home would increase your wealth. Important Transits The house from the karaka is always a pertinent house. For example, Jupiter rule s many things like wealth, income, children, well-being of the husband for a wom an. The 2nd house is wealth, the 11th house is income, the 5th house is children and the 7th house is the husband. The 2nd house from Jupiter will be an importa nt house for wealth. The 11th house from Jupiter will be an important house for income. The 5th house from Jupiter will be an important house for children. The 9th house from Jupiter will be an important house for knowledge. Let us say Jupi ter is in Libra. So Scorpio will become an important house for wealth. However, in the Ashtakavarga system, it is a little more tricky than simply just looking at the house from the karaka. We must find the sensitive houses of transit for e ach planet. To do this, it is necessary to find something called the Yoga Pinda. It is a rather tedious process to do this by hand and most Vedic Astrological S oftware will calculate the yoga pinda. The method is also explained in BPHS in c hapters 69 71. Continuing with Jupiter in Libra as our example, multiply the yoga pinda by the Ashtakavarga points in the sign from Jupiter you want to know about. If you want to know about wealth, take the Ashtakavarga points for Scorpio, the 2nd from Li bra. If you want to know about children, take the Asktakavarga points for Aquari us, the 5th from Libra. Take the total of the Ashtakavarga points multiplied by the yoga pinda and divide by 12. The remainder is the number of the sign as coun ted from Aries. So any planet transiting that sign is a sensitive point when it comes to the significations of that house from the karaka. For example Jupiter h as a Yoga pinda of 98. If we want to look at the income, we take the 11th from J upiter and Jupiter is in a sign of Libra so the 11th from it is Leo. The Ashtaka for Jupiter in Leo is 4, so multiply 4 x 98 = 392. Now divide 392 by 12 = 32 an d remainder is 8. So the 8th sign of Scorpio is a very sensitive place in respec t to the income for planets to transit. A planet is going to have some effect transiting these sensitive houses based on the method shown above. What type of effect will they have? It depends upon the Ashtakavarga points that the planet has in that house. Using the example above, if a planet is transiting Scorpio and we want to know if that planet will harm

or help the income, we look to see how many Ashtakavarga points that transiting planet is giving the sign of Scorpio. If it is over 4 points, then the planet wi ll give beneficial results. If it is 3 or less, then there will be some stress e xperienced when dealing with income. The stress will be through its natural sign ifications and through its lordship of house. For example, if it is Venus transi ting Scorpio, then women, vehicles, students and/or the love life will cause str ess to the income. Saturn and Jupiter transits are the ones you want to look at first. Saturn and J upiter are planets that orient us toward our destiny. When Jupiter is transiting , then it is making us look forward to that realm of life and expanding that rea lm of life. Saturn transiting will force us to face that area of life and we wil l have a lot of responsibilities in that area of life even if we do not want the m. Saturn is our duty and responsibilities and Jupiter is our excitement and hop e. In any sign Jupiter is in, it will open us up to any possibilities of that ho use. Jupiter makes us expand in that direction. Saturn closes us off and narrows the path. As stated above, to ascertain if Saturn or Jupiter will be good in tr ansit, you must assess the number of points the planet is giving to the Sign. Let s take Venus for relationships. In this example, Venus occupies Aries, so we t ake the 7th from Venus which is Libra. The yoga pinda for Venus = 96. The Ashtak avarga points for Venus in Libra is 5. 5 x 96 = 480. Divide this by 12 = 40 and there is no remainder. If there is no remainder then we take 12 as the number of the sign. This is Pisces, therefore when planets are transiting Pisces, they in fluence the relationship life because Pisces is a sensitive house for relationsh ips. The 2nd from Venus is healthy and nourishing food. The 4th from Venus is th e swimming pool and interior decoration. 4th from Venus also has to do with auto mobiles. Home is 4th from Mars. Every planet is a karaka for a bhava but some ar e less important than others. When the Sun transits a sensitive bhava (house), that indicates the month that t he relative event will happen. The Sun is a timing system. You can also use the Moon to time the event within 2 and a half days. Jupiter indicates the year that an event could happen. Saturn is important in timing when something leaves our life or when we are forced into responsibilities regarding the house from the ka raka Saturn is transiting. When Saturn transits sensitive points, usually destin y will force a change on our lives. Mars shows when we have to fight for somethi ng. Venus shows when we relax and get nourished. Mercury will show when we will improve upon that thing. The Lagna can be used for timing the 2 hour period. Not only is the sign in question a sensitive point but also the trines to that sign . For example, for income, the sensitive sign for that is Scorpio, so Scorpio s tr ines, Pisces and Cancer are also sensitive places for income. Also look at the Mahadasa lord and where he is transiting. He will have an impor tant impact on life events. Treat it like Jupiter. He will stimulate and expand that house when the dasa lord passes through that house or its trines. Everything that has just been written about Ashtakavarga for the signs can also be applied to the Nakshatras. In the yoga pinda method of finding the sensitive Nakshatras, instead of dividing by 12 we divide by 27. Classical texts tell us to look at the 8th from Saturn. When a planets transits the sensitive signs for the 8th house from Saturn, it can be difficult time for the health and physical well-being of the native. Ashtakavarga chart to be verified and find out the strenth of each houses. The important houses are 1st the Lagna, 2nd dhana sthana, 4th sukha sthana, 9 Bh agya sthana,10 Karma sthana and 11th Labha sthana. If the total of houses counting on 1st, 2nd, 4th, 9th, 10th and 11th comes above

170 means yoga for being rich and above 175 means yoga for very rich. If the total of 1st,9th and 11th is higher than that of 6th 8th and 12th a succe ssful life is assured generally. And if 6, 8 and 12 is higher then full of strug gle without much success. 1st house should be definitely higher than that of ind ividually 6th, 8th or 12th for a smoother life. 9th luck, 10th karma, 11th labha and 12th expenses. All kendras and trikonas should have ashtakavarga strength other than 2nd and 11 th. so 10th should be equal or more than 9th and 11th(income) should be more than 10 th(Karma/profession) and 12th(expenses) should be less than 11(income) and then the horoscope promises for a steady finance life.