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Modern World
Determining Planetary Friendship and Enmity

June 4, 2010
disclaimer: in this article I will not make extensive eort to clarify basic principles to the novice. However if
the novice skips to the second part of the article, they should more or less be able to jump right in.
Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra, Chapter 3, Verse 55, gives the rule for determining which planets treat
which others are friends or enemies, or as neutrals. The verse reads:

From the root [mool-trikona], lords of the 4th, 2nd, 12th, 5th, 9th, 8th, and also the lord of the
exaltation sign are friendly to the planet [who owns the root]. Lords of the other houses are
enemies. Lords who own both are neutral.
Lets apply this rule.
Root:
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Leo
Taurus
Virgo
Libra
Aries
Sagi arius
Aquarius
Cause of Friendship
4L
Mars
Sun
Jupiter
Saturn
Moon
jupiter
Venus
2L
Mercury
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
12L
Moon
Mars
Sun
Mercury
Jupiter
Mars
Saturn
5L
Jupiter
Mercury
Saturn
Saturn
Sun
Mars
Mercury
9L
Mars
Saturn
Venus
Mercury
Jupiter
Sun
Venus
8L
Jupiter
Jupiter
Mars
Venus
Mars
Moon
Mercury
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XL
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Jupiter
Saturn
Moon
Venus
Cause of Enmity
3L
Venus
Moon
Mars
Jupiter
Mercury
Saturn
Mars
6L
Saturn
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mercury
Venus
Moon
7L
Saturn
Mars
Jupiter
Mars
Venus
Mercury
Sun
10L
Venus
Saturn
Mercury
Moon
Saturn
Mercury
Mars
11L
Mercury
Jupiter
Moon
Sun
Saturn
Venus
Jupiter
Sun
A friend to: Mars, Jupiter, Moon (in order)
An enemy to: Saturn & Venus
Neutral to: Mercury
Moon
A friend to: Mercury, Sun
An enemy of: Neutral to: Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn
Mercury
A friend to: Venus, Sun
An enemy of: Moon
Neutral to: Mars, Saturn, Jupiter
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Venus
A friend to: Mercury, Saturn
An enemy of: Moon, Sun
Neutral to: Mars, Jupiter
Mars
A friend to: Sun, Jupiter, Moon
An enemy of: Saturn, Mercury
Neutral to: Venus
Jupiter
A friend to: Mars, Moon, Sun
An enemy of: Mercury, Venus
Neutral to: Saturn
Saturn
A friend to: Venus, Mercury
An enemy of: Mars, Moon, Sun
Neutral to: Jupiter
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Reciprocal and Non-Reciprocal Relationships

The Sun like Mars, Jupiter and the Moon and guess what? Mars, Jupiter and the Moon, from their
side also return the feeling. They like the Sun. The Sun hates Saturn and Venus, and they too hate the
Sun. These are reciprocal relationships.
The Sun however is merely neutral or tolerant of Mercury, while Mercury, from his side actually
likes the Sun. This is a non-reciprocal relationship and these are the ones which are really interesting
and reveal a lot of information about life.
Who Hates Who?

There is also the big question of who hates who? Astrological texts are uniformly ambiguous on
which planet is feeling what in the case of non-reciprocal relationships. However, the focal point of
the sanskrit verse above, which is the basis for the friendship and enmity of the planets is the planet
itself, who owns the mooltrikona sign. Therefore the more certain interpretation is that the author,
Parashara is talking about the feelings of that planet towards the other planets.
Indeed that interpretation makes be er logical sense. For example, the Sun is the authority gure and
the soul. Mercury is the intellect and free speech. There is a complex relationship between free
speech and authority. Because mercury is intellect he likes the Sun. And free speech and speech itself
also needs the support of authority/government and requires the illumination of consciousness. Thus
from all angles Mercury likes the Sun. However Government is not fond of people who actually use
their free speech, nor is authority fond of free thinkers. It does not hate such persons, but merely
tolerates them on moral grounds.
Thus I personally draw my rm conclusion that it is Mercury who likes the Sun, and the Sun who
merely tolerates Mercury and not visa versa.
The Moons Drama

The Moon is friendly towards Mercury and the Sun. The Sun returns the feeling, but not Mercury. In
fact this is the most extreme non-reciprocal relationship in the zodiac. Mercury actually hates the
Moon though the Moon likes Mercury. Mythologically this is because Mercury is the illegitimate son
of the Moon. He dislikes the father who seduced his mother. But the father still likes his son,
illegitimate or nor (especially since the father in this case is actually a feminine being the Moon,
and thus has motherly aection).
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The Moon hates no one, in fact. She is a planet very desirous of being shown aection and love
therefore she accepts such things happily from anyone, and does not cut anyone o as an enemy.
But the Moon likes some planets less than others. Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn she is neutral
towards. None of them return the neutrality. Thus the Moon has the most complex and non-reciprocal
relationships of any planet. This is extremely interesting because the Moon is the archetype woman,
and complexity of relationships is a hallmark of the female gender.
Mars, for example, likes the Moon. This is because passion and energy loves the desire and emotion
of the mind. But the Moon merely tolerates Mars because too much passion is dicult for her and
confuses her emotions.
Venus on the other hand dislikes the Moon. The Moon is the female authority gure, and Venus is
fundamentally anti-authoritarian due to her strong aection for Saturn. The artist (Venus) does not
like authority gures, not even female ones (the Moon).
The Moon tolerates Jupiter, but Jupiter really likes the Moon. This shows the exalted nature of
Jupiter. He is forgiving and learns his lessons thoroughly. The Moon seduced his wife (and thus
Mercury was born). But Jupiter learned his lesson that he bored his wife due to having no emotional
depth to his ritualistic and dogmatic a itude towards religion and morals. So he realizes that he truly
needs the Moon to improve himself and thus Jupiter likes the Moon. This shows that religion truly
needs sincere deep emotion and must seek it out, even though sincere emotion tends to merely
tolerate religion, due to its being encrusted in so much stuy dogma.
The Moon tolerates Saturn, but Saturn (opposite of Jupiter) dislikes the Moon. Saturn hates authority
gures and that is that. The moon is be er than the Sun, maybe but still, he doesnt like her.
Mercurys Moods
We already talked about the interesting non-reciprocal relationship between Mercury and the Sun
and the Moon. The other planet Mercury favors is Venus. And she reciprocates in kind.
Mercury is neutral towards Mars, but Mars hates Mercury. This illustrates the principle that the
police and military (Mars) hate free thinkers (Mercury), but free thinkers tolerate the police and
military because they intellectually understand the need for them, even to protect their own rights to
free thinking.
Mercury is neutral towards Jupiter. Jupiter however, dislikes Mercury. Free thinking intellectuals
continuously embarrass religion, in the same way that a bastard son (Mercury) embarrasses a father
(Jupiter). Still free throughout is open/neutral towards religion and tries to develop it into theosophy
and philosophy.
Mercury is neutral towards Saturn, but Saturn actually likes Mercury. Saturn is the anti authority and
therefore encourages free communication and free thinking. However, Saturn is so intense about
being against all authority, it turns Mercury o a bit. Mercury is lighthearted. So Mercury can merely
tolerate Saturn, not actually be fully friendly.
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Venus Consorts
Venus is a friend to Mercury and Saturn, and they both return the feeling. In fact Venus relationship
with Saturn is among the strongest and most steadfast in the sky similar to the strong bond between
Mars and the Sun. The two planets are perfect for one another. Complimentary opposites with
common goals.
Venus hates the Moon and Sun, because the artist dislikes authority gures. Weve already discussed
how the Sun returns the feeling, but the Moon tolerates Venus dislike with neutrality.
Venus is neutral to Mars and Mars is neutral to Venus. This is the male-female dynamic in a nutshell.
Men and women cant live with each other, nor can they live without each other. There is a dynamic,
mutual neutrality here.
Venus is neutral to Jupiter, but Jupiter dislikes Venus. Here we see an example of how Venus is
actually more bencally inclined than even Jupiter. Sensuality, love and peace can see the value in
philosophical, religious and moral things and can therefore tolerate the rest that comes with it. Thus
you have a lot of wonderful works of art sponsored by religion. But there are probably even more such
wondrous works that have been censored by religion. Because though the artist tolerates religion,
religion dislikes the artist and expresses that in censorship.
Mars
We have already discussed all the relationships pertaining to Mars, except his relationship to Jupiter
and Saturn. Both of them are reciprocal relationships. Mars and Jupiter are friends with one another
and Mars and Saturn are mutual enemies. Regarding Mars and Jupiter, energy and passion needs
guidance (Jupiter) and it knows it. Also Mars being the enforcing agents (police and military) Jupiter
is a sort of orders to enforce, morality. So there is mutual friendship. Between Mars and Saturn,
Saturn is the anti-authority and there is no common ground (or at least very insucient common
ground) to make any sort of friendship or even tolerance between them.
Jupiter
We have expressed every relationship of Jupiter except his mutual neutrality with Saturn. Saturn
nality and Jupiter religion/morality are locked in a relationship they cant get out of despite
everything else about them being opposite. Therefore they tolerate one another.
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It is noteworthy that no planet dislikes Jupiter even the ones who are sometimes mistreated by him
(Mercury and Venus). This shows how likable Jupiter really is all about positivity and good deeds.
He is a very delicate person in how he deals with others, even when he is actually doing them ill. This
delicate demeanor causes no planet to be capable of outright enmity with Jupiter.
Saturn
As usual, Saturn gets jilted. We have already explained all his relationships before even ge ing to
him.
- Vic DiCara
www.vicdicara.com (h p://www.vicdicara.com)
2010 Vic DiCara, All Rights Reserved
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1. Praveen said:
August 20, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Super.:) silenced all doubts to the core.
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