Lesson 23: Signs & their Genders...

We know gender of each planet.

Similarly, Signs have also genders.

From Aries to Pisces signs are Male and Female alternatively.

That means, odd signs (1st, 3rd, 5th ...) are Masculine and even signs (2nd, 4th, 6th ...) are Feminine.

We know that lord of both Aries and Scorpio is Mars only. But Aries is of Masculine nature and Scorpio is Feminine nature.

So we can represent Aries as (Ma+) and Scorpio as (Ma-), similarly Gemini as (Me+) and Virgo as (Me-), Libra as (Ve+) and Taurus as (Ve-)... And so on.

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Now our South Indian Style Kundli will look like this after adding Gender information...



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Masculine Signs indicate physical activities, determination, confidence,activeness, energy, initiative, roughness, unemotional, worldly awareness, domination, cruel nature, pride, independent nature, rudeness, practical, everything related to male qualities.

Whereas Feminine Signs indicate mental activities, patience, passiveness, emotions, smoothness, calmness, love, adaptability, mercy, sympathy, dependent nature, shyness, self-pity, self-sacrificing, softness, beauty,aesthetic sense, artistic sense, creativity, imagination, intuition, nurturing, caring, homeliness, motherhood, affection and everything related to female qualities.

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Lesson 22: Signs & their lords...

The following figure indicates a South Indian style of Kundli, where all the Signs and their lords are indicated.






Try to remember them by heart. You must able to tell the lord of every Sign whenever necessary.

If you notice carefully above figure you may notice a pattern in the arrangement of Lordships. Thus we may remember lordships easily. Try to find out.

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Yes, you have correctly guessed. Arrow lines are indicating the directions which indicate clues to lordship arrangement.

1) First direction is from Cancer to Aquarius anti-clockwise and the corresponding lordships are Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. This direction or arc can be called as 'Moon's Cabinet'.

2) Second direction is from Leo to Capricorn in clockwise direction. Lords in this direction are Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. This is 'Sun's Cabinet'.

3) Order of these lordships from Mercury to Saturn is the same order from Sun to Saturn in terms of Distance in Solar System!

4) Except Sun and Moon every other planet is ruling two Signs.

5) Here Sun and Moon are King and Queen. Mercury represents Prince. Venus materialistic Minister, Mars Knight, Jupiter spiritual Guru and Saturn as Servant in a Kingdom (Solar System).

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Lesson 21: Signs and their Pictorial Symbolism...

We are covering theoretical or intuition part of Vedic Astrology.

In that course, now we are going to learn about Signs. We know that there 12 signs.

Observe the following figure, which illustrate how these Signs can be visualized.



Just concentrate for a while and try to guess why these symbols represent particular Sign...

Above symbols represents some qualities of Signs. However, these symbols may not give true picture of a Sign but represents some of main qualities.

For example, Taurus is symbolized as a Bull. What qualities can be visualized from the bull? Bull is a hard working animal with physical strength. Bull is calm and having great patience, can be aggressive also some times. Like that we can guess some of the main qualities.

12 signs are classified as may ways. Three types of classifications are very important. They are:

Triplicity of a Sign, Quadruplicate of a Sign and Gender of a Sign.

We can derive true qualities of a Sign by blending the qualities of the lord of that Sign, Triplicity quality of the Sign, Quadruplicate quality of that Sign and Gender of the Sign.

We can derive qualities of a Sign from,

1) Lord of the Sign.
2) Triplicity (Fiery or Earthy or Airy or Watery)
3) Quadruplicate (Movable or Fixed or Dual)
4) Gender (Masculine or Feminine)

We should able to derive different qualities of each Sign with the help of above four points, instead of remembering or by heart.

We have already discussed basic qualities of Planets.

We will discuss now Triplicities, Quadruplicates and Gender classifications of 12 Signs and their purpose and meaning.

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Lesson 20: Jupiter and Mars friendship...

Mars is of fiery nature with full of energy, aggression and activity. Mars always likes to be the first in starting any venture. He puts his entire energy in the starting of a venture itself and loose his enthusiasm soon and left that venture. If he gets enough encouragement and guidance later he can continue with the venture.

This 'encouragement' is the quality of Jupiter. If Jupiter's support is there to Mars, then any venture can happen without any obstacles.

So here Mars alone can only start a venture. Jupiter can give finishing touch to it. Remember also that, Jupiter alone can not give a better finishing touch by himself if the venture is started by him.

So both, Mars and Jupiter must act as a team to finish a task.

Jupiter always waits for a breakout given by Mars, and then enters the seen and properly control the great energy of Mars.

Our sages named this combination of the team as 'Guru-Mangala Yogam'.

So Mars and Jupiter are friends.

Fiery or aggressive nature of Mars is correctly controlled and utilized by almighty Jupiter for some good purposes (Materialistic).

Best manifested example for this yoga is combination of 'Chaanakya-Chandragupta'. Chaanakya was the Guru of Chandragupta, who perfectly remoulded his disciple's aggression and achieved his life's goal in dramatic way, well known to us.

Mars transit in Sagittarius...
Suppose Mars is transiting Sagittarius whose lord is Jupiter.

As both Mars and Jupiter are friends, definitely result will be a better one.

1) With respect to Mars:
As Mars is in the house of Guru who is sattvic and calm in nature, Mars will also suppress his aggression for the time being and he is able to control is anger in a proper way and also wait for the right time to act again.

2) With respect to Sagittarius:
This sign is being occupied with Mars, latent aggression of this sign will aggregated by Mars for some good purpose. Calmness of this sign will disappear for a while. Some examples:
Spiritual gurus are very calm. Sometimes they become active and aggressive in-order to activate spiritualism in common public.
Sometimes, in stock markets, a good consolidation phase will be beaked out with this kind of transit of Mars. There are so many other combinations, we will discuss later in detail.

For the time being just remember that this 'Guru-Mangala Yog' can create a genuine bull rally in stock markets.

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Lesson 19: Sun & Venus enemity...

Sun is a sattvic planet with selfless activities and noble notions.

Venus is a luxurious planet with full of desires and sensual pleasures.

Sun is spiritualistic while Venus is materialistic.

Sun is fiery while Venus is watery.

Sun has no attachment to materialistic comforts while Venus always run after luxurious life.

Venus loves everything related to five senses, music, beauty(opposite sex and paintings), sex(touch), rich food, perfumes etc. and becomes slave to these pleasures while Sun can control these sensual pleasures and thus he is the master not slave to these pleasures.

Now what does happen when Sun transit Libra?

There are two Situations :

1) Sun entered in the house of Venus. That means Sun who is sattvic in nature entered the luxurious house of Venus. Certainly, Sun can not feel good in this tempting environment of Venus and thus he may loose his rigid and royal character and become slave to sensual pleasures while transiting Libra.

2) Libra being afflicted by Sun. That means Luxurious environment of Libra being restricted or controlled by the Sun.
Suppose, Libra represents Bars & Pubs and Sun represents Government, now how can we predict according to situation number 2. We can predict that Bars and Pubs may face some restrictions from the Government. Or Government can rise the tax on Bars and Pubs etc.

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Lesson 18: Planets & their Relationships part II...

How do we define a friend?

How do we make friends unconsciously?

Friends have some common features. They think in the same way. They have several common habits. They have more or less same nature and character.

Similarly, planets do have some common characteristics and thus they become good friends.

Then what is the meaning of 'Enemy' here?

Sometimes we may feel that we are loosing our character or our true nature in the presence of a particular person. We may not be very comfortable in the company of this person. This person might be completely opposite to our character. Then we try to avoid his company. What if, we must live our life with this kind of person? Naturally we become enemies.

Similarly, planets do have enemies in this way.

From the above table (mentioned in the previous topic), we can divide the seven planets into two groups.

Planets in these two groups are, in general, friends to each other, while enemies to planets in the opposite group.

These groups are :

Group I : (Sun, Moon, Mars and Jupiter)
Group II : (Mercury, Venus and Saturn)

So, just we have to remember the planets in these two groups!

Planets in Group No. I are Sun, Moon, Mars and Jupiter. These planets are either friends or neutrals to each other, but can not be enemies. Similarly, case with the Group II.


We know that Sun is the owner of Leo. Now suppose Saturn is transiting Leo. What happens?

We know the Sun and Saturn are enemies to each other. Here situation is somewhat like this:

1) With respect to Saturn, he has entered his enemy's house(Leo).
So Saturn is uncomfortable.

2) With respect to Sun, his house been occupied by his enemy. So Sun's house Leo is being afflicted by Saturn.

How did saints decide that Sun and Saturn are enemies to each other?

Because their natures are quite opposite to each other.

Sun is Sattvic while Saturn is Tamasic.
Sun is active(Fire) while Saturn is passive.
Sun is enthusiastic while Saturn is dull (with his miseries).
Sun is selfless in nature while Saturn is greedy and selfish.
Sun distributes light (knowledge) while Saturn is illiterate because he is far away from the Sun.
Sun is a king while Saturn is a slave.
Sun is orthodox while Saturn is unorthodox.
Sun is neat and royal in appearance while Saturn is unclean and dirt with bad smell.

In this way we can have so many differences between them.

For this kind of analogy or symbolism we must know every individual traits of each planet. Some of these are already discussed. Those are enough for the time being.

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Lesson 17: Planets and their Relationships...

We had discussed SIGNS and their ruling planets or owners in the previous topic.

Have a look on that topic before reading this topic. If possible remember by heart those lordships.

Planets have some relationships with other planets. A planet can be a friend or enemy or neutral to another planet.

Sun :
Friends : Moon, Mars & Jupiter
Enemies : Venus & Saturn
Neutrals : Mercury

Moon :
Friends : Sun & Mercury
Enemies : Nil
Neutrals : Mars, Jupiter, Venus & Saturn

Mars :
Friends : Moon, Sun & Jupiter
Enemies : Mercury, Saturn
Neutrals : Venus &

Jupiter :
Friends : Sun, Moon & Mars
Enemies : Mercury & Venus
Neutrals : Saturn

Mercury :
Friends : Sun & Venus
Enemies : Moon
Neutrals : Mars, Jupiter & Saturn

Venus :
Friends : Mercury & Saturn
Enemies : Moon & Sun
Neutrals : Mars & Jupiter

Saturn :
Friends : Mercury & Venus
Enemies : Moon, Sun & Mars
Neutrals : Jupiter

If possible, remember these relationships by heart and mind.

I will write how these relationships can be remembered with the help of basic characters of different planets, we had learned till now, in the next topic.

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Lesson 16: Planets & Their Lordships to Signs...

We have already discussed that the Zodiac is divided into 12 Signs...

Saints observed that some of these signs are related to some particular planet...

They slowly understand that when a planet is transiting through these Signs, the intrinsic nature of the planet is changing accordingly... In some Signs those planets completely loosing their nature, while in some particular signs retaining their nature...

Rishis noticed that planets are very comfortable in some particular signs and in those signs those planets retaining their nature completely as if they are at their own home with peace...

Saints made these planets as the lords of those Signs....

So every planet is having lordship to some Signs... These lordships are as follows...

Sun----------> Leo
Moon-------> Cancer
Mercury----> Gemini & Virgo
Venus------> Taurus & Libra
Mars--------> Aries & Scorpio
Jupiter-----> Sagittarius & Pisces
Saturn------> Capricorn & Aquarius

Thus, except Sun and Moon every other planet rules two Signs in the Zodiac...

From the above table we understand that Mars rules Aries and Scorpio... It indicates that Mars while transiting these signs feels comfortable as if he is in his own Sign... We call that Mars is in his 'own' Sign when he is transiting Aries... Mars will be very strong in his own Sign... In fact planet is strong while transiting its own Sign...

Similarly, Moon is the lord of Cancer, or we can say, Cancer is ruled by the Moon, or we can also say Moon is the owner of Cancer...

Sun is the owner of Leo... Or Sun will expose its complete nature in this Sign...

Thus planetary ruler ships are assigned to different Signs...

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Lesson 15: Planets and their Natural Behaviors...

Our Rishis considered Jupiter and Venus as natural benefics...

Mercury changes its behavior according to planetary conjunctions...
If Mercury conjoins benefic planets then it also behaves as benefic and vice versa...
That is, if Mercury and Jupiter are in the same Degree in space, Mercury is said to be in conjunction with benefic Jupiter and thus it also acts as benefic...

Sun, Mars and Saturn are considered as Malefics...

Moon, when she is growing is considered as Benefic and when decreasing she behaves as malefic...

Rahu and Ketu are considered similar to Saturn and Ketu and hence both are Malefics...

Are these planets always considered as above? Is Saturn is always malefic? Is Jupiter always benefic?

We already discussed this...

The above mentioned behaviors are the inner nature only... They can change their nature temperarly but resume their intrinsic nature as soon as possible...

For example, say, Jupiter and Saturn are in conjunction... As Jupiter is natural benefic and Saturn is natural malefic and that they are in conjunction the overall effect will be neutral... As soon as they separate from each other they resume their inner nature... Right !

Here, interesting point to notice is that, why did saints consider Sun as malefic?!!!

As far as we learned till this point, Sun is our Soul, he is Sattvic, he is a King with Masculine Fire, He leads us etc... All are ideal qualities to have... Then why is he considered as Malefic by the saints?

Perhaps, saints decided that there are very less humans with these Sun's royal qualities... Sun always try to boost the human beings with his qualities, but we never try to reach our souls through his influence and develop our own ego and accustom to raajastic and tamasic gunas instead of sattvic gunas... We already discussed these gunas...

And this is how planetary are described by the saints...

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Lesson 14: Planets and Their Expressions...

Every planet wants to express its existence... They try to indicate their presence in their own way...

Sun--------> through Guidance, Leading
Moon------> through Emotions
Mercury---> through Speech
Venus-----> through Desires
Mars-------> through Actions
Jupiter----> through Spiritual means
Saturn---> through Sorrowness

Suppose, if a kundli is extremely dominated with Mars, then he expresses his caliber through only action... He does'nt waste his time through talking or boosting himself... Example, Sachin Tendulkar, A. R. Rehman and so many...

With Sun dominated Kundli's, the subject try to express his caliber through Guidance or leading the public or by leading an organization or leading a film by direction, captain of cricket team etc...

In this way we should understand the above expressions and apply to modern conditions...

Saturn dominated people try to express with their sad events and try to create self-sympathy oriented situations...

Venus, try to express themselves with their passions and materialistic desires, especially through their sensual desires....

Jupiter through spiritual means, through teaching, by their optimistic views etc...

And off course Moon through her emotions...

When Mercury and Mars having equal domination... then that person not only just speak but also does that in action...

Sun and Mars dominated people not only just guides but shows his views to others by action oriented... Thus is a true leader... Mahatma Gandhi, MelGibson's character in 'Braveheart' movie...

And so on... Try to blend different combination....

The above classification guides us in grasping what Sensex is trying to express us...

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Lesson 13: Planetary Kingdom...

Planets are again classified as the following roles in a Kingdom according to Vedic Astrology...

Sun----------> King
Moon--------> Queen
Mercury----> Prince
Mars---------> Knight
Venus-------> Minister(Materialistic)
Jupiter------> Minister(Spiritual)
Saturn------> Servant

This was the classification given by the rishis which suits those days conditions...

When applying to modern political structure...

Sun----------> Prime Minister
Moon--------> Home Minister
Mercury----> Youth Minister
Venus-------> Entertainment
Mars---------> Defense Minister
Jupiter------> Finance Minister
Saturn------> Government Servants

And similarly we must able to apply this vedic classification to modern situations... Try them in different ways...

One more application of the above classification to Film industry will be like this...

Sun---------> Director
Moon------> Story, Script, Screenplay
Mercury---> Actors, Singers ( Performers)
Venus-----> Music, Choreography, Art
Mars-------> Stunts
Jupiter----> Producer
Saturn-----> Light boys, workers etc.

In this way we have to apply the same to the modern situations...

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Lesson 12: Planetary and their Genders...

We will continue our discussion with one more classification of the planets...

Planets are given the following Genders ...

Sun-----------> Masculine
Moon---------> Feminine
Mercury-----> Neutral or Eunuch
Mars----------> Masculine
Jupiter-------> Masculine
Venus--------> Feminine
Saturn-------> Neutral or Eunuch

This classification has to be understand in broader way... Saints had special meaning while mentioning the genders of each planets...

During vedic period if kundli was dominated with feminine planets then the birth must be of a female and vice versa... Those days there was a clear picture regarding gender of a kundli...

But Now-a-Days....!!?!!

Feminine nature indicates Female qualities in either Females or Males... We can observe some Males with Feminine nature, similarly some Females with Masculine nature...!!!

So, even though birth is female one by sex, due to domination of Masculine planets in her Kundli, she may have masculine qualities and vice versa...

Saturn and Mercury are Neutrals or Impotent ! Why? That does not mean exactly eunuch births... We may observe that though some births are pure Masculine they are lacking sexual ability...

Saturn indicates age(generation) gap between the married couple, which creates misunderstandings, serious thinking, melancholic and hence no proper sexual pleasure...

Mercury creates over talking, over thinking during sex and less sexual activity... thus ending in dissatisfaction...

These days with huge population, it is very difficult to predict the correct gender of a kundli and whom the subject will going to marry whether a male or female or eunuch !!!?

So that is the end of Gender Classification of planets...

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Lesson 11: Planets and their Philosophical Traits...

Every human being is blessed with a divine Soul (Aatma)...

We know that we must realize our Soul as early as possible, to get rid of from the cycle of Births and Deaths...

Soul (Aatma) is eternal, is always illuminated with divine rays of 'Fire' and having Sattvic Gunaas and hence Soul is rightly indicated by the 'Sun' as per our Maharshis...

Divine rays of Sun are reflected by the 'Moon' to Earth... Hence 'Reflection' principle is the property of the Moon, which is also sattvic in nature with 'Water' tattwa which reflects...

Mind of human being is similar in nature which reflects human thoughts, which are unstable in nature... So Mind or 'Chitta' is indicated by the Moon...

The 'Strength' or 'Stamina' of human whether physical or mental is indicated by the Mars... When it is physical that human is blessed with 'Muscle Power' and when it is mental, he is blessed with 'Buddhi Balam' or Intellectual Strength...

Mercury is associated with 'Vaak' or 'Speech' of human being... Mind is constantly thinking and finally it wants to express its thoughts to another human being (Communication) and it does with the help of 'Speech' which is indicated by Mercury... So Mercury indicates Expression, Speech and Communication... In general this speech is related to materialistic matters because of its Raajas Guna...

Jupiter indicates 'Sukham' or 'Happiness' of a human being... Jupiter is Sattvic in nature as we already know... With this nature Jupiter is blessed with true knowledge and with this knowledge that human leads a Happy life, with comforts and a good social status Jupiter guides that person with its principle (Etheric) of 'Vigyanam'...

Kaama or Desire or Passion of a human being is the basic quality of Venus or Shukra... Desire of every thing .. sexual, name, fame, materialistic, money, luxury and so on ....
Desire of Materialistic comforts (Raajas Guna) is the predominant quality...

'Dukkham' or Moroseness or Sadness of a human being is represented by Saturn... Saturn is the farthest planet from the Sun and hence very little light (knowledge) is reached to Saturn, which makes Saturn ignorant, illiterate and narrow minded... and hence these qualities results in Melancholy or sad situations to that human being by Saturn...

Synopsis :

Sun --> Aatma or Soul
Moon --> Chitta or Mind
Mars --> Sattva or Strength
Mercury --> Vaak or Speech
Jupiter --> Sukham or Happiness
Venus --> Kaamam or Desire
Saturn --> Dukkham or Sadness


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Lesson 10: Planets and Thri Gunaas...

According to Ayurveda, Ahankaara(Ego) of the human being is of three kinds, known as 'Thrigunaas', they are Sattva, Raajas and Thamas respectively...

Sattva Guna :
Truthfulness, Righteousness, Belief in God and Rebirth, Knowledge, Intelligence, Sharpness of Mind, Memory, Self Control, Not to Think of defaming or blaming others etc. are some qualities of Sattva Guna...
Raajas Guna:
Instability, Lack of Self Control, Pride, Nature of telling Lies, Cruelty, Exhibition of one's own Vanity, Aspiration for self Flattering, Emotion and Excitement, Desire and Lust, Anger are some qualities of Raajas Gunaas...
Thamas Guna:
Weeping tendency and Moroseness, Naastikyam, Unlawful behavior, Suppression of knowledge by his wicked thoughts, Ignorance, Crooked mindedness, Laziness, Animal behavior, Tendency to sleep etc... Are Thamas Ahankaara...

Ahankaara of man jumps between these Gunaas like a mad monkey which is also drunken and bitten by scorpio, as per the planetary positions... Every Human being can be victim of any of the above Gunaas...

Blessed is the person, who is having Sattva Gunas...

Sun, Moon and Jupiter (Ketu sometimes) are of Sattva Gunaas...

Mercury and Venus are of Rajas Guna...

And Mars, Saturn, Rahu represents Tamas Guna...

We must able to blend the basic characteristics of the planets to know more about their nature...

For example, till now, we learn that both Sun and Mars are Fiery in nature and now we knew also that Sun is of Sattva Guna and Mars is of Tamas... So we can now differentiate their Fiery nature as 'Sattvic Fire' and 'Tamasic Fire' ...

Thus, the end of ThriGunaas and their relation to planets...

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Lesson 09: Planets and Five Elements...

This world is a composition of Five Elements... These elements are also called as 'Pancha Bhutas' or 'Pancha Tattwas' in Sanskrit Language ...

These tattwas are Akasha, Vaayu, Agni, Jala and Prithvi tattwas...
in English they are Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth elements...

Our saints recognized that Etheric element is ruled by Jupiter...

Saturn indicates Airy element...

Sun and Mars are of Fiery Nature..

Moon and Venus are indicating Watery element...

And Mercury is Earth element...

What is Etheric element?

Ether is said to occupy entire universe... From this Etheric element Air is evolved and from Air evolved Fire... This fire when is cooled is transformed into Water element... and when this Water is condensed, and the result is Earth element... !

Ether --> Air --> Fire --> Water --> Earth

This is a very general concept...

Both the Sun and Mars have Fiery nature... but there is difference between these fires...
Sun indicates Spiritual Fire while Mars indicates a action oriented Fire...

Moon and Venus are similarly have little difference in Watery nature... Here Water element means Liquid nature... For example, in our body Blood is indicated by the Moon, while Semen is indicated by Venus, similarly Petrol is indicated by the Moon while, Paints, Chemicals are related to Venus...

Here the point is, Venus indicates 'Refined' Liquids... The meaning of its name 'Shukra' in Sanskrit language itself is 'Refined'...

In this way planets are related to Five Elements...

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Lesson 08: Vedic Charecteristics of Planets...

Our Rishis were able to feel the basic characters of every planet...

I was thinking how should I introduce these characteristics, so that we can remember them permanently...

To understand the characteristics of 12 Signs, we have to understand the basic characteristics of Grahas of first and also about the 'Pancha Bhootas' or 'Five Elements' and Triplicities etc...

So first we start with ' Vedic Planetary Characteristics'... Which are the building blocks of the Astrology...

Planets have their intrinsic nature...
Planets can change their nature temporarily by conjoining some other planet, or by transiting from sign to sign etc...
However, their intrinsic behavior will remain same...

For Example, the basic nature of Saturn is Malefic... Sometimes it becomes benefic , however it always try to resume its basic nature of malefic as soon as possible...

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Lesson 07 : Rahu and Ketu part II...

As far as Rahu and Ketu are concerned...

Saints considered them as Grahas not planets... A lot of difference is there between the words 'Planet' and 'Graha'...

Planet means 'a heavenly physical body', which is having mass and volume...

'Graha' means 'which captures' in Sanskrit language... Graha is capturing something... Graha word is not indicating any physical meaning... in fact it is an act of capturing... !!! It should be grasped by mentally not physically means...

Each GRAHA is having this kind of capturing power... As already discussed earlier they capture the uneasy minds of all living beings on the Earth...

So Graha is defined in the sense of a quality rather than a physical means...

Rahu and Ketu are not visible physically, but they can be felt as Grahas because of their quality of capturing ability...

Pure love between mother and baby may not be visible physically but it can be felt...

Similarly saints, with their, psychic abilities can feel the basic traits of every astral body in the sky...

They feel the presence of Rahu and ketu in the similar manner...

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