When Maitreya raised a doubt and asked Sage Parashar, regarding inability of Humans of Kaliyuga age(dark age or age of rahu) in handling complex rules of astrology. Sage Parashar who knew this already,assured Maitreya and described lessons on Asthvarga Astrology which is easy to learn and have some wonderful techniques for predictions. As per Sage Parashar even great Bharahaspati & Vashishta can make mistakes in astrology & humans from Kaliyuga would be more ignorant thus prone to more mistakes. Here I will discuss each topic in Asthvarga one by one in a simple way. There are books on Asthvarga but few topics can cause confusion, especially terms like Kakshas,Reductions and Computation of Ashtakavarga itself can be confusing especially if you are new to this topic. Before going further let me tell you the utility of Asthvarga. 1.Asthvarga is a important tool for assessment of general strength of planets & houses. 2.To predict important events of life. 3.Judgement of longevity. 4.Predicting Transit results of planets. Principal of Asthvarga All planets in motion are always affecting other planets from their radical position and from lagana. During their motion, for example planet Venus,due to its position in a Horoscope in a particular sign or house will be capable to throw rays of influence on certain places which will be auspicious,both from Venus position and from the position of other planet. Then the collective sum of these influence which is measured in Read More
In our last article we talked about few basics of Ashtakvarga and its applications. Today we will discuss on Types of Ashtakvarga chart and their construction. Though I mentioned few things on construction of Bhinna Ashtakavarga & Prasthara Ashtakavarga chart in previous article. But today we will discuss it in detailed manner. There are total three types of Ashtakvarga charts. 1.Bhinna Ashtakavarga. 2.Prasthara Ashtakavarga. 3.Samudaya Ashtakavarga. Each of these charts has its own use,which readers will come to know in coming articles. A planet becomes highly beneficial if he secures 5 or more bindus in its own Ashtakvarga. Where as a planet with less than 4 bindus acts negatively. Results of planets with specific numbers of benefic points will be discussed later in detailed manner. BHINNASTHVARGA Bhinna Ashtakavarga is ashtakavarga of a individual planet. The very first chart to be made in Ashtakavarga is Bhinna Ashtakavarga of each planet except Rahu & Ketu. Following method should be adopt to make Bhinna Ashtakavarga of planets. Though most of astrology softwares have ashtakvarga calculation in them. But if you want to practice few manually, following procedure should be adopted. For convenience of readers Ashtakvarga for following Horoscope is done by me. We will call this Horoscope as example Horoscope. Date of birth: 24/03/1989 Time: 04:45 Place: Rudraprayag,Uttrakhand ASHTAKAVARGA EXAMPLE HOROSCOPE In this Horoscope Sun is in Pisces. For construction of bhinna ashtakavarga of Sun,following steps should be followed. 1.Note planet Sun Read More