Sage Bhrighu’s Blessings

By Saptarishis Astrology Editors: Helen Patterson, USA & M Imran, Pakistan.

ith Obeisance to my Guru Late Shri C.S. Patel, who was based in Mumbai and to my Mentor, who is based in New Delhi, I submit this

Wwork at their holy feet, and request them to accept it and bless it. It has been nearly three years since we wrote an editorial or presented a complete system of prediction (paddathi).

Background & Exploitation

irth time rectification is one of the toughest areas in astrology, but at the same time, one of the biggest money making spinners, especially for the Gurus of Btoday. If one notices existing rectification practices, one feels that past Gurus and the modern ones have not given us much to work upon. As a result, every new entrant in astrology wastes a lot of time on it without knowing any rectification method with entirety. Then there are quantitative birth time rectification techniques, found in astrology classics, and also replicated in modern books. However, there is no substantial way to determine practical effectiveness of mathematical rectification technique. Many authors and researchers hold that quantitative birth time rectification methods, like pranapada etc. do not yield satisfactory outcome, probably because there is no way to counter-checking them.

Tattva rectification method, advocated by late Shri Subba Rao is considered a reliable way. However, its reliability has not yet been researched with the help of birth data sample that is accurately recorded and duly certified by astrological institutes. Most of us are following it unscientifically.

Thumb impression is the best methods of birth time rectification. However, only 4 experts in India are known to know about it, one of the best among them was the Late Narendra Desai, a great legend in USA, but unknown in India. Another finest and practical method is rectification through tallying life events with dasha and gochar. Amongst the popular writers, Shri K.N. Rao has stressed upon it. Event based rectification systems are tricky, especially when dasha is used to verify the life-events, since dasha are open to diverse interpretation and variations.

Event based rectifications on the basis of Shastiamsa (D60) is quite dependable. The D60 chart changes approximately after every 2 minutes. Sometimes back, a chart of a western astrologer was seen by the scribe. In her D60, Libra was ascendant, while Saturn the 4L of property was sitting in the 8H from Asc, and 4H having A8 (inheritance). It was predicted to her whether she got an inheritance during 51st year. She replied in affirmative, also since from Moon lagna in D60, Saturn was the 6L. So it was asked whether inheritance sharing was a long-drawn battle, to which she replied in the affirmative again. It means her D60 ascendant is fairly accurate. One knows by using BSP techniques: wherever Saturn sits, it implements its energies in the 51st year. This is the event based verification, but one has to use numerous methods to arrive at the same conclusion.

If we are honest to ourselves and admit our lack of perfect knowledge only then can we strive to get the truth out of any chart, since the chart finally speaks back to the one with the honest heart and tells you how the planets will give the result in that chart. The biggest mistake most astrology students commit is to land up learning astrology for two to five years, and assume that their own birth time is not accurate based on their limited experience. We have also seen some people spending decades of their lives, paying out thousands of dollars, and going from Jyotish Guru to another, just in order to dig out their correct and real time of birth. During the last one decade, we have observed so many astrology aspirants to have committed the same mistake. The thick amount of money and precious time could have been spent in donations, welfare work, and earning better karma, rather than spending on hundreds of astrologers. The point (which no astrologer admits honestly) is that even after twenty to thirty years of experience in astrology, we lack proficiency of correctly predict a dasa and gochar, or understand yogas1. In this situation, how can we decide if a birth chart is correct or not, finally we end up rectifying the birth chart or the ayanamsa, although it might not be needed. Since nearly a decade, this scribe has rigorously worked on birth time rectification using the Shastiamsa (D60) methods, a part of it was revealed for the first time to the Jyotish community through series of articles called ‘Secrets of Shastiamsa’, published in year 2010/2011 in Saptarishis Astrology magazine. Like the Shastiamsa method where BCP (Bhrighu Chakra Paddathi) and BSP (Bhrighu Saral Paddathi) methods were combined, we have developed 4 more independent methods. One of which we have taught in our Nadi classes conducted in Mumbai. In one of those techniques, by seeing a chart within three seconds a good astrologer can predict an event and year of its occurrence. If native confirms it, then the birth time is accurate to the minute. In the

1 95 % of the astrologers do not go beyond the 300 yogas mentioned in Dr Ramans book, what about the 100,000 yogas collected by a Nagpur based astrologer in hindi, will we ever read it or forget mastering it since mastering 300 yogas in itself is not possible. – SA Editor Nadi Classes and in the SA Mumbai Club, we have tested so many blind charts through the 3 second method.

The olden astrologers’ trump card is to fix the ascendant with the help of characteristics of the body, appearance, face etc. This technique, though accepted widely in India, is open to interpretation, and sometime does not match the test of time. Fixing ascendant through physical appearance and temperament may be misleading. For instance, Rajiv Gandhi’s janma lagna was earlier suggested Cancer by senior astrologers due to soumya (calm) appearance of native. However, later it was discovered that Rajiv Gandhi was a case of Leo lagna, despite the fact he did not show the dominance of a Leo, despite having so many planets in his Leo ascendant.

Birth Time Rectification

What if we can pin point one planet, say Moon, in the Navamsa chart and fix it to a particular house, and be sure that it can only be in that very house and nowhere else. In this situation, could we be sure of the Navamsa Lagna? This article focuses on the Moon’s Navamsa position only, then observing its sign, its house, its dispositor and aspects and seeing if an event concerning all the above happened in a specific year as per the table listed below. This is birth time rectification via event method, once we fix the moon in the navamsa, that is when we fix its house (via this sign method) we know what is the navamsa lagna and then we move around and get the correct lagna and thus the correct time Position of the Moon contains seeds of past life specific karma2, the nakshatra Moon is placed in contains the highest secrets which has not come out so far unfortunately. Hence the Moons Navamsa position is a more specific point which cannot be ignored and this has been mentioned in ChandraKala Nadi (Devakeralam) translated by R Santhanam and a classic on which Late C S Patel worked for many decades.

2 Vague references can be found in Karma Vipak Samhita, a discourse between Lord Shiva and Mata Parvati, few chapters of it SA has published earlier. – SA Editor Moon’s Sign & Event Year

Following is the table extracted from a Nadi work. Moon’s Navamsa Rasi Aries is 28th year, Moon’s Navamsa Rasi Taurus is 29th year, and Gemini is 30, and so on up to Pisces that stands for 39th year.

Moon’s Navamsa and Nadi Age

S.N. Moon’s Nav. Sign Nadi Age 1 Aries 28th year 2 Taurus 29 3 Gemini 30 4 Cancer 31 5 Leo 32 6 Virgo 33 7 Libra 34 8 Scorpio 35 9 Sagittarius 36 10 Capricorn 37 11 Aquarius 38 12 Pisces 39

Use only this cycle to check the birth time rectification, though at the end we would give one more example that goes beyond the cycle, but if you want to master this technique then use this cycle only to start with.

What happens if someone is not remembering the events between 28th to 39th years? What happens if one gets a chart where the age of the native is below 28 (say just 24 years) then how we can use this system? It will be shown in another table after the set of 7-8 odd examples. This whole article is Part 1 & 2 and Part 3 of the methodology which is an independent system of prediction to be used irrespective of the Moon will be revealed soon.

Warning

This system is not perfect, as will be shown in the very first example, that chart will be taken once again at the end of this article. This is just one of the tools that one must use along with other methods and many more events. Only then you come to the right conclusion.

Defining Nadi Age

Indians do not make a mistake in this, but Westerners do make a mistake due to the different counting systems prevalent in their countries.

From zero month of birth till 12th month of birth – the nadi age is 1st year. It means you are in your first year. A Westerner would give the age by stating how many months have passed since the birth, i.e. my child is six months old. In India, we say the child is in his 1st year or running his first year.

Broadly speaking it’s like this:

From To Nadi Age - Indian Counting 1st Day (birth date) 365 days 1st year 1 year 1 day 1 year 364 days 2nd year 2nd year 1 day 2nd year 364 days 3rd year

How to Use The Table

So if your Moon Navamsa is in Aries, in the 5H of Navamsa chart then events related to 5H of love/education, and the yogas in that house/planet associated or the aspects it receives, the lordships of the respective planets will work and give an event. If Moon is in the 2H in Pisces, then at the age of 39th, that is in the 39th year of the native some events concerning 2H of family, finances can happen.

Chart 1: Mukesh

 Now see Moon is in Aries Navamsa in the 7H of secondary house of profession, it is 10L of career also and is conjoint with Jupiter the 6L of job.  Jupiter signifies banking (authority ref. Phaladeepika, initial chapter by Gopesh Kumar Ojha).  In the 28th year he got a job in SBI bank, the biggest bank of India on 5th Jan 2009 when he was running the 28th year which would be from March 2008 to March 2009.

At the end of this part we would take up this chart again to see the Warning as mentioned before.

Chart 2: PD ref Devas

A 5

 Moon is in Gemini in 8H, so 30th year which would be from Feb 2006 to Feb 2007.  So the possibilities are if sex happened in that year or some depression (Rahu’s 9th aspect) or relationship and depression.  We asked the above possibilities and the message received that the girl went into major depression since she had gotten a marriage proposal of an Indian Canadian dentist and things were set. Then the boy’s girlfriend once picked up the phone call (between boy and this female native). The boy’s girlfriend said to her to leave the boy and break the engagement. The engagement broke, and she went into major depression. Here the boy did not tell the truth that he had a girlfriend.  One can see on hindsight that Moon is in Gemini with A5 (arudha of 5H signifying mind) in 8H of depressions, aspected by Rahu and Mars, besides opposition of Saturn, Jupiter and Venus. Furthermore, Moon’s lord Mercury has gone in the 6H of separation along with Ketu (giving break in relationships).

Chart 3: R Dev

 In Navamsha, Moon is in Pisces in 4H, along with Venus the 6L and 11L.  The 8L Moon is aspected by Rahu from 12H of separation, where Rahu is co-lord of Aquarius (3H).  Pisces denotes 39th year as per the table above, which in her case would be from Jan 2013 to Jan 2014.  She was asked if she bought a house or anything to do with the house or some loan for house. She said she bought a costly property in a posh area (Venus) having lot of beautiful amenities, and it was on loan along with her husband (11L of spouse).  She was asked whether there were troubles to her mother (Moon is 8L in 4H of mother), or some chronic problems to her mother, she replied yes. Native’s mother was detected with osteoporosis and spondolysis and rheumatism.  She was asked whether any dispute with her siblings especially brothers happened in that year (age 39). Note dispositor of Mars is Rahu/Saturn and retrograde Saturn’s aspects in turn back to the Mars (Late J.N. Bhasin method published in 1978 or 1979 September issue of B.V. Raman’s Astrological Magazine, as per memory). Here Rahu also aspects the Moon. She confirmed that a quarrel occurred between her brothers. Since then (around 1.5 years), she has not spoken to her elder brother. Note 3H is not merely stands for younger siblings, but denotes all siblings. Note Venus is dispositor of a debilitated Sun