India’s most ambitious men live in Delhi and for the success of whatever they undertake they do not mind not merely consulting but even exploiting astrologers. The late Sita-ram Jaipuria once told me that he had made use of astrologers for effective liaison work. But there is something much worse. . . .
The fact is what Kanchi Shankaracharya told me in October 1986, political predictions cannot be correct more than fifty percent times. I would say, considering the poor quality of research done in mundane astrology and the absence of the right horoscopes of those top leaders as cause swings in Indian politics, that it is less .than thirty percent.
The recent astrological mania in Delhi and in the nearby states is to predict the fall of a leader on the basis of the major or sub-period of the Atmakaraka. The success of a chance prediction is paraded as proof of their understanding of J aimirii.
For years I have worked on the problem and I find it difficult to accept it as an infallible maxim. Then there is another problem. When Mahadeva stated it as an aphorism, did he refer to Jaimini dasha or the Vimshortari? So the best way is to examine it in both ways and leave it to the readers to draw their final conclusions. I can give conclusions only at the end, my conclusions.
Pandit Nehru was in jail for some part of his Moon dasha, his Atmakaraka, and towards its end headed the interim government to become the first prime minister of independent India. But Nehru was arrested in earlier dasha of the Sun and even Venus. The dasha of AK was actually significant for his rise in, life. His next dasha of Mars, his tenth lord was the best in his life.
I must apologise for using a slighty deftctive horoscope in the first edition of this book of the Queen of England, in which Jupiter was shown in Kumbha which is what one computer programme gave. me. Since for many years I have not been doing manual casting, this mistake was detected by a student, to whom I am grateful. Later it was checked through two other programmes and it was shown as the planet with the highest degree in Makara. But this difference does not alter the argument being made out here from the point of view of the Chara dasha. What is being examined is whether the dasha of the atmakaraka causes a fall. In Jatak Tattwa, Mahadeva did not clarify whether he was using the Vimshottari dasha or the Chara dasha when he talked about fall in the dasha of the atmakaraka..
Now here, if the Atmakaraka of the Queen is Jupiter, she has passed through many antardashas of Jupiter in Vimshottari
Lagna | 0°21′ | Mars | 28°02′ | Venus | 21°08′ |
Sun | 7°23′ | Mercury | 11°50′ | Saturn (R) | 1°37′ |
Moon | 19°20′ | Jupiter | 29°41′ | Rahu | 27°17′ |
Karakas : Matrikaraka (MK) Moon
Atmakaraka (AK) Jupiter Puttakaraka (PK) Mercury
Amatyakaraka (AmK) Mars Gnatikaraka (GK) Sun
Bhratrikaraka (BK) Venus Darakaraka (DK) Saturn
But has not suffered any fall. She has not got the dasha of Jupiter Mahadasha. But this prosposition of fall in the dasha of the Atmakaraka is to be tested through chara dasha only, it seems. Though it is clear that the dasha of a rashi containing the atmakaraka or the rashi dasha from where the atmakaraka is in the 10th house has a significant meaning, it need not mean a ‘fall’ always. I decided to test this on the horoscopes of monarchs for the excellent reason that when Mahadeva wrote his Jatak Tattwa there was no democracy in India. He must have seen ‘fall’ in the horoscopes of kings and courtiers only.
So the chara dasha sequence of the Queen may be seen first.
Makar 1926 to 1928
Dhanu 1928 to 1929 (no extra deduction for debilitated Jupiter)
Vrischika 1929 to 1931 (no extra addition for exalted Mars)
Tula 1931 to 1935
Kanya 1935 to 1941 (no extra deduction for debilitated Mercury)
Simha 1941 to 1945 (no extra addition for exalted Sun)
Karka 1945 to 1957 (the 7th house and she was married)
Mithuna 1957 to 1966 (no extra deduction for debilitated Mercury)
Vrisha 1966 to 1975
Mesha 1975 to 1984 (no extra addition for exalted Mars)
From here the atmakaraka, Jupiter is in the 10th house. The queen did not fall nor did she relinquish her power in favour of her son, Prince Charles.
Meena 1984 to 1986 (no extra deduction for debilitated Jupiter)
Kumbha 1986 to 1994
Makar 1994 to 1996
(second cycle)
Makara contains the atmakaraka of the Queen and she has not suffered; any fall.
It can be seen here, that the Queen has passed two dashas, one with the atmakaraka in the 10th house (Meshi dasha) and the other the rashi dasha containing the atmakaraka (Makar) She has not suffered any fall.
Obviously the principle given in such an aphoristic ‘way in Jataka Tattwa has to be looked into more deeply. So I tested it on more than one hundred horoscopes from various walks of life and through some-instances being shown here, it will be easy to draw some conclusions.