Case One
Fixing the lagna and correct birth time
I have explained to successive batches of students how the Chara dasha has come to my rescue when there existed any doubt about the correct lagna. I will explain it here through an example. Now here the birth horoscope of a non-Indian woman whose birth time may be 2.40 am or 1.40 am. If you take both and prepare the horoscope, the lagna and the degrees of the Moon, and consequently the navamsha will undergo a change. Let me show it by using three vargas simultaneously. I looked at both horoscopes and decided straightaway that the 2.40 am horoscope was correct. The same events can be seen on the basis of the 1.40 am horoscope. I am avoiding that tedious exercise here.
| Events | If 2-40 am | |
| 1 | 15 June 1958 Marriage | Tula Vrischika Vimshottari : Saturn – Moon See Saptamsha |
| 2 | Son born on 14 April, 1959 | Tula-Dhanu (5th house) Vim : Saturn – Rahu – Rahu |
| 3. | Son born on 14 Sep. 1961 | Tula – Kimbha/Meena Vim : Vim : Sat – Rahu – Rahu |
| 4. | Father was in Navy | Decide the lagna roughly |
| 5. | She was a professional dancer | Decide the lagna |
| 6. | 1953-54 was a waitress | Kanya : The 2nd House Vim : Saturn – Venus |
| 7. | 1950 had bronchial pneumonia. | Kanya-Kumbha, Saturn – Ketu |
| 8. | 1972-73 travelled to Mexico. | Tula – Makar, Mercurry – Moon |
| 9. | Learnt Music in 1939-40 | Simbha-Dhanu (aspect of Venus on the 5th house. Jupiter – Venus |
| 10. | 1976-78 son became a drug addict | Dhanu – Simbha – Karka / Mithuna Vim : Mercury – Jupiter (see Jupiter in Saptamsha) |
| 11 | 1978-79 vehicular accident. | Dhanu – Karka
Vim : Mercury – Saturn |
Note: I had tried to fix her birth time fast hen I had horoscopes based on both birth times were before me with the chara and vimshottari dashas worked out on a computer programme.
Her problems which could be seen in July 1995 when I did the reading for her were:
- It was Venus-Mars period when she had been having land dispute. It was chara dasha of Makar-Makar from where the 4th house receives the aspects of two malefics, Mars and Saturn.
- She is a devoted wife and had made anxious inquiries about her husband’s health. I told her that with the best medical facilities available in her country, she should get him checked properly.
- I saw that the next dasha would be of Kumbha which is the 7th house from her lagna and has ghatikaraka. In Vimshottari dasha it would be Venus-Rahu which are difficult periods. In the navamsha, Rahu is in the 6th house.
Note: She had taken readings from some Vedic astrologers in India and the USA and had felt that Hindu astrology stressed negativity. I talked of the pleasant events of her life and counselled her to have proper medical check up for her husband. She came out, and waving her hands, remarked, “the wall between me and Vedic astrology has vanished from today:” This extreme reaction is explainable. In the western astrology they have no ability to predict events. Those who have learnt Hindu astrology and practise it in the west, particularly also do only psychological reading as they avoid; predictive side, though they have picked up some rudiments of it by 1996. It will take at least a decade for them to acquire some standard. In the meantime, to ‘ply their astrological trade’, they will do more of astro-psychologizing than emphasise the predictive side. There is also a good reason for it. In the USA you can be sued for anything. Though astrology is not recognised as a profession, and treated as an ‘entertainment’ in some states, one never knows, whether for an astrological prediction one can be sued there or not. One such court case of the USA is often referred to by’ astrologers.
