Sub- Period of Capricorn
Sub-periods of two months each, starting from Sagittarius take us to Leo after eight months from January 1981. Leo is aspected by Darakaraka, the Sun, and she got married.
In one year and six months after January 1981, we reach sub-period of Pisces. Pisces is aspected by the Putrakaraka (childgiver) Mercury. In August 1982 she gave birth to a daughter.
Early Years of Life
In Chicago and earlier in New York, I met some persons who objected to my habit of starting any astrological reading beginning with the early years of their life. The objection is untenable as they who claim to do psychological reading of any individual must first see the influences that shaped the outlook of an individual.
This exercise must always be done to make sure that the horoscope you ore working on is correct. Hindu astrology which is so well developed always starts with the analysis of a horoscope with childhood influences because it is the most developed and most sophisticated and refined method of psychological delineation of human character. It is true that Indian astrologers do not use the jargon of modern psychology and refrain from talking like western astrologers – “you must use your Sun-energy well during the present period”, etc.
Hindu astrology is spiritual first then material, three-dimensional in its approach because the analysis of a horoscope is always divided, starting from the ascendant into three triangles:
(i) The first triangle consists of the first, the fifth and the ninth houses which represent, brahmacharya or life of celibacy; the second, the sixth and the tenth houses grihastha or the life of a house-holder, or the worldly duties of a man or woman; the third, the seventh and the eleventh houses, vanaprastha or the beginning of detachment from worldly duties and sincere devotion to the higher spiritual life, and finally the fourth, the eighth and the twelfth houses are the houses of sannyasa or a life of renunciation.
What counselling can be done if an astrologer is not able to see what energies are getting released and when from the sub-stratum of an individual’s personality?
(ii) The second triangle is to be divided thus: the first, the fifth and the ninth houses pertain to dharma or ethical-religious conduct; the second, the sixth and the tenth houses pertain to artha or the efforts put in to earn and accumulate wealth; the third, the seventh and the eleventh houses pertain to koama or desires, sensual and sexual; and the fourth, the eighth and the twelfth houses pertain to moksha or such efforts as are put in to attain salvation.
(iii) The third triangle is a three fold division of the twelve houses and is to be used only in those cases in which an astrologer’s concentration is on spiritual questions. Here the first, the second, the third and the fourth houses are the houses of spiritual efforts to control extroversion; the fifth, the sixth, the seventh and the eighth houses are the houses of introvert spiritual practices and finally the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh and the twelfth houses are the houses of the blossoming of spiritual practices.
These three triangles are made use of only by adept astrologers to answer deep material and spiritual questions of an individual.
Most of the astrologers are only fortune-tellers or the so-called counsellors who can do what they do without even a horoscope. In fact when I told someone who claimed to be doing counselling through horoscopes without even understanding the meaning of planetary combinations, that he could do what he was doing by merely holding a blank piece of paper before his eyes, he felt hurt. I apologised to him. Nevertheless I stick to that view.
