By Vaughn
Paul Manley, M.A.
In Vedic astrology undesirable change in our lives is generally
represented by the influences of the malefic planets, Saturn,
Mars, Rahu, or Ketu (secondarily the Sun), and the malefic or
dusthana houses 6, 8, or 12.
The following chart is of a woman who recently was told by her
landlord that she and her husband would have to move. This certainly
represented undesirable change since she and her husband had
been very comfortable and happy there. It can be a difficult
prospect to find a new home and then make the move during the
holiday season, which is what they were now facing.
She is in her Saturn-Mercury dasha. Saturn is and a malefic
planet, and is the 4th lord of home for Scorpio lagna. Mercury
is the 8th lord, and aspected by two malefics, Saturn and Mars,
with Mars also being the 6th lord. Mercury is also the 8th lord
from the Moon. The 8th lord represents sudden change, (see my
article Gifts
of the 8th house) and being aspected by malefic planets
make undesirable sudden change even more likely. From the dasha
lagna, Saturn, Mercury becomes the 4th lord aspected by two
malefics. Her sub sub period lord is Venus, the 12th lord, another
dusthana lord representing loss, further reinforces the potential
for undesirable change.
Natal Chart
You'll notice that Mercury is also the 11th lord from the ascendant,
conjunct with the Sun, the 10th lord. Mars aspecting the Sun
forms a raja yoga, between the 10th and 1st lord. Mercury benefits
by association in this yoga, which is confirmed by the fact
that she says she is in a 'her dream job' and in a very secure
position. So a career change is not the issue.
If we look further as this issue of sudden move in the navamsha
chart, then we see that Mercury is again aspected by Mars, the
4th lord from the 8th house.
Navamsha Chart
If we go a step further and look at the Chaturtamsha chart,
the 4th divisional chart related to 4th house matters, then
we again see that Mercury is with the 4th lord, Sun, and aspected
by Saturn and the 12th lord, Mars.
Chaturtamsha Chart
Taking these malefic influences as a whole, we see a pattern
representing the possibility of sudden change in the area of
home. Perhaps the most important of these influences is simply
that Mercury, the sub dasha lord, is the 8th lord of sudden
change aspected by two malefics, in the natal chart.
However, the trigger for the event can be more specifically
seen by the transits involving the 4th lord, the 4th house,
and the significator of the 4th house, the Moon. On December
1st, the day she received the notice from her landlord, Saturn,
the 4th lord, was at 1 degree Leo opposite her Moon, at 2 degrees
Aquarius. Furthermore, Mars, the 6th lord, was at 3 degrees
Scorpio again closely aspecting the Moon in Aquarius.
Transits Dec 1, 2006
The combined influence of both the dashas and transits
represent the precipitation of the event of a sudden change
of home.
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