Know your houses of wealth

There is a logical co-relation between an individual’s horoscope and his economic condition

Man by nature wants a comfortable life. Comfort is possible only if you have resources and security available to you, and wealth is the biggest factor that makes these things available to you. That is why wealth plays an important part in our life and will continue to remain so.

According to Indian thinkers, wealth is the physical form of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, which provides us all comfort of life. That is why all human beings, poor or rich, educated or illiterate, want goddess Lakshmi’s blessings as it can reverse peoples’ fortune. According to Vedic philosophy, god has tremendous potential to perform the acts that are doable, not doable, and things that are beyond imagination. Wealth has almost similar capabilities because it can give shape to things that are possible, difficult, and beyond imagination. So, its utility and importance to human life is well proven. Keeping in mind these things, Indian thinkers have probably incorporated it as one of the four purushartha (dharma, artha, kama and moksha).


Houses of wealth

Seers, who propounded the theory of astrology, have logically established the co-relation between an individual’s horoscope and his economic condition. According to Maharshi Parashar, lagna, fifth and ninth bhav (house), being the place of Lakshmi, is considered good for wealth.

Lagna signifies strength, fifth house signifies intellect, and ninth house signifies fate. An individual’s fate and a combination of strength, wisdom, and luck earn wealth. That is why Maharshi Parashar has termed these three houses good for wealth.

Fourth and tenth houses are helpful in accumulation of wealth. Fourth house signifies one’s willpower and tenth house signifies his duty and honesty. These two traits are again considered helpful for earning wealth as it is earned through will power and honesty.

Besides this, two other houses of the horoscope are also important for evaluating an individual’s economic condition. They are ekadash (eleventh house) and dwitiya (second house). The eleventh house is considered good for making profit and it is taken into account while evaluating the amount of wealth. The second house is taken into account while evaluating the stability of wealth or savings.


Houses that cause hindrance

Besides this, bhavas that are responsible for causing hindrances in earning wealth are also taken into account while evaluating prosperity or poverty in life. These are the sixth, eighth, and twelfth houses. Sixth house indicates enemy and debt, eighth house indicates untoward incident, and twelfth house signifies expenses and loss. Besides this, marak bhav, which kills dynamism in your life, is also considered a restraining factor. That is why the sixth, eighth, twelfth and marak bhavas are negative factors in wealth creation.

So prediction of an individual’s prosperity or poverty is done on the basis of the above-mentioned houses, swami grahas (lord planets) and their yuti (combination), drishti (aspects) and strength.


Yog evaluates economic conditions

Maharshi Parashar has mentioned about bahudhani yog in the second chapter of his book Madhya Parashari, which evaluates an individual’s economic condition. In today’s context, people born in these yogs are seen to be quite wealthy. The yogs falling into this category are:

• Sagittarius or Pisces should be in the ninth position and Jupiter or Venus should be there with the fifth lord (Panchamesh).
   

• Fifth house should have either Gemini or Virgo containing Mercury and Mars in the position of gain.
   

• Fifth house should have Taurus or Libra and should contain Mercury and Venus. Saturn should be in the position of gain.
   

• Sun should be in Leo in the fifth house and Jupiter in the position of gain.
   

• Saturn should be in Capricorn or Aquarius in fifth house and in combination with the lord of gain.
   

• Jupiter should be in Sagittarius or Pisces in fifth house and combined with ninth lord.
   

• Moon should be in Cancer in the fifth house and Mars in the eleventh house.
   

• Sun should be in Leo in the first house and in combination with Mars or in aspect by it.

The above-mentioned yog is the only direction for evaluation of an individual’s economic condition. It is necessary to take into account the six yogs to decide about an individual’s prosperity or poverty. These are the dhanwan yog, raj yog, viprit raj yog, daridri yog, reka yog, and bhikshuk yog.

The world is constituted of paradoxes. That is why incidents like sorrow and happiness, profit and loss, victory and defeat take place simultaneously. Thus, while evaluating the results of the yogs, all their aspects should be considered.
 

Venus accountable for Indian economy boom

By K N Rao

A nation has a horoscope just like an individual has one. Planets bring hope and dispair for the country

A nation has a horoscope just like an individual has one. A dasha is also applicable to it. Dasha signifies some tendencies and represents some professions. Even if one does not know much about astrology, one can, as a keen observer of the Indian socioeconomic scene, observe the miraculous transformation of the Indian economy since 1989 when the 20-year Venus dasha started in the Indian horoscope.

What does Venus represent in astrology? Venus (Shukra) signifies happiness from sex life, beauty, pleasant and love talk, enjoyment, indulgence in amorous sports, income, good clothes, marriage, one who attaches great importance to sex, computer, fashion, hotel industry, etc.


ALL DUE TO VENUS

Venus has a predominant influence on the Indian horoscope. Some time back, we held a seminar on Indian horoscope and the mahadasha of Venus beginning from 1989. The seminar concluded that the significance of Venus would manifest in various ways. Since 1989 women have come to the forefront as never before paving the way for social acceptance of women in all walks of life. This became possible due to the booming popularity of television, which also represents the Venus. Indian women did well in beauty pageants with six of them becoming Miss Worlds. We have several women chief ministers and other powerful women leaders in Indian politics.

The dasha of Venus fuelled prosperity, which led to the growth of 'neo-rich' section of society. Another development was the coalition governments, which were unable to check rampant corruption. This led to fast moral decline in society.

In the IT industry, Venus represents computers that gave India a prominent place in the world. Venus dasha popularised the computer and the internet, although uncontrolled pornography has become available with these. Two of the ominous spiritual pitfalls always have been money and sex, kamini and kanchan as Ramakrishna Paramhamsa called them.

Rise of women in the world of fashion, cinema, television and other fields led to a new trend of liberty, which brought economic freedom for them. This was also possible due to Venus. When young girls come to me for consultation, they often ask me if they would get famous and rich. This was unheard of some time back. In this male dominated world, women have made a place of their own.

Venus in the third house has made the nation hard working. Today people are more ambitious and hardworking. They are more conscious about their career and health.

Lagna rahu and Jupiter in Venusian rashis and four planets—Sun, Moon, Saturn, and Mercury are doing satsang with Venus in the house of preaching.

The most distinct influence of Venus can be seen in the growing boom in the field of beauty and fashion. Increasing number of people are studying subjects like fashion designing, hotel management, etc and taking up jobs in these areas.

However, this has thrown a new challenge for the astrologers, as these new subjects cannot be seen so clearly from the traditionally approved houses, particularly the fifth.


SATURN AND VENUS SO CLOSE?

In India's horoscope one point always appeared painful to me. Saturn in karka is at 20/28 and Venus at 22/33, so close and moving into the same navamsha, in Saturn's! Worse still, they move into Saturn's trimshamsha.

An astrological anticipation gets translated into a historical inevitablility. The number of people dying and rendered homeless by a tsunami may be 50,000. Think of the number of people suffering from AIDS with India becoming the third country in the world.


DEADLY DANCE OF KETU

Due to the ketu mahadasha from 1982 to 1989, the country witnessed the deadly dance of war. There was a rise in terrorism during that period affecting national security. The mahadasha of Venus released the suppressed libido of the nation that was suppressed for ages. The terror-producing ketu with Mars aggravated the trend where sex is given a lot of prominence.


SUN COMES WITH HOPE

I tell young people who believe in the higher values of our tradition to wait for the mahadasha of the Sun, the years of glory for India. Venus has brought prosperity, and has changed our value system. So after the mahadasha of Venus, the Sun will shed its bright light on us. However, during the mahadasha of Venus, the helpful aspect of Jupiter plays its role on this Saturn-gripped Venus. I tell people not lose head in the economic boom visible in the antardasha of Mercury. History will move in cycles.