General information about the Sun.  Classical description.

 In the material world, the Sun is an embodiment of Divine radiance – Brahman. In Islamism God is considered a high light. Cabbala also says that we can perceive The Creator only a High light. Many people who experienced clinical death say that they got into unusually beautiful light, which seemed consisted of Love.

In the natal chart the Sun shows the level of person`s soul, to what extent one is able to shine, literally and figuratively. What is aura? It is the light of our soul passed through our conscience.  As, the cleaner and higher our conscience is, the lighter our aura is. They say that the heads of the saints are surrounded by a golden nimbus that can be seen even with the naked eye. According to our aura`s color you can determine how mentally and consequently physically healthy we are.  In Ayurveda, it is considered that these two things are interrelated. The darker aura is, the more illnesses and problems we have in our fate.  Then why does our aura darken?  Where does this astral dirt come from? From our offences, dismay, dirty thoughts, wishing bad to others, lies, fear etc.

The thought as well as actions is material. No actions made by us disappear anywhere; they are connected with us every second. We think we have done something bad and it was left in the past forever. No. Everything stays in our mind.  It can be compared with a big glass box, where there are all our past thoughts, impressions and actions, as in this life, so in previous ones. We look at the world through it, and the degree of its transparence depends on cleanness of our motivations. If they are not clean, then the whole world seems to be dirty and then we can`t feel happy. However, the goal of all people is to become happy and the task of Ayurveda is to help us in it. Nevertheless, the energy of happiness emanates from the Sun and if we want to receive access to this source of happiness, we must live the way that our thoughts and actions intensify favorable influence of The Sun on us. It becomes possible when we begin building our relations with this world correctly.

If we honestly say: “I want to live for everybody, to bring happiness to others and I am ready to do my duties for everybody!”, then at this moment the energy of the Sun starts coming into us and fills us with power of happiness. As soon as we decide to live only for our profit, the Sun energy immediately goes away and feeling of happiness disappears. Who is happier – people like Maria Theresa or so called “new Russians”? According to the statistics, more than a half of “new Russians” suffer from different psychological disorders, depressions etc.

Therefore, the purpose of the Sun is to melt false ego and revive the veritable one. True ego is the nature of sole itself and it is such that soul wants to live for others, not for itself, and we are miserable namely because our thoughts and actions contradict with our nature.

Mind purity also depends on the Sun because both the Sun and mind have fire nature. Harmonious perception of male active energy of the Sun makes the mind strong, whereas the Moon is the embodiment of female energy, this planet that is responsible for psycho-emotional condition of a person, it gives us possibility to feel calm and enjoy present moment. The mind of person who has week contact with the Sun works inertly, it is difficult to think for him.

The Sun in Ignorance.

 Externally the Sun in Ignorance appears as hostile attitude towards the world, claims, laziness, inability and reluctance to work for others, because namely the Sun gives us joy of creation, ability to feel pleasure from activity. A person with a strong Sun always does everything with joy, as he understands that with his work he provides benefit for somebody.

If you feel bad and gloom is in your soul, try doing something for others, and you will feel the joy – because the effect of Sun soon will rise to the mode of Goodness.
Radost – Old Slavic word, which means joy and the old Slavic culture – is a Vedic culture. “Ra-dost” – means to give out the energy of Ra and Ra it is Sun in old Slavic. When you give the light and happiness to others, you yourself become happier. Is it possible to imagine a person who is sincerely and selflessly doing something for others, and is unhappy? Solar energy is coming out of these people, and everything around them is filled with light. Not only some kind of charity can bring you the happiness, but even your normal, daily work – only that it should be as unselfish, whole-hearted. If you, for example, sell something, you should not just try to sell as much as possible, but establish individual, personal and “with a soul” approach to each customer. Be attentive to them, advise what product is better, explain why, and then the energy of Sun will go through you.

To make life a joy, light, and happiness, we must want to give – because sun shines for all unselfishly. However, when a person has the Sun in Ignorance, he does not want to give.
If you eat food at night, which has a lot of Sun in them (these include fruit, bread, grains, which are not digested at night), and stay awake at night, it also affects the perception of solar energy. Waking up early, on the contrary, quickly raises the energy of Sun in  Goodness. The Sun is the energy of life and activity.

The man with the Sun in Ignorance finds it hard to get out of bed in the morning.
A person with the Sun in Ignorance is characterized by irresponsibility and constant lies. Such a person always blames others, and if he does some activities, he usually aims to bring others suffering. For example, he can have fun, seeing a neighbour in trouble, sincerely, he is glad heartily when the others feel bad, and gets very angry when forced to work for others.
Such people are very vain, or, on the contrary, are very unsure, experiencing a painful dependence on opinions of others, unwilling or afraid to act. Often, the Sun in Ignorance gives exaggerated desire for power, and power through violence – so as Ignorance implies violence. (Partly, it is also a quality of Mars in Ignorance. Sun and Mars are very similar in their energy – these are masculine, flame like, daytime planets.)
A person, whose perception of solar energy is under the influence of Ignorance, almost never smiles, gets angry for very long, very arrogant, though he can be nothing out of ordinary himself. Or, conversely, he suffers from an inferiority complex, refers to others with extreme disrespect – especially to his father, his boss and the government, his life is completely aimless. In order to achieve high position and honour such people can cause others pain and suffering.

The Sun in Passion

Primarily, it gives the excessive pride, the huge false ego, arrogance. Moreover, such a person does not necessarily have to be somehow superior; it can happen to a proud poor slacker.
The Sun in Passion gives the dependence on flattery, an insatiable desire for power, the desire to manipulate others.
Modern psychology is mainly influenced by the mode of Passion, its main goal – to teach a person to control others, to be proud of their shortcomings, to set up selfish goals and achieve them, to feel good when the others feel bad, work only for their own profit.

It is interesting that the Sun in Passion enables a person to see only what he wants to see, what fits in with his wishes. He becomes very impulsive, selfish desires are literally flooded him. Usually such people are extremely active and mobile, always busy with something – but not for long enough, because after a while the Passion goes away, and is being replaced by Ignorance (task is accomplished, we can celebrate it with drinks). The main objective of a person acting under the influence of Passion is to achieve a prestigious position, a high role, to ensure that others respect and honour him.
The man with the Sun in Passion is dependent on the opinions of others,
he thinks that he is the centre of the Universe, that the whole world looks at him. People will forget about him in a day, maybe even earlier, but he will remember well, who said something and how, who gave him a look, and he will be anxious about that for a long time – because the ego is only interested in itself. Such people can smile to everyone, but will do it artificially, on the external level. Extravagance, a desire to stand out from the crowd, to “light up” (not a random word!) – are also most striking manifestations of the Sun in Passion.

The Sun in Passion is also manifested, if a person is readily accepts responsibility, gives the word without thinking. As it is in the joke: “I am the master of my word: if I want, I give my word, and if I want – I take it back.” One of the main reasons of destroyed relationships is not keeping the promises. If you want to have good relationships with your nearest and dearest, you have to be very careful about your words and write down your promises made in order not to forget.
In contrast to the person with the Sun in Ignorance, who usually does not work too much, and if he does, then is angry with everyone, a person with the Sun in Passion is very active and energetic; he always strives for greater achievements.
Often, it is quite purposeful people, but they have their own, selfish goals and desires. If the horoscope of such person is strong, his ego may spread throughout the country, as, for example, Hitler, who had Sun close to the degree of the highest point of exaltation.

These people are willing to accept responsibility only if it is profitable and promises to bring glory, their speech is full of self-congratulation. They only show respect and good attitude to his father and various authorities, if those have something to be respected for, and (or) they may be somehow useful.
They may also have an obsessive desire to “save” everyone – regardless of whether the people want to be “saved”.
Such a person feels happy when he is in the spotlight; he does everything in order to achieve prestigious status, fame, and what other people feel – he almost does not care.

If the influence of the Sun is weakened, the person has the following health problems: weak vision, problems with blood circulation, heart disease, high blood pressure, weak bones, epilepsy, headaches. Such people are characterized by low vitality, increased irritability, inflammation of appendicitis they can have in severe form.

External appearance of a person with weak contact with the Sun:
• frail addition;
• poor bone system;
• slouch;
• light, but not yellow, sparse hair;
• small eyes.

 The Sun in Goodness

The Sun in Goodness manifests itself with a desire to do something for others, to shine for them. When such a person comes into a new team, a couple of days later he is loved by everyone and called “sunshine” – everyone just feels like he genuinely wants to bring the benefit to others and understands that “happiness” – is to be a part of God, that “joy” – is when you give to others “Ra,” that is light and heat.

The Sun is very easily leading to Sattva, if a person has a strong desire to do something for others. The Sun in Goodness is manifested in the fact that people are always satisfied with life, their inner happiness is increasing day by day.

Such a person has very low level of selfishness and virtually no pride – we can make others happy only if they are interesting to us truly, whereas the more we focus on ourselves, the less we are able to understand other people, their needs and concerns.
If a man lives in Ignorance, he is definitely heading for physical pain and blows – as he is already mentally ill and cannot have good relations with other people.

 A person in Passion tends to be attached to the results of his work. However, even when getting those results, he is unhappy because he does not know how to enjoy the very process of work, focusing only on its result, and he always wants more and more. He eventually gets tired of the endless race for the mirage, gets disappointed in life, and can even become seriously ill. Others often say about such people: “He was burnt out at work” (it happens most often when Sun in the horoscope is strong).

Under the influence of the Passion mode of a man at first gets the nectar (the anticipation of pleasure on external level) and then the poison – grave consequences of their wrong outlook and behaviour. For example, you overeat at night – at first it was very tasty and enjoyable (nectar), and then a feeling of heaviness came, nightmares, hangover (poison).

In Goodness it is the other way around – first the poison – then nectar. For example, at first it may be difficult for us to make an effort (for example, to wash the porch or respond with love to rudeness), but then we get used to it, and life becomes a nectar.
The main condition for the Sun in Goodness – a person must sincerely desire to live and to shine for others.
Another important quality of the Sun in Goodness – the ability to enjoy life, because it is Sun that is responsible for the vitality and vigour. The Sun in Ignorance gives the gloom. Sattva Man is optimistic, enthusiastic, had great will power and self-confidence. Such a person always does something to benefit others, he is consistent in his intentions and does not change his decision in favour of circumstances, and clearly sets the goal and stubbornly goes forward to it.

In addition, one of the main qualities of the Sun in Goodness is generosity. Such people always have a chivalrous spirit. Noble people are giving. Truly honourable man would never allow a woman to pay for her meal in the restaurant. He could never hit a woman. He does not have violence even in his thoughts.

Theoretically, all women should strive to find precisely such a man. Every woman wants to be married well, so do not spoil the men: if a woman comes with a man to the cafe and she pays herself, they both degrade. With such a man, she cannot have good children, because there is not Sun energy in his aura. A man must be noble, he has to be giving, true to his word, keep promises, and be able to take responsibility – especially for women, for children, for his fosterlings. Men should develop these qualities in the first place.

 People with the Sun in Sattva are not afraid of changes, they are not afraid to choose new, uncharted areas of work, be leaders and innovators, being extremely disciplined. Many eminent scientists and pioneers have very strong Sun in their chart. If the Sun is in Goodness, then man can think clearly and grasp the essence. Such a person is very agile, tenacious, his active, quick mind seizes on the fly.

The Sun in Goodness gives people the ability to make their own decisions quickly. If such a person does not see the solution right away, he just says: “Let me be with it for awhile”. If he is incompetent in some area, he may want to consult with a specialist – but in the end, after weighing all the pros and cons, yet makes a decision himself, without shifting responsibility to anybody else. It is very important to cultivate this quality for a man. Women dominate the Lunar and Venusian energy, so it is permissible for them to be more emotional and somewhat inconsistent.
However, for a man such qualities would cause disrespect both from the wife and his own children.

 The man with the Sun in Sattva always tries to get up early. Early rise is one of the basic conditions of healthy and harmonious life. No wonder that there is a saying: “Early bird catches the worm”. From my experience, people who cannot get up early, have often problems with the upper part of the spine, start to wear glasses early and have a number of other signs of weakening of the Sun. The Sun is the planet, responsible for the happiness and energy of happiness can be obtained from approximately four to seven o’clock in the morning. The Solar energy enters with the dawn, if a person is not asleep at this time, Sun gives him happiness.

A person with the Sun in Goodness has the natural desire for leadership positions, but he does not “go over the heads”. The power for such a person is not a goal but a way to bring more benefits to the society. One of the main indicators of the Sun in Goodness is full acceptance of responsibility for our own lives and the lives of our subordinates. If a person has the Sun in Goodness, you will never hear that he blames someone or something for his own problems. By the way, this is one of the indicators of good management – the person understands: everything that happens with him and his entourage is a reflection of his thinking and behaviour.

There are so many problems in the modern world just because of the fact that there are not enough leaders, who are willing to take responsibility on them. It is quite hard – to be responsible for other people, so as a person with the Sun in Goodness makes it not for his own sake, but for the sake of serving to other people, and he never blames or condemns anyone. The desire to blame others, the constant complaints about life, dissatisfaction with oneself and others – these are the signs of a loser.

Wherever a man with the Sun in Goodness comes, after a while, everyone starts to respect him and trust him, even though he does not aspire that, he does not boast with his achievements. Moreover, from him everyone feels the coming out respect for all living beings. Such a person sincerely wishes everyone happiness, because the sun shines for everyone: for people who behave rude and for those who are at the very high level of development.

Strong Sun can appear in all three gounas (material energies). It is very dangerous to have the strong Sun in Ignorance. A person with the Sun in Ignorance has been initially given a lot to serve for the benefit of others, he has some power, but if he, for example, wants to be lazy or to do something evil, it can bring a lot of suffering (for example, Hitler and Lenin – and conversely, the strong Sun, but in Goodness as the Buddha had).
If the Sun in the chart is weakened, a person must learn to take responsibility and to serve the one whose leadership qualities are manifested stronger. It is also difficult. The problem of the modern world is doubled by the fact that besides the lack of real leaders, those who at power do not have loyal servants or honest helpers and this is not less important, as, however strong may have been the leader, he can achieve nothing being alone. In politics and business it is very important what the team of the leader is like. The man with the Sun in Goodness reports easily to the superior leaders, but retains his sense of dignity anyway.

 Therefore, if a woman wants to have the Sun in Sattva, primarily she must serve the father, then her husband, because at that time the favourable energy of the Sun starts going through her too. It is almost impossible to find a woman with a long and happy married life, who does not respect her father and has bad relationships with him. We should respect our father in any case, as he is the representative of the male aspect of the Divine.

We must learn and know our culture – in fact, to be harmonious; we should use the force of our family, our nation, our culture, and take the best from it and serve our nation and our culture. A person with the Sun in Sattva realizes that he was born in that family, in that country not randomly. Perhaps, in his next life, he will have to belong to another nation, another religion, another egregor, but now he must take responsibility for himself, for his family, for his people.

We need to devote time not only to our loved ones, and ourselves but to our nation, too and doing something useful for it. No need to worry much about what others would say about you. One single person is quite capable of changing the course of history. Solar energy in Goodness is manifested in the fact that people take responsibility, not looking at the others. That is the quality of the person, which differs him from the crowd. The Sun in Sattva is manifested in the fact that you get out from the influence of the crowd.

 The Sun represents the self-identification. Therefore, even modern psychologists have concluded that a person cannot be sane if he does not identify himself. You have to understand that you are the individual. Do not be like the gray crowd. You do not have to do what everyone else is doing. The majority of people degrade in our era. The man with the Sun in Sattva will never jump into a well together with everyone, as he knows: “These are them, and me – is me”. On one hand, he realizes that all men are the particles of God, but on the other hand, he clearly identifies himself by separating from others. Therefore, such a person is never ashamed of his lifestyle, thoughts, food, etc. The crowd always tries to bring everyone to the same level, to pull everyone in the common swamp, so there should not be any bright personalities.

To obtain the Sun in Sattva, it is necessary to become an individual who has virtually no selfishness, an individual who serves to others. Great is the one who serves. The Sun in Passion – is when people flaunt, want to look great and important (”I am the Big Boss”). The Sun in Passion leads to destruction, such people you will not see looking happy.

 The man with the Sun in Goodness is gracious, generous, has great dignity, but is not prone to self-aggrandizement. He is human, purposeful, resolute, and prone to self-discipline. He can lead people using minimum of punishments. He is cheerful, respects himself and others, he has a loud commanding voice, and he does not depend on the opinions of others, but is attentive to all advice. It is more likely for him to wake up early regularly and, accordingly to have an early bedtime. Such a person is enthusiastic as a rule at all times, it is easy for him to make others happy, and he enjoys it greatly. Such a person always feels a sense of gratitude to everyone and everything. The mind of such a person works well and he quickly grasps the essence.

External appearance of a person, who had influence of the Sun in Goodness in past lives:
• a round face;
• a major figure;
• a broad, high forehead;
• a strong skeletal system;
• golden or dark hair;
• large eyes, usually gray or brown;
• dark skin colour.

 Summary

The influence of the Sun in Ignorance is characterized by the following traits of character and typical models of behaviour: an inability to wake up at early hours and to go to sleep no later than 10 p.m., laziness, vanity, indolence of mind, a huge ego, painful dependence on the opinions of others, complete irresponsibility, inability and unwillingness to keep a promise, a desire to enjoy when watching people’s suffering, a hostile attitude towards the world, never-ending claiming to others, long-lasting rage, a huge arrogance (or, conversely, complete self-doubting), extreme disrespect to everyone, especially towards father and the government. A completely aimless life, readiness, and willingness to cause others pain and suffering in order to achieve a high position, fame.

 The Sun in Passion

 A strong desire to be in the spotlight, artificial smiles, pride, impulsiveness, great desire for power, the desire to manipulate and exploit others, the dependence on the opinions of the others, greater activity in pursuit of one’s own selfish goals, taking responsibility only if one can benefit from it and it promises to bring glory, self-glorification.
Respect and a good attitude towards father and other authority can be only if they “have something to be respectful for them”, or they may be useful. An obsessive desire to save all. Such a person feels happy when he gets to be in the spotlight, when he gets a prestigious position, fame. He does not care how the others feel about it.

 The Sun in Goodness

 A great sense of responsibility – for yourself, your generation, your nation and all sentient beings, the nobility, magnanimity, generosity, bliss being in activity, a great sense of dignity, humanity, commitment, determination, self-discipline, a great will power, leadership with minimal use of punishment, cheerfulness, innovation, respect both to yourselves and to others, a lack of pride and vanity, a loud commanding voice, independence from the views of surrounding people, but careful attention to all the advice, sincerity, regular early wake up, and, accordingly, early bedtime, constant enthusiasm, great sense of gratitude to everyone and everything. Such a person can easily make others happy, having great pleasure out of it. The ability to think clearly and quickly grasp the essence of things.

How to enhance the beneficial effects of the Sun

As it follows from the above, we cannot move forward spiritually, to be sober-minded and healthy, if we have bad contact with the Sun energy. First, the quality of our perception of the energy of this planet depends on the location of the Sun at the time of our birth, and this location is programmed by our past deeds. However, not everything is predetermined. We can either significantly improve by our actions the impact of the Sun on us, or vice versa.

The strongest impact occurs on the spiritual level, when we worship God; purify our mind, trying to live spiritually. Then, as stated in Bhagavad-Gita, “even a small step forward on this path protects you from many troubles.”
We need to wish happiness to all living beings, to cultivate everything associated with joy and desire to give it to others. It is also useful to make donations for the spiritual people and for the building churches (especially on Sundays – on the days of the Sun) and to cultivate the following traits of character inherent in the solar people:

• Responsibility;
• Determination, optimism, self-esteem;
• Firmness, will power, sincerity, generosity, self-discipline, generosity, humanity, heartiness, job satisfaction, a sense of dignity, innovation.

We have to get rid of the negative traits of character, obtained by us as a result of our neglect of the solar energy – such as pride, arrogance, impulsiveness, sarcasm, hostility, disrespect, selfishness, long-lasting anger.
A disrespectful attitude towards men, especially to one’s father, disrupts the solar energy in a particularly strong way, for women – towards her husband. The divine energy at a certain stage is divided into male and female one, and the Sun represents the divine masculine. A disrespectful, humiliating attitude towards men is a manifestation of the aggression to all masculine, and, ultimately, to God. (It also includes a disrespectful attitude to the governor, whatever he is). Any aggression in the Universe is quite severely punished. Solar power is enhanced if we live according to the solar regime – when we get up before the sunrise, and have the main meal at noon when the sun reaches its maximum strength – in this case, a person does not spend the life force in the digestion of food. Modern scientists have come to the same conclusion. It is also important to live in Goodness, because Goodness – it is the solar power, which warms us up both figuratively and literally.

 In order to enhance the influence of the Sun at the physical level, the following is recommended:

• Daily sunbathing (at least twenty minutes, but not at hours from 12 to 16 p.m.);
• Spending a lot of time outdoors;
• Regular exercising of the Yoga complex “Sun Salutation” (Surya Namaskar) at sunrise.
In food, Sun signifies fruits, nuts, lavender, anise, rosemary, nutmeg, saffron, aloe.
In conclusion, I would like to say that for those who live in the sunny countries, all of the above is particularly important because the degree of contact with the energy of Sun is very high, and people usually have either fast spiritual uplift, that increases the desire for “light”, or, conversely, they become selfish, and their consciousness becomes materialistic.
In India, to propitiate the Sun it is advised to feed the cows with flour products on Sunday.

In the ancient India, every physician who has been working in the tradition of Ayurveda, as a rule, was fairly well familiar with the Vedic astrology. Similarly, any Vedic astrologer was familiar with all the Upai methods (the neutralization of the negative factors in the horoscope), and was well educated in Ayurveda, as it was considered that one cannot cure the disease without knowing its karmic reasons. The Vedic astrologer, when seeing the karma (destiny) of a person had a natural desire (inherent in all elevated souls) to help him and used for that an elaborate system Upai, which includes changing the mindset of a person, wearing of the certain stones, mantra chanting, as well as Ayurvedic remedy.
To improve the perception of the Sun’s energy is very favourable to chant mantras:

Om Namo Bhagavate Ramachandrayya, Om Surya Namah.

 
From the training course

The day of the Sun is Sunday.
The Sun is a Royal Planet.
Occupation: Kings, administrators, leaders, politicians, doctors.
Responsible for the vocal cords, brain, heart, strength of bones,
spine (top part), vision, right eye for males, the left one – for women.
It symbolizes masculine Divine aspect.
Requires respect for one’s father. If there is no respect for father – then the solar aspect of life closes, (the same applies to the stepfather, the boss, the government).
The Sun’s energy is tough but noble.
The direction of the Sun is East.

It is very beneficial to have large windows and the entrance to the house from the
Eastern side.
Zodiac sign is Leo. It is exalted in Aries, and is in the fall in Libra.
Metals of the Sun are gold and copper.
The colour – is orange and light brown.
The stone of the Sun is Ruby.
The Sun gives a person the vitality and awareness of one’s inner self. It also gives strength and ability to make decisions quickly.

 The Sun is atma karaka (the indicator of the soul).
The planet, which is located by 8’ closer to the Sun, weakens, loses its energy, “burns out”, although for various planets this degree is different.
The best position if the Sun is in 10th House (zenith).
The number in numerology is 1.
Everyone who was born on 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th, are under the strong
influence of the Sun, and for them it is especially important to live in the harmony with this planet.
The Sun together with the Moon is responsible for the 6th Chakra (Adjna). This chakra is located in the centre of the forehead; near the “third eye”, (the North America shamans call it the first eye).
The Sun is responsible for the vision, and, if a person develops spiritually, he acquires the ability to see subtle reality. The Sun in its highest manifestation gives transcendental vision.

 Real cases

            Just yesterday, I gave a consultation to a woman from Asia over the phone. She is a top manager at one large firm that installs the oil and gas pipelines. Her husband works in the same company, but a few steps down the career ladder.

Ironically, in her chart, she has the weakened Sun in a poor House and it is in the fall, with virtually no neutralization. One might think that a person is not able to be a leader if he has a horoscope with the weak Sun. However, this is not always the case. Mars and Saturn in the chart of this woman are very strong. She also has a very strong Moon, which gives perfect intuition. Saturn and Mars brought her huge success in construction and in everything connected with it (the mechanics, machinery), as both those planets are associated with technical issues, and Saturn is connected with Rahu in some degree, which is related to oil, gas. 

The weakness of the Sun is manifested in the form of headaches, migraines, which started several years ago and gradually intensified. She has had the energy block in the area of the back of her head and spine, and she confirmed that for many years she has been feeling the pain in those areas. She also has a serious guilt complex because she believes that she is unworthy to hold the office post. She said: “Once given some task I perform it at 50-60% but earn at 90%”. She believes that does not deserve what she gets. She believes that a position of a man should be higher than a woman’s, and in reality, her position is higher. It says, on the emotional level she has also a problem of the weak Sun – self-flagellation, the arrogance with a minus sign: “I don’t deserve this position, this money.”

I gave her several advices. The most important thing for a person in such a case – is to change one’s mindset and learn to accept money and the deserved high position. I drew her attention to how important it is to serve her husband in every way and to show that she really respects him, no matter what career heights he had reached.

One more example.

Five years ago, I gave consultation to the person from one Russian city. He had very weak Sun, associated with the House of partners, and it was giving great difficulties in the relationship. He had no respect for himself internally – and attracted the same attitude towards him from others, all his women and friends were putting pressure on him and treated him with disrespect. We worked with him for quite some time. I have explained him in detail how dangerous it was to have disrespect for oneself and (or) other people, and what was an inferiority complex, and told him what to do to strengthen the Sun at all levels. At the physical level it is very important to have an early rise (by the way, I have noticed long time ago, that people who have a strong Sun get up early easily, and those with the weak Sun often become “owls”. If a person with a strong Sun gets used to be “an owl”, the effect of the Sun on him quickly becomes unfavourable). Also special yoga exercise “Surya Namaskar” in the morning helps strengthen the Sun on the physical level.
At the social level – I have explained to him that it was necessary to be able to take responsibility, told him about how exactly we need to get used to communicate with other people and emphasized that he need to mend relationships with his father and to serve him.

 I had selected physical exercises for him, as well as proper nutrition, colours and stones, for intensifying the Sun, told him what he had to do for strengthening the digestive fire (the weak Sun in his horoscope was associated with the House of digestion and that was giving additional problems in this area). I explained him that he had to learn to earn money and what kind of mindset should he have while doing that, and I gave him advice about where he should work and in what occupation.

Intellectual and spiritual levels he had already known well, since the day before the consultation he visited our training lectures, where we discussed in detail the importance of correct goal setting and skills for reaching it. He had already realized that the achievement of the state of divine love was the only correct ultimate goal of life, that the essence of all spiritual practices was that we learnt to love unconditionally and live in the present moment: “Here and now”.

He visited me twice, and then we have met after that (which is an exception – usually one, maximum two consultations are quite enough). As a result, his situation began improving, but since this problem has been dragging through three incarnations, a significant improvement in this case is only possible after 2-3 years of work on self-development in the right direction. The Sun was causing him many problems from his childhood, especially in relationships. It was very hard for him, he wanted to be in normal relationships, to have a family, because he was already over 30, but not until he neutralized the adverse effects of the Sun, his personal life did not improve, although the rest of his horoscope was good, he was a talented man.

 Translated by Anna Skorobogatova

Edited by Julia Shell

General information on the Moon. Classical Description.

The primary name of the Moon in Sanskrit is Chandra. It is the master of rhythm who reigns over such great natural cycles as tide and ebb. As we have already mentioned, the Sun stands for the male Divine spark, and the Moon for the female. Together they symbolize the great initial duplicity: male and female energy, activity and passivity, day and night, mind and feelings. The Sun governs the fire, and the Moon – the water. If the Sun is the Ego, the Moon is the Mind. Nevertheless, the Sanskrit term ‘manas’ translated as ‘mind’ in reality has a much wider meaning. Manas includes emotions as well, it should be regarded as mental and emotional sphere as a whole, as an aggregate of ability to sense and consciousness that reflects upon the objects.  Often “Manas” is used to determine all mental activities, including not only thought, attention and reason, but also contemplative meditations, reveries and fantasies.

The Moon shows our capacity to accept gifts and love. It is the most vulnerable planet of all, and by its position in the horoscope one can tell how vulnerable, sensitive, hypochondriac and touchy a person is.

The strong Moon stands for emotional sensitivity, perception, attention to one’s associates, and inclination to support the others. It provides emotional maturity, developed sense of responsibility and ability to have a positive effect on the society. 

The Moon embodies female maternal energy, answers for the childhood, procreation, inner happiness, intuition, comfort, wellbeing, inner calm, for the water, and all fluids in general – in the body and on the Earth. The Moon governs memory and common sense.

The Moon is a female planet and it answers for emotions; that is why women are more emotional. The influence of the Moon becomes more harmonious when we live with awareness and keep track of our emotions and feelings. When a person is not aware of his emotions, he destroys the Moon.

The Moon as well as the Sun is a spiritual planet. It indicates such qualities as faith, love, openness, humility and ability to feel happy. Through the Moon a person is granted with the mercy of the female Divine spark. When its position in individual map is strong and favourable, it impels one to act for the good of other people and to obey the Higher laws. People susceptible to the spiritual influence of the Moon are benevolent, humane and are indeed patient as angels. They are easy-going; they never criticize anyone and tend to see the better side of everything.

As for the human health, the Moon is responsible for the quality of blood, chest, stomach, lymph, lungs, left eye of a man and right eye of a woman, intestines, menstrual cycle, womb, nervous system, gullet, glands, and saliva.

The Moon in Ignorance

The Moon in Ignorance makes one’s psyche extremely unstable and produces numerous fears as it answers for various phobias.

Fears, phobias, hatred towards one’s mother and on the whole towards any aspect of the maternal origin – to one’s own mother, wet-nurse, mother-in-law, Motherland, nature, cow, to a Guru’s wife (in classic vedantism) or to a governor’s spouse nowadays, to Mother Earth. For a woman her husband’s mother represents the Moon, and for a man – his mother-in-law to some extent. According to the karmic laws when a woman gets married, her mother-in-law becomes her mother. For a person to have a harmonious Moon and healthy descendants, he has to ensure a good relationship with his mother. But it does not always mean one has to live next to his mother in the mature age.

A man with Ignorant Moon does not love kids, he may even feel sick in their presence. A woman with Ignorant Moon does not want to become pregnant and give birth. If a person has a good harmonious Moon, he loves kids and is loved back.

A woman’s Moon is much intensified after childbirth. Had she had a harmonious period of pregnancy, labour and breastfeeding, her female energy is harmonized, and she gets more attractive even appearance-wise. That is why it sometimes occurs that a single woman gives birth to a child, and soon there is no getting rid of admirers with serious intentions, because her female energy has grown stronger.

It is so arranged in our culture that the Moon is drawn towards Ignorance. For instance, in the USA and Canada teachers encourage 14-16 year old teenagers to have a free sex. They say, “If you give birth to a child early in your life, you would not reach success in your lives.” As a home assignment the kids are given a robot doll for 3 days, which starts to scream every couple of hours, even at night, as if asking for food, and they are to feed and take care of it as of a real baby. Three days after they are asked if they have realized how problematic it is to have a child and if they liked it. The answer is more than predictable. That is why they are advised to use condoms and have their babies aborted without a second thought. And then doctors are surprised at more than 50% of western women having problems with procreation.

The next stage: the modern western culture teaches that after birth no particular attention should be paid to a child. And so three months pass (and only in Sweden 1 year) and a mother takes lactation suppression drugs and goes back to work. Though a child needs to be breastfed as long as possible (one year at least).  Nowadays, even those modern doctors who claimed before that milk formulas were much better balanced and rich in vitamins than the breast milk are aware of this. Together with breast milk a mother conveys the Moon energy to her child, who helps to build up his immunity and makes him stronger. No milk formula or factory-made cereal full of artificial minerals and vitamins can compete with mother’s milk.  

The Moon is suppressed in the modern culture also through the wrong attitude to the conception, labour and pregnancy. If you look at how labour is carried on, how pregnant women are treated, especially in Russia, you will see how extremely unnatural this all is. A child is sent to the nursery from his babyhood. Generally speaking, it is essential that kids should stay at home until they are at least 3 years old, until 5 even more so (especially girls), because during this period they have to take maximum advantage of their parents’ (first of all, their mother’s) love and support. It is during this time that a person’s character is formed, and the degree of his future trust in the world and self-confidence is defined.

The modern world lacks respect for the woman and maternity. In our culture a woman is interesting to others until she loses her sex appeal. That is why a lot of young women aim for model career, whereas the standards of appearance set for this profession deny healthy femininity. The “ideal” physique standard (90-60-90) popular nowadays, destroys the Moon. The healthy Moon in a woman’s map provides her with a slim waist and wide hips, which favours the woman’s health and gives her an opportunity to give birth without complications. Healthy breasts able to feed her kids are also very important. 

The modern culture is ripped of this; a woman is not considered a mother at all. She is mostly treated as a sexual object, and this stands for Venus in Passion and Ignorance.

Television, discos, clubs, bars – all these are open at night, though the night is meant for sleeping. Period from 10pm till 1am is the only time when our nervous system can fully rest. If you are not sleeping at this time, your Moon cannot be healthy and your Rahu harmonious. Nevertheless the modern culture claims that it is at night that the life begins. Such a lifestyle unsettles our mind. Our mind is also badly influenced by what is shown on TV and reported in the news programs.

I was consulting a young woman, who was a news anchorwoman on one of the main Russian TV channels. She told me they were not allowed to show positive news – only negativism was called-for, which would attract the attention of the audience, which would be discussed and memorized; for instance, a piece about a drowning ship, mass riots, plane crash, etc. And video tracks or at least photos are essential.   

Imagine how it affects the psyche, especially of a child or teenager. You are fed with such energies on a daily basis. What do you need it for?  All this has a harmful effect on our mind, that is why nowadays the Moon is immerses more and more  into the Tamas – guna of Ignorance – and all it answers for is getting worse, especially water. The rivers of the modern cities swarm with chemical waste, it is already dangerous to swim in them for the fear of intoxication. Natural cataclysms related to the water more often occur in the world: long lasting showers that lead to floods, or hard droughts. The shortage of fresh water has become an obvious problem. 

According to the WHO, around 60% of the Westerners have serious psychological problems, and the quantity of people with similar problems is increasing.

Why are there so many problems with maternity? Why about 75% of American kids have difficulties with concentrating and keeping calm? Because the Moon in the modern civilization is more immensed in the Tamas, the guna of Ignorance. In our culture it all began with men giving up their care and protection of women. Women stopped experiencing maternity in the right way; people have acquired a constantly restless mind. Such a civilisation immediately becomes cursed to some extent. In the Bhagavat Gita – the quintessence of all vedic wisdom and the source of many religious and philosophic schools – it is said that the degradation of the society starts when women and their level of consciousness are no longer taken care of and protected. What happiness can we talk about when modern kids are taken up with porn sites or spend their time at night discos at the best?  

On one of his visits to the USA the journalists asked Dalai Lama, “What would be your main message?” And everybody was shaken by his answer, many of them even did not quite understand what he meant, “Women, breastfeed your children!” 

The Eastern culture teaches that we must practice meditation. There is quite a number of different meditation types.  For instance, one could spend a few minutes sitting in silence, calm down – and then his energy would get recharged.

In principle, meditation is contemplation. It helps to pacify one’s mind and provides incredible power. So please try to practice at least some lightest forms of meditation. If you are Christian, open a prayer to Jesus and repeat it for ten minutes – it is the strongest meditation. Mantras addressed to planets read 5-10 minutes a day also calm the mind and harmonize the perception of cosmic energies. Even if you spend 10 minutes in the morning just simply sitting with your back straight calming down and filling yourself with love, everything changes and different things occur, and your day passes differently.

Modern people are “pressed for time”. Tell a modern man, “Meditate 10 minutes a day”, and he will shoot you back with, “You won’t believe it but my daily schedule is so tight and busy that I can hardly find any time for meditation!” There are so many objects around us that merely steal our energy: radio, TV, empty phone conversations…  

Just do one simple thing – meditate at least 10 minutes a day and you wouldn’t even imagine how amazingly you will get tuned in for the day.  This should become your regular practice. On the way to a meeting, it is not necessary that you should try to prepare for it spasmodically and write something down. Just sit down and meditate, and you shall see that what and how you should say will shape up precisely in your mind, especially when you want to do it unselfishly, for the good of other people, or in order to help somebody. 

In Eisenstein’s horoscope Mercury was in a weak position, he had problems with logic and he was generally behind at school; nevertheless he became a great scientist that had an invaluable input into the world science. He received all his discoveries in his sleep, through intuition. That is why there is no need to think a lot – it just takes a calm mind. 

People with Ignorant Moon are often hysteric and tend to fall into lingering depression. If a person once in a while has purposeful hysterics – this is the Moon in Passion/Rajas. If a person is in the dumps for a long time – this is the Moon in Ignorance, and it has to be raised up to Passion at least. But one should not confuse despondency and fallen face that Ignorant Moon provides with imperturbable seriousness peculiar to people with auspicious Saturn. 

 A person with Ignorant Moon is scared of everything. If one watches horror films or thrillers before bedtime the Moon gets much weaker. As nowadays in the modern culture the Moon is more immersed in Ignorance, people tend to watch these very films.

I have recently carried out a research on what was shown within 10 minutes on 20 channels. It turned out that it was either black magic, or criminal news, or horror films, or cartoons with some freaks as main characters. “Nu pogodi!” cartoon was the most positive one on the Russian TV. (Similar to “Tom and Jerry”). Almost all American cartoons are full of aggression; kids should not watch them at all. Please keep in mind that our psyche is very sensitive to the Guna of Ignorance (Tamas), so one should avoid factors and qualities that might affect it in a negative way.  

Men with Ignorant Moon are prone to deep depressions, hysterics, grudge against the whole world and various phobias. Such a person does not even love his own kids, spares them very little of his time and attention, is cold towards them and can even be abusive. If you want to bring your Moon up to Passion or Goodness, you should play more with your kids and spend your time with them.

The famous poet Yesenin often had Ignorant Moon; he would go on a drinking bout every now and then and behave hysterically. Finally he committed a suicide. But to many people he was and still is an idol, and by enjoying his marvelous lyrics people imbibe his energy of ignorance as well.

Consumption of alcohol (including beer) and black coffee is also a display of Ignorant Moon.

Ignorant Moon also provides very weak memory, huge hypochondria, complete inability to control one’s emotions and vice versa a tendency to fully suppress them. Despite all unbiased circumstances, a person with such Moon is prone to be deeply discontent with life. Such a person does not want to and cannot take care of his family, hates his mother, does not want to have kids. People with such Moon often agree to abortions. By the way, doctors who carry out abortions directly pull their Moon down to Ignorance. Ignorant Moon person as a rule drinks little water, often substitutes it with alcohol, beer, huge amounts of coffee and cannot stand milk. Such a person would strongly dislike milk and even actively advocate the harm of dairy products. He may also tend to have sex with his mother or children and to abuse children. 

The Moon in Passion

People with the Passionate Moon have an incredibly restless mind, “Oh wait, I forgot to ask about this, wait here is another question, oh wait I won’t have time to write!..” Their thoughts are constantly rushing about, mostly due to strong uncontrollable emotions. 

Such people have enormous claims to the world and deep attachments, especially to their kids, whereas they are fully indifferent to others. 

I know some women with highly developed spirituality who adore their children, but should somebody else’s child come to visit them, they would fondle and feed him as if he were their own. They may adopt a child and treat him as their own. But the stronger a person’s false Ego is the more he is attached to his own kids and proud of them, while being at the best cold to other children. 

Nowadays many women give birth whenever they want, without considering auspicious periods and lunar rhythms. Abortions drop the Moon down into Ignorance, and it is very important to pray for forgiveness in this case otherwise a woman may receive very hard blows in her fate. One should sincerely ask God and the souls that could not be born because of her/him for forgiveness and make a reasonable donation to a charitable institution.

People with Passionate Moon are prone to sentimentality, unstable emotionality, hysteria. Their mind is very passionate and agitated; they are constantly overwhelmed with emotions.  You might very likely feel very uncomfortable in the presence of such a person, as he always radiates emotional activity and tension. Such people should play in the theatre where they could pour out their emotions and convey the whole gamut of feelings to the audience or take up some other activity that requires Passion, where keeping emotions tense is essential.  

Passion and emotions are necessary. In particular they are very useful for ethic extraverts (in accordance with the psychological type, “Socionics” by Yung) so that they could turn on the audience and keep passions up. This quality is also necessary for lectors, preachers, missioners, lawyers; but they have to keep a conscious control of their emotions and not to fall under their influence.

When bringing up kids such a person will make sure they get the most prestigious education, whereas developing their morality and positive traits of character comes second if at all. On the whole such a person is more into sex and career than upbringing his kids. They exploit their mother and can be overly attached to her. Their sense of happiness is fickle and depends on  the emotional attitude to external circumstances. The basic emotion on which a person builds his life is fear.

Negative Influence of the Moon in Ignorance and Passion on human health

Illnesses caused by weak or damaged Moon: womb diseases, problems with menstruation, fever, general weakness, jaundice, asthma, colic, lung diseases, susceptibility to cough and cold, tuberculosis, pleurisy, especially when a child.

The main symptoms of weak Moon: emotional instability, poor emotionality, fear of intimate relationships, lack of friendliness, exaggerated sense of danger, anxiety, frequent depressions and weak memory. Such a person often feels discontent, and finds it hard to deal with stresses and tension related to communication. He is prone to despondency, pessimism, neurosis, and mental disorders. His thoughts are messed up; he is somber and is ever restless.

Physical signs of the weak Moon (apart from those mentioned above): anemia, lack of liquid in the tissues or, vice versa, its stagnation, dry skin, constipation, weak lungs. Such a person can hardly tolerate dry and hot weather. Women besides menstrual disorders can also suffer from infertility.  

The Moon in Goodness

The Moon in Goodness provides a calm mind and a sense of inner content. On the outside such a person can lead a very active life but still be content with it, no external circumstances will upset his mental equilibrium; his attitude to hardships is “If something happens, that is the way it should be”. And nevertheless externally he will do his best to avoid negative events and their consequences.

In the East there are a lot of parables depicting the Moon in Goodness, which is what we are to aim for. Here is one of them.

Not far from a village there lived a Brahman. He spent all his days meditating. One of the village girls got pregnant from a neighbour’s son and, fearing her parents’ anger, lay the blame on Brahman, that he had seduced her when she had come for his advice. The child was born, and the girl’s angry parents brought him to Brahman, saying as it was his fault he was to bring up the child. Brahman was surprised yet with “Thou will…” accepted the child and began to rear and educate him. The boy grew up; his mother felt ashamed and told her parents the truth. They came to Brahman and demanded the boy back. Brahman looked at them and said, “God gives, God takes. For everything there is God’s will”. That is the calmness of mind. 

What behavior is inacceptable from a woman according to the eastern psychology? When she argues with her husband, criticizes him, compares him with other men. By this she blocks the contact with the Solar energy (and to some extent with Mars and Jupiter energies) for herself, her husband and her kids.   

A wise woman is very gentle. The woman’s power is in her shyness and flexibility. 

A woman with the Moon in Goodness is tranquil, her mind is calm. A man should be socially active (displays the Solar energy); so quite naturally when he comes home he wants to get quiet lunar energy instead of having to face a hysteric arguing woman that one might well wish to abandon.

Even if a person with the Moon in Goodness has a strong Mars on the map, he is still very tranquil, calm and harmonious; and when you enter his aura everything somehow settles down, and the mind calms down.

It is the Sattvic Moon quality that an astrologist or psychoanalyst should possess; he in no way should give way to Passion or Ignorance that a customer emanates, should not allow his Moon to get unsettled, because on the mental level such energies are easily transmitted. One should always react calmly to everything, without losing one’s balance.

Sattvic Moon provides friendliness to all living creatures (it is the Lunar inner friendliness, not external Solar one) as well as a sense of happiness and freedom from external circumstances, also on the emotional level.

The Sattvic Moon person is very well aware that the true happiness lies within, and all the pleasure is in the mind. Here is a classical example: buy whatever you like, sit down to eat, and think your problems over at the same time. You will fall out of reality right away and as a result will not get the taste of food. So your pleasure is where your mind is. That is why if person cannot live here and now, he cannot get any pleasure out of life.

According to the Vedas, a person can have four goals in his life, one of which is Kama, or pleasure. In order to reach it one should learn to focus on what he is engaged in. This will lead to your success in all aspects of life and to huge inner satisfaction, because all the happiness lies within. Many saints say that a human soul contains so much happiness that a human body can hardly bear even a tenth of it and this happiness is constantly growing and one should not search outside for it. It is enough to just calm one’s mind down and their intuition and deep content will come to surface. And then even an ordinary chess game, meals or other daily occupations will bring you much pleasure.

When I was consulting one woman she confessed that she had been leading a very strict life since the last couple of years, keeping to all the rules she had set for herself, cruelly restricting her diet. However she felt no content inside; she actually had killed a woman in herself by mercilessly drilling herself. No wonder she was of no interest to men.

Woman is feelings and emotions. Once in a while she should eat what she wants and allow herself some foibles, otherwise her emotional sphere, her Moon gets disharmonious. It is not following some rules but love which is essential, though surely without moral and keeping to the principles of harmony it is almost impossible to reach a state of love. A woman’s power is in intuition, in sublime emotions. She should share the Lunar energy with her husband, kids, the world around her, she should emanate a sense of calm.

What is schizophrenia? It is the Moon in Tamas, when there is a lot of Ignorance both in a person’s consciousness and subconsciousness (fixed ideas, voices in the head). For instance, a person with the Sun and the Moon in Ignorance, having an astute vision or some mystic abilities may claim he is a Messiah. Should such a person manage to upgrade his energy to the level of Passion, he usually starts taking an active part in establishing various cults and sects.  

A person with the Moon in Goodness has acquired a big respect and love for his mother despite her level of development; he loves dairy products, can fully control his emotions (though they might be overwhelming), and be aware of them. In child rearing the most important for such a person is to convey the feeling of unconditional love to them, and this allows for his bringing up harmonious children gifted with lofty traits of character. Such a person will be very serious about conception, birth and rearing of children.

 Summary

The influence of the Ignorant Moon is characterized by the following traits and models of behavior: frequent hysterics, deep depressions, huge fears, very poor memory, huge hypochondria, and inability to control emotions or, on the contrary, full suppression of emotions. It’s also big inner discontent with life and inability and unwillingness to take care of one’s family. The hatred towards mother and children, unwillingness to have kids. Abortions. Ignorant Moon person as a rule drinks little water, often substitutes it with alcohol, beer, huge amounts of coffee and cannot stand milk. Such a person would actively advocate the harm of dairy products. He may also tend to have sex with his mother or children and to abuse children. 

The Moon in Passion: very restless mind, sentimentality, strong and ever changing emotions, extreme affection to one’s kids and indifference towards others. Exploitative treatment of mother, huge dependence on her. The sense of happiness is very unsteady, and depends on emotional perception of outer circumstances. The basic emotion a person builds his living on is fear.

The Moon in Goodness: friendliness towards all living beings, willingness and ability to take care of others, huge sense of inner happiness despite outer circumstances, full calm, huge gratefulness to everything a person has to do with, respect and love for mother despite her level of development. Love of dairy products. Full control of one’s emotions, deliberate emotions, even if very strong. Seriousness in terms of conception, birth and upbringing of kids. Exceptionally strong intuition.

How to reinforce the positive influence of Moon

A bit of luck, abundance and good memory as well as some other positive effects would do no harm to anybody.

70% of our bodies consist of water, and any unfavorable influence of Moon may cause various problems and diseases, because it is responsible for water. For instance, a lunar month is about 29 days. It practically lasts as long as a woman’s menstrual cycle and negative influence of the Moon can cause its failure. Though in all fairness one should note that a simultaneous defeat of especially Venus and Mars, can do really serious harm in this sphere.

Once I was consulting a woman who had a defeated Moon and very strong Mars on her map. And she approved of my conclusion; she really hadn’t menstruated for a few years.

But the worst problems caused by the Moon are those of mind. As mentioned above the Sun empowers the mind, and the Moon – calmness and pleasure. All Eastern religions and philosophic schools point out that if the mind is restless, it is impossible to reach spiritual enlightenment (liberation) or success and happiness in material life. 

One of the main goals of Buddism is to simply achieve peace of mind. Numerous gurus that represent various branches of the Vedic philosophy agree with the Bhagavat Gita assertion, which says, “Yoga (= self-realization) is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. However, yoga is attainable by the person of subdued mind by striving through proper means. (6.36)”

It is hard to imagine a healthy person whose mind is restless. Even modern people have mentioned long ago that the nerves are the source of all diseases; those who cannot beat anxiety die young, etc. The main human goal is happiness. But the sense of happiness is an inner condition/state; it practically has no relation with the external circumstances.  Can a person who falls into depression on any occasion be happy?

The Moon symbolizes mind, consciousness on the whole (manas) and our ability to perceive senses in various meanings of this word. The main task of the Moon is peace and receptivity of the mind. In order to achieve those, one has to bow down before the Higher will internally, that is, to find the true humility, which only comes together with awareness that whatever happens is for the better; all the material values are temporary; nothing is accidental, and not even a single blade of grass would move without God’s will; the true happiness lies within, etc.

The atmosphere of devotion and loving care intensifies the Moon energy. It is desirable that a person should receive mother love when a child and get support among his family and friends, so that afterwards he would naturally want to take care of others and help them unselfishly.

The Moon energy is also reinforced by spiritual worship, especially if appealing directly to the Mother of God. For instance, in the Eastern religions it is Lakshmi, Parvati, Guanyin, Tara, Isida, and Mother Mary – in Christianity. But for each person his own mother is a straight personification of the female energy of the Divine. So nothing can destroy the energy of the Moon as much as disrespect to one’s mother in thoughts, words or actions. The Vedas say that apart from biological mother, a wet nurse, stepmother, mother-in-law, guru’s wife, a woman treating one as if she were his mother, Earth and cow can also personify one’s mother.  The last two need some explanation. “We come from dust; we return to dust” this phrase concerns our body but our biological mother is a mother to us only in this very incarnation, in the next one we shall have another mother.

So that is how the Earth becomes our wet nurse and shelter for several incarnations on, because our bodies are made of earthly elements. Therefore by creating ecological problems, like cutting out the woods, contaminating the soil, not allowing the soil to rest after agricultural seasons, etc, we (the modern civilization) are utterly weakening the auspicious influence of the Moon on the whole humanity and thus destroying our mental health. Every year more and more children are born with various mental abnormalities; more and more people suffer from stress and depression.  Memory becomes weaker. There are fewer women able to give birth and fewer men able to conceive a healthy child. According to the karmic laws the cow is considered our mother because we consume its milk.  Therefore disrespect towards cows and their murder is one of the gravest sins. The cow is one of the personifications of the Moon.

The lunar energy is intensified by: meditation, development of optimism, control over one’s speech (one should speak as little as possible and speak thoughtfully), attention to one’s actions and words in order not to disturb the others, hydrotherapeutic procedures (cool refreshing shower in the morning and warm relaxing shower in the evening, after work), staying close to the sea, lake or river (anyone may notice that even 15 min. of watching the sea will calm down our mind).  

Auspicious from the Lunar point of view are the following soothing and toning herbs: marshmallow, Ulmus Fulva, the root of Symphitum officinalis, Dictamnus albus, Asparagus racemosus, Rehmannia glutinosa. The aromatic oils of white flowers (jasmine, lotus, lily and gardenia) as well as sandal oil carry the auspicious soothing energy of the Moon. It is desirable that one should apply them to the area of the 3^rd eye.

In order to propitiate the Moon Vedic astrologists recommend:

• to feed the cows with dough on Mondays;
• to give rice to the paupers;
• to feed sugared boiled rice to the crows;
• the most important – to serve one’s mother.  

It is also wholesome that one should repeat “I wish everybody love and peace!” ten minutes a day. Thus we should serve as conductors of  lunar energy. Let there be love and peace for you!

Mantra for the Moon: Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya, Om Chandraya Namaha

From the Training Course

 The day of the Moon – Monday

Energy of the Moon – cold, humid, soft, phlegmatic

Nature of the Moon – auspicious, generous.

Direction – North West (in the house it is the best place for bathroom, shower room, guest bedroom and nursery). 

Stones – pearl, moonstone, all white opaque stones.

Ablution – 2 times a day minimum – greatly harmonizes the Moon: preferably with cool water in the morning, and in the evening no later than 2 hours before sleep, and washing the feet right before sleep.

Colours: white, pale colours, silver.

Sign – Cancer.

Moon exalts in Taurus, and descends in Scorpio. But if a person can dismiss inner tension, touchiness, hypochondria, the Moon in Scorpio provides him with immense inner power, intuition and deep insight. 

Best position – 4^th House, opposite zenith, this house answers for underlying emotions 

For the Moon it is important not to be alone, but to be surrounded by planets. The Moon as a sponge absorbs the energy of the surrounding planets.

The smaller the Moon the weaker it is. On the waning Moon and especially at the new moon, one should not make any new starts; physical and psychological loads are harmful. It is the time of completion.

The full moon in the Vedic tradition is an auspicious time that intensifies intuition, abilities, yet increases emotionality.

The 11^th Lunar day– is Ekadashi, time of fasting. It is desirable not to consume grains and legumes or to fast completely which is even better. During this day meat is even more harmful than usual. 

It is desirable to purchase a Vedic lunar calendar and live accordingly, thus life will become simpler, more harmonious and successful right away. All the past civilizations lived in accordance with the Lunar calendar.

For instance, if you have your hair cut in the ascending moon your hair will grow very fast, and if at the same time the Moon is in Leo, it will also grow very thick; when cut in the descending moon (especially when in Capricorn) it will grow slowly and will be thinner.

There are some days when the probability of a successful surgery is increased by ten times.

Both the Moon and the Sun answer for the 6th Chakra (Ajna), which is located in the “third eye” area.

The Moon number is 2.

Those born on the 2nd, 11th, 20th, 29th of any month have 2 as a number of soul and are under the influence of the Moon. Number 2 usually adds a bit of emotionality, and with planets under auspicious influence of the Moon gives conciliation and prosperity. For instance it is good to have a maternity hospital with number 2, where natural birth is taking place. Those who live in an apartment or house number 2 should live in concord with the Moon, otherwise there will be emotional shocks, problems with kids, mother, and water. 

Real Cases

In terms of the Moon they often consider me as an Eastern psycologist. As I have already mentioned, the main “lunar” problem is a huge inner emotional tension (though a person may look calm externally).

For instance, once a young woman visited me, whose Moon – a hostess of the house of parental family and money – was in descend, in the house of diseases and enemies, and had a bad combination with the house of mother.

There were also money problems, a fear to become a mother, inability to build up close personal relationships, fear of such relationships and a huge emotional tension. She confirmed what I said; her mother left her at the age of 2-3 years old and she was very well brought up by her grandparents. She hardly ever saw her mother until the age of 16. I told her she had a big grudge against her mother, and that she had to get over this grudge – that was her karmic task. The woman started working on it. Then she had a fear of getting moneyless – it is a sort of avarice; we also worked on this one, and finally she graduated from very good courses and got a promising job. She also had some illnesses due to the Moon.

At that time I had gathered up a new group for the course in astrology (I was teaching in Israel then), and the course had already begun. She joined the group (which I normally do not allow, but with her I did) and then studied quite successfully for two years in our Centre. In the group she was notable for her strong emotional tension. On her example we could see how a weak Moon became apparent. She worked at self-improvement a lot though only partly successfully, because she had a descending Moon in Scorpio.

On the other side, despite all the “side effects” such a position of the Moon can be considered a blessing as such a person when he starts working with his psychoemotional conditions can achieve whatever he wants. Due to unfavourable position of the Moon she did not want to have kids at all and even hated them (this aspect was described in detail in the article dedicated to the Moon). Thanks to the serious work on self-improvement she managed to forgive her mother. They cried together, sorted out their relationship, she started taking care of her mother, attend to her, and finally they set up a very positive warm emotional contact. Besides her financials got better and she found a soul mate. When I went to lecture in Israel the last time I found out she had had a wonderful baby boy and that she was happy and she had worked off 80% of her lunar problems. Material problems were solved, as well as the health problems, and what is most important her fears vanished.

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Here is another example of unfortunate – to put it mildly – position of the Moon. Recently I have studied the map of Gering – a man (though it is not easy for me to name him so) who stood behind the murders of a huge number of people and who was involved in the filthiest deeds of the fascist Germany. In his early years his mother did not rear him, he was not breastfed. He grew up in a very severe environment. His moon is also descending, connected to the house of mother, without serious neutralization – that is why he grew up to be cruel and callous, he hated people, especially women and children, and was fanatically devoted to Hitler. He simply filled the hollowness where other people have love for mother and others with this devotion.

Translated by Yulia Degerli

Edited by Julia Shell

General information about Mars.  Classical description.

Mars’ nature is of men, fiery, warlike and dry one. Mars was called at all times “God of war” because it determines our ability to resolute and power actions; it provides us with aggression, courage, force.

It is largely similar in its qualities with the Sun. It gives us self-reliance, strength of will and energy for achievement of goals. In contrast to the self-luminous, self-sufficient Sun, Mars needs some fuel. It is very important that the fuel for its fire would be a desire for finding the God’s love, the aspiration to help people and protect weak ones but not  wishes to satisfy one’s feelings in many directions, to obtain something at the expense of people around and similar. Unfortunately, especially in the modern ages, Mars due to its aggressiveness causes conflicts, rivalry, wars, cruelty, generates a desire to achieve one’s aim at any price.

The Sun and the Moon present Yin and Yang in terms of paternity and maternity but Mars and Venus symbolize Yin and Yang in terms of sexual partners.

Mars is a planet of explorations too, but usually it implies technological scientific progress, because Mars manages weapons, instruments of labor and machines. But modern culture`s main aim is  achievement of material prosperity with the help of technological progress, which results in desire to solve all the issues  by force and to create more and more powerful weapons.  Our civilization becomes tougher, warlike, whereas the people have less love.

If a man is seriously engaged in spiritual practice, Mars gives him an ability to be disciplined, ascetic, the talent of a researcher, practicality, and good leadership qualities.

Mars in ignorance.

Mars in Tamas gives a man permanently rising aggression, blood lust. Such people love watching fights without any rules. The battle of bulls – this is a clear appearance of Ignorance too, you should not even watch it, because the bull is considered an embodiment of Dharma and goodness.

Mars initially has Tamasious-Radjastical nature, so it is difficult to illustrate Mars in pure Sattva.

Mars in Ignorance gives a desire for destruction of all, and also, curiously enough, laziness, because Mars is in charge of practical execution of the task. However, if a man has Mars in full Ignorance, he does not want to do anything at all.

It has also to do with sexual perversion, sadism, sadomasochism, brutality, cruelty, all forms of violence (because Mars is in charge of force), including sexual violence. Nevertheless, should such a man have his Moon in Ignorance, it will give him sexual violence with children.

Rough manner, rude words – it is about Ignorance. In Tamas Mars becomes also apparent when a man repays aggression to Goodness. Such people, even children, radiate energy of hate and irritation.

Where does a young child`s aggression come from? There are 2 possible options: either it comes from а person`s past life (it is typical, basic rule) or while а child was in his mother’s belly, his parents were quarrelling with each other, or when he was quite a little baby, in a house where he had been growing, there was atmosphere of Mars in Ignorance, for instance, his father used to beat his mother. However, as a rule, the reason to be born in such a family there should be definite problems with Mars coming from one’s past life and those problems are put into one’s subconsciousness.

One of my patients has strong Mars connected with a House of Partner and a House of Food. In her childhood, she used to fight and was at war with everybody, played football with boys, and what is the most interesting, she adored raw meat from little up. While cooking meat dishes she could not help tasting the chops even before they are ready, tasted them raw. This is very strong Mars in Passion and in Ignorance. If in a week’s time you will be feeding а kind dog only with raw meat, it will change into an angry dog attacking everyone. Meat, especially raw – this is Mars in Ignorance, it increases aggression – so, as a rule, vegetarians are calmer for the most part than meat eaters are. If in India to enter the village, where the meat-eaters live, then you immediately feel the difference: the people are different there, more aggressive and bellicose.

In ancient times kshatris (warriors) were sometimes allowed to eat meat (game, fish), they were not allowed to eat only pigs and cows. They also could have a few wives and concubines, drink wine and eat meat. Nevertheless, when enemies attacked, they took swards and died calmly, if it was necessary, because warriors had to protect citizens at the cost of their lives. A warrior must have Passion to be strong and successful in a battle – for this, it is necessary to have powerful Martian force.  

Destruction of any building is Mars in Ignorance too. For example, destruction of a house. If you live next to the site, where people demolish а house, so the indications of Mars in Ignorance in some way, to some degree, become apparent in your life. If next to your house, there is a building under construction, it means Mars in Passion.

Such a man can be very lazy and cowardly, although he outwardly tries to look like a very brave man. He experiences aggression towards everybody, even to those who helped him once. He eats a lot of meat; other kinds of food he does not even consider such, ready to drink any alcohol in any amount.

Mars in Passion.

Mars is considered a passionate, hot and active planet. Mars itself is an embodiment of male beauty, and as the saying goes, that if a woman would see a handsome man with Martian appearance, she wouldn`t be able to take her look aside. Good-located, strong Mars can give you an unusual attractiveness and beauty – therefore passion is typical for the manifestations of the planet.

Mars in Passion is all kinds of gaming, not only cards, but any fights, competitions, tournaments too. Passionate Mars gives the desire for rivalry, competition, stimulates a man to do something active, to contrive.

Modern sports are Mars in Passion. Any kinds of sports which are higher than the 2^nd class are unhealthy. Sportsmen who obtained high results are already, as a rule, sick people, who have worn-out bodies. After leaving big sport, they usually come under the influence of gunas of Ignorance.

Sport fans are also demonstrations of Mars in Passion and Ignorance. Strong sexual lust is Mars in Passion (and partially in Ignorance).

For men having such Mars sexual hyperactivity is typical. Modern psychologists have already concluded, that the more man is sexually active, the more active he is in his social life. So all the nations under strong Mars influence (in the first place Caucasians, less Latin Americans) are very active, passionate and energetic.

“Martians” love debating, provoking an interlocutor, they have inside them a very strong spirit of challenge, spirit of rivalry. For passionate people it is necessary to achieve something actively, to prove, to win, to assert them constantly. That is not bad. Such is Mars` nature, because Mars is a planet providing your will, ability to realization of your energy potential.   

Mars being in guna of Passion is in charge of all extreme kinds of sports, extreme entertainments tickling nerves on thin edge between animal horror and euphoria (and in Sattva Mars gives absence of fear, when you need to take the risk to help somebody or climb the high mountain peak, when it is necessary).   

Mars in Passion gives wish and aspiration for resolving all the issues by force. Vulgar speech with sexual implication, dirty jokes – that is Mars in Passion too, often together with Venus.

The fitness clubs where people work out are under Mars influence. They aren`t embarrassed with the fact that it is not very good for their health, the key thing is that it gives them sexual attractiveness. Artificial working out gives the outer beauty, but takes their energy away on the thin level. Teenagers go working out not to be fit but to attract girls’ attention.

Women-bodybuilders have hormone changes in their bodies: energy of the Moon and Venus is being replaced with energy of Mars in passion. Therefore, they have often problems with childbearing, menstruation. Such women could take interest in their own sex, because their Mars tends to increase and they feel inside them male energies.

     Power sports intensify Mars too and that`s one of the reasons for the girls not to be carried away by them. Shows tickling nerves, creating large emotional tension are also Mars in Passion. However, the shows in the Roman Empire were in Ignorance, because they killed the gladiators and animals there. Any shows where murders, violence, and blood involved are considered Mars in Tamas.

Martial arts with Mars in Goodness – these are many of the Eastern Martial Arts (aikido, taekwondo etc). Before getting down to immediate study of these techniques, people learned Eastern philosophy and psychology for many years. To go in for such Martial Arts, it is necessary to have in the first place a proper world-view. Most of the Martial Arts teachers used to be also famous philosophers and spiritual gurus. 

If you want to intensify your Mars, become more decided, start doing sensory physical exercises, especially they are useful for men. Besides yoga, they should run, swim, do press-ups, train their bodies and give them regular physical load.  Swimming is considered the most helpful kind of sports; it is closer to guna of Goodness. In the Vedas, they say that swimming, fast walking and (for men) wrestling are the most helpful kinds of sports.

Mars in Passion is when a man returns aggression for aggression. Mars in Sattva is when a man answers to aggression with love, and such a man, as a rule, does not even attract into his life such situations, when somebody shows aggression towards him. He radiates such energy, that he would never attract any violence.

Remember: what we radiate into this world is what we get. If aggression is felt from a man, it means he will often run into aggression towards himself – disharmony by Mars attracts aggressors. People who are literally beaten by the destiny (for example, their loved ones hit them) usually have big disharmony in respect of Mars.

Mars and health

In our body, Mars controls organs of generation, blood, muscles, face, left ear, feeling of taste, bone marrow.

Illnesses resulting from broken or weakened Mars are as following: fever, epilepsy, piles (especially if it is connected with Rahu), tumors, high blood pressure, furunculosis, illnesses of lungs and throat, broken position is the reason for burns, cuts, injuries. Mars is also deformations of the body, injuries due to violence, fire or war. Mars is responsible for sexual potency of men, because these problems with perception of Mars energy can create problems in this area – a man can suffer from the sexual energy shortage, and a woman could suffer because of her weak-willed spouse or love partner.

On physical level, typical signs of Mars’s weakness are as following: weakness of the immune system, bad appetite and problems with intestinal uptake, low weight of body, weakness of liver muscles and small intestine. Typical are also inclination to bleedings and traumas, slow epulosis of wounds and ulcers, anemia is possible.

On the psychological level, the main indications of the weak Mars are lack of energy and motivation, inability to consistent and hard work. Such a man finds it difficult to carry his point and protect his rights. He is timid and inclined to obeying somebody else`s will or, vice versa, too much reckless and hasty, and seeks to have people around him at his feet. In addition, he cannot express his anger and dissatisfaction sufficiently, not able to understand that somebody manipulates him. He is excessively passive and manipulated and can easy fall a victim to hard treatment and physical violence, or he can apply some elements of physical violence without thinking.

Esoteric understanding of psychological meaning of Mars is that this planet symbolizes a need of energy in self-transformation. Any kind of energy strives to self-realization. Any form of life needs objective and direction for movement. A task of Mars is to direct energy to real transformation, to transfiguration, purification of our consciousness. From the philosophical viewpoint it doesn`t make any sense to spend our energy on temporary objectives, but that`s what we exactly do, pursuing surface objectives and striving for satisfaction of our senses, wealth and high position in society. While the true transformation depends on our ability to carry away our consciousness into the Kingdom of Spirit and absolute love, but not on succeeding some interim and limited objective.

Mars in Goodness.

Mars in Sattva (Goodness) makes it possible to accumulate sexual energy and transform it. It gives enthusiasm, big practicality, managerial abilities (plus Saturn), the desire to make something by hands, to repair, to fix. A man with such Mars can implement any idea into life, and if its realization is impossible, he is able to understand it and to tell about it in a calm way. As a rule, such people prefer practical clothes.

Very often people with Mars in Goodness are sensory-like people; they are able to make something by hand very well. These are not only craftsmen, they could be intellectuals, who are able to implement their ideas into life – great sculptors, designers, engineers, constructors and even, curiously enough, astrologists, because the embodied Mars gives good logic skills and clear vision.

Mars in Goodness also enables to answer with love to aggression, provides an absence of fear in front of danger, steady movement to your highest aim. People with such Mars have a positive view on healthy competition, but they understand that there are no winners in arguments and there are enough places under the Sun for all.

Nowadays, parents suggest an idea to their children from the cradle: “You have to be the best anywhere and in anything”. However, people with Mars in Sattva tell: “Let’s win all of us, together”. If they are managers, they could say the following: “If our department gets out on the new level of sales, we all go on holiday”. They do not divide people into winners and losers, because the key thing for them is а team spirit, when everyone helps each other. They have good collective thinking. In sports, physical activity the important things for them are health and chance to widen their possibilities. In such sports, there are no losers.

Mars in Sattva creates noble warriors, liberators, but not conquerors; they never attack and use their strength only for the protection purposes. All the Eastern schools of fights taught this, apropos, without a fail: young warriors took such an oath, and it was regarded as Hippocratic Oath with doctors. That is why such schools of martial arts have existed for thousands of years. All what is not under the influence of Goodness guna doesn`t exist long enough. Radgas is a bright, fast-burned flare, and Sattva is an eternal fire, which can burn for thousands of years.

A person with Mars in Goodness is a defender. There are four levels of Mars development. On the last Sattva level the man has no need to fight: either an infuriated man comes to him and suddenly settles down himself, or a rival`s desire disappears by itself.

In order to win you need to believe in your forces, in your good luck, you need to live with this energy.  Mahabharata and Ramayana say a lot about such people. An example of a man with Mars in Sattva is Ramachandra, who lived on Earth thousands of years ago – one of the incarnations of God. When it was necessary, he was fighting, but, if it was possible, he tried to avoid violence. 

Every man like Him has a deep understanding that fists do not solve a problem, although there are cases when you need to use them for protection purposes. Earlier great warriors did not even need weapon: they read certain mantras and could hit many targets with one arrow.

Man with Mars in Sattva is an obliging person, protects weak people, but he has meanwhile no pride about it. If a warrior boasts about his victories and deeds, well, then he is under Passion influence. Mars in Goodness protects due to the sense of duty as Sattva implies merely this quality.

The will in Goodness shows itself as constant resolution. A person in Ignorance does not have the will as a quality; he cannot force himself to do anything useful for his health, for example, to jog in the morning. Man in Passion begins jogging and does it for a few days, and often it happens suddenly and with overload, but the person is not ready to proceed. Goodness gives a large and stable force of will. In the first place it shows up in a man`s resolution to serve God, to serve to God`s devoted people, to develop love to God no matter what happens, even if the whole world is against it.

This energy of Mars, this pressure and resolution are very important for spiritual life. In Mahabharata and Shrimad-Bhagavatam there are stories about people, who reached perfection, these are the warriors (kshatrias) with strong Mars. Their motto is “Do what you have to do, and be what will be”. Their lives were transpierced with the spirit of nobility.

Everybody, who wants to reach progress in his spiritual life, is supposed to develop in himself the qualities of Mars in Goodness. When our resolution is permanent, we search every day what else we can do for our spiritual progress, for the welfare of all living creatures and the most important – for the development of our love to God. The Sattvical Mars makes it possible in the right and successful way.

Strong will, persistence, resolution enables a man be for long years engaged in self-perfecting process and to reach high levels. Should you do your physical exercises or yoga regularly for five-ten years period, it brings influence of Mars energy to a person and transfers it to Goodness. Many supreme commanders, high-rank officers had Mars in Goodness.  

People having strong Mars are of fine complexion, tall and athletic. Strong Mars gives also courage, self-assertion, independence, endurance, inclination to risky and heroic acts, warlike character, sharp mind, ability to meditation, and love to arguments, leadership, good organizational talents and abilities to practical implementation of different ideas.

Summary.

Influence of Mars in Ignorance describes the following qualities of character and behavioral models: high level of aggression towards everybody, sexual violence, perversion, sadism, sadomasochism, brutality, cruelty, maniacal conduct. Speech is full of anger, roughness and obscene swearing. Laziness. Cowardice. Ingratitude. Preferred food is meat, alcohol consumption is in any quantity.

Mars in Passion: intensive physical activities, strong sexual desire (especially in interaction with Venus), sexual dissoluteness, physical strength, the attachment to various competitions, tournaments, gaming. Vulgar humor, cruelty in character. Preferred food is meat and alcohol, including beer.

Mars in Goodness: fearlessness, great strength of will, enthusiasm, practicality, resolution, an ongoing commitment and devotion to the highest goal, the serious attitude to sexual energy, an ability to save it, to live long time without sex. Strong, clear logical thinking. An ability to implement almost any ideas in practice, even rather revolutionary. Desires and abilities to protect weak people.

How to come to an agreement with the Universe.

How to intensify Mars favorable influence.

I want to say straight off, that Mars differs from other planets in the respect of intensifying. Many other planets can be intensified in a way of performing some certain rituals (for example, above you can find the descriptions of how to intensify the Moon, which gives deliverance from some illnesses, provides mental and emotional calmness, favorable changes in your destiny), but with Mars it’s not so explicitly.

People with broken Mars for real and having problems described above, should intensify their Mars, but it’s very important not to overdo it, because the strong Mars could cause even more problems, if a person is not developed spiritually enough. For example, somebody comes to the martial arts school, he finds himself in a severe brutal male team, and there they immediately teach him strong blows, ways to strengthen his muscles, tell him, that only the strongest wins in a fight. A few years pass and he turns into a strong and cruel man, who got accustomed to solve everything by force, what gives him enormous conscious and subconscious aggression. Nevertheless, any aggression in the Universe is severely punished: deteriorating health, fortune, and rapid shortening of life duration.

Statistics say that one of the qualities, which every long-lived person has, is enormous kindness… In the Eastern cloisters, where people study different kinds of martial arts, it is said, that you could use your force only for the protection purposes, and in the first years students are taught a definite philosophical approach to life, inner calmness in any situations and what is more, love and non-attachment.

Such high spiritual level lets using Mars` energy in full, without any “side effects”, but simple strengthening of Mars (without development of your inner good nature and altruism) might be very dangerous.

To sum up: Mars` energy is being intensified by the following factors: physical exercising, studying different kinds of martial arts, strengthening of organism, developing physical force. In psychological aspect, one should try to be energetic, brave, active and vigorous. It is necessary to have discipline on all levels: physical, emotional and spiritual. However, this discipline is supposed to be reasonable and flexible, but not cruel.

It is possible to intensify Mars with the help of herbals and spices, mostly the spices of the Sun – cinnamon, saffron, turmeric, red and black pepper would do. However, in this case, it is advisable to combine them with such stimulating remedies as ginseng and locoweed. Should Mars be very strong, it is necessary to “cool” it down with herbs like aloe, gentian, and coneflower.

Recently I have read an article of a famous doctor, who recovered from brain cancer and devoted many years to studying reasons and ways to treat this horrible illness. Therefore, he wrote that turmeric resolves tumors, including malignant ones.

Colors amplifying energy of Mars are red and in general all of the “fire” colors. Many Martian people like khaki color. However, you ought to take into account that even people supposed to wear “Martian colors” (about 20% of people) aren`t recommended to wear them constantly, because it strengthens Mars too much. By the way, by statistics, “reckless” drivers prefer cars of red color.

Assuming, I`d like to add that you should remember: Mars is considered the most unfavorable planet, a big wrecker. These “titles” Mars got because it manages aggression and anger. As it was noticed long ago “five minutes of anger can break ten years of friendship”, likewise fire can turn a big house, being built for a few years, into ash within minutes. Anger and aggression are the main obstacles in spiritual life. “Lust, anger and greed are three basic vices, leading to hell”, – Bhagavad-Gita says. However, simple volitional control of anger does not bring any good either, because in this way aggression is being driven inside, into subconsciousness, and inside we`re always supposed to have calmness, love and acceptance of everybody.

So “letting off steam” is sometimes very useful. To achieve this effect, for example, once a week you can find a place to stay alone and hit a pillow or a stump with all your power imagining them being your offenders.

Those, who are supposed in their line of duty to display sometimes their severity and aggression (managers, caregivers, employees of power structures), should study to use them but not fall under their influence. For instance, you, being a manager, are reprimanding your negligent subordinate on a higher pitch of your voice. Suddenly there`s a phone call. If you answer and go on talking to your calling party in the same voice tonality that means you are in the power of the lowest energies. However, if you talk with calmly, that means you manage the situation, yourself and your feelings.

There are four levels of progress as per Mars:

• A man responses with aggression and ingratitude to Goodness, perceives and transmits only rude kinds of energies and is not able to manage them virtually, being a marionette of those energies. On this level, a man resembles a grown up child, but not matured enough. People can deal with him only by using rude shouting and threatening. On this level, the self-expression comes only via straight action, the force. Satisfaction is being provided through physical work not requiring delicate coordination of motions, and through primary fight or force competition. 

• A person returns aggression to aggression. On this level, one already can partially manage his emotions. Here he reacts not only to a strong straight influence, but also to a hidden hostility. For this level, the typical feeling is that only straight power can be reliable means of controlling any situation, secured by force control. In love, basic positive feeling is the power over loved one, or on the contrary a full submission.

• On this level, a man can restrain strong fits of anger and aggression by his will. Finally, it leads to neurosis; feeling of dissatisfaction and an idea is being formed, that you could change yourself and the world only for a short time. On this level, a person could react peacefully to aggression, turn enemies into friends.

• A man repays with love and Goodness to aggression, works on high spiritual energies, and on this level, Mars does not radiate any aggression. If such a person comes across an attempt of hard energy influence, he becomes transparent for it (for example, he answers very quietly and politely), and an aggressor is immediately deprived of his energy – he feels unused feeling of respect, gleam of conscience and wish for apologizing. As a rule, such a man does not even attract into his life any aggressive people and circumstances.

So, everyone ought to strive for cleansing his consciousness, to study keeping one’s good nature inside constantly, and on the outside level to strain every nerve for changing his position (if the situation requires), keeping in mind that laziness is the mother of all vices.

Contemporary Indian astrologers give the following advice for harmonization of Mars:

-         In the mornings, glorify Hanuman-Chalisa (vedic prayer-mantra).

-         Be grateful and be nice to those, who serve us. In modern understanding these are not only servants, who work in our house, but also those who work in service industry.

Mantra to Mars has a very strong protective effect:

Om Namo Bhagavate Narasimhadevaya.

From the Training Course

Mars Day – Tuesday

Mars manages land property, ambitions, brothers and sisters, men`s sexual potency.

Mars is a protector of a wife and land property.

Mars is a celestial “Commander in Chief”. Mars being personified as a strong male personality in martial vestments, sitting on a ram (animal, which is famous for its martial nature).

In English, the word “martial” itself originates from the name of the planet Mars and its qualities: clear awareness of a goal, duty, order and discipline.

Mars is also famous for such qualities as courage, boldness, patience, self-confidence. One of the Sanskrit words describing Mars is “Lohitang” which provides it with bright red color, that you can see with your naked eye in the night sky.

Strong Mars gives a person large stature, athletic body-build, bellicosity, independence, sharp mind, mental activity, abilities to practical realization of ideas and to heroic actions.

Southwards. The further south is the stronger nation being influenced by Mars. It is good to have a kitchen or a fireplace in a southern part of a house.

Weak Mars is sexual dissoluteness, roughness, inclination to drug addiction, alcoholism, rashness.

Professions: military men, police officers, builders, mechanics, designers, cooks. A good cook has always strong Mars in his chart.

Color – scarlet, red – these are the colors of aggression and activity.

Stones – red coral, ruby, all kinds of red stones.

Metal – iron.

Signs – Aries, Scorpio. Impassioned in Capricorn, falling in Cancer.

Nature is male, dry, and fiery. Physical exercises, especially martial arts and kinds of sports reinforcing volitional sensory, which in turn strengthen Mars greatly.

    The best House for Mars is 10 (Zenith). Mars provides also good results in houses 3, 6, 11.These are the houses of fortune (growth).To have a harmful planet in those houses is considered to have blessings from you past lives.

All kinds of aggression, violence and anger close Mars energy. However, if those people who are supposed to protect do not apply violence against an aggressor, a terrorist etc., beneficial effect of Mars is terminated.

Mars is in charge for the 3rd chakra, Manipura-chakra (energy centre of will)

Mars number is 9.

Everybody who is born on the 9th, 18th, 27th of any month are under Mars influence, and it`s very important for them to live at peace with its energies.

Number 9 is connected with the primary sound, mantra AUM.

All creation is an esoteric confluence of two energies, graphically depicted as a triangle with its peak pointed upwards, and a triangle with its peak pointed downwards.

This vibration is the main in relation to all the sounds and vibrations of the Universe 

Manifested. “Nine” plays an enormous role in individual mystical experience. Powerful and regenerative number 9, resulting from thrice-repeated triad, brings destruction into the life

of a man, signifying by itself renewal of eternity of existence.

The hexagonal David’s Star was taken from the Old Indian Yantras (graphic pictures). While being a part of the Israel flag, it empowers this State with a warlike spirit of the Martians, bringing in its history many wars, in most of which Israel is going to win. In addition, Mars encourages people of this country to have interest in Kabbalah and ancient eastern culture.

Real Cases

If women have Mars in a fall, it is not so bad for them, as women do not always should have strong Mars, especially if they have strong Sun. I gave consultation to one woman, who had in her chart very strong Sun and Venus. She is beautiful, charismatic, conducting seminars and trainings quite successfully. However, she has weak Mars under aspect of Jupiter in a fall that gives an inner cruelty to her character.

She was in charge of some public event, and one of the participating women began dancing with her husband, flirting with him. This woman brought her out and beat. This is a striking example of weak influence of Mars, which provokes irritability, rejection, use of physical force off the point (practically any violence from women makes Mars influence worse, especially when a woman beats somebody), the fear of a strong partner and neglecting the weak people. Although she looked very kind, I was astonished by her tough judgment of people. She idolized a few people, the rest were despised, condemned and ridiculed (but this is an influence of Jupiter in fall added).

I consulted her on how to intensify and harmonize Mars at all levels. People with such Mars usually have weak muscular tonus, bodies of such people become swollen early enough, distort. Similar occurred with that woman, although she took care of herself very much. Therefore, I advised her besides all to do exercises: if it is yoga exercises, so it should be power yoga, with additional push-ups. Nevertheless, people with weak Mars are, as a rule, lazy enough to load themselves physically.

Thanks to the fact this woman`s soul evolution level was high enough, she accepted my advice and began progressing in very many aspects.

Once in Moscow I gave consultation to a 12-year-old girl having a very strong Mars. More exactly, I talked to her mother, her daughter was absent while consulting, because she studied in school in London.

I said to her mother: “Your daughter is supposed to become a leader of some international corporation”. Her mother confirmed: “Yes, she used to control all the people around her from her childhood”. She has a very powerful Mars, in exaltation in the House of Personality; this House is very strong and under good aspects. However, Mars, being a harmful planet, is a helping hand in her life.

We called her. She said in an assured tone, that she is a “very modest” person, but meanwhile she is good at management, a school leader and plays sports rather successfully. I advised her to develop feminine qualities, but to go on playing sports and to be engaged in management activities what she had been succeeding in from her childhood.

Translated by Alexandra Laguteeva

Edited by Julia Shell

Mercury is intellectual and nervous energy in its active forms. Therefore, by the status of Mercury in the natal chart it is possible to consider intellectual abilities of a man, his ability to set goals and the state of his nervous system.  Mercury is responsible for the respiratory and nervous system, speech, education and intellect.
Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system with a fast reaction, changing character, quickness and restlessness.

Main name of Mercury is Buddha. This Sanskrit word means intelligence and is related to the concept of “Buddhi” – the ability to make correct judgments, which allows to distinguish reality from visionary (when this ability is fully awakened, a man becomes “enlightened” – Buddha).

Mercury manages intelligence through training, lessons and observation. Mercury has an overly nature, it gives the inconstancy, duplicity, frequent change of relations and independent nature. He’s not sexy, neutral, cold and wet.
Mercury gives youthfulness. It is noticed that people involved in intellectual work, look youthful.  If he is weakened, it can give “intellectual greed.” Such people learn something all the time, but do not apply the knowledge practically or study overly.
If Mercury and the Moon are struck simultaneously, such a man will be slow in the intellectual and mental growth.

Mercury in Ignorance

Chaotic activity of the mind and body is relevant for a person with Mercury in Ignorance, he is nervous, bustling, and brings sufferings to others by his senseless chatter and absurd activity. Or, conversely, is in a blurred state of mind, is sleepy and apathetic, has problems with goal setting.
For example, you come to the computer for the fifth time during an hour to check e-mails as if from the receiving of the letter your life depends on. Mercury provides intelligence, and one of his main characteristics is purposefulness in the actions, ability to settle goals and achieve them. If you have no goal in your life, you drive your Mercury in Ignorance.

It is difficult to be concentrated for a person with Mercury in Ignorance, he tends to “ride on top”, talks too much, condemns  others, gossips, criticizing, insulting, shows cunning and duplicity, he has poor memory and problems of control over his feelings. Such people don’t learn lessons from life. They are given certain lessons, but, by contrast, they experience aggression only.

Weak, struck Mercury is the reason for strong nervous tics. Schizophrenia is when Mercury (and the Moon) is in Ignorance. People who in their past lived with Mercury in Ignorance, born with a congenital neurological and psychotherapeutic problems. If they do not progress with self development, then sooner or later their nervous system is destroyed.

But simply cultivating Sattva, it is possible to get rid of their mental illness. In today’s world the symptoms of these diseases are temporarily stopped by chemical drugs, but it puts people in Ignorance more and more.

Mercury in Passion

Mercury in Passion gives insidiousness as well, but such people are very cunning, able to ingenious deception, always able to come to the right person to talk to him so as to benefit from the situation. This is the reason for smart, talented fraudsters.
Mercury is a planet of adaptability, so that such people are adapted to the situation without any efforts, both in a good sense, and in a bad. People with Mercury in Passion are know-all, they always read something, collect overly knowledge to show off their erudition. All visual and superficial is very important for such person.

 Most people in the West are under the influence of Passion, which is defined by a greedy thirst for information: and this book has to be read and that one and another one as well … «every time I buy ten books in the bookstore, I have read so much esoteric literature.  …» A man keeps on reading, but life is getting worse and worse. Such dependence on information destroys nervous system. Knowledge that we do not apply in our life destroys thin body and very often gradually leads to Ignorance. Remember that many saints have read one or two books in their life and made progress. There is no need to read twenty – thirty books per year, if you do not digest them and study.

Of course, in the modern society, all information is available, and we can communicate with the great masters via books, audio lectures. But do not go too far. First take one topic and study it, go through it for a few times and then start next one. Many people who received heavy blows of fate decide: well, now I will get inspiration, and all the problems would be solved – and begin to insatiably read spiritual books, attend many lectures and courses. But their knowledge is very superficial, and as a result they are often disappointed with the information that has been swallowed so quickly. When a person is too much fussy, Mercury plunged into Passion and does not give good results.

When Passion penetrates the mind, people often follow particular, fairly narrow doctrine. Basically, they set themselves the material goals, goals in Passion – to achieve wealth and fame.
People with Mercury in Passion – gossipers, poison-pen writers, in general, gossips take away a lot of nervous energy. When criticizing someone, we take ourselves their negative qualities and bad karma.
People with Mercury in Passion, sooner or later feel nervous exhaustion from an excessive mental activity, even if the person is not physically active. They are very impulsive. Their intelligence is very quick, tends to consider everything, even when it is not necessary. It seems they have a small computer in their head which is always switched on. Many successful small-scale traders have Mercury in Passion.

People with Mercury in Passion like to learn what will help them to manipulate others to achieve the top of material welfare and fame. Their mind and body are so active that sometimes it is even difficult to sit in a fixed position, life is full of bustle. They are characterized by corruption, excessively abstruse speech, orthodox adherence to any worldview (even if there are facts that contradict this concept), closure to all new, enormous pride because of their intelligence, the unwillingness and inability to see Supreme Mind in everything. The main thing for such a man is possibility to sell his “knowledge” for the better price but not the truth. His intellect is immersed in external and he is not able to see internal state of people and objects, and often does not want it. Such a person easily pins labels to someone, gives nicknames, he tends to give quickly the mental definitions, various classifications and then he considers that the job is done, a study of the object is finished.

Mercury in Ignorance, and to a lesser extent, in Passion leads to the following diseases: dementia, all kinds of mental problems, nervous disorders, neuralgia, impotence, deafness, eye problems, asthma, dizziness, arrhythmia, and helminthes. And generally, it is the reason of the overwhelming majority of diseases. Not for nothing, people say that all diseases are of the nerves.
However, debilitated Mercury does not always mean low intelligence. It can cause harm in another way: for example, causing speech defects, nervous system disorders or neurosis. Other planets (e.g. Jupiter) can allot a person with an outstanding mind, however, without strong Mercury; it will be difficult to demonstrate their intellectual merits, especially in writing. Mercury defines our self-expression.
If Mercury is located unfavorably it gives cunning, deceit, deception, excessive activity of the body and mind, behavior of a know-all. Such people can get pleasure from dilation, slander, writing anonymous letters.

Mercury in Goodness

Mercury in Goodness gives deep thinking, ability to cover and see the whole picture, ability to clearly define the purpose of life and understanding how to achieve it.  A person with Mercury in Goodness has the goal for a year, for five years, and, of course, he knows his predetermination, the main life purpose. Mercury makes a person wonder: “Why I do it, what’s the point?” and do only what is really important and necessary.

People with Mercury in Goodness have unsurpassed logic. Lord Chaitanya, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, came to Earth in India five hundred years ago, and it is believed that with his arrival the Golden age has begun. While studying at school, he took any subject and could prove everything he wanted. He showed great pundits (scholars, connoisseurs) and Brahmins absurdity of their arguments, and then using the same arguments, he quietly broke up what he just said. He therefore wanted to show that comprehension of Absolute truth on the basis of logic only is impossible.

A person with Mercury in Sattva easily applies knowledge and formulates everything logically and systematically. His speech is very consistent and systematic. It is not in vain people say: “Who thinks clearly, says clearly.” Such people always see the essence, the meaning. Of course, if a person uses his abilities to achieve selfish goals, it means Mercury is in Passion.
Mercury in Goodness gives an ability to analytics, and helps to learn from others’ mistakes. Such people do not nearly have their own mistakes – they have somewhere read a book, they saw something or heard, asked someone an advice and knew exactly how they should not act.

Such people assimilate knowledge easily. It may seems that they do not do it as fast as people with Mercury in Passion, but they are grasping for a long time, think clearly enough and understand everything much deeper. They are broad-minded and at the same time, they have great depth of understanding of many things.

They also have an unbeatable sense of humor, and the humor itself – in Sattva is not associated with sex or with the mockery of anyone. Basically, they laugh at themselves.
Please note: almost all intellectuals have very good sense of humor. If you can not joke, then you still do not have the energy of Mercury. Try to listen to the humor of intellectuals. For example, the Russian stand-up comedy Zadornov has a very good humor, mostly in Goodness. He can find a lot of funny, interesting and instructive things in an ordinary situation.
Try to treat life with humor, looking for the humor everywhere. Life is a very funny thing, and God is the chief humorist. If you learn to play kind jokes, often laughing at ourselves, than humor will help you in spiritual development.

There was a woman with the affected Moon in one of the groups to whom I taught astrology, and she was worried all the time about different positions of the planets in her chart. Once some intelligent student, who spent many years working as a doctor in Israel, turned to her and said: “Do not worry, this chart is only for one life, in the next life it will be different one.”
Psychologists have hold investigations in two groups with roughly the same intellectual level. In both groups, teachers were very good but in one group they taught with humor, and in another one – without it.  As a result, first group have learnt material in three to four times faster and much deeper than the second one. Live-action, emotional presentation of the material is very effective – so information remains in the memory far longer than just dry information. Whatever you were taught (or, if you teach someone), add humor to the process and in their lives. No need to read spiritual lectures with a wedge-shaped face. Remember – fools were the most intelligent people in history.

When you learn something, try to sit facing north (also very nice to look at the north-east), because this is the direction of Mercury. I have hold  research in  my  groups and summarized that  group which is looking to the north, learn  material three times faster and remember it much better. When a man is looking to the north, he has very active Mercury. But it is extremely undesirable to keep head at north while sleeping.
Try to develop the intellect and in the first place learn Superior knowledge. Person begins to age when stops to learn and be open and understand new knowledge. Please note that people, who adhere orthodox views, believing that they have already known everything, often look much older than they really are. They have heavy and closed energy.

Therefore, if you do not want to have a power of an old man, always be open to knowledge, and never say that your opinion and information you have is the ultimate truth. The universe is constantly changing, and the main purpose of the soul – self development. We must progress. Every day something new is happening. Even a system of spiritual values is constantly updated; it is not some well-established, frozen formation.
Mercury in Sattva gives a very strong control over the mind and senses. First and foremost, it allows you to control the language, and if a person can control his tongue, he can control everything, including their own destiny.

Control of language – it is undefiled speech and food. A man that does not control the language, talks too much, crams at night, eats everything, could easily blemish his karma. It is very important to control feelings. With inspired intelligence in Sattva you can control the mind and senses.
Also, Mercury in Goodness provides internal independence from any external circumstances and good adaptability. Such a person accommodates himself to any conditions without any problems, easily joins a new team and is able to get in touch with anyone, but, unlike a person with Mercury in Passion, he is not seeking benefits for himself.  He feels himself comfortable in any weather, in any society, anywhere. He accepts everyone and everything with love and respect.

While intellect in Goodness, a man establishes harmonious relationships with others thanks to respect to them, lack of selfishness and the desire to assert himself, polite attitude, ability to listen and hear each other. People with Mercury in Goodness never argue with anyone (Sattvic Jupiter gives it as well). Tranquility is always emanated from such people; they are able to consider any argument, without losing composure. If your opponent has intelligence in Ignorance, he furiously  argues, screams, then, of course, it better to leave him , not to take ignorant  energy, but if the person argues in Passion, keep up the intelligence in Goodness and quietly monitor speech of the opponent to see its weaknesses and systematically oppose him based on facts and logic. But if you see that person is too excited emotionally, and you can not calm him down with your energy, it is better to discuss nothing with him. This is a very important skill for advising, negotiations, etc.

Mercury in Goodness gives acceptance of other people, strong nervous system and appease mind.  Such people state  essence of the subject very quietly, logically, explaining point by point, and say very attractively , interesting and with humor. If they become leaders, then they manage orderly, systematically, nothing complicated.
First of all, Mercury in Goodness – it is inspired mind thanks to which person can achieve his superior goals, to change his life. This is mind that is able to distinguish the “sat” from “asat” – the eternal from the momentary, because the main purpose of the mind – to analyze and distinguish. A person with Mercury in Goodness has a greater ability to discern: he decides to go to God and accepts everything that is favorable for the development of unconditional love and ministry, rejecting all unfavorable. If a person has a strong mind, he can easily change his destiny, clearly sees the essence of everything.

This is a great blessing and a major achievement – to bring Mercury in Sattva – it gives an understanding that everything that happens with are lessons, and all whom we encounter in life – are our teachers. And all these lessons and teachers are sent to us to teach us how to love unconditionally and accept love, to realize that only God’s love may be the ultimate goal of life.
Mercury that is located fairly gives people good nature and ability to harmonious communication. It gives flexibility of mind, sense of humor and certain playfulness.
Strong Mercury gives a quick mind, wit, imagination, good memory, sophisticated intellect, logic, erudition, prudence, oratorical and math skills, ability of the occult and eloquence. If Venus is too strong, it gives the person keen humor. Mercury also gives a strong accuracy.

Example: one student from our courses has successfully graduated Economics Department in Jerusalem, worked in a large and very prosperous financial company in Israel. She earned a lot, but the work required large analytical and mathematical skills. She has made charts for all her employees and found that for most of them Mercury is in exaltation (very strong position) in the birth chart.  Mercury was in exaltation and the strongest planet in her chart as well.
On the other hand, if Mercury is weak – it does not mean that person will be of low intelligence. From my humble experience, this means that people will be very fussy, not able to fix clear goals in life. It is usually difficult to achieve stability and lasting prosperity in commerce for such people, since Mercury is a God of commerce as well. I have never seen high level businessman with weakened Mercury. They all have clear objectives in the years ahead; they are pacific, saying very thoughtfully and usually not a lot.

For example, recently I had to consult an Orthodox Jew. According to the chart and location of Jupiter, he is following orthodox spiritual path, while he has struck Mercury. All the time he has been telling something, his body makes some not conscious movements; his life resembles a bustling stream, constantly changing its direction. He is not able to set a goal and does not even understand why this should be done. In youth he was engaged in commerce, but even if he has achieved success, then after a while was out of business. Internal attributes and rituals are important for him in religion. He is seriously sick due to his much weakened nervous system.

Summary

An effect of Mercury in Ignorance is defined by the following characteristics and behavior: a total inability to concentrate, senseless activity (body and mind), complete pointless of everything that is done in general, an absolute lack of control of mind and senses, constant condemnation of others, notably in rough mode, cunning, bad memory, reluctance to learn and understand something new, total absence of sense of humor, or “black” humor associated with the suffering of others. A failure to learn lessons from past events, moreover, total charge of everybody in their problems. They say about such people: “Life has taught him nothing “. If they do not work themselves, then sooner or later their nervous system is ruined. People with Mercury in Ignorance in the past, are born with a congenital nervous and psychotherapeutic problems.

Mercury in Passion:

 the cunning, the desire to listen and share gossip, sexually related especially, ability to establish relations with the “right” people, the desire to seem know-all person, permanent information hunger, great desire to learn what will help to manipulate others, to achieve a high material situation and glory, much activity of mind and body, fussiness, corruption, too abstruse speech, orthodox adherence to any ideology, closed to all new, great arrogance due to intellect. Unwillingness, inability to see Supreme Mind in everything, reluctance to see the true essence and the inner state of people and objects.

 Mercury in Goodness:

 unbeatable logic, deepest analytical skills, ability to learn from others’ mistakes and very brief instructions, ability to quickly grasp the essence. Ability to explain complicated things short and in a simple and very accessible language, to come to understanding with others. Openness to new knowledge, ability to clearly set goals and reach them regardless of circumstances, quick adaptation to various circumstances and people. Ability to control feelings and mind. Subtle sense of humor and ability to joke about yourself. Sanity. Strong desire to learn the Absolute Truth and learn Higher Knowledge. Understanding that everything that happens to us are lessons and everybody we meet – our teachers. Understanding that only God’s love can be the ultimate goal of life.

 How to harmonize the influence of Mercury

Mercury is strengthened when we learn something, analyze. The best is to learn heritage of enlightened masters, to a lesser extent – study of an ancient Indian astrology, foreign languages, especially Hebrew and Sanskrit.
Also Mercury is strengthened when we set goals and live according to them, and, conversely, meaningless, bustling life destroys the beneficial effect of Mercury.
Favorable influence of Mercury is enhanced if we develop the eloquence, declamatory skills. Sometimes they say about someone – he is so smart, but cannot express himself. But even many modern psychologists came to the conclusion that the more person thinks clearly, the clearer he tells. So, if an intellectual will develop his oratory skills, his intelligence is enhanced.

Mercury also is strengthened if a person can listen and consciously uses his speech. Silence reinforces Mercury a lot, therefore, as a rule; sages are able to keep silent. How to distinguish the wise from an idiot? By language, by how and what they say.
To enhance Mercury it is useful to inform subtle humor, to learn how to make a comedy from any tragedy. Fixed meditations are very good: for example, to sit with a straight spine and do not move, watch your breath and (or) to repeat mantras or prayers.
Another option for meditation is to sit straight and at a bridge level, at a distance of two meters, place a black dot sized like a penny (this may be a small icon). Look at her without the slightest movement of pupils. If your eyes are tired, close them. Ten minutes of such practice on a daily basis bring Mercury to a much more harmonious state quickly.

 A favorable influence of Mercury is terminated when a person is promiscuous. Generally speaking, almost any sexual contact weakens Mercury, especially with their sex or any perversion. Mercury appears through the upper energy centers, primarily via 5th chakra and sex life transforms energy into low centers. No matter what the creators of the sexual revolution say, but scientific evidence confirms that the earlier teenagers begin sexual life, then depression will be the longer and stronger, immunity will be the weaker, success in school will be lower. If I advise the teenager who studied successfully, were a good son (daughter), but suddenly he/she does not succeed, loses interest to studies, the child becomes aggressive it a sign for 95%, that “the child” had started sexual life or actively masturbating, addicted to pornography. Indian astrologers say the following is to strengthen Mercury:

• regularly donate to orphanages, help the poor students;
• take care of tulasi (the sacred, salutary tree, known in Europe under the name of Brahmy), especially on Wednesday;
• to feed cows with leaves on Wednesdays;
• to place picture or statue of Buddha or Vishnu in the northern part of your home.
Mercury mantra: Om Namo Bhagavate Budhadevaya. If a person follows the path of Buddhism and Vaishnavism (worship of Vishnu), then Mercury is amplified a lot.

From training course

Signs of Mercury – Gemini and Virgo. In Pisces, it falls.
This is the only planet that is exalted in its own sign – in the first 15 degrees of Virgo.
Mercury is responsible for 5th chakra – Vishudha. This energy center is located at the bottom of the throat and is associated primarily with the speech.
Day – Wednesday, color – green. Metals – Mercury, Silver, stones – green emerald, the direction – North.
Mercury is responsible for the following professions: writers, teachers, speakers, businessmen, sculptors, astrologers, astronomers, scientists, people who possess the secrets of mantras and yantras. In our time, without strong Mercury it is difficult to be a good financial analyst, teacher, mathematician, accountant, auditor, journalist, trader, PR expert.

In medical terms it is responsible for the nervous system, solar plexus, hands, mouth, tongue, skin and hair. Mercurian diseases are mental illnesses, neurosis, neuralgia, impotence, deafness, eye problems, asthma, dizziness, arrhythmia, and worms.
In numerology, the Mercury number is 5.
Everyone who was born on 5, 14, 23 are under the influence of Mercury and are usually quite intelligent, sociable and love to communicate.
Number five is a model of description of the most important characteristics of macro and microcosm. It is a known five-fold division of the world; there are 5 elements of the Universe, 5 classes of animals, 5 receptors, 5 internal organs, 5 passions.

Real cases

I have very good friends – a married couple. They could not conceive a child for many years, the spouse had an ectopic pregnancy, and there were problems with the skin and gynecology. Her Mercury is debilitated in the House, responsible for gynecology, and his Mercury – in the house, which is responsible for children and digestion. Apart from, they have very strong charts – they are talented people, the spouse – a leader, she managed spiritual organizations (an owner of the House of personality, the Sun is in the House of religion and good luck). But weakened Mercury makes them always to fuss, they always have thousands successive ideas, and they are not able to select one of them to concentrate on it.

I advised them to outline one clear plan and move on it, told them what books they have to read, and what lifestyle to lead. I gave them a mantra, neutralizing negative effects of Mercury.

But, according to my experience, if a man has strong planet which is located favorably, he easily perceives and reads his mantra, as if he did it all his life (and easily leads harmonious life, related to the things that are in responsibility of this planet). But it is very hard to read mantras to neutralize the weakened planet.

These spouses adhere quite fanatically to one religion. I have a long discussion with them explaining that one of the most important moments in the spiritual progress is the ability to live in reality, here and now. “You pray, read mantras, but live carelessly and often inattentive, can not concentrate. If you pay attention, you’ll see that you are in reality very rarely, your mind is constantly rushing, being either in the past or in future “- I said. They started to cultivate their abilities, process of internal purification begun, slow improvement started. They also engaged purifying the body in accordance with their physical anatomy.

Unfortunately, I have not seen them for 1, 5 years and do not know how they are. But this is a fact: they have huge potential, but due to their problems with commitment, permanent rushing and excessive number of contacts they overload themselves on the energy level. First they read some literature, then different one, constantly watching spiritual seminars one by one, come from one pilgrimage and immediately start dreaming about the next one, and, indeed, do not have time to live their own lives due to vanity. I know that they do not treat seriously my words because some of them are in contradiction with their religious dogmas. I know that woman had one more unsuccessful pregnancy, another trip to the holy places of India, another complete change of external activities and places of residence.

It is always very hard to hear about it – they have great potential and could become a world famous healers, spiritual leaders, and just happy parents.

The second example is strong Mercury. Several years ago I gave consultation to the Director of the factories network in Kazakhstan. His Mercury was a master of the House of personality in exaltation in the Fourth House, responsible for the House of mother and real estate and aspecting career, and besides, he is drawn into some royal connections (Raja Yogis). More several strengths planets are in the House of mother. I immediately said: “You are a child receiving support from your mother, your mother is a very intelligent and is a top sawyer”, and he confirmed it. His mother had held high position in government, was a very clever woman, and he inherited her best qualities. Exalted Mercury often gives people great intellect and a degree. As a rule, big businessmen have strong Mercury. This person instantly estimates business perspectives; it seems he has a computer in his head. He quite successfully manages business, instantly logically “evaluates” the person or any idea. I made him some advices in relation to his irritability caused by the aspect of Mars to Mercury and capable of causing disease.

I have two friends – both big businessmen, owners of huge corporations, they both have strong Mercury, located in the best Houses – the fifth or the ninth, and it gives them wisdom. They read keen spiritual books, can talk on philosophical topics, and at the same time, do not fly in the sky-high given – they are very successful in business, and clearly know what they want in life (Mercury is responsible for the purposefulness).

Translated by Natalia Agranat

Edited by Olga Schirjaeva

Philosophical understanding of Jupiter

The Sanskrit name for Jupiter is Guru (spiritual teacher) or Brihaspati – the guru of Gods.
According to the location of this planet in the natal chart, we can estimate a person’s character, strength of his principles, his level of morality and religion which he is committed to, and what his ideology is and how he adheres to it.
Jupiter is the planet of creativity, energy expansion. It is main index of children (putra-Karak), as well as their quantity, their health and our relationship with them.
Jupiter is very important for women because it shows not only children but also her husband – the main components of women’s happiness.

However, since in our time, especially in the western society, women tend to marry without the blessing of their parents and without the consecration rites, based on the passion, the indicator of the husband becomes Mars.

Jupiter is the planet of luck, compassion, optimism and prosperity. It represents a measure of money and prosperity. Moreover, Jupiter is an indicator of good karma and unexpected gifts of fate.
In terms of medicine Jupiter is associated with the immune system, on which our health depends very much.
At a higher level Jupiter is associated with piety, formal, hierarchical, and it shows the power of man’s faith.

Jupiter in Ignorance
Jupiter determines the ideas and ideals by which a person and society are living. This is the most important thing, because the ideals of a person would determine eventually a route of his life. In the chart of a state, Jupiter (in particular, its periods and transits) determines what ideology the particular country will follow.

With ignorant Jupiter, people follow destructive ideas, such as to cause someone damage, to destroy someone. At the state level, these ideas sound like this: “to make us happy we have to rule, to destroy someone, to cause suffering for someone.”
A person with ignorant Jupiter is very rude and sarcastic; when he speaks, he usually uses obscene words.
First of all, Jupiter is affected by irreverent speech because, unlike Mercury, responsible for speech in general, Jupiter is responsible for respectful speech in particular.
If Jupiter is favourably placed in the chart, then the person will have respectful speech. There is a true saying that if a person communicates with others respectfully and politely, he will reach all the prosperity that he wants.

Ignorant Jupiter causes hatred to teachers, other religions and to the religion in general, contempt for morality and a lack of morality of a person himself. His slogan is “We live once, do what you want.” The other extreme when a man is fanatically committed to any ideas, moral or religious norms, hates those who do not follow them, and is ready to apply the violence towards them. The influence of the ignorant Jupiter often gives recklessness, when people do not think about the consequences at all, or full pessimism. In addition, for such a person it is typical to be greedy, having disrespectful speech, especially with teachers and elders, tough judgment of people, stark assessment and expressed in a very rough form, the criticism of different religions and hatred towards their leaders, often a strong desire to destroy them. Moreover, the commitment to the political parties, religious sects, and denominations which promote and carry out violence against dissenters to achieve their goals. Greediness. Hatred towards the teachers, the complete absence of any morality and ethics. Such a person might even be proud of it and have “black” pessimistic views and, in general, very gloomy outlook at life.

Passionate Jupiter

Passionate Jupiter lets a person feel over optimistically. Such a person always says that everything will be fine, but this is a mask because it does not feel that this energy is from the true feelings.
A person simply plays such a role, in his subconscious mind he does not believe
what he says, and this hypocrisy is felt around.
Passionate Jupiter gives a tendency to gambling. If people gamble, Jupiter is affected negatively, since it develops a parasitic way of thinking and a consuming attitude towards life.
First, the chances of winning a lottery are negligible.
According to the statistics, it is almost impossible to win, but millions of people still play. Why? It is because everyone wants to spend a penny, and win a million, while giving nothing to the Universe.

Studies were carried out to find out how the life of people, who have won large sums of money in a lottery, has changed. It turned out that 90% of them had experienced a complete closure of their fate in just a few years.
During this time they used to squander all the money, and dive into the deepest depression, they ruin themselves by drinking and similar. Almost to no one of them money did not bring any happiness, because after gaining it the monstrous parasitism has evolved in those people and the subconscious program began working like: “I can live “for free”, I can get more than I give of my energy to the world”. Jupiter is being closed because of this. Therefore, the Oriental Schools say: “Do not play games of chance”. The owners of the gambling businesses have Jupiter closed even in a stronger way, because their activities contribute to the destruction of other people’s Jupiter.

 Passionate Jupiter, similar to Mars, gives love to disputes, especially with the authorities. It encourages people to arrange a debate, to determine who is better or who is worse. However, the truth in such a debate is never born, because it is based only on selfishness.

 Jupiter is usually Passionate, when it is situated in the chart in its own sign or in exaltation, while being retrograde, since in this case it gets too strong amount of energy. Such people are often very dogmatic. It often manifests itself in those people whose Jupiter is in the fall and retrograde, and, to a lesser extent, in those who has it just in the fall. My students in astrological studies with me have conducted research on this subject, and found out that more than 80% of people who have been strictly or even fanatically for a long time following any religious doctrine, they have such a position of Jupiter in their chart. Performance of the religious rituals, recitation of mantras, prayers, following the precepts and principles provide a very strong energy (Shakhty), charisma, but if a person makes those not in order to gain the Divine love, you will never find signs of true happiness in his eyes. Definitely, he can be known as a leader whose words and deeds affect the consciousness of millions of people, but neither he nor his followers do not look happy and harmonious.

 For a person with such position of Jupiter it is the most important thing to follow some particular rules, strict regulations. For such a person it is very important to have framework. This does not concern only of religion. For example, in Canada and in many western countries, especially in Germany, there is a very strong Passionate Jupiter. There, a person from the very childhood is taught to do everything exactly as written in the instructions, one should strictly and blindly follow the rules and laws, sometimes against morality, ethics and simple common sense, that, in its turn, closes the energy of creativity.

Once, being in Canada, I came to the barber to trim my beard. In the price list of chartered hairdressers it appeared to be only three sizes of razor for beards, and none of them suited me. The hairdresser offered me to do what she thought was right. In response, I asked again to make the beard of such length, as it was right for me. Strong energy of irritation and misunderstanding started coming out from the hairdresser, she clearly said that there were only three options available, and she several times showed me the instructions as if the ultimate truth was written there. It is useless to prove anything to such people: if you do not fit into their framework, they consider you a lunatic.
The Passionate Jupiter increases the desire to obtain money (greediness), makes a man proactive at work. Without passion he can’t achieve anything. To build a house, it is not enough to be in Sattva only, unless you are a pure yogi level. In order to start any business the Passion is necessary. The slogans of Passionate Jupiter: “Labour has made a human being out of a monkey”, “The one who does not work shall not eat”, etc. The cells in Dutch prisons until recently were filled with water on the floor because it was thought that everyone should work – in this case, to pump out the water. How the Nederland (Holland) was built initially? Much of the area was marsh and bog. Most of the land area behind the dunes consists of polder landscape lying well below sea level.

Therefore, the current territory was fought from the sea by the hands of its population. The Dutch people have a very strong Passionate Jupiter, which says: To be happy, you have to work hard. That is good in itself. When a country is only on the stage of creation, this kind of mindset is very important. To create a structure, establish an organization, to implement the new ideas the Passion is necessary.

 People in Ignorance and in Passion meet many situations where they have to fight with someone, to win over someone, to compete with someone. The slogan of the Sattvic Jupiter is “Peace for the whole world”. How people in the Vedic times used to greet each other when they met? They used to say pleasant things in each other’s honour for some time. People in Passion, for example, most Americans, do not care for one another, so they limit their greetings to the formal: “How are you doing?” America is the embodiment of Passion manifestation in everything and Jupiter there is Passionate: “What cannot be bought for big money, you can buy for very big money”.

 What is dangerous about Passionate mood? The danger is when a person reaches the desired fruit of one’s Passionate activity, he is still unhappy. It happens because Passion does not give happiness in the long run. Goodness, as opposed to Passion and Ignorance, does not come to people by itself in the material world, they have to live up to it and keep the Goodness level. For example, your home is dirty, the phone is ringing, someone is coming in to solve some business issues, – all these are typical manifestations of the energy of Passion and Ignorance. When you make great efforts, do cleaning, put things in order, plan your daily schedule and so on – this is the manifestation of Goodness.

If a person is wrapped up in passionate ideas and does not move into Goodness, then he falls in Ignorance. We should always monitor an impact of the gounas of material nature on us. There are six levels of the developing disease, and the first level is about gounas. The less Sattvic is the mind of a person and his life, the more diseases he has. Sometimes it is quite enough to pull a person out of Ignorance and his/her chart will start to “sparkle”, because the Ignorant gouna cannot show even a tenth of its capacity, moreover, there may appear negative things which initially hadn’t been there.

 Jupiter is one of the major planets, because it is responsible for the philosophical understanding of what is happening, for the ideals a man is guided in his life. Therefore, it is very important to respect Dharma, to visit holy places, to interact with holy people. Therefore, you should always check by what ideas the person is guided. My experience in consulting and training shows that the vast majority of people worldwide live without any particular purpose and ideals, many cannot even formulate them. Alas, this is the biggest problem.

 
The Passionate Jupiter often makes a person feel pitiful but not compassionate, the signs are: unjustified optimism, over-confidence, the condemnation of other people, tendency to gambling, strong desire to argue with everyone, a lack of any authority or, conversely, a blind fanatical adherence to rules and regulations, excessive adherence to the principles, without understanding that the goal of any spiritual practice is the development of love for God, and not following rituals and rules. A person with Passionate Jupiter is convinced that his teacher, religious or esoteric organization is the most correct and advanced. For such a person spiritual life and spiritual progress often mean strict adherence to the rules. He follows the moral norms that contribute to his material progress, and he turns to philosophy, esotericism, and religion merely in order to become more successful from a material point of view.

Jupiter in Goodness

Jupiter in Sattva provides a permanent, healthy optimism. Such a person understands the world philosophically. He realizes that what is done, is done for the better, understands the Divine laws, and knows that in this world everything is being done because of love and for love. Even if we learn some hard lessons in life, they were given to us as a working out for our negative karma and (or) as a test in order we get to understanding some new things, and forward the higher level. Such people perceive everything positively, as they see the Divine spirit in everything.
Respect for all living beings, especially to older people, or which social level and knowledge is higher, respectful speech with everyone, calm and respectful attitude towards others, a lack of criticism – all this is in their blood. It is extremely important to develop those qualities.

Sattvic Jupiter gives self-control, honesty. In our time, honesty is considered the last bastion of religion. It is very important to be honest, first and foremost to yourself. Compassion for all beings and devotion to teachers – these are the qualities of Jupiter in Goodness. At the highest level of development there comes the understanding that every person we meet is our teacher, every situation is created in order to bring us closer to the Divine and helps to get rid of selfishness. Each of us has had many teachers in life, so you should never criticize anybody, we must go our own way, respecting others.

 Children should have the same attitude to the teachers at the school. In Israel and America they are very disrespectful to teachers. Pupils are allowed to do practically everything. There are primary schools where pupils that can go out of the classroom at any moment, speak roughly to the teacher, and it is considered normal: this is a way to express himself. Nevertheless, a pupil’s ability to acquire knowledge is slightly closed at the same time. Therefore, the level of intellectual development of schoolchildren in the Western countries is constantly decreasing. It is very important to know and remember that we can acquire knowledge only when we are humble on the inner level.

We should have such an attitude throughout our lives, because the Universe teaches us every second. Therefore, even when you are learning a foreign language or driving a car; it is quite preferable to bow internally to the person who teaches you, to bow to his energy of a teacher. Also, you have no right to consult the person if he is not in a consultation mode, not ready to listen to you, does not respect you. If there is no appropriate mood and atmosphere, he will always be disrespectful to you and to the knowledge that you spreading, and in the moments like that Jupiter closes. When Jupiter is closed, there is no chance either to understand something for yourself, or to bring up very simple and obvious truth to the others.
Since in our time there is not proper respect for teachers, there is a dramatic drop in education. In some British or Oriental systems of education, where teachers are still respected and a respectful attitude towards the teacher is even cultivated, education is still very strong. Before you sign up your child in any school, make sure that there will be respect for teachers. If there is no respect, the benefits of studying in such a school would be little. Knowledge comes only from the top down. They can be opened to us from the heart, because of our generosity in serving teachers, but for this, we must be humble and respectful.

 The Sattvic Jupiter gives a person a desire to donate, to do his duty and an obligation to regularly follow their dharma that is prescribed by spiritual practice. It is usually some kind of spiritual rituals. But don’t fall to extremes. For example, in Israel there are two extremes: some people – orthodox Jews who fanatically and blindly follow what is written in the scriptures, the others are convinced materialists. That is, on the one hand, strong materialistic way of thinking, on the other – being caught at the spiritual.
But none of them is harmonious. What is harmonious is to follow your spiritual practice and do it regularly and willingly. For example, promise to chant two rounds of mantras daily or thirty minutes a day to practice yoga. If you are a Christian – each week go to the church, read every day the Bible, etc. Follow this regularly, and Jupiter moves into being Sattvic. However, do not look disapproving and blame others if they do not do all those, because Jupiter immediately falls into being Passionate and Ignorant.

Summary

The influence of the Ignorant Jupiter is characterized by the following traits of character and typical models of behaviour: greediness, rudeness and disrespectful speech, constant condemnation of others, harsh assessment, the criticism of different religions and hatred to their leaders, often a strong desire to destroy them. Commitment to the political parties, religious sects, and denominations, promoting and carrying out violence against dissenters. Hatred to the teachers, complete absence of any morality, strong pessimism.

 
Passionate Jupiter

The unjustified optimism, recklessness, condemnation of others, gambling, a strong desire to argue with everyone, lack of recognition of any authority (or, conversely, their blind acceptance), the fanatical following the rules and regulations, excessive adherence to the principles, a failure to understand that the goal of any spiritual practice is the development of the Divine love, and not the performance of some rituals and norms. Following only those moral norms that contribute to material progress.

Jupiter in Goodness

Permanent healthy optimism, respectful and positive attitude and compassion towards all beings, respectful speech, honesty, sincerity, desire to make donations in secret, detachment and independence from the money. Regularity and consistency in spiritual practice. Complete disregard to various types of gambling. Careful and thoughtful attitude to the speech. Lack of criticism and condemnation of other people in mind and in words.

How to enhance the beneficial effects of Jupiter

Jupiter is strengthened by the energy of some active herbs: ashwagandha, liquorice, ginseng, and astragals, especially in dairy broths, in ghee, and as herbal jams. Also, it is helpful to eat nuts (almonds, walnuts, cashews), sesame seeds and oils (almond oil, sesame oil, and especially ghee).

Since the main objective of Jupiter is to connect people with the flow of Divine love, to open their path to the inner treasures, we must develop the capacity for spiritual creativity, ennobling the world, not just to be creative materialistically, which only strengthens the forces of selfishness and the temporary material world. We need to be truly compassionate, and not to do well just for the sake of someone else’s praise, admiration, and awards. We need to be a source of goodness, charity, and goodwill. We should see true benefit for ourselves not in external development, but in humility and inner growth. This will help us realize that everything is good, whatever happens is for the best, and that the cause of our problems are not external circumstances, it is our own inner ignorance, subconscious programs, mindset and character. Then we can see that our main goal in life is to direct and lead other people on the path of light.

Lifestyle that increases energy of Jupiter necessarily includes the development of optimism and positive outlook on life. People should become more friendly, sociable and easy-going, but not to compromise on their higher principles. We need to act together with the forces of goodness. Any actions are useful in this respect, which addressed to the benefit of others, or taken for the sake of raising consciousness throughout the entire world. Also, considering the fact that Jupiter is responsible for the traditional religion, it is very favourable to resort to any religious or spiritual activity that requires fulfilment of the rules and formalities. However, one should be careful as the unconscious performance of religious rites does not bring the desired effect, and if a person at the same time defies other religions, believing his way the only right one, the effect can be just the opposite.

People who were in their previous life ardent atheists or religious fanatics are usually born with the affected Jupiter. I met a man with a rather complex fate who had an affected Jupiter in his chart at my consultation. He confirmed my knowledge, the similar things were told to him by the known healer, and when he was experiencing a session of hypnotic regression, he discovered that in his previous life he was an officer in the People’s Commission of Internal Affairs of the USSR, had been doing physical repressing of priests and church personnel and was shot in 1939 on a false denunciation. It is very important to develop the qualities that are given to us from above: fairness, honesty, compassion, respectful speech.
Now more and more doctors talk about a strong link between health and destiny of a person and his nature, attitudes and actions in general. As the saying goes, everything new – it is well forgotten past … Is not it what was always said by the enlightened sages and teachers of all religions? As Hippocrates said: “Doctor-philosopher is like God…»

To strengthen Jupiter Indian astrologers advise:
• watering public trees on Thursdays or any day of the week except Sunday;
• give bananas to beggars on streets;
• to feed the fish;
• serve to a teacher.
Mantra of Jupiter: Om Namo Bhagavate Vamanadevayya, Om Namo Bhagavata Gurudevayya.

 From the training course

 Jupiter is the Guru of Gods (Brihaspati).
It is the most favourable planet. The planet of spirituality. It personifies the Guru.
In the horoscope of the woman it shows her husband.
Jupiter shows the stock of piety from past lives. It is responsible for the money, prosperity, wealth, religion (in classical sense, orthodox), philosophy, higher education, science and law.

 Jupiter is a giant, glowing planet, which emits more energy than it receives from the Sun. Because of its huge size it is the heaviest of the planets in our solar system. It is called “guru”, which in Sanskrit means both “hard” and “one who removes darkness.”
All this makes Jupiter the teacher (Guru Dev) of the assembly of the gods,
the teacher of righteousness, justice and education. As Guru, being true educators and assistants reflect the lives of their students, so as Jupiter helps the growth and expansion of consciousness of everything and everyone it touches.
One of the Sanskrit names of Jupiter – Vachaspati: “vacha” comes from the “vac,” which means “spoken word”, and “Party” means “Lord.” Thus, Vachaspati – the God of speeches, God of words.

 Occupation: Guru, a spiritual teacher, teachers, brokers, doctors, scientists, judges, bankers.
Jupiter is responsible for the second, the sexual chakra, Svadhisthanu.
Jupiter itself is exalted in the 6 chakra, which is in area of the third eye.
The number of Jupiter is 3.
People who are born 3, 12, 21, 30 of any month, or those
whose primary numerological numbers are reduced to 3, are under the control of Jupiter. Especially lucky ones are those who are born on the12th of any month.

 3 is an important number for mankind. Time consists of three parts: past, present and future. Religion is expressed in the divine triad. “Three” is a symbol of the soul. In Hinduism, there are three main deities – Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu.
With the number 3 the first geometrical figure is connected – the triangle. The antithesis of being are connected in it, life begins to expand. Tripartite vertical symbols find a match in the structure of the human body. Tripartite vertical picture of the world remains at all stages of the historical and cultural development of mankind.
For family life, the number 3 is very important. The third in a family must be God and worship to God, and the family will prosper and live happily ever after. The Vedas say that the Goddess of fortune

Lakshmi will enter such a household, and this house will be blessed with children.
If in the home, in the family the influence of Jupiter is in Passion and Ignorance, then in such a house will enter another third one, and it will be a lover (or mistress). “Love Triangle” quickly destroys any family, bringing great suffering to the children in the family. Those who destroy other people’s families, doom themselves to severe embodiments, the curse of the holy fathers, problems with children and poverty.

 The day of Jupiter is Thursday. This is the most auspicious day of the week.
It is the day of new beginnings, the best for a marriage. The cabbalists say that the birth on this day is very auspicious.
The colour is yellow.
The stones are yellow sapphire and topaz and all yellow stones.
The metals are gold and platinum.
The character is clean, healthy, and masculine.
Responsible for the liver, blood, veins, arteries, hips, kidneys,
fat. The diseases of the weakened Jupiter are insomnia, diabetes,
skin diseases, anaemia, hernia, cataract, all liver diseases.

 
Weakened Jupiter gives extravagance, heightened sense of justice, or, conversely, encourages people to behave very unfairly towards the others, gives the temerity tarnish the reputation, over-optimism, addiction to gambling, debts.
When too strong (in its sign or exalted, but retrograde) Jupiter usually gives the self-righteous people and religious fanatics who believe that spiritual and material progress is only possible if a person strictly follows the scriptures of their religion.

During the period of Jupiter people often gain weight. Generally, weakened Jupiter often gives too much weight, or, in a much more rare cases (less than 20%), on the contrary – the lack of fat in the body.
If Jupiter and Saturn are in aspect with each other in the horoscope of a person, this is often gives a spiritual nature.
Direction of Jupiter is Northeast.
In the house this direction should be free; it is good to place an altar there, a place for spiritual books, images. It is also very beneficial to have a fountain there, or at least a picture of a seascape.
Jupiter’s signs are Pisces and Sagittarius.
Jupiter is exalted in Cancer and in fall in Capricorn.
The best house for Jupiter is the first (house of personality).
It is important to note that Jupiter is responsible for children, the extent to which people will be blessed with children, and at the same time, this planet is responsible for the morale and morality. It is not difficult to see the connection: the less morals people have, especially women, the more problems there will be with children. In modern society, where morality and ethics are lessening day by day, the more and more problems there are with children and childbirth.

Jupiter is responsible for the money. First of all, they come to those who had followed his dharma, donated to charitable causes.

Practice consultations cases
Many years ago, I gave a consultation in Israel. One woman signed up for a consultation by phone, talking to me very rudely, (and even worse with the secretary, as it turned out later). I discovered that she had a very weak Jupiter in the fall, in a not auspicious house. I immediately saw that she had serious liver problems, and she confirmed that they had started in her childhood, and now it came down to cirrhosis, and she was literally on the verge of death. She was a very dogmatic person, and believed that she was right in everything. The Weak Jupiter in her chart aspects the house of family. Her parents were strict, had been quarrelling with each other, there was no respect between them. When I told her that she used a rough speech, she was surprised and assured me that this was not true, that her speech was quite normal. In addition, she used to condemn people all the time. I gave her mantras for neutralization, recommendations for working with her state of mind.

She has been phoning me for a year and a half and telling that she could not stop judging others, stop paying attention to them. She came for my consultations a few times. To get rid of the rudeness, she began chanting Jupiter mantra three times, but she could not – only a little bit of reciting and then soon mixing up. She has been strictly following my advice in all areas of her life and then she came to study on my course. Progress has been evident, but it was very interesting to observe her: as soon as someone had something to say, she immediately gave her judgement, because a weak Jupiter gives people unshakeable confidence for their own legitimacy and a desire to judge everyone.

Over the time, she has changed and developed rapidly spiritually. Her relationships with her children changed and improved too, the children began to grow spiritually. Recently she wrote me a letter where she said that probably would stop taking medication because in the recent years the state of the liver has begun improving (although two or three years ago, the doctors said that it was high time to write a will). Her health has generally improved, in material terms there are also positive changes, she made new good friends, but the most important she has found her inner herself.

The other side of the medal it is too strong Jupiter. This can also have negative consequences. Typically, it is very difficult to prove anything to such a person. Such people usually are adherents of some religious institutions, organizations, and are not necessarily bigoted, but in their subconscious, there is a defined dogma, and it is not possible to change it.
If you say something contrary to the views of such a person, to his ways and religion, he usually does not take your words. I find it difficult to give consultations to such people. My students used to go to a summer festival of one religious organization two years in a row, based on very strict Eastern teaching and have been consulting people there on a charitable basis. They told me: “You know, Rami, there are more than 80% of people whose Jupiter is retrograde and in the fall, or in exaltation, or in its sign, and also retrograde (i.e., too strong)”. I thought that it was just a coincidence, but then I was invited to their Moscow centre to give a lecture, and there I did the express-consultancy … Ten men of eight had such Jupiter. Many of them were quite disharmonious in many spheres of life, almost all had health problems, one young girl was sick with blood cancer. Such people tend to adhere strictly to one denomination or religion.

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At the recent seminars in Canada, there was one woman helping me. Just over a year ago, she came to me for counselling. She had also very strong Jupiter. She is very confident of her rightfulness. She was Jewish by her father (the Jewish people consider a kinship by their mother), so she wanted to accept “Giur” (a conversion accepting the obligations of Jewish religious observance), and was more and more immersed in following the strict rules of Judaism. I told her: “Dear, you have a problem with the gall bladder and liver, your energy is in a big disadvantage because of your inner fanaticism “. She burst into tears and confessed that the doctors had found a liver cancer; she felt being attracted by such a strictly regulated religion. I said that it was contraindicated for her. She insisted that she wanted to be a serious follower of Judaism, to observe Shabbat and many other rules. “What is wrong with this?” – She wondered. “The wrong is the following: if you do not follow the main commandment – loving God, so the other commandments do not work without it and very often they serve only for nurturing people‘s pride, condemnation of other people and increasing the number of claims to the world.”

I drew her attention to the fact that she had too many requirements to others, that she judged everyone. I said: “You are a big consumer and an egotistical person.” She was very surprised because she considered herself almost a Mother Teresa, the saviour of all souls. Too strong Jupiter caused all her problems, and without exaggeration, I can say that this realization was a big shock for her. She began following all my advice, read my books, listen to CDs. What is interesting, her teacher in the Judaic studies, and a very wise follower of the Lubavitcher Rebbe encouraged her to follow all my instructions.

Soon the woman began to progress in virtually all spheres of life. She became softer, more flexible in dealing with people, she changed her lifestyle, attitude, and her health has improver dramatically. Words and feelings of gratitude are her natural manifestation now, she has forgotten about all her claims and accusations. Now her mood improved greatly and she feels a lot of vital strength.

Translated by Anna Skorobogatova

Edited by Julia Shell

Philosophical concept of Venus

Venus is a Goddess of love and beauty. If Jupiter is the guru of Gods and saints then Venus is the mentor of demons. As it is possible to subordinate and then manage the demonic powers only by charm and sexual attraction. In the history of all civilizations you will find many examples when the rulers of this world easily fell under the influence of a beautiful woman.
In a natal chart of a man Venus signifies a wife or a beloved woman. Venus is our ability to appreciate beauty, to be harmonious, it shows how much a person can love and create beauty around him.

Venus is a characteristic of art, in the first place – music, singing, dancing, painting, poetry.
In a good location Venus gives a person beauty and good heart, excellent sense of humor and sense of taste.
It can also give extrasensory and hypnotic aptitudes, visualization ability.
If Venus in a chart is weakened or a person does not live in harmony then he is not able to distinguish love from affection and can become a slave of his feelings, suffer from an obsessive desire to surround himself with luxurious things, become a fan of the lower forms of culture: hard rock, loud, screaming music, to make a cult of sex and violence.

Modern mass media is almost completely under the influence of lower Venus energies which adversely affects whole society and especially teenagers.
Tantra belongs to Venus. Lowest, sexual tantra reflects the lowest level of Venus energy and the highest tantra shows the level of loving service to God, unconditional love for everyone and everything that corresponds to the highest energy level of this planet.
The Sanskrit name of Venus is Shukra, which means “a glittering light”, “warm” as well as “seed” that implies the beginning of a new life.

Venus in Ignorance

Venus in Ignorance gives the inability to control our desires and actions: person eats and drinks whatever he/she wants, sleeps with someone he/she wants.
The typical manifestation of Venus in Ignorance is using of black magic. No couple which was created by means of black magic or solved their problems using it (magic charms to excite love, magic charm to protect one from someone’s influences, etc.) could successfully exist for more than two years. Moreover such a person is closed for any partner relationships for this and the coming life if only he/she does not pray for forgiveness.

Huge insatiable lust, sexual perversions, prostitution, promiscuity, debauchery, sex violence (against himself and a partner) is Venus in Ignorance.
It manifests itself through the affection to ignorant forms such as terrible monster characters of the modern film industry, ignorant loud music, particularly hard rock.
Venus of a man sank violently to ignorance because of disrespectful attitude toward women when he calls them “girls”, “chicks”, “broads” etc.
Same-sex attraction is Venus in Ignorance with addition of passion. Porno movies, especially with elements of violence are complete ignorance.

Wearing of ragged dirty clothes, humor with sneer, ridicule, public derision of other people is Venus in Ignorance (vulgar humor is Venus in Passion).
The distinction between Venus in Passion and Venus in Ignorance is very fine. For example, a man fell in love with a woman (strong affection is Venus in Passion) and she said “no” to him then he killed himself and sometimes the woman (this is Venus in Ignorance). Or “we are not allowed to be together, let us kill each other”.
It is necessary to protect ourselves and our relatives from people with such energy because the guna of ignorance makes people to act against their will and then they can be so sorry for what they have done.
Modern civilization moves from Venus in Passion to Venus in Ignorance not rising to Goodness. According to the statistics nowadays domestic violence is much greater than an amount of street violence. People torment and kill the nearest and dearest. It was noticed long ago that from “love” (a strong affection for someone that is Venus in Passion) to hate (Venus in Ignorance) is only one step.

Venus in Passion

Passionate Venus gives the desire to manipulate others, vulgar humor. Venus is a bohemian planet so Passionate Venus way presuppose some dainty, bohemian things, beautiful restaurants and elegant surrounding. It gives the desire for luxury and wealth. Under its influence beautiful films with elements of eroticism and simply passionate romantic films are made. The latter are usually very attractive and exciting, especially if they contain some Sattva elements.
Discos, night clubs, bars with thundering music and passionately moving half-naked bodies are the manifestations of Passionate and Ignorant Venus.

Venus in Passion gives love (affection) to a beautiful form, under its influence they “love” for something, for some quality, usually external. In other words, such a person does not see the essence; he is not interested in deep inner qualities, external achievements of another person, just the appearance are important. “I fell in love: she had such a breast, such legs!” This is love in Passion when “I love her” is equal to “I want her”.

Love in Passion passes very quickly. This is very typical for Europe and America. At the beginning of the novel there are a lot of flowers and gifts, and then love passes and partners immediately begin to seek elsewhere new feelings. The brighter a passionate love lights, the faster it burns.

In modern civilization the cult of Passionate and Ignorant Venus encourages a search of happiness in beautiful love stories, having several love romances simultaneously.

There are seven chakras (seven energy centers) in our bodies, and it is necessary to take into account that if marriage and family relationship are built on the base of the lower chakras (”Oh, we have such a cosmic sex”); this relationship can not last long. If vibrations do not rise to the higher levels (up to Venus heart chakra and above) the lower chakras energies are being rapidly depleted and relationships are destroyed. It is considered that the maximum cycle for such relationship is seven years, but very often less.

In the Western society the idea is propagated that you’re good and live happily only as long as you can have sexual relationships: be as much sexy as possible, you should always attract the opposite sex in your life; you still can have sex and you definitely need a boyfriend even when you are well over sixty years old and it would be good already to start thinking about eternity.  Venus is the embodiment of youth, the period when you need to attract a partner into your life and keep him, to establish a family. At sixty – seventy we should foster grandchildren. By this time it is necessary to become wise and not to try to argue something to ourselves and others. “I live as long as I can copulate” – this is influence of Passionate Venus with elements of Ignorance.

Venus in Passion is vividly manifested in so-called metrosexuals – men who appear strong concern for their appearance, follow fashion trends, know too much about brands, perfume collections, etc.). Such behavior is more typical and natural for women, as in women Venus is six times stronger than in men. Such Venus often gives homosexuality.

If Passionate and Ignorant Venus dominates, then sooner or later it will be manifested in the following health problems: first of all sexually transmitted diseases, renal dysfunction, gout, eczema, miscarriages, infertility, weakness of the reproductive system and reproductive organs, problems with semen, menstrual problems, various skin problems. Loss of strength or weaknesses of the immune system are possible as well as bleeding tendency.

Weakened Venus gives discontent with living conditions, anxiety in love, instability in financial situation, problems with friends because of money, unrestraint in eating and drinking, use of black magic, manipulation.

An affected Venus is one of the biggest problems we can encounter: it inspires us with affection to forms forgetting the essence. This lower energy side of the planet is clearly manifested in our culture with its emphasis on sensual pleasures. Even the part of Venus energy, which belongs to the sphere of artistic creation, in our days is expressed predominantly in the lower level, as evidenced by massive craze for loud music, weakness for bright, flashy colors and the show business popularity.

The symptoms of weakened Venus are a lack of grace and beauty as well as a lack of taste and refinement. Such a person can be rude, aggressive, impolite and vulgar. There is a possibility of problems in the romantic sphere, a lack of love and tender feelings. Representatives of the weaker sex can experience a lack of femininity and happiness in personal life. A man with weakened Venus either has difficulties in communication with women or his wife inflicts suffering on him or suffers herself for some reasons.

I carried out a research and discovered that almost all the people, who were somehow unexpectedly and in an ugly way deserted by a partner, have weakened Venus. And, vice versa, for people with strong Venus personal life is a source of happiness, and if the relationship stopped this was initiated by them. They are practically never deserted or abandoned by others.

Venus in Goodness

Venus in Goodness is nearly unconditional love, love without affections. The main thing for a person in relationship is to give, not to receive. If a person with Venus in Sattva says that he/she loves, his/her main goal is to make the beloved happy. If the person sees that a love relationship does not bring benefits to both partners, he/she breaks them; he/she consciously does not go to the closer relations. For example, if he/she understands that in such love, he/she loses himself/herself, ceases to meet his/her obligations and achieve the purpose, he/she is able to deviate from such relations, in other words to transform Passionate Venus  into Sattvic.
Such a person never claims or accuses a partner. Reproaches are the characteristics of ignorant and passionate state. In Sattva Venus manifested itself in relationship as gratitude (precisely relationship between sexes, for communications in general are responsible Mercury and Jupiter).  Sattvic Venus gives a person a desire to give more in relationships, making a partner happy and devotion to his/her partner. Swans have Venus in Goodness, these are very devoted birds. It is considered that for a woman is too bad if her husband dies first. A man suffers a loss of his wife easier, especially if he is already in advanced age and according to his masculine nature he can abjure, turn to spirituality.

Venus in Goodness manifests the ability to control yourself, your desires. I observed how a guru behaved when a beautiful woman came to him. He looked at her briefly then aside and stopped looking at her afterwards doing that naturally and without demonstrations or insulting. He behaved like this as he knew that if a woman with the strong Passionate Venus came he might not resist for long. This is the law of the Eastern psychology. He consciously did not allow his feelings to stick because he knew that feelings were attracted to an object of our feelings like a magnet and Passionate Venus was very attractive.
A person with Ignorant Venus speaks rudely, with the claim in his voice, while a person with Passionate Venus  speaks very emotionally, sweetly and passionately, in goodness Venus gives a very soft and pleasant speech. Such people speak beautifully and often slowly, melodiously from the position of unconditional love.
It is very important, especially for a woman, to cultivate Sattvic Venus at home, because the duration of relationship between a man and a woman and generally the success in marital relationship depends on Venus as well as on Jupiter.
Jesus Christ had the highly implemented Venus in pure Goodness (in exaltation, in conjunction with Rahu) this is an example of very pure, giving love: “Pray for those who curse you”.

Venus in Goodness is forgiveness and modesty (shyness). It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam that shyness is the most attractive female quality.
People with Venus in Goodness are kind, have a good sense of humor and gentle, pleasing charisma, irresistible beauty and attractiveness and not necessarily external beauty.

They know how to use gems, music, and aromatherapy. They put love beyond sex, they have spiritualized intimate relationships. When a woman has Venus in Goodness she has such a charm, that an opposite sex cannot resist, at the same time she can have a quite ordinary appearance and can be dressed modestly. Although, if Ignorance and Passion dominate in a man, he might not notice the greatness of this woman, but this is only good for her.

As for the sexual relationships this is an ability to keep them for a long time and for the pleasure of the partner, it means that the most important thing is to give. Modern sex is primitive and short-term. Nowadays, the idea that sex should be rare may seem scary for somebody. Imagine, please, that you eat delicacies daily, rapidly and in plenty. In a little while such food inevitably will undermine your physical and mental health, you will need to invent some distortions in the food to continue stimulate feelings and give pleasure.

Sexual relations in Goodness rise to the Divine level.
People with Venus in Goodness can abstain from sex if it is necessary, to be faithful to one partner. Woman is a manifestation of the Moon and Venus energies, emotional creation with highly sensitive subtle body, therefore each partner remains in her subtle body for at least seven years. She should be very fastidious about whom she has sexual favours and even who gives her a massage.

The Vedas say that a man with Venus in Goodness can make several women happy, that is, he may have several wives (but in our time, society does not live by the laws of the Vedas and polygamy is hardly acceptable). In the Vedic civilization, as well as many other advanced civilizations polygamy existed. It was considered that if one man could keep several wives and made them truly happy, this did not contradict the nature. But it is quite right that a man with Venus in Goodness is surely able to make at least one woman happy. Polygamy is more required to a man who has the influence of Passion – a warrior, a leader.
In the past a man had several wives and he did not have just intimacy with them, but in the first place cared of them, defended, because it was important for a woman to be protected by a man. A man came to them not only for amorous pleasures; he satisfied all the material needs and desires of each woman. And no woman had to work.

In the early nineties, in one of the cities in Russia a show trial over a man took place, who had three families in different cities, because he had several jobs. He was constantly moving from a city to city, and in each city he created a family. He supported all his families and cared for them, and all the wives and children were happy. Though he disappeared for weeks on business trips and when he returned, everybody was very pleased, happy and felt great. At a certain moment everything was revealed. During the trial his lawyer asked how many men could say with confidence that they made happy at least one woman, and in this case three women and their children were very happy.

In fact in our society there are plenty of illegal, clandestine love affairs. As a result children are born without a normal father. In the Vedic society everything was officially: if a man had an illegitimate child, he had to take care of the child as well as of a legal one, to provide him the same good education, etc.
Now our society is degrading and women are simply used. If a husband abandons for another family, he often stops completely to take care of his ex-wife and to keep his own children. At the best, he keeps them by halves.
Woman’s freedom is her slavery. No woman can be happy and healthy if she does not have children and normal family relations before she is thirty, maximum forty. No psychologist could prove the contrary. In the West there are documentaries about feminists who are disappointed in their movement, and deeply regretted for their ruined destinies.

Women-feminists say they have already reached that when going out on a date they give flowers to men. In Canada and America this is already a normal thing. In the West restaurants bills are divided into two, so everyone pays for himself.

There are women who made men to behave like that. Beyond the porn sites, ideas that a woman before marriage should play the field, to taste freedom, is the philosophy of men, because such behavior of a woman is profitable for them: no need to take care of a woman, to support her, to take responsibility for the family. Easily, he can live in cohabiting relationship and then at any time run away, saying: “Sorry, we did not succeed.” The wanton women themselves mostly suffer from this, because their outer beauty, unfortunately, not eternal, and in the second half of life, as a rule, promiscuous women remain abandoned and rejected by everyone, even by their children, whom they could not teach anything good, and they have nothing to respect them for.

Men do not want to take responsibility for women because most women now are not harmonious, they cannot create the love and beauty space around them.
Men need to develop the Martian and Sunny qualities to take care of women and protect them. That is their nature, how they were conceived and created by God. As a rule, a harmonious man subconsciously and often consciously does not have any desire to marry a woman who has in her aura many sexual partners.

The strong Venus gives a person sexual power, which can be transformed at the inner level into astral or spiritual power, strength of will. Strong Venus can give a person charisma, which is manifested in ability to inspire others, arouse others’ enthusiasm. But it can also be used to hypnosis and deception.
Venus, being well located and strong in horoscope benefits every person. It demonstrates the ability to give and receive love, refined taste, purity and beauty. This planet strengthens our life force, carrying the energy of happiness.

The qualities of strong Venus are charisma, sociability, generosity, kindness, a sense of humor, ability to love and receive love, as well as grace, pleasant voice, curly hair and beauty. People with strong Venus are usually of medium height, round-faced, plump. If Venus in person’s chart is strong then luxurious, bohemian things and wealth easy come to his life. If Venus related to the house of partner this often gives handsome/beautiful spouse with artistic abilities.

 Summary

The influence of Ignorant Venus is characterized by the following traits of character and behavior: sexual perversion (including homosexuality), propensity to sexual violence or masochism, using of black magic, promiscuity in personal relationships, affection to forms and sensual pleasures, rudeness, vulgarity, intemperance in eating and drinking, difficulty in personal life, violence because of “love”.  

Passionate Venus is an insatiable sexual lust, frequent change of sexual partners, variety of sexual fantasies in mind, affection to sensual pleasures, vulgar humor, and desire to manipulate others. Bright, colorful, conspicuous clothing, desire to be always in fashion is Venus in Passion. Affection to exterior, material status of the partner, inability and often unwillingness to see the essence also is Venus in Passion. Adultery, inability to forgive their lover, strong jealousy is   Venus in Passion.

Venus in Goodness is the unconditional love and kindness to all living beings, ability to accept themselves and others as they are, generosity, no affection to money and wealth, grace, ability to create a space of love around him/her, proper use of gemstones, flowers, music, aromas, good sense of beauty, forgiveness, modesty, good sense of humor, soft charisma, modest but tastefully chosen clothes (for women – long skirts, no low-necked dresses, etc.), very attractive, every sexual act brings closer to Divine, perception of spouse as a part of God, ability to have sexual act in a meditative state for a long time and for the enjoyment of the partner. Venus in Goodness is also ability for a long time to live happily and safely without an active sexual life and if necessary to give it up.

Methods of harmonizing the influence of Venus

To strengthen the energy of Venus it is necessary to cultivate sophistication and sensitivity, tact and what is the most important the ability to love. It is necessary to develop creative and artistic abilities and to strive for a more vivid and accurate self-expression. It is useful to surround ourselves with beautiful things and flowers, bright colors. A woman should cultivate pure feminine qualities; a man should pay more attention to women which play a significant part in his life. Venus is very enhanced by matrimonial fidelity.
Sweet aromas excellently stimulate the energy of Venus: the smell of roses, saffron, jasmine, lotus, lilies, and iris. Well suited for this are also plants providing a tonic effect in the sexual sphere: shatavari, white mousse, Chinese angelica, aloe, remaniya and raspberry leaves.
Indian astrologers for strengthening of the favorable influence of Venus advise to donate to needy people (especially on Friday) bright silk clothes, as well as sugar, rice and ghee.

How to develop an ability to love

As explained above, Venus energy becomes stronger, spiritualizes and raises to a very high level due to the comprehension of the high love essence and development of the love ability. This distinguishes Venus from all the other planets. Developing the Divine, unconditional love it is possible in a short time to neutralize the adverse effect of all planets. That is, get out from the influence of the karma law. But you need to understand what the real love is. In the modern civilization everything is called love that gives pleasure to our senses. For example we say: “I love pastries, sunny weather, such person,” implying that our physical or subtle body touching these objects, receives pleasure. If we say that we do not like somebody then as a rule we add: “Because he’s fat, ugly, cunning” etc. From a philosophical point of view this is not love but affection.

Merely the affections are the causes of our sufferings and diseases. Love is unconditional by its nature. In the material world an example of such love firstly may become the mother’s love to a child. Affection gives rise to fear of loss, and love makes a man courageous, because it carries satisfaction by itself and gives freedom to the object of love.

I met a woman, who used to take my course, with the exalted Venus in the Rashi (a main chart) and in many Vargas (the auxiliary charts). So, besides the main Venus qualities she had fearlessness. She confessed that in her life she took various worldly problems without any fear.

Love makes a person to be all-forgiving as opposed to affection which actively uses offences as a manipulation means. Love does not know anger, as a loving man takes pleasure in giving, not demanding. Anger, meanwhile, is a result of unsatisfied lust which is born from the contemplation of the objects of senses. For example, we saw something and desire to get it, if we don’t get the object of our desires, we become angry.

The Divine love also means loving ourselves. How can we love somebody if we do not love ourselves? (”Love your neighbor as yourself”). Every one of us is a part of God, and it is impossible to love the Whole without loving some part of it.
Love brings optimism and joy, as people live consciously with love taking all the situations and not depending on any circumstances. This feeling by itself makes a man happy.

Affection creates only fear and pessimism as person is permanently afraid of losing an object of pleasure and understands that some day it will happen. Affection implies relationship “you give me, I give you”. To love means completely to give mind, heart and all you have without asking in return. Why are we angry when we love the usual “love”? We do not get what we expected, that is why.
It is also very important to understand that love is not activity but state of consciousness. State of love is as natural as breathing. If we breathed with difficulty, we would be tired of this process, we would need a rest from breathing, and we would die. Love is breathing at a higher level. If there is no breathing a body dies. If there is no love, a soul cannot be born. Love is the breath of our soul. We cannot say to somebody: “Breathe only in my presence” as he/she will die in this case. For love cannot be a monopoly. However, this does not mean that we should love one and all. Simply we should be in a loving state of mind. It’s like breathing – even in the presence of enemies we continue to breathe.

These are just some thoughts about unconditional love. Unfortunately, for the modern culture they are still unusual. Although, each year more scientific data appears that love cures in the literal sense of the word, alongside more Healers appear, spelled with a capital letter, who teaches to love properly, thereby delivering from diseases and correcting the most complicated fates.

What is the hub of all religious? The installation “Do not do to others what you do not wish for yourself”, as well as in fact the main purpose of life is acquisition of the Divine love. The less we live in love, the more illnesses and sufferings we have. Therefore, Venus, known also as the Goddess of love, according to the sages is the most favorable planet.

From the training course

The Sanskrit name of Venus is Shukra, which means “glittering light”, “warm” as well as “seed” that implies the beginning of a new life.
Venus is also known as the morning star, before sunrise it is the brightest planet in the Eastern hemisphere. It can be seen with the naked eye twice: before sunrise and before sunset.
Venus manages youth. Its influence on women is a little stronger than on men.
It gives a sense of humor, generosity, sense of romantic love.
Venus is a characteristic of partner in marriage (especially for men), sexual partner.
External indicators of the strong Venus are: low stature, plump body with strongly pronounced forms, round face and kind eyes, pleasant voice, curly hair, beauty, sociability, grace, elegance, charm, artistry, hypnotism, proper use of gemstones, flowers, music, and aromatherapy.
In body Venus is responsible for skin, throat, ovaries, veins, kidneys, reproductive system, eyes, and chin.

The day of Venus is Friday.
Best position is the Fourth House.

On Friday it is good to give gifts to beloved people. It is a good day for a wedding. Some schools say this day is unfavorable for purchases because it leads to money loss.
The color is pink, semi-transparent, lemon-yellow, white, variegated, and bright.
Jewels are diamond, and a cheaper but practical, full-fledged replacement is a quartz crystal.

Direction – South-East. It is desirable in this part of house to have beautiful, bohemian things, burning candle, good place for a fireplace.
Nature of Venus is feminine, aqueous, emotional and sensitive.
Occupations are actors, doctors, masseurs, cosmetologists, salesmen of expensive and bohemian things. Music, painting, poetry, singing, theater and cinema, show business.

Unfavorably located Venus is a prostitution.

Signs are Taurus, Libra. Exalts in Pisces, falls in Virgo.
In numerology, the number of Venus is 6.
Those who are born on 6, 15, 24th of any month, or those whose primary numerological numbers are reduced to 6 are under the control of Venus.
In numerology of some Eastern Sufism schools 66 is a sacred number, but 666 is a manifestation of extremely strong Ignorant Venus, this is lust, sexual freedom, huge ego, person becomes a slave to his/her sexual organ, ready to do anything for money and material goods.
Therefore, in many religious and esoteric schools 666 is the number of the devil.
Among the numbers from 1 to 9 the number 6 is the happiest. Those “sextuple” who were born on the 24 th of any month are the most fortunate. Number 6 is unique because it is common for both odd and even numbers. It may be the result of combination of three (3 is an odd number) even numbers or two (2 is an even number) odd numbers. In a combination of 2 +2 +2 = 6 the even number 2 is repeated three times, it is an odd number of repetitions. In a combination of 3 +3 = 6 the odd number 3 is repeated twice, here is an even number of repetitions. Being common to both groups, number 6, thus is known as “universal friend”.  It is associated with epoch’s age (in the Vedic tradition with Yugas) and is considered fortunate because of its connection with the supreme harmony and spiritual development. This is the number of beauty and harmony.

It brings culture being in human life. A person learns to appreciate beauty, moving forward: he/she goes to the number 7, a mystical number, which teaches him/her to look inside and know himself/herself, find the inner light within his/her own soul.

Venus Chakra is the fourth, heart chakra (Anahata). The Moon and Saturn exalt in this chakra. The Moon represents motherhood, ability to care, sacrifice, and selfless love. The Saturn is stringency, following lofty standards, devotion, obligatory, lack of affection. All this together gives the highest manifestation of Venus.
Venus by itself exalted in the second, sexual chakra, chakra of Jupiter, thereby showing that the path to true love is through the following of moral laws given by God.
Venus Mantra is Om Namo Bhagavate Parashuramaya

Practical cases

Once in Israel I gave a consultation to a woman with Venus in debilitation in the House of income. I did not tell her this directly, but hinted that it is not very good to earn selling one’s body. She said she followed free views and there was nothing wrong with that. Then it turned out that she was really a prostitute. Many people who in their past lives were engaged in prostitution, that is sell love for money, are born with the affected Venus. I gave her spiritual techniques.

She started to practice them but she had heavy dependence on sensual pleasures. She considered that the body was everything. In her personal life she was alone; she was desired just for her beautiful body.
Later I was told that she still followed my advice, even studied the Vedas, lived a healthier lifestyle, prayed more and even gave birth to a child however she was not married.

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I’ve seen quite a lot of people with weakened Venus and if it was somehow connected with the House of income, money, so those people often were inclined to “sell” their Venus. Even if a person had strong Venus but he was engaged in prostitution, then Venus rapidly becomes weak, some diseases and problems in Venus category might begin.

I consulted one man with excessively strong Venus it was in his chart in its sign, in exaltation in the House of short trips and at the same time retrograded. He constantly went on business trips and he had many sexual contacts, he was totally plunging into this sensual activities and all his energy he spent on it.

When he married his fair one, he said to her: “I have a rule: not to make any promises. I want to take pleasure, I can have other women”, such free love relationships. As he had a strong chart for a while he could live in such a way but he was a slave of his lust, the main thing for him was sexual pleasure, he recognized no limitations.

Not long ago the favorable periods finished for him and as he simply frittered away his good karma for sensual pleasure, problems with work, money, spouse, and health started on him.
It is the most difficult to advise such people as when they are attached to the sensual pleasures, the mind (the ability to recognize and follow the highest purpose) disappears, the energy of the highest chakras falls to the lowest and rapidly dissipates, people just lose the fruits of their good karma and swiftly earn a heavy karma, and in these cases only the Universe can help and begin to treat and teach them through the blows of fate.

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Also, I consulted a young woman with quite weak Venus, looking not very attractive and she did not take care especially of her appearance. I gave her practical tips, advised her to pay more attention to her appearance, to dress nicer, to learn how to take care of herself in a purely feminine way, to develop feminine qualities. When a woman has a weak Venus, she often has no desire to look after herself. Also, Venus becomes very weak if a woman wears clothes similar to men’s, roughly speaks (it often happens in cases of the much stronger male planets influence, especially the Mars). This young woman followed my advice in a certain way but as her Venus was weak she longed for spirituality and, as a result, she joined a religious organization with following some rules more externally than developing the Divine love. Well, apparently that was her way. But even the little that she has done improved her situation.

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I was surprised by one chart. Once, being in Israel, Sergei Lazarev, the author of “Diagnostics of karma”, asked me to examine his chart and his wife’s chart. In the chart it was seen that he was a very powerful healer, he had a strongest Saturn and strong Mars, Sun and Moon, a strong house of literary creativity and writing is one of his vital missions, but his Venus was weak. It was in fall and was associated with partners and money.

I told him: “You have strong Sun, Mars, but you are an inflexible, hard man”. He replied: “Yes, I was like this, I was heavily clutch at spirituality, I saw my past lives: for three lives I have been a teacher in the East”. Religion existed, teaching existed, and love did not. Why was he alone in business? Because almost all of his partners cheated him (the weak Venus owned the house of partners and is in the house of money and business). As soon as he started to do something together with another person, to build any plans, everything was falling apart at once. In one of his books he wrote that when he was diagnosed with cancer, he knew (because he had a high level of soul), that there was no love and he went down to love, and began to learn to love. All those whom he had consulted before the 2003-2004 year knew how hard he was to people. He had no softness of Venus. He also did not have very strong Jupiter, which, although gave a talent for healing, but at the same time gave some stiffness. He is working on it, and increases his love level. His Venus is also connected to the house responsible for older siblings, and he had also some problems with his elder sister. As far as I could, I explained him what could be done, although he knew by himself about it via the astral projection.

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Translated by Angela Arhipova

Edited by Julia Shell

Philosophical conception of Saturn

Saturn is the main planet, which brings into people’s life sufferings and misery. The effect is of a karmic nature and means that a person cannot change almost anything in that sphere of one’s life where Saturn influences in the astrological chart. 

 Saturn was considered the most important among nine planets not only in India but also in other ancient cultures. Saturn has a name of Arbiter of fate. He is in charge of life span and prosperity. He can easily take out and raise a person “from rags to riches” and vice versa.

 The Vedic astrology gives to the Saturn the most honourable place, as its power can change a person fate. In astrology, Saturn has been since old times a significator of death, diseases, poverty, separation, deformities, and various perversions. From a spiritual point of view, it embodies such qualities as discipline, austerity, severity, detachment, patience, and loneliness.

 If Jupiter symbolizes creativity and extension, then Saturn means compression and destruction. Jupiter is a God of joy and he is an optimist. Saturn is a God of grief and sadness, he is a pessimist. Jupiter is a kind teacher, Saturn is harsh one and sometimes cruel.

 Saturn governs illnesses, old age and death, all those harsh teachers of human life, before which all the things being in the time’s power kneel. At the same time, destruction is the eternal companion of creation, while decay and death are the necessary conditions for a new life and growth.  The more we have attachments and dependencies in this world the more we feel fear in front of the Saturn.

 Saturn gives sufferings which contribute to development and growth of our soul and many great men consciously choose life full of sufferings and limitations for rapid progress. Saturn can cause fast aging and decay as it is an indicator of aging. It is easily to notice that people leading hectic lifestyle tend to get older quite quickly. From the other hand, people who keep a correct routine of their everyday life, tend to the sensible self-restraint, get older at much older age, live longer and keep fit mentally and physically nearly to the last minutes.

 As being the most sluggish planet, Saturn slows down all the processes and hinders movement. The Saturn’s name for Sanskrit is “Shani” which means sluggish, slow. It often brings to the life of people delay and postponement.

 Saturn is able to draw one’s power both at intellectual and physical levels. It causes melancholy and depression, awakens self pity and inspires anxiety and various concerns. Where are all those rooted? Selfishness. As, being on the lower level, Saturn is a planet of selfishness, so, the more egotistical the behavior of a person, the more severely and unfavorable Saturn affects him. However, as dear readers have already guessed, its influence does not give much pleasure.

 Almost all of our material aspirations like wishes to possess our own house, to be financially secured or wealthy are actually a disguised survival instinct as those desires are rooted in the fear of constraints, variability of this world, and poverty Saturn threatens with. However, Saturn which nurtures those desires destroys them. Saturn is a planet of fear and the fear lies at the base of deep selfishness also being under the power of that planet. Saturn eclipses the mind and blinds it with fear. Many coldhearted criminals have the affected Saturn and it is often associated with Mars, another harsh planet.

 Nevertheless, Saturn is not the lowest of the planets but the highest in the spiritual sense of the word. Its lessons are usually the most difficult and painful, but also the most useful. Having passed through the difficult lessons of Saturn, we might escalate to the highest peak of the spiritual evolution. Saturn manifests the highest realized knowledge, the access to which can be opened only to those who can be humble, free of dependencies and attachments, and can work with dedication and full concentration. Having obtained such qualities a person might become truly free.

 Saturn’s wisdom got a reflection in the Buddhist doctrine about impermanence, temporality and futility of all things and that the world is full of suffering. The more detailed description about Saturn’s influence and other planets you can read in the books of David Frawley “Astrology of the Seers” and Robert Svoboda “The Greatness of Saturn”.

Saturn in Ignorance

 Ignorant Saturn gives a person the deepest gloominess. Dejection is one of the greatest sins in the Christianity. Such a person also may feel contempt for others, a desire to hurt and humiliate them. All torturing is manifestation of Ignorant Saturn but sophisticated tortures signify Saturn with an element of Passion.

 Depression, enormous fear and inner heart emptiness are the signs of such Saturn. It also gives blind and unjustified anger when a person does not even understand what he/she is doing. For example, I had to give a consultation to a woman whose Saturn in the fall was in conjunction with Mars in the 8th House. This is a very bad combination. When her Martian period started,  Saturn joined too and there began severe arguments between her mother, her and her only daughter. The woman nearly beat them saying she would kill. She confessed that she really experienced a great desire to hit them with something heavy.

 Ignorant Saturn gives laziness, absence of basic discipline, failure to perform one’s duties. Such a person unable to follow anything at all – he cannot even accomplish the course of prescribed medicinal drugs – maximum 2-3 days. Moreover, if such a person has a weakened Mars so he/she may choose, on the contrary, to solve all the problems by force, in a very tough way, such people have a very tough way of thinking. Saturn is a very cold and harsh planet therefore Ignorant Saturn is very dangerous (such position was in the charts of the Nazis, Hitler, and Stalin).

 Ignorant Saturn (especially if the Sun is weakened) affects the joints, spine and contributes to great pride and reluctance to see the Divine in everything. Such a person can easily betray, he is a bad, untrustworthy friend.

 Saturn in Passion

 Passionate Saturn gives excessive organization and accuracy throughout. Such a person may not accept criticism; he is too proud and immodest. The Saturn is a planet which crashes the human Ego into the powder with its cold press. It can raise a person from rugs to riches and conversely, back to the dirt, and does it coldly and consistently: friends turn away from such a person; he loses money, serious illnesses begin.

 Since the Saturn owns Capricorn, people with Passionate Saturn may tend to power; desire to establish some strict system, to stand out in any way. It is also the basis for appearing a parvenu’s type. A person with Passionate Saturn may consider everything extremely unserious, tends to have fun even when there is no excuse for that. As the Russian folk proverb says: “Laughter for no reason is a sign for foolishness”. On the face of such person there may be a fun mask but in the eyes – deep sadness.

 Passionate Saturn more often affects a person with excessive seriousness in relation to everything, great inner tension and inability to relax. You may come to such a person with some minor issue and he says he should think it over thoroughly. Such Saturn gives overly cautious. Such a person relies only on himself. He emanates the air of coldness.

 When Russia used to be under the influence of Passionate Saturn everything went according to the strict order, everyone was subordinated to the directions from the upper supervisors as Saturn is responsible for the hierarchy in some extent. It is the Saturn that builds cold, accurately-build structures (they say “social mechanism” not in vain), defines a strict order where each “cog” should know its place. Saturn offers hard work every day for only elementary subsistence. “Who does not work – he does not eat” this was the slogan of the people of that epoch. The Stakhanovite movement (“Stahanovtsy”) is one of its bright manifestations. Passionate Saturn is recognizable in a way of thinking when the world is divided into white and black and everything in it either from the devil or from the God. Under its influence a person thinks: “I achieved something, everything is well – so it is from the God, but if something went wrong so the Satan prevented not to get it”.  Such Saturn prompts to interact with other human beings like with impersonal mechanisms.

 At the physical level the signs of the weakened Saturn are a fragile structure of bone tissues, a weak nervous system and a general lack of vitality threatening early death.  Quite typical are: constipations, accumulation of toxins in the body, possible purulent processes and necrosis of body tissues – all described may happen as this planet is responsible for the decomposition. The influenced person recovers very slowly and his resistance to infections is quite low. In extreme cases the possible diseases are: epilepsy, paralysis, asthma or cancer. As Saturn is in charge of the nervous system the planet may cause its distress.  Under Saturn’s influence there may be numbness and paralysis occur and progressive diseases of the nerves. Inhibitory and overwhelming influence of the planet on the human mind may lead to neurosis and serious mental illnesses. It is the Saturn which generates the majority of diseases, primarily, chronic and progressing. 

Weakened Saturn causes anxiety, nervous tremors, inability to cope with stresses, insomnia. A person may suspect that in people’s behavior there is some threat. He is not practical enough, his perception of reality is distorted, he has difficulty to make money, not consistent in his actions, does not have enough endurance, stamina and unable to cope with difficulties bravely. He may easily give up. His motivation fades away and vanishes and he is not able to manage with long terms plans.  Irritability may occur, tendency to express dissatisfaction, complaints, he is prone to blind rage, insecurity in friendship.

Saturn in Goodness

First of all Sattvic Saturn encourages modesty, humbleness, an absence of false ego, a desire to live in the secluded location. All this is the highest manifestation of the knowledge; to such Saturn a person comes after his dedication to spiritual practices for many incarnations aimed at the development of love to the Divine. He is modest and short of ego, he understands that he lives in the Divine Will. It gives him the true humbleness which means a full acceptance of the situation, throughout the Vision Divine.

Sattvic Saturn gives a serious attitude to the high values, while an excessively serious approach to some things shows Passionate Saturn. A person under the influence of Sattvic Saturn can laugh, joke, but he would always treat the high values seriously. Such a person has a responsible attitude towards his life and understands the true value of time.  He knows that the human life form is a very expensive gift. Quite a great part of our time allotted to us in the human body is spent on the childhood days to grow and become mature individuals and for the conscious part of life we do not have so much time left. So, people who do not evaluate their life hours, “live fast”, are influenced by the Ignorant or Passionate Saturn.

People with Sattvic Saturn have a very serious and careful attitude to their life appreciating their time, knowing it is the greatest value no money can buy. Such people realize the supreme goal of life, they are aware that they have come to this world not to waste the precious moments on fleeting pleasures and mindless lifetime. Truthfulness, living in the Divine will – these are the qualities of Sattvic Saturn. It enables to accept any person and any events’ development calmly on the inner level.

“Saturnine” people often hide their true feelings under the face mask. Their face is usually motionless as a mask and this happens especially if a person is under the strong influence of Saturn as in the case of V.V. Putin (former Russian President). It is quite enough to recall his public speeches and Greetings for New Year. Such people hide their feelings under the cold mask but they can be very sensitive inside.

The typical qualities of a person influenced by Sattvic Saturn are carefulness, being trustworthy, reliable, reserved, serious, and rather thin. They often have deep-set eyes. Sattvic Saturn also gives an ability to concentrate. People with Ignorant Saturn are not able to concentrate almost on anything.

Sattvic Saturn makes a person truthful, executive, gives brilliant organizational abilities; such people tend to do their necessary duties precisely and permanently. Such people are very consistent. They may feel isolated and keep apart from the general mass of people, feeling an inner detachment from the world. Such a person realizes that everything is temporal in the world of names and shapes and does not have attachment to anything, does not have dependencies. 

Some of the qualities of Sattvic Saturn resonate with the ones of the Sun, like: leadership, responsibility, organizational skills but the energies of two planets are totally different. The Sun gives brightness and charisma while Saturn – cold certainty and clarity.  Externally such a person will have a serious, reserved and modest look; he will be trustworthy, careful, reliable, honest, capable to concentrate and keep silent, as well as to immerse into meditation and to have brilliant organizational and executive skills. As a rule, such people are thin with deep-set eyes.

Summary

The effect of Ignorant Saturn is characterized by the following character qualities and models of behavior: a huge ego, sadness, depression, blind rage and overarching fear, soul emptiness, atheism, violence, a tendency to bring great suffering to other creatures, torturing them. Reluctance to see in all the Divine Will, every kind of betrayal, great pride, the unwillingness to work, laziness, complete detachment from the world. Making penance, sacrifices for causing suffering to others. Complete inability to endure. Criminal inclinations, perversion and paranoia.

Saturn in Passion: a belief that hard work is a purpose of life, a constant desire to change something, finish building, etc. Inability to rest and relax. Too serious about everything, excessive caution, the fanatical desire to organize everything. Committing austerities for the sake of achieving one’s selfish goals. The habit of relying solely on their own strength, “work holism”, impatience.

Saturn in Goodness: patience, modesty, humbleness, a lack of false ego, a desire to live in a secluded location, a lack of attachment and dependency, the understanding that everything is temporal, whereas an ability to appreciate every moment no money can buy. The vision through the Divine Will, complete inner acceptance of everything and all, calmness. Loyalty, honesty and reliability. Understanding that the real work is on themselves, first and foremost, one’s own  shortcomings, rather than hard work to achieve material comfort and glory. Full control over emotions. Great performing and organizational skills. Enormous patience and endurance.

How to harmonize the influence of Saturn

From the first words I would like to note that harmonizing the influence of Saturn will take the greatest amount of time compared to other planets and the methods used for that contain more practical measures than theoretical ones. Saturn requires self-discipline, self-denial, humbleness and detachment. It is necessary to adhere to the most appropriate regime in diet and sleep for body and soul, to be able to give vows and not to break them, to accept everything good for body and soul and to reject anything adverse. 

To exercise self-denial and renunciation means not to be attached internally to anything in this world (money, fame, ideology and etc.). To live with a dual logic – divine and human – that is to say, being fully adequate externally we should have another inner divine perspective at the world, we should deeply realize:  everything in this world is temporal, not accidental, even a blade of grass wouldn’t sway without the Divine will; there are no enemies or friends, just somebody plays one’s role according to our karma. In any moment we may lose everything: money, health, name, our loved ones, body, but God, love and soul are the eternal categories.

On the outer level we must always serve and do our duties enthusiastically and without laziness: family duties, professional and social. At our work, for example, we make every effort to be good employees. Whereas, when receiving a letter of leave we should accept this fact as a Divine will, with no ambitions, fear and offence. On the other hand, if it is demanded we would defend our rights keeping internally peace and love. 

Humbleness is an ability to see everybody on one level that is to say not to feel proud, if we do something better that others, not to envy and fall into depression if someone is superior than us.  But, the most important is to understand that the last word always rests with God and, therefore, be ready to take any life scenario calmly, without depression and ambitions to oneself, others and God. The lifestyle which strengthens Saturn contains development of inner balance, equanimity, composure, impartiality. Saturn is also strengthened when we strictly adhere to certain life regulations and follow some authority or tradition. It is recommended to refrain from all that might unnecessarily stimulate nerves and senses.

It is desirable to avoid strong emotional outbursts, stressful and tense situations, to spend more time in nature and in solitude, to be able to slow down a pace of life, to calm down and relax. It should be done regularly, at least once a week.

For that purpose there is a special day – Saturday, it is a Saturn day. As Indian and Tibetan sages have been claiming “resting on Saturday extends lifetime”, and this day is specially designed by the Creator for disconnecting from the busy day routine so we give more time to spiritual practices. 

In Judaism, as it is known are the similar views. By the way, many esoteric and astrological schools believe that Judaism is strongly influenced by Saturn. Therefore, there are many rules and regulations, also clothes preference in color is given to black and dark blue (Saturnine colors). Anyone who even slightly adheres to the Jewish traditions, in addition to obtaining the spiritual benefits, also enhances Saturn (not always its beneficial effect).

Herbal remedies, strengthening Saturn are myrrh, frankincense, comfrey root. All of them reinforce the viability of the organism and help to recover. Additionally, natural remedies and plants that remove toxins and waste from the body are very favorable, they produce deep cleansing of all the tissues, one of such remedies is Triphala, an ayurvedic blend. Aromas of Saturn are sandalwood, frankincense, cedar, juniper; they have a healing effect, similar to the action of the herbs above.

Fasting also enhances Saturn. The Vedic mantra is well suited for harmonization and peacefulness of mind: Om Shanti Shanti Shantee, or the Saturn mantra: Om Shanaye Namah. Those mantras should be chanted, especially on Saturdays.

In conclusion, I would like to say that Saturn requires such qualities as self-discipline, calmness, strong and consistent adherence to certain regulations and authority. But the goal is to purify the heart as much as possible and not making a human robot, the aim is to learn fearlessness and total non-attachment to anything in this world whatsoever, to elevate a person to the divinity level and revive God’s love in his heart.

However, when regulations and rules become a goal (as it happens with various subgroups in Orthodox Judaism) and not the means, then the heart gets hard and very soon becomes similar to a stone; the sense of pride and superiority over others takes possession over a man.

In the charts of religious leaders, fanatics and political extremists of all types Saturn tends to be very strong, but it creates big problems to others, and the personality is almost guaranteed with getting a series of incarnations full of suffering.

It is important to remember that the spiritual level of the individual is counted by the amount of love in his heart, and not by how strictly and devotedly a person followed the rules and regulations (animals may get used to anything through training as well).

If one comes to the strengthening of Saturn with a correct understanding, it is possible to go over the way of many lives for a few years, to bring a great benefit to others and to improve fate and health of oneself, ancestors and descendants. May you have the right outlook and detachment!

From the Training Course

Saturn is the most distant planet from Earth, cold and small, sinister, karmic. Karma related to Saturn varies heavily.

If Saturn is placed well in the natal chart, it brings wisdom, an ability to tell right from wrong, sincerity, honesty, love of justice, detachment to some things, longevity, fame, power, leadership and organizational skills.

If Saturn’s position in the natal chart is unfavorable, it might make its owner greedy, morbid, and gloomy. They always suffer from some losses and psychosomatic problems caused by violation of the chemical balance of the body. This happens due to the deterioration of the wind element’s behavior (violation of the air flow occurring in the body). It may bring the obstacles, delays, humiliation, hostility, bad karma, lawsuits and jail.

A ruler of elderly people.

Karaka (indicator) of life expectancy.

Responsible for the teeth, bones, spleen, right ear, a sense of hearing, feet, knees, hair, nails, bone marrow, low waist.

Enhances the ability to focus, being reserved and serious.

Deep-set eyes, thinness, shyness, a tendency to hide one’s feelings under the face mask, caution, fidelity, reliability, honesty, great performing and organizational skills.

In the seventh house Saturn gets a guiding force (digbala) and is very strong there.

Weakened Saturn gives irritability, a tendency to express the discontent, irrational anger, and insecurity in friendship.

Signs – Capricorn, Aquarius.

Saturn exalts in Libra, falls in Aries.

Color – black. The color of mourning, it brings gloom, decreases in size, but may increase energy of power.

The combination of red and black enhances rigidity.

Iron, steel, wood, coal, lead.

Gemstone of Saturn – Blue Sapphire.

Profession - the workers, artists, organizers.

Direction – West.

It is better always keeping closed tightly the windows on the West, for example, using the blinds.

It is unfavorable to have an entrance to your home from the West. In this part of the house it is better to have a toilet or a workshop, to store tools. You can make a room for guests.

The important quality given by Saturn is an inner humbleness, acceptance of the Supreme will.

Talkativeness destroys Saturn.

Saturn gives endurance.

Saturn is responsible for the first (Muladhara) chakra.

Saturn number in numerology – 8.

The day of the Saturn – Saturday

Those who were born on 8, 17, and 26 of any month are under Saturn influence. The number eight in many esoteric schools represents infinity.

Saturn Mantras:  Om Namo Bhagavate Kurmadevaja, Om Shani Namaha.

Indian astrologers advise for neutralizing the adverse influence of Saturn, as follows:

• to water public trees daily, except Sundays;

• to feed beggars and crows with salty rice with peas;

• to relate respectfully to subordinates;

• fasting on Saturdays (in general, if you fast in some day of the week, you amplify the planet, which is responsible for the day);

• to serve and take care of the elderly and aged people.

Real Cases

I have seen three, four charts where the fallen Saturn being related to the House of Children, and the first child was born disabled or brought much suffering to the parents. One woman (later she was a student of our course) had a very weak Saturn, and her first child was very ill: he had serious heart and digestion system problems; the mother could do nothing to help him and for years was forced just to stand it.

They had been transferred from one hospital to another, but the effect was null. The woman had no internal patience, humility, and an ability to look at the events through the Supreme Will.

I gave her the methods for neutralization, the woman began improving her shortcomings, to develop spiritually, and the child felt much better. He underwent the operation quite successfully, he started to walk, move. She also felt much better, because she had problems with her lower back due to the Saturn influence and her excessive thinness, with the time it got improved too.

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 Once in Israel, I gave a consultation to another woman with the similar problem. She also had the weakened Saturn, related to the House of Children. She hadn’t had kids for a very long time. Her husband came to the consultation and I started advise them what to do. They have followed all the instructions, and the healthy baby was born. Since they have done everything correctly, improved their shortcomings and changed internally, the harmonious child was born, but the strongest post-natal depression developed with the mother. Instead of enjoying her long-awaited motherhood (at the time she was 36 years old), Saturn influenced gloom, sadness and reluctance to take care of her baby because for three consequent past lives she did not want to give anything to her children, whereas the child requires a lot in return.

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Once I consulted a man with quite debilitated Saturn in the House of Career. He had a very gray, heavy, monotonous work, and could not change it. I told him that he had to learn to accept the life events happened to him, to give his power to the work, to love truly what he had been doing, to try making others happy at his work, to help them, to bring good to people. He started working to improve himself. But, Saturn is a slow, heavy and profound planet, it is not so easy to “budge” it, and it usually takes several years to change something.

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 Among real cases I had also the examples of strong Saturn. Once I consulted a girl over the phone. I said to her: “You are a naturally born spiritual teacher and you will become such in a comparatively early age”. At that time she studied biology at the University, and was engaged in the researching activities. When she heard it, she was very surprised. She was not interested in spiritual issues very much. However, she is a very wise person and indeed she began teaching people a few years later. She can read a few pages or even paragraphs of some wise philosophic book, immediately grasps the essence and can teach others. She has been writing very interesting and wise articles, and, as far as I know, already the books. Saturn in her chart is the master of the House of Personality in exaltation in the House of Wisdom and Supreme Knowledge (the Ninth House). She has successfully mastered yoga and immediately became one of the best teachers of it. While it takes years or even the whole life to understand the supreme knowledge for many people, she learns it within minutes or it is better to say she recalls it.

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 In Moscow, I consulted a woman with debilitated Saturn in the chart, related to the Fourth House. The Fourth House is an indicator of Mother, Real Estate, and the Chest area. She had a sunken chest and like her mother she was very thin and suffered because of it. Her mother had a harsh life (the weakened Saturn in the House of Mother usually gives such an effect), and their relationships were very cold. In spite of that woman earned very well, her dwelling conditions were very poor: her apartment had been poured all the time by neighbors, it was noisy around and inhabited by homeless people; everybody wondered why she had to live there. Despite the fact she possessed enough money, there was always something occurred that prevented her to change her place of living. I told her that she had to accept her mother as she was, to get rid of depression and impatience, explained that it is essential to live in the Divine Will, and she began improving her shortcomings. The situation with the real estate improved: she moved, soon she gave birth to another child, the relationships with her mother harmonized, and the joints’ disease caused by the influence of Saturn, had gone.

Along with the seven major planets the ancient Indian wise men have also paid close attention to two shadow planets, which are not quite planets in the usual sense, as they have no physical weight and are not seen in any telescope. But despite this, out of the nine planets that show karma, two are shadow planets (Vedic astrology doesn’t take into consideration some trance Saturn moons, asteroids and comets). And since we have been living in the era of those planets it is very important for us to know about them and live in harmony with them.

  
Astronomically these shadow planets represent a point in which the Moon’s orbit intersects the visible path of the Sun on the celestial sphere. At these points the solar and lunar eclipses can occur. Lunar knots correspond with the time at which the solar and lunar energies interact and enter into a conflict, or neutralize each other. They represent, so to speak, the opportunity “power cut” of solar or lunar energies. That’s why the lunar knots are an extremely sensitive point of the horoscope. Their influence can affect the entire effect of planetary forces.

 
Rahu – north or ascending knot – the point at which theMoon crosses the ecliptic in its movement from South to North.
Ketu – south, or descending knot – the point at which the Moon crosses the ecliptic moving from North to South. Thus, the energy of the northern knot is associated with ascending, extension, but this energy is predominantly negative.

South knot is associated with the descent, the compression of the same energy. In the Vedic system the Ketu effect is not as disadvantageous as the effect of Rahu.

 
According to the legend, Rahu and Ketu are two halves of the demon’s body, who had the drink of immortality and after was punished for that and cut into two parts. The Sun eclipses and the Moon eclipses always take place near one of the lunar knots. That is how these lunar knots are able to suppress, obscure the Sun and any other planet.
The effect of Rahu is similar to the effect of Saturn planet; Ketu’s effect is more like effect of Mars. The energy of the knots, however, is more subtle and elusive than the energy of those planets.

 
The influence of Rahu and Ketu on our health

In our body Rahu is responsible for: cheekbones, skin, excretory system, swallowing, gastrointestinal tract, the rectum.
Ketu is for the spine, spinal canal, nervous system.

Affected Rahu can cause diseases like varicose veins, psychosis, spleen, abrasions, different infections, asthma.
Affected Ketu diseases: low blood pressure, deafness, numbness, and intestinal worms.

Common physical conditions when Rahu is weak: weak immune system, increased proneness to infectious diseases, nervousness, trembling limbs, insomnia, paleness and nervous indigestion.
Connection to the physical body is weakened; you may lose control over bodily functions, which may cause various nervous and mental diseases.

The weakened Ketu gives digestive disorders and blood circulation, ulcers, anaemia and chronic bleeding. Also, could happen muscle or nerve disorders as well as intractable, difficult to diagnose or mysterious deceases (multiple sclerosis, cancer, etc.) – the same if Rahu is weak.
Psychological symptoms of the weak Rahu are increased sensitivity and agitation, fears, anxieties. Hallucinations can occur, drug addiction, depression and moodiness, bizarre fantasies.

A person can misunderstand who he is, and easily succumb to any influence and suggestions, choosing among the most absurd and unrealistic. Such people are usually not very popular, they have very few friends; it is difficult for them to fit into the modern world, they exhaust their strength and energy in the pursuit of unhealthy pleasures, and generally waste their lives.

Rahu
NORTHERN ASCENDING KNOT

A HEAD of the DRAGON

Rahu represents a cosmic force that is necessary to maintain the drama of life. Making our past life dreams come true in this life and causing rebirth of soul in this world, Rahu gives us necessary conditions to ensure that we jump into this material life and feel like kings here. This requires illusory material energy (maya), and Rahu is the raw Mr. Maya (he is son of Maya), he represents this material energy. The symbol of Rahu is smoke. Rahu can put us into an illusion, but it may also set us free from the bondage of time, depending on how we harmonize Rahu.
General indicators of Rahu

Rahu is a cold and dry planet. From the standpoint of astrogeography Rahu is represented by the dry and cold climate locations (the Northern Canada, Greenland), high mountain tops with cold ice and cliffs and wild forests, deserts. All the extreme natural phenomena are under the influence of Rahu: tornadoes, tsunamis, cyclones, etc.
Rahu is the cause of injuries and fatal accidents.

The loss of organs or limbs is connected to the aspect of Mars on Rahu (one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged – all this is the influence of Rahu). Rahu in 3d or 11th house can cause deafness. Worms, parasites, smallpox – all these are Rahu deseases.
Rahu is also responsible for obesity of physical body and physical strength (sumo wrestlers). In today’s world the obesity problem is very crucial.

In 2003 the U.S. Senate introduced the law that defines methods to stop the obesity epidemic in the country (according to the statistics, more than 60 percent of adults and 13 percent of children suffer from obesity in the United States).

 
In terms of astro psychology studying of Rahu is particularly important since it is the cause of the majority of psychological and psychotherapeutic problems (madness, sleepwalking, insomnia, suicide, phobias, manic depression, etc.). People with psychological and psychotherapeutic issues tend to be very strongly influenced by Rahu.
Western medicine uses drugs, chemicals, alcohol, poisons, which is completely under the influence of Rahu.
Rahu is responsible for all kinds of intoxication, alcohol and drug addictions. Alcohol – a “liquid Rahu”, so all the drunken people are under its influence and behave in the same way: sleep or cuss (a common sense at that time is destroyed).
There is a story about a Buddhist monk who got caught by the storm and asked to sleep overnight at the old widow house.  The widow agreed to let him in, but under one condition: either the monk would have sexual contact with her, or eat goat meat, or drink a glass of wine. Monk thought and decided to choose the least of three evils – to drink wine.  And then … then he had done everything else.
People of public professions (film stars, journalists, artists, TV showmen) especially need strong Rahu, in fact it gives the ability to influence masses, helps to maintain attention. Rahu gives creative abilities, imagination and inspiration, so it can cause very good effect on the destiny of those people.

Rahu is a shadow planet; it is responsible for spyware and detective activities. Hitler had very strong Rahu (exalted in the 9th house under the aspect of Jupiter), so he was able to create such powerful governmental organizations like the SS and the Gestapo secret police. But most importantly, that well-placed Rahu had given him was the ability to influence the great masses of people and success in politics. Unfortunately, his entire map says that he was a great demon, so his full potential he used for destructive purposes. A key indicator of his demonic inclinations – the connection of Jupiter with Ketu and the Moon with Rahu – is one of the strongest demonic combinations.

Wise men used to say about such people that they would be glad to bring suffering to others, and eventually destroy themselves with their own selfishness, envy and pride, despite the fact that such people may be active fans of Vedic knowledge, and Hitler was the one.

There are no planets equal to Rahu in their ability to provide unexpected fame, prestige, success in politics. Therefore, some Western astrologers consider Rahu to be a favourable planet.
Rahu is responsible for intuition and even can cause clairvoyance.
Psychologists, psychotherapists, fortune-tellers, astrologers, philosophers, scientists also need strong Rahu.

In the Vedas it was predicted that during the Kali Yuga age the most of scientific discoveries will be made in a dream. We know that D. I. Mendeleev has actually discovered the Table of Chemical Elements in his dream, and A. Einstein wrote in his memoirs that the majority of his discoveries (including the Theory of Relativity) were made during sleeping (dream – this is Rahu area of influence).

In terms of animals Rahu represents a crocodile and a shark. That’s why you shouldn’t look at these animals for a long time as we absorb Rahu energy by this. Among birds, Rahu is the owl, which doesn’t see during the day because it can’t see at daylight, when the Sun is out: the Sun is the energy of Rahu.

Rahu represent also ants and all multi legged insects, especially wasps and scorpions.
In food Rahu represents bitter and spicy taste, as well as vinegar and garlic.

In the Vedas, it was predicted that in the Kali Yuga age the most profitable business will be trade in meat, alcohol and drugs, pornography, the funeral business and the pharmaceutical industry (based on chemistry). Rahu is responsible for all of these businesses. Occupation in these areas can bring big money, but strongly ruin the karma for several incarnations.

In our age there is another new business – gene engineering, biotechnology, cloning too. Their development and implementation cost a lot of money, although some independent researchers mention terrible consequences that may come out of implementing of these scientific developments into human life.

Exchanges, speculation, gambling casino – these are also Rahu areas. The modern economy is literally soaked with Rahu energy, it is built on speculation.

Rahu is responsible for the South-West direction. This is where its influence
is particularly strong. For example, in the South part of the USA there are such cities as Los Angeles and Las Vegas, which are under huge influence of Rahu: there are many casinos, restaurants, also Hollywood. In India, the Southern part it influences Bollywood with its film industry.  Generally, Rahu is very strong in major cities.

South-west at your home should be closed and protected – at home there should be heavy cabinet, in the allotment – fence, trees or bushes. It is not auspicious to have the entrance to the house or apartment in the South-West.
Rahu represents everything that is not natural, including artificial light. In the Vedas, it was predicted that in our time people will use artificial sun. What is it? This is electricity – 100% of Rahu.

Corruption, sexual slavery, trafficking of women – is typical influence of Rahu during the Kali Yuga age. Rahu represents divorce – most women cannot find a husband and are not under the protection of their fathers. It can lead to sexual
slavery, prostitution.

Politics today is also experiencing strong influence of Rahu.
For example, in recent Russian history in 1996 Yeltsin’s rating was less than 1%, but a lot of money was spent on the elections.
The result we know – Yeltsin was re-elected. Using media and PR technology (Rahu) literally anyone can become powerful overnight.

Rahu is the planet of revolution; it is always in need of change.
Rahu creates Robin Hoods and fighters for justice.
Rahu influence is a lot like the one of Mercury. Like Mercury, Rahu is an indicator of intelligence representing intuitive part of it. It gives the wit, sharp mind, communication skills, sarcasm and often impressive sense of humour.

 
If Rahu is very high, it manifests itself as the higher aspect of Mercury, which is associated with the true knowledge and gives the ability to look through illusions.

It is believed that only Jupiter and Mercury can control Rahu energy. Therefore, it is desirable that in horoscope Rahu had contact with Mercury or Jupiter (better in the aspect).

Just as Mercury, Rahu receives the strongest impact on the planet with which it is connected, but it doesn’t lose original quality and nature.

Since Rahu reflects energy of the planet to which it is connected, often it can act as Mars, Jupiter, the Sun or even the Moon. It is impossible to predict exactly what to expect during the Rahu period. It requires careful analysis of where it is placed (which house), in which sign, what are Rahu connections, which planets are in aspect, where its depositor is etc.
Rahu is especially strong from 10 pm to 2 am. According to the statistics,
during that period the majority of crimes are committed and all sorts of accidents happen. Hardly anyone would think to go to a pub or bar early in the morning. Also, this period is suited for black magic, especially in Full Moon.
If a person is not asleep at this time, then negative energy of Rahu enters his systems.
 
Other indicators of Rahu:
• mines, iron, steel, oil (our civilization is energy based);
• divorce or death of a partner (the practice shows if Rahu in the 7th house, it causes divorce or widowhood, 99% of the cases studied. As a cure such a person may get divorced fictitiously and then re-marry the same partner, if Rahu doesn’t destroy the relationships);
• terrorism (especially if Rahu is associated with Mars and Saturn);
• physical force (if Rahu in the 3d house or associated with Mars, it gives great energy and endurance. Many famous athletes have this position).

S.N. Lazarev (author of “Diagnostic karma “) has Rahu in 3d house and dispositor in exaltation which besides the talent to writing books has given him enormous physical strength. He’s in his fifties and his physical shape is impressive (for example, he can swim 50 metres under water);
• all artificial things (electricity, chemicals, synthetics, the pharmaceutical industry, chemical production);
• proneness to lewdness, pornography, promiscuous sex and sexual perversion;
• criticism, arguments, swearing, obscene speech;
• black humour and vulgarity;
• excessive sleeping (if a person is asleep after 6 am – in this time he is filled with Rahu energy), and if not asleep during Rahu period (from 22-00 to 2 am), the nervous system does not rest, which is proved by the modern scientists;
• excessive risk, extreme sports;
• television, computer games, film, photography;
• gambling, casinos, horse racing, the stock exchange;
• smoke (smoking);
• gender changes and plastic surgery;
• international, political, economic and religious institutions (the Red Cross, UN,
World Bank);
• foreigners, influence in foreign countries;
• grandfather on father’s side and grandmother on mother’s side;
• disease: the majority of psychological and psychotherapeutic disorders, many types of cancer,  AIDS and other modern diseases.

From the Training Course

Rahu as a measure of karmic challenges.

Rahu is the energy of expansion, it opens new karmic opportunities in this life. In particular, the position of Rahu in the horoscope chart shows the area of the new growth in this incarnation. The house in which Rahu is situated deserves close attention – the person needs to expand its energy in this house, work on improving his energies. This is the sphere of life where a person has huge possibilities, but is afraid to take first step. But if he overcomes himself
then he will receive a reward in the form of impressive success.

Dispositor of Rahu (the ruler of the sign in which he is situated) controls the expansion of Rahu energy, and its position also shows the area where people will expand their energy in this incarnation. Positive or negative (constructive or destructive) this expansion will be – it depends on the evolutionary level of the soul and from its karma.

Two signs and two houses that are occupied by Rahu and its depositor determine the path of the soul chosen for this incarnation, and in terms of karma – this is important for encoding the chart. These homes require special attention. First of all, let’s see the house where Rahu is situated. Usually this house brings good luck, but you have to check more in depth and look where his dispositor is.

In “Lal Kitab” (the ancient book of Signs and Omens) it is stated that well-developed, harmonized Rahu can give an effect similar to the effect of Venus and Jupiter, united in the same house. Venus and Jupiter – are two the most favourable of the planets, and if they come together in one house, this house is flourishing. If a person is working on his Rahu, then this house (and the corresponding area of life) will prosper in the same way as if there are Venus and Jupiter. Just imagine how this house can be improved if this person works on Rahu, improves and harmonizes it.

It is important to remember, however, that Rahu does not understand the ”happy medium”. It is the planet of extremes: it acts either through lower or through higher aspect. And it is fairly easy to translate from lower to higher dimensions (as well as back and forth – triggered the “law of the pendulum”).

If a person works on self-development, then the house in which Rahu is situated, gains a lot from it, as it is designed for growth. Therefore Rahu is the planet which effects you should always work on, it can’t be just ignored. Harmonized Rahu can quickly raise a person, and if the energy of Rahu isn’t used properly, it leads to degradation.

For example, how you can quickly move from a higher Rahu aspect to the lower? Very simple: you need to buy some alcohol, meat, take pornographic film and bring it all home and … after sunset you’ll feel an irresistible desire to relieve stress. So just several minutes of such manifestations of Rahu it is possible to fall off the highest level.

Another example: you work on self-development, eat healthy, purify your body, lead a chaste life, devoted to your partner but when you just turn on TV … Energy of Rahu can be a magnet: look at the TV screen – and you are fully immersed in this artificial life, so much so that you can’t be disrupted.

There are people who live in the fictional life of characters of TV series – if some character gets married, they rejoice as if it were their own wedding, if someone died in the series – they sincerely mourn and weep. Western psychologists have proved that 90% of television programs have the devastating effect on the psyche. In the United States and Canada 80% of children have serious psychological problems. All these are the consequences of the negative impact of artificial life, television and the Internet. It is important to understand that Rahu gives us a unique opportunity to develop ourselves. We just need to slow down mental activity, to live in the present moment, here and now and, to overcome the fear expanding our energy in the right direction. Rahu strengthens good sense of humour without vulgarity and sarcasm.

We live in an era of Rahu – therefore we need to continuously improve its energy and keep harmonizing it for all our life span.

The number of Rahu is 4. Anyone born on 4, 13, 22, 31 of any month are under the influence of this planet. Number 4 is the symbol of cosmic static integrity, ideally stable structure. It is a four-fold cosmic basis of peace, the four basic elements, the four cardinal directions and the four winds.

It symbolizes the supreme law of the cycles of time, expressed in the following order: morning – noon – evening – night, childhood – adolescence – adulthood – old age. Each individual life passes through four stages: birth – growth – degradation – the death (or: birth – life – death – rebirth, i.e. the new birth), symbolized, respectively, the four cardinal directions. And similar to those stages of life are four Yugas – the great eras.

Rahu in Ignorance

Rahu in Ignorance – it is addiction, alcohol, deep immersion in Maya (the illusion, material energy), and tendency to eat junk food, full of chemicals and genetically modified.  Rahu in Ignorance causes clouding of consciousness and loss of memory loss. Rahu, like Mercury, is responsible for the majority of mental health problems. It is therefore very important to bring both of these planets at least at a Passion level. If both Rahu and Mercury are in the Ignorance, it almost always gives severe mental illness. How did they treat schizophrenia in the old days? Just bring the patient into Passion and Goodness level, prescribing more Sattvic lifestyle – and people got cured. People were moving to this level and improved their health by themselves. Schizophrenia is when the mind is in Ignorance.
It also causes obsessions – especially when Rahu is under the influence of Saturn – something suddenly gets into a man’s head and he might be violent to someone or even kill somebody, not realizing at the time what was happening and how.

 
If Rahu is in Ignorance, and partly in Passion, a person can be addicted to hard rock, or (especially when Rahu is connected to Venus) can have strong desire to dance all night long at the disco in a smoky, filthy room, full of dirty swearing. Or it could be drinking alcohol in a dirty bar etc. It means that Rahu in
Ignorance overshadows consciousness, and the person willingly follows Rahu influence.

If a person has Rahu in Ignorance, he can’t eat and digest natural food, he gets food poisoning from it. It is very important to go outside and get sunlight- it makes the mind more than Sattvic and weakens the adverse influence of Rahu.
Rahu in Ignorance – it is horror movies, especially with violence, bullying, drug addiction and alcoholism. Food preferences: old, foul-smelling, artificial food. Addiction to anything that leads the mind and psyche into the illusion condition: strong alcohol, toxic substances, highly potent drugs. A man desires to live in a non-ventilated, smoke-filled place and to listen to hard rock and another mind-numbing music without a break. Dependence on the TV and computer games. Very materialistic consciousness, the word “God” and any discussions on spiritual topics person with Rahu in Ignorance finds infuriating. Nature, beautiful landscapes seem annoying for him.

Rahu in Passion

Rahu in Passion is also overshadowing consciousness. A person with Rahu in Passion has very strong insatiable passionate desires. When the drunker drinks alcoholic liquid for washing windows or aftershave, – this is typical Rahu in Ignorance appearance, whereas Rahu in Passion – it is good wine. A person with Rahu in Passion can greatly influence the crowd and be a good speaker; he might light up people with his passionate speeches.  

Love for tickling nerves situations, extreme sports (e.g. skydiving), desire to be on the risky verge – this is all Rahu in Passion; artificial entertainments, such as roller coasters, an artificially created picture (computer generated). The computer games which are addictive as a drug are also Rahu and partly the effect of Ketu, as it is responsible for the computers.
Rahu in Passion, like Jupiter, gives blind fixation on some idea, a certain fanaticism, which leads quickly to Rahu in Ignorance: for example, terrorist attack – it started as a struggle for an idea (Rahu in Passion) with the mass murder of innocent people (Rahu in Ignorance).

Passion can’t be maintained for a long time, it is either transformed into Goodness level by will power, or automatically falls into Ignorance.

For a person with Rahu in Passion, for example in the 2nd house, money is very important; he is too much attached to it. He has a very passionate, emotional speech, he often speaks with aspiration and among the group of people tries to outshine the others, makes fun of them, humiliates. Such a person is overly attentive to his/her appearance, especially if Rahu is connected to Venus. This person may look clean and well groomed, but in reality where it is unseen for others, he does not care about being clean and tidy: he can wear dirty underwear, his home only gets cleaned before the arrival of guests, on vacation he can “relax to the fullest” and organize clutter in hotel rooms, etc. Such person is addicted to smoking, soft drugs and alcohol, which is of better quality than when Rahu is in Ignorance.

Also addiction to TV and attraction to various electronic equipment.
Such person with Rahu in Passion longs to live in a big city, visits countryside only for having meat barbeque and drink alcohol beverages. Preferences in food: artificial, beautiful, filled with various chemical additives (dyes, preservatives, etc.). He/she mistakenly sees unusual excitement and hallucinations during narcotic trances as a sign of spiritual development. In spiritual matters the most important thing for him/her is to seem “very advanced” to others.

Rahu in Goodness

Rahu in Goodness gives a person amazing intuition, because he is responsible for intuitive part of mind. Such person can even clearly see the other worlds and to predict future.

A person with Rahu in Goodness tries to live close to nature, most naturally, and eat only natural products.
Since Rahu is similar to Mercury, the person with Rahu in Ignorance is in the world of his dreams (schizophrenia), a person with Rahu in Passion lives with obsessive ideas in his mind. Rahu in Goodness allows you to see the past, the present and the future, to penetrate into other worlds. Rahu in Goodness takes a person beyond the limits of illusion, beyond material Maya. He/she realizes that everything in this world is temporary, and does not cling to it.

 
Summary

Rahu in Ignorance gives clouded consciousness and memory loss. If a person has such Rahu position, he generally can’t eat and digest natural food, it causes food poisoning. This person is addicted to smoking, soft drugs and alcohol. He likes living in dirt and mess. Wherever he comes, he quickly fills the space around him/her with filth (both physical and psychological).

The influence of Rahu in Passion is represented by the following character qualities and behaviour models: the huge materialistic aspirations, the desire to manipulate others, to be able to make magical tricks, fanaticism. Such people use spiritual practice in order to achieve tangible goals, power and prestige.

The influence of Rahu in Goodness is represented by the following personality and behaviour: aspiration to live close to nature, the preference to natural products, healthy diet, regular meditation and clear awareness that this whole world is illusory. The ability to see the past and the future, intuitively understand the most subtle laws of the Universe. Unselfishness. Complete absence of fear of the future.

How to harmonize the influence of Rahu

To harmonize Rahu, first of all you need to read mantras and prayers. The mantra, harmonizing all levels of Rahu:

Om Namo Bhagavate Varahadevaya.

It can be chanted daily.
Rahu is the son of Maya, or Durga (the material energy), and its representative, so the chanting of the mantra Om Namah Sri Durgaye harmonizes it very well (108 times on Wednesdays, Fridays or Saturdays, looking out in the direction of South-West).
Mantra of Siva – Hum (with a long “U”) is also very good. It breaks illusion and purifies the psyche from negative influences and suggestions.

But the main mantra of Rahu is Om Ram Rahave Namaha. It is better to chant Rahu mantra after the sunset. All canonical prayers in different religions are also very harmonising for Rahu.

To neutralize the negative influence of Rahu it is very good and useful to drink warm sweetened milk before night sleep, – it calms the mind. Generally speaking, all dairy products are very good for this, especially clarified butter – ghee.
In order to harmonize Rahu we must comply with the basic religious principles:
• Ahimsa (nonviolence);
• rejection of intoxication;
• prohibition on illicit sex;
• a ban on gambling.

Highly desirable:
• to stop eating meat, take only natural food without dyes, fragrances and other chemicals. It is also important to stop eating artificial and genetically modified food;
• to wear clothes made of natural fibres (linen, cotton, silk, etc.); to minimize the use of household items made of synthetic materials;
• keep clean and tidy everywhere, especially in a place where you sleep (Vastu – the Vedic science of organization of space in accordance with the laws of nature
said: if the house is dirty, then Rahu energy enters it, that’s why Brahmans devoted a lot of their time to cleanliness). It is highly desirable that in the Southwest corner of your home would be something heavy (for example, a large closet), it blocks the penetration of destructive energy of Rahu into your house. A little statue of Ganesh can be used here too. It is very healthy to eat oranges, buckthorn, honey – they reinforce the beneficial effects or Rahu and weaken the negative ones.

Herbs are not as effective when working with Rahu, as it has a very subtle effect, but to make work with Rahu energies easier, it can be helpful using fragrances which clean atmosphere psychologically: camphor, myrtle, sage, eucalyptus, and soothing aromas such as sandalwood, lotus, and frankincense. Best of herbs that provide harmonization of Rahu – calamus.

For purification it is good to use cow dung. This is a very strong antiseptic, and if to dilute a small piece of dung in the water and wash the floor with it, it cleans not only the energy at home, but also on the higher level.
Colour palette of Rahu matches the colours of Jupiter: light yellow and gold. Also good for harmonizing Rahu are the sun colours – orange, for example, as well as transparent colours. These colours will neutralize the negative of Rahu, an obscure effect of Rahu and will enhance its positive qualities.

Another method for harmonizing Rahu is to donate black or blue blankets for charity religious organizations; to put blue flowers into the flowing water for 42 days;
to do something good, to take care of grandmother in mother’s line, and grandfather in father’s.
It is very important to try to spend as little time as possible in the big cities, to minimize the use of technical devices, especially TV. As often as possible to be in the nature; to adhere to a vegetarian diet, avoid all kinds of intoxication: alcohol, cigarettes, and drinks containing caffeine.

The most dangerous thing – is drugs, even short-term “acquaintance” with soft drugs can increase adverse effects of Rahu for many years.
It is also important to avoid anything that weakens Rahu: too much of strong impressions, hypnosis, and any touch with black magic.
It is important to talk less and do not give in to the false fantasies, to seek calmness, tranquillity, and to develop the Jupiter qualities: kindness, compassion and faith.

It is better to follow the pure and clear doctrine to maintain discipline, moral and ethical standards and to avoid wishful thinking.
The hardest thing is to live in the present, not worrying about the past and not fearing the future. If we harmonize the influence of Rahu, our lives will change dramatically for the better. Shadow planets can manifest themselves through the highest aspect when being in any house and sign, although, certainly, we should remember that the position of depositors, aspects and the connection with other planets is very important for Rahu.

 Examples of Rahu position in different houses

Let’s have a look, for example, at the effect of Rahu in the 5^th house.
The 5th house signifies children, morality, higher knowledge, intelligence, love of spouse. If Rahu is in this house, the extremes are at worse – the person is either the best of men, or the worst. Dr. K.N. Rao said that the human mind will be clouded (the 5 ^th house represents the highest intelligence). Also, it’s not good for procreation, so a woman with such Rahu position shouldn’t have abortions done in no way, and her health during pregnancy should be under very attentive monitoring. Preparation for childbirth is to be taken quite seriously. Parents-to-be should clean themselves both at physical and mental level.

 If you have Rahu in 5 ^th house, this requires serious work on self-development. The 5 ^th house signifies morality, higher knowledge, intellect. Rahu can shatter these meanings very badly… A person may seem smart, but take a slippery road. Therefore, with such position of Rahu one should be very moral and ethical, but not attached to it, he cannot criticize other people.
If a person with Rahu in 5 ^th house does not comply with the standards of morality, it may have negative effect on children and higher intelligence. For women it is particularly dangerous – she can do something stupid, and her children would suffer.
Rahu in the 5 ^th house often gives the fear of having children. If such Rahu position is in the horoscope of a man, he often makes a woman to do an abortion. But if the couple overcomes the fear, such people will be the best parents. It only takes to make first step – to go through “hard core ascetics” of conception and then during the period of pregnancy and childbirth. If a woman goes properly through pregnancy, it is the best period of her life.

If Rahu in the 5 ^th house is strong and in well-aspected, the owner can be very clever and have good children, be successful in investments.
This situation is usually not quite suitable for formal education. A person with such Rahu position is better fit for correspondence courses and self-study.
Rahu in the 1 ^st house shows that this person was much focused on his partner in his previous life, and in this life he has to become a harmonious person in all respects – to spend a lot of time working on self-development. He has to understand that in order to change the world, first of all, he needs to change himself.
Such people usually have some unusual appearance, they often look very extravagant, they may have big ego, which manifests itself in pride and vanity.

If Rahu manifests itself through the higher dimension, it gives deep penetration into the essence of things, true knowledge about how cosmic forces work, deep understanding of mass psychology, the lack of pride and selfishness.
Those people often are lonely in their personal life and, in my humble experiences, during their childhood they may lose someone from their parents. Such a situation is quite common in the astrological maps of saint people, scientists, philosophers (Krishnamurti, Bhaktivigyana Goswami, and Nietzsche).

Rahu in the 2^d house: for such people speech is very important. We should learn to speak the truth in pleasant words. The main thing for a person who has Rahu position in the 2^d house is a complete ban on alcohol and smoking. It is very helpful to become a vegetarian. This position of Rahu gives strong concern about money savings, sometimes greediness and bad eating habits.
Rahu in the 4^th house – quiet a tricky positioning, in my humble experience it may give emotional instability.
The main challenges of the 4^th house are contentment with life and real estate. Rahu is the planet of desire, the planet of expansion. Therefore, in the 4 ^th house it can give internal dissatisfaction, fear (”Can I pay for the house?”) and attachment for stability. Our soul needs to develop, it needs to grow, but if we aim at a lack of change, this leads to degradation. If Rahu in the 4^th house is harmonized – it gives inner satisfaction of life and good real estate situation. This placement of Rahu is favourable for real estate dealers, child psychologists, writers for children, farmers, transporters, architects, interior designers, construction engineers.

Rahu in the 7^th house – such person must learn to work in the team, trust partners, the husband (wife). If Rahu is in the 7^th house, such person will be successful overseas, and it is useful for him/her to travel frequently abroad and have business with foreigners. Even better, it would be to immigrate. This situation is very favourable for achieving social status and success at work. It is believed that such a person will have wisdom. Such Rahu position enhances sexual desire and harm relationships with spouses, which usually bring a divorce (at least at the first marriage). In this case, it is not recommended to get married until 21 years old and re-marry the same partner, alternating marriage and divorce. Usually it helps to avoid separation. For such person it is important to learn to be there for a spouse and to understand that success in a relationship depends on how much we give. These people work better independently and not under someone else’s leadership. They make good psychologists, consultants, experts in management and coordinators of the various projects.

If Rahu is in the 8^th house a person should learn to live by intuition. He can choose a profession that is relevant to the death (for example, reanimation doctor), it is good to be involved into some researching work. Also, suitable are such professions as insurance agents, investigators, writers of mystic novels. The work can be connected with mysticism. With this Rahu position it is important that the person is very much engaged in the spiritual self-development and selfless service.
Rahu in the 9^th house generally is quite favourable. As it shows the main area of interest and the work of a person, such Rahu position underlines the importance of long journeys, foreign influence, philosophical understanding of life, acceptance of spiritual teachers, initiation, and self-actualization. Such a person often has to become a spiritual teacher or a political leader. Those people usually tend to create their own philosophy. If Rahu is weak, a person can be immoral, have aggressive attitude towards the religious and philosophical schools, spiritual teacher and his own father. The weakened Rahu often in the 9 ^th house points out that the father is an alcoholic or drug addict.

If Rahu is placed in the 12^th house such person should do yoga, get away for solitary retreats from time to time. This position gives a taste to all kinds of intoxication. With this position of Rahu it is very useful to study foreign languages, to live periodically in seclusion, practise ascetic forms of yoga. A person with such Rahu position can develop a correct vision of the material energy (maya). Such people often become doctors, nurses, healers, preachers, lawyers, social workers and politicians.
Rahu in upachai houses – 3, 6, 10, and 11 – usually is favourable. It brings good results and is an indicator of good karma. Both Rahu and Ketu could bring a lot of good, if it becomes Raja Yoga Karaka. This occurs when they are in kendra or trikoni and aspected by or connected with the hosts trikoni or kendra, respectively. For example, Rahu is in the 4^th house and aspected by Jupiter, the owner of the 9^th house. Alternatively, Ketu is in the 9^th house and connected to the owner of the 10^th house, etc.

Real cases
Rahu is a shadow planet, and great caution is expected with it.
For harmonizing Rahu it is very important to have a healthy lifestyle. I have made friends with a very noble and honest businessperson. Rahu is in its fall in his horoscope that may weaken children’s house (and he had three children).
Then period of Rahu has begun in his life. His eldest son became ill with cancer and suffered for a few years. He and his wife have done everything they could but he died. The businessman himself got problems in his chest; Rahu gave him a few diseases. He was prone to drinking, meat-eating, smoking. Dependence was not very strong, but I still told him that he should stop all that. I gave him some advice. He started working on self-improvement …

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When Rahu is weakened in the house of a partner, it usually gives widowhood, early death of a spouse, loss of husband or wife. Quite recently, a man has come to my consultation; he had lost his very dear spouse, relatively early. There are around hundred cases like that in my practice.

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Rahu in the 1^st house – a house of personality – often gives a very short temper, extravagance and complex marriage, whereas Ketu in this case is a house of marital relations.
A young boy, the son of one of my friends, a businessperson from the US, has Rahu in his chart weakened. He is deeply into computer technology (Rahu is partly responsible for this), artificial food, and, unfortunately, drawn towards alcohol and soft drugs. As a child he had mental problems and was not good with other people because of his short-temper and unpredictable character, he was lazy and did not want to learn.
I have been consulting him for quite a long time, explaining the importance of a healthy lifestyle. I gave him methods of harmonization of Rahu and working on hidden subconscious programs and psychological problems. I told him how to change internally, how to adopt healthy lifestyle, enjoy nature, which mantra to repeat. He began to follow my advice and soon married an Israeli girl, the same age as him. They got involved into big business, after some time a wonderful child was born. He started helping his father, became calmer, more successful and harmonious.

KETU
A SOUTH DESCENDING KNOT
A TAIL of the DRAGON
General significations of Ketu
Ketu is the oldest and the most important of the planets. Its symbol is
flag, its deity – Ganesha. Ketu is the most important of the planets, because
it signifies the beginning and the completion of everything.
Geographically Ketu is represented by severe depressing places, particularly dry, and hot (the Sahara desert, Judean Desert, the Dead Sea area, and so on). That is why many hermits went into the wilderness in pursuit of liberation. Ketu is represented by all uncultivated lands, cemeteries, prisons and shelters. Ketu is associated with the renunciation, so in the cemeteries its energy is very strong.

There is not generally accepted view about the direction of Ketu: some say that Ketu does not have direction at all, others claim that the direction of Ketu – the Northeast (in the US, it is Alaska).
Ketu represents corpulent people, people with a belly, short and stocky types. Ketu gives oddity and hypnotism, especially if it is located close to the ascendant.
Ketu represents the sense of smell, and there are two extremes – either
such people are very sensitive to smells (”sniffs like a dog”), or vice versa.
Ketu is an indicator of either great wealth or extreme poverty.

Ketu is the most unpredictable factor in the Universe. All the extremes, irrational things is Ketu, it always brings a period of changes (especially in the beginning and in the end), but to predict how the things will turn out is almost impossible.
All kinds of finishing in something – this is Ketu.
Rahu likes to learn, Ketu – to teach. Rahu is the planet of knowledge, and Ketu is the planet of wisdom.

Due to its strong attachment to the past Ketu represents inertia. If Rahu always worried about the future, Ketu activates thinking about the past. If a person is attached strongly to the past, he cannot take risks, cannot start something new.

Understanding the role of the axis of Rahu-Ketu in the horoscope is very important for Astropsychology. Rahu is responsible for the future, for expansion. Ketu represents the past and provides compression. So when a person begins to worry about the future, becomes afraid of it – then Rahu is out of balance.

If a person is immersed in the past, regretted it, lives in it – this brings disharmony to the Ketu energy. However, if a person lives in a reality, that is “here and now”, he is not worried about the future and has no regrets about the past, he brings “Rahu-Ketu” in equilibrium.

All religions and spiritual teachings say that in the spiritual world there is no future, no past, there is always only present. If we start living in the present moment, then comes the realization that the kingdom of God is within us.

Everyone worries about tomorrow, but no one can know the future – only God. If God gives us some information about the future – hence, we are given an opportunity to change it.

According to the Gestalt therapy, the primary cause of all neuroses is that people do not live in the present. Good psychologist when working with a client, first and foremost, tries to understand how is he adequate to the time. If a person is not in the “here and now”, talking to him does not make any sense; first he has to get back to the reality.
Therefore, to be in the present moment is very important – it harmonises Rahu and Ketu. Eckhart Tolle in his book “The Power of Now “and in his other books speaks very well about it.

Ketu gives stubbornness, but it can give energy of intense focus, a deep dive, and enlightenment.
Ketu and the Sun are a bit similar in their effect – they both can give lives and affect us greatly. The sunny side of Ketu manifests itself when Ketu is connected to the Sun in the chart or placed in the 5 ^th house or the sign of Leo. Nevertheless, Ketu may also represent negative influence of the Sun; it can completely destroy and disrupt the Sun energy, which represents our sense of self-identity. For this reason, it is considered the most powerful of the planets.

Ketu can act as a higher aspect of Mars; even sometimes, it can be more impulsive than Mars. Both of these planets represent instinctive awareness, but with Ketu it is more profound.

 Of all the planets Ketu pays attention only to Jupiter. If Ketu is somehow connected with Jupiter in the chart (connected, aspected by it or is under its signs – Sagittarius or Pisces), bad qualities of Ketu are suppressed, thus demonstrating a very good karma. But here, also, the extremes can come out – either it will give the quality of a great saint, or a great demon. For example, both charts of Hitler and Mother Teresa contain Ketu being associated with Jupiter.

Similar to Jupiter, Ketu also can represent benefits at all the levels. If Ketu is well located – it means luck, mercy, success, etc. Ketu is positively manifested if it is in the 9 ^th and the 12 ^th house, which in the abstract horoscope represent Jupiter’s signs – Sagittarius and Pisces.

The aspect of Jupiter on Ketu indicates good karma from previous lives. But we should also take into account Rashi-Drishti (aspects of signs). Many teachers say they are even stronger than the Graha-Drishti (aspects of the planets).
Ketu is a very emotional planet, the planet of extremes. It is manifested through either an extreme complexion (48 size feet), or intense emotions. Humour of Ketu – is, for example, Charlie Chaplin (very unusual, unconventional, unpredictable, and silent). From the animals, Ketu represents dogs, so it is not very favourable if the dog lives inside the house – it brings the energy of Ketu, the energy of separation, of unexpected negative changes. The dog must live in the yard of the house. Eagles – is also Ketu.

Ketu represents the 8 ^th house and the 8 ^th sign (Scorpio). Ketu governs the homeless, disadvantaged people, gives either unexpected profit or unexpected loss.
Other indicators of Ketu:

• biology (especially genetics);
• viruses, bacteria, HIV / AIDS;
• the insurance business;
• people with psychological problems and those of their treats (psychologists and psychotherapists);
• harsh and miserable places, dry and hot, uncultivated land, cemeteries, prisons and shelters;
• unexpected loss or achievement;
• the ancient pyramids and tombs.
Together with the Sun Ketu is directly linked to our attention, it is responsible for awareness. Therefore, in the 1^st house Ketu often gives, on one hand, the sensitive nature, on the other – a great intuition and discernment.
Ketu is a planet of the spiritual world; it is responsible for the enlightenment and liberation. This is why it is considered the most important planet.

Ketu is very intuitive, psychic, and psychological power that can connect us either with higher reality, or with lower reality and take us away beyond the material level. This is the reason Ketu is considered one of the strongest of the planets and it resembles the Sun in many ways.

Ketu is the force that connects us with the soul. It is responsible for yoga whose purpose – liberation and immersion in pure love to God.

 Ketu is the cosmic force that represents the beginning and the end of the drama of existence. Without Ketu it is impossible to go beyond the bounds of time and repetitive cycle of births and deaths.

The sign and the house, where Ketu is situated, show the sphere in which we worked in the past life, and where we have profound realization. This is an area of our true talents, in which we have reached perfection in the past incarnations.
Sphere, which is affected by Ketu in the chart, is always associated with some ambition and obsessions; it is an area of our disappointments and greatest vulnerability. This is the most difficult area in life, usually that is where the source of most of our misfortunes. It is not recommended to be too immersed in the achievements of the past, because in this life we have to walk a new path to expand the energy of Rahu.

Talents brought by Ketu we already have got, this is what we are able to do, and now we need to perform challenging Rahu tasks, but, unfortunately, many prefer to follow the path of least resistance and “dive” into the zone of Ketu.

For example, Rahu is situated in the 4 ^th house and Ketu, respectively, is in the 10^th. If Ketu is in a good position, such person is usually successful in his career, but even if Ketu is bad (placed in a sign that weakens it, badly aspected, etc.) and, accordingly, his career is not very good,  such person feels more comfortable at work than at home anyway. It is important for him to work on Rahu, then a career will improve automatically. This person should learn to control emotions, and not to be their slave in order to find peace for his soul. Until he doesn’t find harmony and inner satisfaction and doesn’t start respecting his mother (relationship with one’s mother – one of the principal values of the 4 ^th house) – his career will not develop.

Another example: if Rahu is in the 5 ^th house we have to work on to deepen wisdom, reaching harmony with children, building relationships based on love with your spouse. If Ketu is placed in the 11 ^th house it means powerful friends, business, active social life. But if someone becomes a public figure, he/she doesn’t have enough time for his family. Therefore, we must focus on finding balance, as money will come easily enough anyway.

 If Ketu is in Leo sign, it brings awareness as an individual. It indicates that such person in the previous life had a very strong personality and now his karmic task is to inspire others. For this he needs to be very flamboyant and different from others. It is important for such person not to be selfish, to serve others, learn to give, because his Rahu is in Aquarius – the sign of service and efficiency.

The higher the level of soul evolution, the more harmony and energy exchange between Rahu and Ketu. Dispositor Ketu can be called karmic exhaustion planet, or planet that controls input and output of a certain kind of energy.
What does this mean? Talents of the person in this life can be easily encoded through dispositor Ketu and its position in the map. Ketu symbolizes our achievements.

 If dispositor of Ketu is Venus – such person can be very artistic and would have certain talent in art. If it is Saturn, then person will have organizational skills, ability to serve others. If it is Mars, then such person will have abilities to be a manager and leadership skills, or can be a surgeon. If it is the Moon, then a person will have intuition and be successful in psychology and parenting. If it is Mercury, then a person can be an astrologer, if it is the Sun, then qualities of leadership, success in medicine, spiritual knowledge, and spiritual psychology. If it is Jupiter, then person is good at pedagogy, teaching, science, religious service (of course, this is a very short description).
Two signs and two houses that occupied by Ketu and his dispositor is the key to find a talent, abilities, and basics of human nature. Ketu indicates that we have learned from the past incarnations.

 For example, Ketu in the 1 ^st house gives intuition, inclination to philosophy, deep penetrating abilities. It shows that such person worked on his self-development in his previous life. Connection between two karmic control planets (dispositor Rahu and Ketu) usually defines the direction in which a person will have progress in this life. If there is a strong link between two planets, it may  even indicate a certain doom in the present life.

“Lal Kitab” links Ketu with Mars and Saturn and says that Ketu is somewhat a bridge between their energies, and the place in the chart where it is located shows the sphere of life, in which those energies should be harmonized, “make friends with each other.”
Therefore, in order to bring the house in which Ketu is situated to prosperity, we have to learn to find a balance between the activity (Mars) and caution (Saturn), action and patience, impulsivity and restraint. Learning how to control those energies is one of the most important karmic challenges in this lifespan.

Ketu in Ignorance

The influence of Ketu in Ignorance is characterized by the following qualities and behaviour: huge unreasonable temper tantrums, difficulties with self-identity, tendency toward self-destruction, great sense of insecurity, the desire to escape from the world, to hide in the “hole” (dirty and strange).
Since Ketu is a fiery planet, its energy in Ignorance may emerge as strong unreasonable anger and extremely impulsive behaviour. Ketu in Ignorance can also give problems with identity and big fears.

A person with Ketu in Ignorance is not able to accept changes in life, change of circumstances. Such person may live in slums on the outskirts of town, near the cemetery, in abandoned or strange places.

Ketu in Ignorance gives inability to concentrate. Actions of such person completely contradict all logic and common sense, he even cannot understand by himself why he/she acts in this way and not otherwise.

Ketu in Passion

The influence of Ketu in Passion is characterized by the following: unpredictable behaviour, sudden mood swings, conservative attitude, a desire to fight for a variety of outdated values and ideas, participation in various wars, mass riots, etc.
Overconfidence is periodically replaced by self-doubt.
A person with Ketu in Passion tries to avoid any changes very hard; he is greatly attached to stability, and just by that, he attracts changes into his life, which are so frightening.

Ketu in Goodness

The influence of Ketu in Goodness is characterized by the following typical qualities and behaviour: complete detachment from the material world, non-attachment to anything whatsoever, a gift of Providence, strong sensitivity, vision of Supreme Soul in all and everyone. Wisdom, determination, discipline, great inner strength. Such person is not afraid of death completely, but does not long to it. People with Ketu in Goodness have amazing insight, great vision, and open Providence. In contrast to it, people with Ketu in Ignorance can hallucinate, for example, based on alcoholism, and in case of Ketu in Passion, a person may claim that he sees anomalies and similar things. Ketu in Sattva (Goodness) gives people a deep understanding of spiritual truths, mystical abilities. Very many mystics are born with Ketu in Goodness.

 How to harmonize the influence of Ketu

Most problems arise from Ketu because of misunderstanding of necessary restrictions. The effect of Ketu is getting worse, if a person does not restrict himself at all: works too much (or, conversely, a little), reads, eats, sleeps too much or too little, etc.
Ketu is weakened when we insult someone. Beneficial effect of Ketu is terminated completely, if the person insulted in any way someone who sincerely serves God. The adverse effects of Ketu strengthen by living in a big city, or using various, modern, technical equipment.

For harmonizing Ketu, it is very important to stop digging in the past, to regret it. It can appear, for example, if a person who had achieved something in his life, then, due to the relocation or a change in political or economic situation lost it. Such a person often cannot accept it, and instead of living on and grow, he just moans and mourns, feeling sorry for himself and remembering how good it was. We should concentrate on the present day.

Ketu is harmonized by visiting wilderness and nature, but without the use of intoxications (alcohol, etc.) which by itself quickly take shadow planets out of balance.

We have to get rid of such qualities of character, as pessimism, hypocrisy, and limited worldview.
To enhance Ketu a person has to learn to trust his own thoughts and feelings, to develop intuition and foresight. He needs to introduce into his life elements of self-discipline, along with the freedom of spirit and ability to be compassionate
towards others and develop a strong will and determination.

In order to improve Ketu energy, like solar energy, we need to strengthen the spiritual knowledge, develop the ability to study the depths of our inner world.

To strengthen Ketu there is “Buddhist psychological training”, – it is when a person spends all day at the cemetery, seeing how people are buried, and realizing that it will be himself buried some day. Meditation on death and awareness that everything in this world is temporary increases the higher energy of Ketu – because psychologically Ketu symbolizes the illusory power of our fears and attachment to our achievements. This power is distracting us from affirmative actions and change. Ketu teaches us that in this world, sooner or later we will lose everything: health, loved ones, job, money and even body. That excessive attachment to anything or anyone is only an obstacle, both for us and the object of our affection.

Usually, when a person enters a period of Ketu, it means that in his life there will be some changes. The weaker is Ketu, the more people are afraid of change and the more powerful and painful these changes will be.

 I often had to work with the charts of people who have entered the period of affected Ketu, and usually these people received blows of fate in the area of life that was touched by Ketu in their horoscopes. Additionally, the stronger were the attachments, the stronger were the strikes – rare, hard for diagnostics diseases, a complete professional collapse, a loss of self as an individual, etc.
Ketu requires us to be completely detached internally to anything in this world. On the external level, we need to lead active life and fulfil our duties and look after our body and everything that surrounds us very carefully. At the physical level, energy of Ketu is stimulated by colour of the Sun – bright, warm, clean, clear shades of yellow and orange.
Cloves, celandine, and wormwood neutralize adverse effects of Ketu.

To harmonize the Ketu energy the following herbs that are exacerbating the perception, are helpful: sage, calamus, myrtle, and juniper. For a weak Ketu can be used suitable aromatic oils with powerful, deep penetrating odour: camphor, cedar, myrrh, and frankincense.

 In severe cases of Ketu use soothing herbs: elderflower and skull-cap flower.
Mantras for reinforcing Ketu and sharpening perceptions:

Om Namo Bhagavate Matsyadevayya, Om Sri Ganeshayya Namah,

Om Namah Ketave and Om Kem (with a long “e”).

Mantra Om Namah Shivaya by regular chanting neutralizes the negative effects of both Rahu and Ketu.
“Lal Kitab” recommends the following in order to harmonize Ketu:
• during 47 days throw in the flowing water flowers of the earth colour;
• pierced ears or nose;
• to feed stray dogs for 47 days;
• to donate warm clothes to a religious organization;
• do something positive for grandmother from father’s side or grandfather from mother’s side.

But the best tool to help you neutralize the adverse effect of all the planets as soon as possible is a selfless service to peace and development of the divine, unconditional love.

From the Training Course

 Ketu is a lower part of Rahu body. He also received ambrosia and became immortal. Ketu is beheaded half-planet, as shadow as planet Rahu, but not so negative, so Ketu is Moksha-Karak (the cause of liberation from the cycle of birth and death or indication of enlightenment, which frees a person from the shackles of the material world). He gives spiritual tendencies, asceticism and detachment from worldly desires and ambitions. Ketu is also a semi-planet that gives wisdom, the ability to discern and jnana – spiritual knowledge, a true understanding of nature. To the people who are under Ketu influence it gives psychic abilities and makes them masters in the art of healing with herbs, spices, food, with the help of tantric practices, allows to treat people afflicted with evil spirits, ghosts and astral forces. People under the influence of Ketu also have the ability to enter unnoticed or dissolve into the crowd.

Ketu can be more damaging if it is placed with disadvantage or in close conjunction with another planet. Ketu destroys the force of that planet which it is connected to, or the house in which Ketu is located, causing the planet to act in a very unpredictable manner. Zodiac sign of Ketu is Pisces. In some schools of astrology, it is considered that Ketu is exalted in Scorpio, and it is in the fall in Taurus, while others believe that Ketu is exalted in Taurus, and it is in the fall in Gemini. Rahu and Ketu are considered to be elemental and instinctive forces. But the power of Rahu is hedonistic whereas Ketu has the energy, relieving from attachment to worldly desires.

Its best (and worst) results Ketu gives in 48-54 years. It is believed that Ketu is connected to sesame seeds, black or dark green clothing, flags, oil, gold, iron, weapons and people with disabilities.
K.N. Rao believes that computers are also under Ketu influence.

In numerology, Ketu is associated with the number 7.
Everyone who was born on 7, 16 or 25 of any month are under the control of Ketu. Number 7 is symbolic in the Vedic tradition. It is one of the main numerical parameters of the Universe. It arises from the sum of two main mystical numbers – 3 and 4 – and describes the general idea of the Universe. The number 7 plays a dominant role. Seven tones of musical scales are first mentioned in the Indian Vedas. This number is of particular importance in Hindu mysticism – it is  a symbol of health. People perceive all the surrounding phenomena through seven holes in his head: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and mouth. People tend to assimilate incoming information if it does not exceed seven categories.

If the number of characters, for example, points on paper are less than seven, then a person is not counting, simply calls it intuitively. If the number of points is greater than seven, then the mind begins to count.
The stone of Ketu is Cat’s Eye stone.

Ketu is the personification of all kinds of endings and new unexpected beginnings. The chapter about Ketu is the final in this book. I hope that after reading it, you, dear reader, will begin a new life. What way it will be better than the previous, depends on you, how you will use the knowledge.

Case studies

In Toronto I have been consulting a woman who had weakened Ketu in the house of children in her horoscope. I immediately pointed out that her first pregnancy was not successful in so and so period, and she confirmed it. I asked if she had hard to diagnose diseases associated with the digestion that started a year ago and continued up to the present time. She confirmed. I gave her advice about what to do in order to get rid of it, told her what to do to resolve the issue of childbirth, and she began to follow everything very strictly. Soon she is going to give birth to a baby, and the pregnancy period has been favourable. And, as I understood, digestive problems went away long before conception.

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It is believed that Ketu period usually gives dramatic changes in life and my practice confirms this. Once I told to my friend, who had Ketu in a certain position in the house of career, that in two or three months, he would stop working at his company. He replied that it seemed impossible, as he had just extended his contract and would not be able to leave – they simply would not let him go, because he was much appreciated.
Three months later, he called me and asked where it was better to work for him – his company has temporarily shut down.

Translated by Anna Skorobogatova
Edited by Julia Shell