An Insight on Jamini Astrology: Basic Understanding on Jamini Aspects, Karka, Argala and Jamini Raaj Yogas in D1 and D9.
The main propagator of Vedic astrology in kaliyuga is sage Parashara and Jaimini, Parashara wrote Brihat parasar hora sastra. And Jaimini wrote Jaimini sutras where he himself very clearly wrote that I am only saying here those things which have been left by ancestors before me and the areas in which more light have to be putted in that’s the reason why what Jaimini wrote we can find nowhere and that too he wrote in an coded language. That can only be decoded by katpayadi varga that is a hard nut to crack. But in no way he was proposing a new way or tradition in astrology as he himself was disciple of son of Parashara what he wrote was just the teachings of Parashara explained in detail and that’s the reason that you can find so many things related to Jaimini Jyotisha in Brihat Parashara hora sastra.
Basics of Jaimini part of astrology known as Jaimini astrology.
Aspects – different from parashari astrology where we use aspects of planets in Jaimini astrology there are aspects of rashis. Means each rashi is watching another rashi that makes a connection between all of them. Every movable sign aspects all fixed sign leaving one adjacent to it. In the same way ever fixed sign aspects all movable sign leaving the one adjacent to it. Every dual sign aspects all other dual signs. If any planets are posited in these houses then they will also aspect each other and other signs too. Like see if Saturn is in Aquarius and Venus is in Capricorn and moon is in Leo then as per this Saturn and moon have mutual planetary aspect and Venus and moon both have mutual rashi aspect, but here Saturn besides aspecting moon in Leo is also aspecting Aries, Cancer, and Libra. And his effects on these rashis and in which houses they fall will be permanent devoid of dasha and antardasha.
Karaka – there are 3 types of karkas 1st are natural karkas, 2nd are fixed karkas and 3rd are char karkas. Natural karkas are like sun for father, government, and so on fixed karkas are like stronger between sun and Venus will be for father. These all are explained by Parashara in his book what Jaimini introduces new to us is char kakas where he guides us that planets irrespective of his rashi only take degrees and then place them in ascending/descending order. The highest of them will me Atmakarak signifying soul. Known as the king of the horoscope every activity have to be guided by him. If he is weak then all of the charts prospects will get destroyed. Atmakarak is the main thing Atma meaning soul consist everything in himself and it is the base for everything. A major lesson related to Atmakarak native is must have to learn and 12th from AtmaKarak in Navamsha will show ishta devta the deity that will guide soul towards liberation. Next in order the planet having 2ndhighest degree is called Amatyakarak is the one who will give food to the soul (AtmaKarak) he is the minister in the chart like king is incomplete without minister a powerful Atmakarak is incomplete without a powerful Amatyakarak. He is the 2nd most important planet in the order. The placement of Amatyakarak from ascendant will show how the professional life of the native will be. The 3rd one is Bhratrikarak signifying brother and guru. Based on Bhratrikarak auspicious deity is decided. Next in order comes MatriKarak signifying mother and father basically parents. Next comes Putrakarak signifying son and next in order comes gyatikarak signifying relatives and enemies and next comes darakarak signifying spouse. Darakarak will also signify death and gyatikarak relatives. Their placement in rashi and Navamsha have to be judged to know their effects on parts of lives.
Some controversies lies there is one controversy in deciding to take 8 charkarkas or 7. Parashara and Jaimini both says that users are independent in choosing to use 8 or 7 and some opine that if 2 karkas clash then use one of them as alternative karaka. Now here one question that comes in mind is that what if more than one karaka coincides. Here there are 2 things that I want to say K.N.Rao says that if you calculate planets up to minutest degrees then there are no chances of clashing of 2 karkas. Whereas Sanjay Rath and some other astrologers add one more karaka after MatriKarak as pitrakaraka. This seems right to some extent as if there is char significator for mother then why not for father. But then one thing that comes in mind is that when both Parashara and Jaimini told karkas they told about 7 karkas not 8 and also told to use rahu for replacement not for making a new karaka. Here I will leave this up to readers to choose what they want. As both the system can give amazing results.
Dashas – Parashara told us about nakshatra dasha like Vimshottari dasha, Kalachakra dasha, mool dasha whereas Jaimini teaches us about rashi dasha based on sign whereas nakshatra dasha are based on lunar asterisms. I will be writing over them in the next article.
Pad- pad means position, simply meaning position in this material world. Count the distance of rashi lord from the rashi and then count the number next to the house lord for example if 7th lord is in 11th house then 3rd house will be pad of 7th house because 7th lord is in 5 houses away from his house in 11th house and 5 houses away from 11th house is 3rd house so pad of 7th houses falls in 3rdhouse known as darapada. Pad of any house will show all the things related to that house and planets related to pad will become connected to that aspect of life. for example if pad of 6th house is in Libra and Saturn is also in Libra then it can show that there will be a strong enemy because Saturn is strong being exalted in pad of 6th house that stands for enemy’s. Pad of 1st house is known as Arudh lagna showing position of native in society and the way in which he is viewed in society and his position power and authority. 2nd pad that will be the pad of 2nd house will show family and money. 3rd house pad will show courage, bother and so on as in the series 4th house pad will show happiness etc. 7th house pad will show relationship and 12th house pad will show marriage. Planets connected to 12th house pad will be potent to give marriage and also from the 12th house pad known as upapada and 2nd from that marital bliss, marital life is to be judged. Planets associating with upapada in D1 and D9 will give marriage. Here too is a controversy some says that pad of any house can’t be in 1st or 7th house while some don’t follow this rule. Readers can choose himself as best. But what I will suggest is use exception with 8 char karkas and 7th char karkas without taking exception in calculating pad lagna.
Special ascendants – like rising ascendant in rashi chart Jaimini introduces new ascendants too and also have given some specific formulas for counting them. Like he told about Hora lagna dealing with wealth and Ghatika lagna dealing with power and authority and a planet connected with lagna and hora lagna will become special significator for wealth and a planet connecting with lagna and ghatika lagna becomes special significator for power and status and a planet connecting with all 3 of them becomes extremely powerful in giving all goods to the native in the same way there are Shree lagna showing the position of Lakshmi in horoscope and Sudasha showing her movement through the life of the native.
Argala – in these there are 2 sections 1st is argala planet supporting and 2nd virodh argala planet opposing, any planet that is in 2nd 4th and 11th house from any house becomes primary supporters and 12th 3rd and 4th becomes opposites of those supporters and will tend to obstruct the result of that house whereas the planet making argala will tend to give effect of that house and will tend to save effect of that house. Effect will be there or not that have to be judged on the basis that which one is stronger argala or virodh argala. The virodh meaning opposition will be in 12th for 2nd 3rd for 11th and 10th for 4th here there is an exception that if there are more than 1 malefic in 3rd house then rather than making obstruction they will support. 2nd argala will be made by 5th and 8th house and opposed by 9th and 6th house respectively.
Raajyoga – next and last lesson on this comes with raajyoga. Just like there are so much raajyogas in parashari astrology in the same way there are so many yogas in Jaimini astrology too and we can’t remember them all but as we remember their formula that connection between Kendra and trikona lord gives rise to raajyoga in the same manner in Jaimini astrology connection between AtmaKarak, Amatyakarak, Putrakarak, Darakarak and 5th house and its lord will give rise to raajyoga. Mutual aspect between Venus and moon is also raajyoga. Now you have to see if there are more yogas in D1 or in D9 if more in D1 then the person will see more dreams of raajyoga and less will fructify and if more in D9 then the person will expect less and will get more. Also see in which houses the raajyogas are being made as there is no use of house lords so houses in which yogas are being made will play a very prominent role in deciding. See their position from ascendant, Arudh lagna, hora lagna, Ghatika lagna, shree lagna and so on.
Jaimini astrology is a vast ocean and so many gems are also to be culled up we till now are not able to understand Parashara astrology completely then what can we say about Jaimini. We know nothing about it. Only one thing that I can say is that 100% correct prediction can be given out by using parashara+Jaimini method.
Om Tat Sat
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Shubham Alock
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