Tag-to-Adawal: Mars & Mercury: Ascendant - Analysis, Chapter XXIV, Part

Continuation…

Dr. Shanker Adawal

Though the 1^st, the 5^th and the 9^th lords are combined only in the 12^th house yet they are fairly strong, as Venus lord of that house is in own house. See: Jupiter was in Lagna though in combustion within 6^oof the Sun, and aspected the 9^th, the house of fortune. True, the efficacy of Jupiter’s aspect will depend on his strength; for, the author of Uttara Kalamrita says an aspect is good and powerful only when the aspecting planet is in own house or in exaltation. At the same time, Kapila Nadi attributes efficacy to Jupiter’s aspect, even when he is in debility, or in combustion, as in this case; for, it says, though Jupiter may be burnt up in combustion by the Sun, his eyes are never burnt and his aspect has good effect. He died just before he was 60.

For Gemini Ascendant, Saturn lord of the 9^th (and the 8^th) may be in the 12^th as lord of the 8^th. The late Justice K.S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar was a Gemini native with Venus in the 5^th in Libra but Saturn in the 12^th, his success and prosperity as a Judge of the Madras High Court being in the Dasa of Venus lord of the 5^th (and the 12^th) excellency placed in the 5^th with Mercury, Jupiter being in Lagna. Jupiter for Gemini Lagna is lord of the 7^th and the 10^th. As a lord of quadrants, he has Kendradhipatya Dosh. But, I should pause for a moment, to point out, the Kendradhipatya Dosh or the evil of ownership of quadrants cannot and does not affect Yoga or prosperity; for, the evil relates to his Maraka powers (or death-inflicting powers) when placed in the 2^nd or the 7^th or any other marakasthana, like the 3^rd or the 6^th or the 8^th or the 12^th. As lord of the 7^th for a dual sign (Ubhaya Lagna) he becomes a baneful Badhakadhipati, so that some say that he is good when weak or in debility, and with instances like the horoscopes of late T.V. Muthukrishnier of the Madras Bar (one of whose sons passed the I.C.S.) and the late A. Lakshminarayanaier, a giant of the Madurai Bar, who (both) had Jupiter in debility in the 8^th for Gemini ascendant. I do not have the full horoscope of the first gentleman. But, the late A. Lakshminarayanaier had Badhra Yoga, due to Mercury lord of the 1^st and

The 4^th in Virgo, aspecting the 10^th, occupied by the Moon lord of the 2^nd and by Saturn lord of the 9^th. When the lord of the 2^nd is in the 10^th even a low-born becomes princely and rich. And, when Mercury lord of the Ascendant (and the 4^th), and so the ruling planet is in a Kendra from the house causing Bhadra-Yoga, the native comes up in life and speaks well in assemblies or courts. The forensic eloquence of the late A. Lakshminarayanier was remarkable. On a smaller scale. The late Sadhu Ganapathi Pantulu, a leading lawyer of Thirunelveli, had Jupiter and Mercury in the 4^th for Gemini Lagna.

The late V. Nadimuthu Pillai who inherited crores from his grandmother and was the main of Pattukottai and one of the leading men in Tanjore District, was a Gemini-native, with Mercury in the 4^th in own house and Venus in own house in the 5^th and Jupiter in the 8^th in debility. He got a son, late in life, through a second wife.

But, Jupiter in the 9^th or 10^th in own house is found to be good for Gemini. Mr. Krishnaswamy Iyer, a leading lawyer of Vellore, is a Gemini-native. But, Jupiter as lord of the 10^th in the 9^th is even better; for, a natural benefic like Jupiter or Venus owning a Kendra and placed in the 5^th or the 9^th is excelled only by a natural benefic owning a time (the 5^th or the 9^th) and placed in a Kendra (quadrant). I give below two horoscopes to illustrate my point:-