(Article written in 2001)
When a
natural malefic planet like Mars, Saturn and Rahu is placed in the 2nd house,
it will sometimes have a bad effect on married life. In this connection I would
like to show an interesting horoscope of a man, who has been married three
times, widowed twice and divorced once. He has seen a lot of troubles in
married life, and even now, at the advanced age of 72, the ghost of his
deceased first wife is still haunting him.
Please see
the following horoscope:
Male, Jun
1st, 1929, Time: 06:00AM, Zone: 1:00, DST: 0
Long. 08E52
Lat: 54N56,
Asc 16-45 Gem
Sun 17-22 Tau
Moon 23-06 Aqu
Mars 17-46 Can
Merc 29-04 Tau R
Jup 04-32 Tau
Ven 05-46 Ari
Sat 05-37 Sgt R
Rahu 28-15 Ari
Ketu 28-15 Lib
Looking at
his horoscope it is easy to see that something is wrong with the 7th house in
this case:
1. A natural
malefic (Saturn) in the 7th.
2. 8th-Lord
is in the 7th.
3. 7th-lord
Jupiter is in the 12th.
4. Karaka
Venus is with Rahu in the sign of Mars.
5. Ketu in
the 7th from Venus, and 7th-lord from Venus debilitated.
6) The
Dara-karaka, Jupiter, is in the 12th according to Jaimini.
But in my
opinion the primary cause of the troubles is the debilitated Mars in the 2nd
house (8th from the 7th house). This is causing the worst troubles, which are
all related to the death of his first wife.
Vimsottari Dasa
He was
married to his first wife about the age of 21-22 during the dasa of Saturn
placed in the 7th house. But due to marriage-troubles his first wife committed
suicide when he was 47 and running junction-point between Mercury and Ketu
dasa. According to the Nadis malefic events like this often takes place at the
time when one Dasa ends and the next one takes over. These changes of Dasas are
referred to as the junction-points.
Niryana Shoola Dasa
This is one
of the Rasi Dasas of Jaimini, according to which each Rasi has a period of 9
years. In case of odd signs the Dasas
runs from the Ascendant in direct order, and in case of even sign the Dasas runs in the reverse order.
Some Hindu
astrologers are of the opinion that Niryana Shoola Dasa runs from the 7th house
in case of even sign. I, however, do not share this opinion.
According to
some Hindu astrologers, the Niryana Shoola Dasa is only for predicting death of
certain relatives and death of one self. But I do not agree to this point of
view. It has been my impression that this dasa-system can be profitably used
for predicting many kinds of important events - and it even works very well in
combination with the transits.
When this man
in question was 47 years of age and experiencing the suicide of his first wife,
he was running the end of Scorpio, his 6th Niryana Shoola Dasa.
My first
level of judgment would be that Scorpio is ruled by Mars which is placed
debilitated in his natal 2nd house (8th from 7th).
Second level
of judgment would be to consider the situation of the 7th house from running
Scorpio-Dasa itself.
In the 7th
house from Scorpio we find Mercury and Jupiter the two Rudra-planets, which being the 2nd- and the 8th-lords are
considered to be a kind of Maraka-planets
according to Jaimini.
Then there is
the 7th-lord is in the 6th house with Rahu, which is a more severe affliction.
And last but not least in the 2nd house from Scorpio we find Saturn, a natural
malefic planet, inclined to harm the 7th house by being in the 8th from the
7th.
With Niryana
Shoola Dasa we also have the possibility of getting a second opinion by turning
the table, so to speak, by judging the running Dasa from its 7th house. In this
case it would be Taurus and the 7th house from Taurus is actually ruled by the
debilitated Mars.
In my opinion
the marriage-troubles in this period are mostly caused by the position of
Saturn in the 2nd house.
Parasara’s Sudarsharna Progressions
Instead of
dividing the Shoola dasas into sub-periods I use a different concept described
in the last part of the chapter about Sudarsharna Chakra in Brihat Parasara Hora Sastra. It is a
kind of Rashi-Dasa giving one year for each sign starting from the Ascendant,
so that we get the same Rasi running once in every 12 years. In the Tajaka-school this method is called Muntha and is sometimes used in
connection with Varshaphal or Solar-return-charts.
According to
Sudarsharna Progressions this man will be running Taurus rashi at the age of
47. From Taurus we find Jupiter in the 1st house, but it is the lord of the 8th
house! Further the Karaka-planet Venus is in the 12th and what is very
important we find the 7th-lord Mars is debilitated in Cancer.
Transit Saturn
At age of 47
at the precise date of the death of his first wife Saturn was transitting at 17
degree Cancer. This is exactly upon the degree of his natal Mars. Now, please
look upon this Mars from all these different angels:
1. Mars is in
the 2nd house from the Ascendant (Mangal-dosha).
2. Mars is
the debilitated 7th-lord in the 4th house from Venus.
3. Mars is
the lord of the 6th Shoola-dasa and debilitated.
4. Mars is
the 7th-lord from the Sudarsharna-Rasi at the age of 47.
Seeing the
importance of this Saturn transit triggering the natal Mars, I wanted to find
out what kind of malefic event happened 29½ years earlier when Saturn was
transitting this Mars for the first time?
I was then
told that while being a young man of 18 years he was then violently sedated and
raped by an adult homosexual man, who was later charged and imprisoned for this
crime.
The Ghost
I’m no expert
on ghosts, but I have a feeling that being haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife
could be due to a certain feeling a guilt, which is very normal for the related
persons in cases of suicide. Anyhow looking at his horoscope, perhaps the
following horoscopic details could indicate the ghost of his ex-wife:
1. The
8th-lord Saturn is RETROGRADE in the 7th house.
2. Venus is
with Rahu - a ghostly planet.
3. The
7th-lord and Dara-karaka Jupiter is in the 12th.
These are of
course only suggestions. It is very difficult to be sure about anything in
connection to ghosts. Perhaps it is also a better idea to concentrate about
such things that can actually be verified.