Chakras & Planets: The Tantric Bridge in Vedic Astrology

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

For a long time the knowledge of ‘tantra’ had been limited to a select few who often practiced it for less than ethical reasons.

This is one of the biggest taboos associated with this science. The fact that it deals with pure energy and pure energy as you know, is free form. It can heal if directed well but it can also cause massive harm.

For example nuclear power. If harnessed with the focus of providing energy, it can perhaps power a whole city with less material than a fourth of the daily consumption of coal in a geothermal plant. Maybe even less, lot less.

If targeted at an enemy nation in the form of a nuclear bomb, a small bomb the size of a hatchback is enough to blow up half a city.

‘Tantric’ practitioners often practiced this art in seclusion. Away from the eyes of the common folk and even the religious folk. ‘Tantric’ practitioners found their dwellings in secluded caves deep in the forests where even wild animals would rarely venture.

What’s the reason?

Well, one reason is absolutely the taboo aspect of it. The other is that when you practice ‘tantra’, a huge amount of energy is released in your surroundings. This energy is quite often not all positive. It isn’t all negative either and in this respect ‘Tantra’ resembles the practice of ‘Alchemy’ in the west.

The only difference is that alchemists may or may not have been able to synthesize gold from regular metals but ‘tantric’ practitioners were able to synthesize massive amounts of energy from the body’s ‘chakra’ system.

See ‘tantra’ is not about external energy but it is rather the manipulation of energy that exists within your body.

Your body has a magnetic field and this is a scientific proven fact.

I can even illustrate the manipulations caused in this magnetic field after the chanting of specific mantras and you can try it yourself as well.

Sit to meditate with iron shavings placed around you in a circle and go on chanting ‘tantric’ ‘mantras’ for a specific period of time.

After a while you will notice a subtle change in the patterns of the shavings.

You can test the same with water and lots of other things in fact.

There are a lot of meditation teachers out there who teach meditation with the 5 elements and you can actually notice your body’s interactions with these elements changes in the practice of these meditation techniques.

Now, in the same way, you need to realise that how in the example of using a nuclear reactor to power a whole city holds true for the benefits of nuclear power, there are other similarities as well.

For example, you can’t just set up a nuclear power plant without the proper specifications.

A nuclear power plant needs to be engineered and structured according to a very specific plan.

You need heavy water, cadmium rods and uranium or plutonium synthesized to very specific quantities and calculations.

A little disturbance in this and you see that the consequences will be massively destructive like the famous Chernobyl incident where nuclear fallout resulted in an entire city being abandoned.

Same it is for your body now.

If you have not been practicing ‘yoga’ and following some other principles of self control, self awareness etc, at the very least, practicing ‘tantra’ can drive you crazy.

The average ‘tantric’ mantra for a goddess of a specific planet or ‘chakra’ in your body, will first and foremost attack the negative or shadow aspects of these energies within you.

So a ‘tantra’ practitioner does well to spend a lot of time cleansing and ridding the body of these impurities through ‘pranayama’, ‘kriya yoga’ and ‘mantra saadhna’.

Now, comes the main point.

If ‘tantra’ practice is so dangerous why engage in it at all?

Because ‘tantra’ has the power to heal your chart.

Yes!

‘Tantra’ can heal let’s say an extremely badly placed Moon in your chart permanently.

See people do these remedies and ‘pujas’ and say that you need to do this and that to heal a planet.

Quite often most astrologers will ask you do the ‘shanti’ for a planet creating problems.

However, that only heals the problems in the present.

It is like kicking the can down the road.

See these planets are outside but they are within you as well.

Each ‘chakra’ in your body corresponds to the energy of a particular planet.

These are as under:

1. ‘Mooladhara’: Saturn
2. ‘Svadhishtana’: Jupiter
3. ‘Manipura’: Mars
4. ‘Anahata’: Venus
5. ‘Vissudha’: Mercury
6. ‘Ajna’: Sun and Moon
7. ‘Sahasrara’: ‘Rahu’ and ‘Ketu’

So let’s say you have a badly placed Mars in your chart. This shows that you will suffer from problems indicated by the ‘chakra’ ruled by Mars in your body as well as the placed where this Mars is situated.

Example?

Mars in Cancer.

Such a person may suffer from indigestion or lack of confidence which are connotations of the Solar Plexus or the ‘Manipura chakra’.

This person will also face issues with focusing on a task and probably also headaches and predicting the consequences of their actions. These are all now significances of the ‘Ajna chakra’. Which is ruled by Moon and Sun.

So now in this way, and please do not start practicing these on your own. Build this knowledge first and build a deeper understanding first. Then we can come to the practicing part. That will be done through ‘kriya yoga’.

What is ‘kriya yoga’? We will discuss that also in subsequent posts on this topic.

Main thing is to understand here in the first post that ‘tantra’ can heal your ‘karma’ and your planet in the chart. You can do it yourself.

That’s the thing and for this I am so grateful to god for granting me this knowledge. ‘Tantra’ is an action oriented science which can help you, the native, heal yourself by cleansing and empowering your own body’s energy system.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!