‘Tantra’ and ‘Vedic’ astrology part 1

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!

Essence of Tantra, Siddhi & the Occult: Secrets of Divine Power

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

‘Tantra’ is easily the most misunderstood of all the Hindu doctrines.

(Photo of ‘Tantric’ goddess ‘Matangi’, a secret form of ‘Saraswati’.)

The reason is that ‘Tantra’ isn’t confined to a single document or has any proper sources from where it is derived. All we know is that it originated from the ‘Shakti’ tradition. The documents are very difficult to be found and are heavily guarded by the keepers of this knowledge.

We are lucky today that to some extent, this knowledge has become more available as the internet revolution came around. Otherwise 50 years ago, you’d have to leave everything and go live in a an obscure cave somewhere with the people who could give you this knowledge.

  • ‘Tantra’ in India is imagined to be a tool restricted to ‘tantriks’ clad in black living in caves, wearing strange clothes and performing some magical ‘yajna’ where they go ‘Hum Phat Swaaha’ every few minutes.
    • I squarely blame Bollywood movies for this incorrectness!
  • In fact, it’s saddening to see this representation of a field of mysticism that is deeply celebrated and profoundly understood in ‘Vajrayana’ Buddhism.
  • Yes, Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism especially has the origins of ‘Vajrayana’ Buddhism that is a distinct field of what is known to us as ‘Tantra’.
    • In ‘Vajrayana’ Buddhism, ‘Tantra’ is accepted as a way of life and ‘Tantric’ deities are painted with gold dust in an extremely rare form of art called the ‘Thangka’.
  • Now similarly in the west, the understanding of ‘Tantra’ is all but limited ‘Tantric’ sex. There are courses on Udemy about this topic in fact and there’s a whole thriving industry of sexual wellness on this topic.
    • Just type ‘tantra’ in YouTube and you are more likely to come across these videos rather than their religious counterpart that has its roots in Hinduism.
    • ‘Tantric’ sex explores the concept of achieving complete union with your partner and attaining transcendental states together through conscious sexual union. ‘Shiva’ and his consort ‘Parvati’ are the first ‘tantric’ couple.
    • It involves a lot of intricacies of breath work, mindfulness etc.

So which of these representations is true?

  • The right answer is both. ‘Tantra’ is energy and it represents more specifically the energy of your body, your energetic system that has been subdivided into ‘chakras’.
  • There is the divine masculine and the divine feminine and these polarities are within each one of us. It’s in our energy. It’s the nature of this universe as described in ‘Vedic’ texts in fact, as ‘purusha’ and ‘prakriti’.
  • The purpose of ‘tantra’ is very profound and you are encouraged to read my other answers on the topic and also my book where I detail ‘Tantra’ at length; the purpose of ‘tantra’ is to reconcile two seemingly irreconcilable ends of the human consciousness.
  • It is centered in the idea that you have the power within you to manipulate your energy to an extent that you gain complete control over your energy.
  • Once you can do that, you can control everything on this planet from that particular frequency. Let’s say for example, you gain mastery over the ‘Earth’ element in your body, you can master all Earthly matters such as money, security, strength etc. You can master both the positive and the negative, the ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ connotations of this energy.

What does that mean?

It means you can enjoy pleasure in the same way you enjoy aloofness from ‘maaya’. ‘Tantra’ neither looks down upon sex, nor intoxication or even what you eat. This is unlike ‘Vaishnavism’ and ‘Shaivism’, where you have to maintain strict adherence to a ‘Sattvic’ lifestyle and some specific other rules.

‘Tantra’ understands that the entire world and your experience of it is illusionary. To break free from this illusion is to learn to immerse yourself in it and withdraw at will.

This process of being able to immerse yourself into the world and withdraw at will, is likened to the process of intercourse and that is why conscious intercourse is not frowned upon but in fact, forms an integral part of the practice for couples who seek to go down this path together.

The idea is to experience ‘Maaya’ but not be lost in it.

Use your experience in fact, to raise your consciousness higher.

For if you immerse into it and lose yourself, it has power over you.

If you are always at an arm’s distance from it, means it still has power over you because you don’t trust yourself enough to allow it to be one with you.

Now, ‘Siddhi’, black magic and occult practices are all related to ‘tantra’.

However, Alchemy comes from the west and deals with a rather mundane pursuit in my opinion, of converting any metal to gold.

  • The functional area of ‘tantra’ is much wider than that.
  • ‘Tantra’ is much like Morpheus teaching Neo how to see through the matrix.
  • Alchemy is much like a group of gifted hackers wanting to hack into the mainframe of Google.
  • In other words, Alchemy is impossible to achieve.
  • ‘Tantra’ on the other hand is the path to ‘Kundalini’ awakening. We have evidence of it. We have no evidence of Alchemy having worked.
    • Those of you who have read “The Alchemist” may disagree and I’ll tell you that what is described in the book, at the point where the boy taps into the universal consciousness and causes the wind to flow at his will, that is ‘Tantra’.

So what is ‘Siddhi’?

  • To understand this you must first understand in brief, the ‘mahavidyas’.

(‘Sati’ splits into the ‘mahavidyas’ at ‘Daksha’s yajna’)

  • So, the story goes that ‘Sati’, the wife of Shiva, was one of the daughters of ‘Daksha Prajapati’. ‘Daksha’ was one of the sons of ‘Brahma’. He didn’t like ‘Shiva’ very much because he misunderstood ‘Shiva’s’ detached nature as being arrogant and uncouth.
  • ‘Shiva’ being ‘Shiva’, hardly cared. So on the day that ‘Daksha’ was due to perform one of the biggest ‘yajnas’ in the universe that would make him the ruler of all three worlds, he omitted his daughter and son in law from the list of guests.
  • This hurt ‘Sati’ very much and she insisted upon showing up uninvited.
  • ‘Shiva’ forbade her from going. “Sati that ‘yajna’ will be the cause of your death. Do not go there.” he told her.
  • However, the divine feminine is extremely powerful and boundless in energy. When she is imbalanced, nothing can stop her from wrecking havoc.
  • So ‘Sati’ and ‘Shiva’ turn up there and as was expected, ‘Daksha’ treated ‘Shiva’ poorly. ‘Shiva’, unperturbed, decided to leave the place as he was neither interested in fighting back nor interested in engaging ‘Daksha’.
  • Enraged at the sheer inaction of ‘Shiva’ and her father’s ignorance, ‘Sati’s’ energy burst into 10 forms.
  • 10 forms of the divine feminine, each for one direction of the universe: North, North West, East and so on. These are known as the 10 ‘mahavidyas’.
  • These 10 forms were magical and extremely powerful and they forbade ‘Shiva’ to leave the scene.
  • Ensuring his presence at the place to witness what she was about to do, ‘Sati’ self immolated herself by jumping into ‘Daksha’s’ ‘yajna’ thereby destroying it piety and enraging ‘Shiva’.
    • The divine masculine when he springs to action from an immovable force becomes death himself.
  • ‘Shiva’ plucked out a strand of hair and smashed it to the ground into two with his feet. From the two strands emerged powerful ‘tantric’ forces of ‘Virbhadra’ and ‘Bhadrakali’.
    • He ordered them to kill ‘Daksha’ and destroy the ‘yajna’.
  • In ‘Vedic’ astrology and ‘tantra’ , this is who the 10 ‘mahavidyas’ are and these are what energies they command:
  1. ‘Bhairavi’: Rules the ascendant
  2. ‘Shodashi’: Rules Mercury
  3. ‘Matangi’: Rules Sun
  4. ‘Bhuvaneshwari’: Rules Moon
  5. ‘Baglamukhi’: Rules Mars
  6. ‘Kaali’: Rules Saturn
  7. ‘Chinnamasta’:Rules ‘Rahu’
  8. ‘Dhumavati’: Rules ‘Ketu’
  9. ‘Taara’: Rules Jupiter
  10. ‘Kamala’: Rules Venus
  • Their worship is secret, their forms are secret and it is said that even our depictions of them are vastly inaccurate as they reveal the form they want, to the seeker they choose.

Fascinating isn’t it?

A ‘siddhi’ is a complete unlocking of the power of one of these deities in your body.

How do you do this?

  • You do it under the guidance of a guru only and it involves extreme discipline and pin point accuracy in the process. If the rules of a particular deity are to sleep on floor only without a blanket during the ‘siddhi’ time period, you will do so.
  • If you don’t there are grave consequences possible.

Why is that?

  • Because you are manipulating the very basics of your body’s energetic system.
  • It’s similar to how nuclear energy is. In the right hands, with the right process, you can build a reactor and harness it to fuel a city. However, misused or mishandled, it has the power to cause mass destruction.
  • ‘Tantric’ deities are ready to give you power as long as you have done the ‘siddhi’ correctly. You can acquire both ‘sattvic’ as well as ‘tamsic’ powers. Processes of the ‘siddhis’ are different for both and so are the ‘mantras’.

(In the ‘Ramayana’, the source of ‘Indrajit’s’ power was derived from his ‘Siddhi’ of ‘Nikumbhala Devi’, consort of ‘Vishnu’s’ ‘Narsimha avatar’.)

  • Now, how a ‘siddhi’ works is, for example, you have done ‘Matangi’ ‘siddhi’, using her ‘mantra’. ‘Matangi’ corresponds to the 3rd eye and the Sun.
    • Wherever Sun is placed in your chart or even if you don’t know where it is placed, you will embody the power of the Sun himself through ‘Matangi’s’ ‘siddhi’.
  • This means, fame, recognition, power and supreme expression and life purpose.
    • Every great sage had done at least one ‘siddhi’. For example ‘Durvasa’ was invincible because of ‘Dhumavati’ ‘siddhi’.

What is black magic?

  • So, ‘black magic’ is done in many areas in the world. You may have heard of ‘Voodo’ etc. Black Magic is made up of a different field of study wherein all the deities that the practitioners invoke are of a ‘tamsic’ nature and are called upon for their negative traits to invoke harm.
  • In India, Hindu philosophy doesn’t have the concept of ‘The Devil’. It is illustrated in the ‘puranas’ that every deity or entity has negative as well as positive traits. The concept of cause and effect is held paramount and practitioners of dark magic or ‘dark tantra’ are said to reap the results of dabbling with these powers and therefore face many tragedies in their life which are referred to as ‘sacrifices’ for the practice or ‘bali’.
    • We don’t know much documentation wise of dark magic practice in India. However, we know that there is a cult in the East i.e. followers of a form of ‘Kali’ who have expertise in black magic.

What is it?

  • Black magic is utilization of ‘tantric’ powers for wrong purposes. Quite often these aren’t even ‘tantric’ deities but departed souls, lost souls and demonic energies, knowledge of control of who is also documented and passed down like the knowledge of ‘tantra’.
  • There are ‘tamsic’ forms of the 10 ‘mahavidyas’ too who can grant a person immense power that helps me manipulate their aura to effect outcomes.

Now, what are occult practices?

  • There’s a whole variety of them and anything as simple as the ‘ouija’ board to as advanced as a full blown ‘tantric’ ‘yajna’ could be considered and occult practice.
  • In Hindu philosophy, they are mentioned in detail in the ‘Atharva Veda’.
  • Some are based in logic and deep study such as ‘tantra’. Some are more inclined towards harm such as ‘black magic’ and some have to do with what is very common in India i.e. ‘Yantra’.

(The ‘Shree Yantra’ is commonly found in the offices of businessmen in India and is considered auspicious.

  • Engaging in these fields comes under the ambit of ‘occult’.
  • So ‘Vastu Shastra’ can also be considered ‘occult’ to people especially outside India. ‘Jyotisha’ and numerolgoy, ‘prashna vidya’ are also occult.

Now, I hope you understand that you can spend an entire life time researching each one of these fields.

It’s deeper than the ocean trust me and once you dive in, you will be blown away by how common patterns emerge across cultures, time periods and religious philosophies.

For example:

  • ‘Taara’ is represented in many distinct forms in ‘Vajrayana’ Buddhism.
  • Each form has a different color and a different power.

(In ‘Vajrayana’ Buddhism, Red ‘Taara’ is the goddess of passion and sexuality.)

  • In the same way, there are goddesses in Africa who are very similar in nature and legend.

(‘Oshun’ is the African goddess of fertility and sensuality)

  • In the ‘Markandeya Purana’, Devi ‘Durga’ laughs at the demons as they protest ‘shaktis’ of other gods joining the fight, and says:
    • “You fools, they are not separate from me. They are me. There is only one feminine in the universe and I am her. There is no other feminine but me.”
  • The ‘tantric’ interpretation of this statement further corroborates ‘Tantric’ philosophy that seeks to tap into the energy of the divine mother, by tapping in deeper to your body’s energy system.
  • ‘Tantra’ is taboo because ‘tantra’ is based on the philosophy that within you is all the power you need to live, enjoy and experience life, whichever way you wish and you only have to awaken it.

I could go on and on and on but as far as the scope of this question is concerned, I hope I have done justice to the answer.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Ketu Mahadasha: Meaning, Life Lessons & Spiritual Rewards

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Remember what your earliest vision about your life was when you were young? Remember how hopeful and happy it made you feel to imagine your future along those lines of possibilites?

(Depicted headless to represent separation, ‘Ketu’ corresponds to Vishnu’s ‘Matsya avatar’)

  • We all start our lives with some dream we had. A dream that was unclear but still clear enough that we could dream it, see it and feel it.
  • Then comes life and all its challenges and you become more and more estranged from your heart’s calling.
  • See deep down we all know what we came here to do it’s just our security constructs of what is ‘safe’ and what isn’t, what is ‘logical’ to aim for and what isn’t, that takes away our power bit by bit.
  • Anyone who is 47 or 48 will be able to tell you a lot about what the realization of this feeling is that you could have got what you wanted all along, if you had only learnt to take action despite the fear of failing.
  • You could have got everything you wanted exactly how you wanted if you had trusted your heart more and not gotten caught up in the idea of what you are ‘supposed to do’.

Why will people this age be able to tell you this?

  1. Because of the age factor itself
  2. Because this is the age ‘Ketu’ matures.

Some people say there is nothing more powerful than a strong ‘Ketu mahadasha’.

It was in this period that the legendary Amitabh Bachchan, after getting into tons of debt, returned with a bang but on the small screen.

He then made the world of Tv his own by following his purpose. He had wanted to retire from acting and take the more logical next step after enjoying stellar success as an actor, by getting into politics and business.

That failed.

You know why?

Because ‘Ketu’ will just take away what is obstructing your purpose. (AB has ‘Ketu’ in his ascendant)

Just like that.

Saturn delays, ‘Rahu’ confuses, ‘Ketu’ simply takes away. Bam! Gone.

Now what are you going to do?

Will you still find the courage to follow your heart or are you still going to keep holding yourself back justifying your lack of action, your lack of ‘karma’ by sticking to your ideas of security and logic?

‘Ketu’ calls upon you to take the leap into the unknown, as long as it is in the pursuit of your highest ‘dharma’.

When you do that, a magical thing happens.

‘Ketu’ suddenly rewards you.

Suddenly.

Out of the blue.

You find gold lying on the street and no one for miles coming back to look for it, claim it or anything. You might even ask someone if it is theirs and they will unnaturally say no and move on.

That’s the power of ‘Ketu’.

So when you are in your ‘Ketu mahadasha’, irrespective of wherever ‘Ketu’ is in your chart, here are the general themes of what you are going to encounter:

  1. Past ‘karma’:
    1. Do you want to treat your life patterns in the same way or do you want to change how you react?
    2. Do you want to remain a victim of your mentality or do you want to accept fate and keep following your ‘dharma’?
  2. Spiritual development:
    1. You would be foolish to think that spiritual progress cannot come from material accomplishments.
    2. If it is your purpose to create a multi billion dollar company, that is what will give you spiritual progress.
    3. If your highest ‘karma’ is to weave the best baskets in the world and this what your soul came here to do, nothing except that will give you peace or grant you self knowledge and liberation.
      1. You will continue to wander through the time space continuum, incarnating, reincarnating and never fully merging with the divine consciousness. Never fully discovering your own divine essence.
      2. ‘Ketu’ can’t let you do that. ‘Ketu’s’ job is to guide you to ‘moksha’. That will only come when you complete your journey for which you received this flesh body.
    4. As ‘Krishna’ says in the ‘Bhagwada Gita’, the power of ‘karma’ and execution of duty in itself is the path to ‘moksha’.
  3. Letting go:
    1. Like it or not, to become the best version of yourself and to achieve the progress that your soul had targeted before receiving this body, you have to let everything go that is in the way of your purpose.
    2. The purpose of life is ‘moksha’.
      1. To achieve ‘moksha’ you must perform ‘karma’.
      2. Right ‘karma’ is completely consistent with your ‘dharma’.
      3. To execute your ‘dharma’ you need to let some things go.
      4. If you do not let them go consciously, ‘Ketu’ will simply take them away.

A deeper analysis in these areas can only be done after studying the chart in detail.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Are you alone and happy about it?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. If you cannot be comfortable and happy in your own company, you cannot be happy with anyone else in the world.” -Osho

The ‘Lotus Mudra’ is a yogic ‘mudra’ that is said to help in building a deeper connection with the self and others. It can help cope better with being on your own as well as with people and understanding the importance of this duality.

Now, loneliness is a topic that has been written about so much that the biggest paradox is that great masterpieces that inspire millions are often created far away from society’s constructs.

Van Gough created masterpieces in the French countryside, even though his solitude was to the detriment of his mental health to a great extent.

‘Yogis’ would meditate deep in seclusion for long periods of time, to build a deeper wisdom about life, themselves and consciousness.

Nietzsche writes about it in his book “The higher man and the herd” from a perspective of achievement and doing your best work.

Aristotle compares a man’s comfort with loneliness to two extremes.

“Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” he says.

You then look at accomplished athletes, fighters and martial artists who have had to be alone to work on their craft, work to master themselves.

On the other hand, Britain has a dedicated ministry for Loneliness.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/world/europe/uk-britain-loneliness.html

It was deliberated by the parliament that the perils of being lonely in a growing capitalist economy was weighing down on the mental health of its citizens and affecting national happiness and productivity.

We are living in times where people are further and further disconnected from each others’ realities while living under the same roof and working for the same company.

The movie “Joker” really paints an interesting picture about the struggle to balance your mental health while living alone trying to earn a decent living, working hard.

(A scene from Joaquim Phoenix’s “Joker” where the protagonist writes about his struggles in his diary)

Not only its impact on your mental health, being lonely exposes people living in big cities to many risks such as burglary and stalking.

Well, lot of people are more stoic mentally and loneliness doesn’t go about wrecking havoc to their minds, pulling out long unresolved issues from under the carpet.

For the people who have faced trauma, be it war, loss or failure, loneliness is tough to be comfortable with as it brings out a lot of issues that will perhaps take a lifetime to resolve and release fully.

And since the awareness how to tackle it is so thin, since its not taught at school and is a taboo, most people resort to substance abuse to ‘escape’ this feeling.

So what is the right answer is here?

The right answer for everyone should be that being alone should feel as natural as being surrounded by people in a marketplace.

That is when you can say for sure that your mind is working well and you are acting naturally.

If you don’t feel this way, no need to push yourself to the deep end at one go, but accept and slowly begin to increase your awareness and level of self dependence.

Yes there are many different types of personalities. Some are naturally introverted, some extroverted but human beings have evolved enough over time to be able to adjust to both extremes.

And let me tell you that as long as you feel balanced by other people and imbalanced on your own, you will continue to have imbalanced relationships.

No matter what your past was like, what experiences you’ve had. How good or bad your childhood was, to be able to push yourself to go beyond what feels comfortable, you will have to learn to be okay with solitude.

Solitude is where you work on your flaws.

Relationships enrich you and bring awareness into your life about yourself and your connection with the world.

Solitude however, is where you sit down with yourself and work on releasing hurt, questioning yourself, setting goals, personal boundaries and gaining a deeper awareness of what the experience of life is, really.

Many of us are just ‘stumbling’ through life, without a conscious understanding of why we are where we are and why we are headed where we are.

It’s as if, stopping and slowing down to go in wards will distort our experience of what truly is.

What if what really is, isn’t how you want it to be?

And what if you realise how far you’ve come in the wrong direction upon such a deliberation?

What then? What does it mean for your life as you know it?

These are some questions to ask yourself.

Chances are you can’t even nearly begin to truly dig deep into how you feel about them until you can sit with no one but yourself.

That’s how soldiers prepared themselves for a new day. Sharpening their sword, fixing their armor, tending to their injuries and fixing their gear.

That’s what loneliness does; it sharpens you, stitches your cuts shut, bandages your wounds and shows you where the healing needs to occur.

Of course, it means nothing if you’re not going out to interact again, in the world. However, wouldn’t a soldier fight better in the battlefield, with a better idea of his strengths, weaknesses and present condition of body, weapons and armor?

That’s how it is. Work done alone translates into meaningful interactions with the world.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

What’s the best thing to do to get out of one-sided love?

Hari Om Dear friend!

You know how they say it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all?

I too didn’t get it.

I really didn’t.

Heartbreak is something that everybody has experienced in some way or another.

It’s not always losing the person you love because they don’t love you back, it’s many ways.

Your heart gets broken when your plans don’t work out and you have to ask for help from the people you really never ever wanted to ask for help.

When you give all of yourself to an idea, a business or a relationship and it doesn’t work out and you lose yourself and your dreams, self belief and confidence, that is heart break.

When you wait your entire life to be able to earn enough to bring your parents joy and when you finally do and your parents are no longer there.. that is heartbreak.

Look around you, we are all heartbroken.

None of us is shielded from the vagaries of life.

Everyone is carrying some pain within them and working through it and healing through it. You know what?

The more we open our heart and inculcate compassion, the more we heal and grow. The more we realise that at the end of the day, the purpose of the journey was the journey.

The purpose of loving and not being loved back, was to understand that love is not a contract, it isn’t an agreement, it is an expression.

Love flows out from deep within you like rivers flow down from the mountains.

Like flowers bloom,

Like sun rays scatter through the clouds.

Love flows out from within you because you have the capacity to love. It happens naturally.

You have the capacity to love because you have the capacity to feel, to express and to be vulnerable and allow yourself to be hurt if need be.

This means you have courage. This means you have strength.

Most people go through life never fully opening their hearts to the things, people and ideas that call out to the deepest parts of their soul, because they are afraid of being shot down. They are afraid of being rejected.

Don’t be.

“Your heart must continue to break until it opens”

~Rumi

What does this mean?

It means you don’t need to be loved back by someone to feel love.

You and the love you feel is complete within itself.

Your love doesn’t need to be validated by being ‘chosen’ by someone or being showered with affection and reciprocation.

Your love, as you feel it, as it is, is complete.

It is complete like the love of a person towards a beautiful rose in the meadow.

He doesn’t pluck it and leave it to wither thereafter, he allows the beauty to fill up his heart, to experience it within the moment and yet, allow it to be free.

True love is not to possess, it is not to have, or not have.

True love is to feel, let go and set free.

So don’t despair if you loved someone truly and they didn’t love you back.

For you have all the love that you created within you and within you it is complete.

Give yourself this love now so that you may attract someone who responds to your vibration.

Fill yourself with so much love that you are free from any traces of heartbreak.

So that you are free from any need to direct your love to anyone and seek it back.

Know that you can give all of this love to yourself with compassion and at the same time, continue to love the person who doesn’t feel love for you.

Continue to open your heart to people, plants, animals, life around you.

Continue to allow yourself to feel what you feel.

The more you do that, the more you allow your heart to be open and love with abandon without the fear of getting hurt or the fear of being rejected, the more attractive you become.

And as you become attractive you will become a vessel of love.

Trust me.

You will become so radiant and so beautiful and peaceful within yourself that nothing but love will flow from you and towards you.

You will just attract people, relationships, friendships and companions who want to co create more love with you.

How can you do that now? ‘Practically’ speaking?

  1. Start a meditation routine.
    1. I know it will be very tough at first but think of meditation as self therapy.
    2. Meditation will allow you to feel and work through your emotions.
    3. Remember you will go through the 5 stages of grief and you have to step by step, allow yourself to go through these stages ‘consciously’:
      1. Denial
      2. Anger
      3. Bargaining
      4. Depression
      5. Acceptance
    4. I’m including a link here of ‘heart chakra’ meditation that will help you heal your heart and release pain and sadness. The point is to not let the hurt close your heart lest you alienate and distance the people who want to and are willing to give you love.

2. Maintain a journal

  • I know, the last thing you want to do is write when you practically feel like crap all day and maybe don’t even feel like moving or sometimes, god bless you… breathing!
  • However, all journaling is not ‘written’.
    • The point is to record your progress and this journey.
    • You will find love after this I promise.
    • You will get through this. I promise.
    • And when you get through this, and you are stronger because of it, I want you to be able to look back at how you made it and through what you made it so that you become stronger and grow through this experience not merely go through it.
  • Just record every day.
    • Write, blog, voice record, video record, blog, vlog, whatever you feel like!
    • Allow yourself to feel what you feel and transmute that pain into creativity.
    • This will help you make a routine and ensure that you don’t completely fall into the abyss of inaction.
    • You need something to keep pushing you to improve and move ahead each day. Journaling will help you do that.

3. Strengthen yourself

  • Workout, eat better, enroll for a course you always wanted to enroll in. Dancing, cooking, art, I don’t know man! Whatever you always wanted to do. Go do that!
  • I would highly suggest making a workout routine and sticking to it even if you feel like crap.
  • Get your friends to hold you accountable or ask you to workout with them.
  • If you can’t get friends to do that, get a personal coach or life coach to keep you on track and motivate you.
  • Transmute this pain into progress.
    • Feel it.
    • Direct it. (Towards some activity such as working out)
    • Release it. (At the end of the activity, consciously tap into the feeling again and let it go by taking deep breaths)

4. Don’t block!

  • Blocking, getting rid of old stuff, destroying photos, this is all for weak people.
  • I know it is painful, I know it.
  • Blocking, deleting all of this will just block your heart.
  • Respect the other person’s choice and realise that you deserve better. Realize that you deserve more.
  • By harboring resentment you are basically putting the message out in the universe that there is no one else out there who will love you as much as you deserve to be loved.
    • There is!
    • There is someone out there who will love you exactly the way you love and you will be so lucky to meet them when the time is right.
    • If you harbor resentment for this current person, you will not be able to raise your energetic vibration high enough to be able to attract the love you deserve, into your life.
    • So rise above these things. Keep your heart clear and continue to allow yourself the space to feel love.

5. Get help

  • It’s important to talk to someone about how you feel.
  • Not everyone wants this but sure as hell everyone needs this.
  • Take your time but know that talking to someone, like a life coach, therapist, tarot reader, astrologer, whatever rocks your boat man. Whatever you feel drawn to.
  • Getting help will ensure that you don’t feel isolated with pain and you don’t bottle up your emotions and continue to get hopeless.
  • Bottled up emotions can be really harmful for immune system and mental health.
  • Don’t bottle it up. Talk. Get some help.

6. Solo travel

  • I can’t honestly think of anything more empowering and refreshing than solo traveling.
  • The biggest thing that solo traveling does is that it forces you to get our of your comfort zone and adapt to a new scenery, a new setting.
  • Meeting new people, going through new experiences, trying new food, sleeping in a new bed, living in a different place, it all has a very healing effect on you.
  • I understand sometimes in life we may not have the money to travel and in times of Covid, maybe traveling isn’t possible.
  • However, you can still go the best park, garden or monument in your city as a day outing and go for an outing two or three days in a row.
    • Get what I mean?
    • If you don’t have the money, just explore your own city like a tourist would. Make a 3 day itinerary and hit all the great spots in the city and bring a new wave of freshness into your life.
  • Please don’t go an a solo trip looking to hookup with someone to get over your heartbreak. That’s running from yourself. Don’t do that.
  • The point of traveling solo is to become more rooted in your power and comfortable in your company. Have new experiences and allow your mind to relax and change your perspective to things.

7. Get closure

  • How do you get closure?
  • This is going to be the single most difficult most rewarding step in this entire cycle and you have to aim to reach here.
  • If you reach this step and are able to do what I’m going to tell you, then you will rid yourself completely of any pain whatsoever.
  • What is it?
    • When you’re finally healed and feeling confident, strong and radiant within, have a normal conversation with the person you were in love with, just like friends.
    • Keep your boundaries in this meeting or call, even if they want to over step them.
    • Even if they say they’ve changed their mind or just miss you being crazy after them, maintain your boundaries and have a friendly chat where you talk about general things and wrap the call up with a normal friendly statement like “Good talking to you, see you soon!”
    • This will give you the closure that you need to put the stamp of healing over this entire episode.
    • Give yourself as much time as you want but understand, this should be the final step.
  1. The beginning of your next relationship starts with how this one ends.
  2. Even if this one was a one sided relationship, it doesn’t matter because for you it was indeed a relationship.
  3. So you have to ensure that this ‘separation’ and ‘release’ is ‘conscious’ and that you are able to keep an open heart through it.
  4. This is what will lead you to the person you are meant for. This is what will help you attract your soulmate into your life.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om!

What is the worst house for Jupiter in vedic astrology?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Jupiter, the ‘guru’, the great benefic, is a an embodiment you may say, of knowledge and discipline.

I know, not many people associate Jupiter with discipline but glance for a second on the ‘nakshatras’ that it rules and you will immediately get an idea:

  1. ‘Punarvasu’
  2. ‘Vishakha’
  3. ‘Purvabhadrapada’

These 3 ‘nakshatras’ are the most energetic as well as the most difficult ‘nakshatras’ to deal with if you make the mistake of straying off your ‘dharma’.

The second and third ‘nakshatras’ here have a powerful shadow energy accompanying them and the first one is signified with the boomerang. The boomerang meaning that ‘karma’ sent out circles back to you.

Now, look at the houses Jupiter rules:

  1. Ninth house of higher knowledge
  2. Twelfth house of ‘moksha’ and liberation.

You see these houses and then these ‘nakshatras’ and you realise that Jupiter is a planet who is the hard taskmaster when it comes to advancing spiritually to a higher energetic level on this physical plane.

Therefore, the best alignment for Jupiter’s energy, ideally speaking, would be the following houses:

  1. 9th and 12th house:
    1. Because they correspond to the natural placements corresponding to Jupiter’s ruled signs in the zodiac, Sagittarius and Pisces.
  2. 5th house:
    1. The house of ‘purva punya bhava’ i.e. blessings from past lives.
    2. Jupiter here is in the natural placement of a friend i.e Sun as the 5th house energy corresponds to the energy of the sing of Leo which is the 5th sign.
    3. Also, the 5th house is the house that shows to a huge extent, the native’s ability to improve their living circumstances and grow.
      1. This is because the 5ht house is 9th from the 9th.
      2. Therefore the 5th house is also the true essence of the chart, signifying ‘bhagya’.
  3. 4th house:
    1. This house corresponds to the natural house of Cancer and is therefore Jupiter’s original exalted position.
  4. 10th and 11th house:
    1. Although ruled by Saturn, corresponding to the signs of Capricorn and Aquarius, these are good houses.
      1. Why?
      2. Because the 10th house is the mid heaven and this is where a planet is most visible in the sky.
      3. So any planet placed here even if it doesn’t acquire ‘dig-bala’ is placed at a position where it gains a lot of ‘status’.
      4. Similarly with the 11th house, it is 2nd from the 10th house and is an ‘upachya’ house.
      5. Planets placed in the 11th house generally always give good results because naturally, it is the house of incoming gains, recognition and highest of hopes and wishes.
      6. Plus, it grows over time.
      7. Also, as I pointed our earlier, Saturn’s agenda is not too far removed from Jupiter’s disciplinarian nature.
      8. So the native is actually able to leverage Jupiter’s qualities well to ‘expand’ their gains, network circles and public persona.
  5. 1st and 8th house:
    1. These are houses ruled by Jupiter’s friend Mars.
    2. Mars is a fiery planet much like Jupiter and Sun.
    3. Jupiter in the first house lends a lot of morality, discipline and benefic values to the native and life path.
    4. Any planet in the ascendant is very important for the native’s life.
    5. A benefic planet in the ascendant is obviously a little better especially if placed in good dignity, as it makes the individual struggle less in life and get things a little easier.
    6. In the 8th house, Jupiter does well as a protector and even though the native may encounter ups and downs and sudden events in life,
      1. Jupiter in the 8th blessed the married life of the native.
      2. Jupiter blessed the assets created after marriage for the native and also grants natural knowledge of the occult.
  6. 3rd and 6th house:
    1. Many people say that Jupiter placed in the 3rd is especially weak since you have taken a philosophical planet of higher knowledge and put it at a place where only the mundane is required.
      1. That may be true however, being under utilized and being bad by virtue of placement are two different things.
      2. Yes the native with Jupiter in the 3rd house may not be tapping into the energy of Jupiter as much however, Jupiter here isn’t harming the native in any way either.
      3. In fact if anything, Jupiter in the 3rd usually gives a large set of relatives and cousins, siblings. It also is great for the sibling and occupations like writing.
    2. In the 6th, Jupiter protects once more like it does in the 8th.
      1. However, yes, Jupiter’s energy here translates into a workaholic.
      2. Seriously, these people work even more than Saturn in sixth house people many times.
      3. Jupiter here shows that the individual has considerable ‘karmic’ debt to burn off however by virtue of Jupiter’s placement here, there is help in burning off that debt.
      4. So Jupiter in the 6th is mildly problematic but tbh, it’s still a lot better than if any other benefic was placed here.
      5. Yes, it is still however mildly problematic but it saves you most of the time from enemies, debts, conflicts and diseases by translating that energy into a lot of work.
  7. 2nd and 7th house
    1. Second house is good for Jupiter and that’s because it’s the house of lineage, assets, family values, values and accumulated wealth.
    2. Jupiter here expands the individual’s assets and fixed wealth as well as blesses the family.
    3. 7th house for Jupiter is not that great at all. In my opinion and as per the charts and cases I have studied, Jupiter here causes more problems than it fixes. Anytime that happens, you can say that a particular placement is bad for the planet.
      1. Jupiter in the 7th house makes a person a bit too naïve in terms of dealings and negotiations.
      2. The person has a tendency to give a lot more than hold up their interests and protect themselves where necessary.
      3. They aren’t ‘objective’ about negotiation and business.
      4. Jupiter here also tends to cause more than one marriage.
      5. The reason is, Jupiter is not the planet for relationships and marriage and in the natural position of Libra, ruled by Venus, it is way out of depth here and the energies are not properly directed.
      6. See, mythologically, Jupiter is said to have been so involved in conducting ‘homas’ and ‘yajnas’ for the gods that he would neglect his wife. His wife was wooed by ‘Chandra’ and she eloped with him as life with Jupiter was too lonesome for her.
      7. ‘Pushya’ is a ‘nakshatra’ of which Jupiter is the deity and this ‘nakshatra’ is considered most auspicious for every activity except marriage.
      8. ‘Punarvasu’ is a ‘nakshatra’ ruled by Jupiter and it is another ‘nakshatra’ that isn’t considered the best for marriage. Best example for this is Lord Rama who had his Moon in ‘Punarvasu’.
    4. Therefore, unless placed in its own signs and has some ‘benefic’ aspects of Saturn subduing its energy, Jupiter placement in the 7th house is the worst placement for this amazing benefic planet.
    5. If you really think about it, makes a lot of sense too.
      1. Marriage, partnerships, dealings in the ‘market place’, contracts, negotiations, all activities that the 7th house govern, are in no way the natural domain of philosophy, higher wisdom or abstract ideas.
      2. These are very practical, very grounded areas of life that need a very practical, grounded manner of dealing and work.
      3. Saturn and Venus do pretty well here.
      4. In fact, Mars, Sun, Jupiter, all 3 fiery planets are ill placed in this position.
      5. Even so, you would be surprised to know that there have been individuals in history who have actually taken the Jupitarian approach and dealt with negotiations, conflict and upheavals with empathy and love. They just didn’t have much of a married life though. That’s a fact.

Notable examples:

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mahatma Gandhi is often criticized even to this day for the loss of Pakistan during the separation.
  • Although blessed with a devoted wife, he didn’t really have much of a married life as most of his life was spent in struggle.

2. Nelson Mandela

  • Mandela had 2 marriages and spent a long time in separation from his second wife because he was imprisoned in the freedom struggle.
  • Even after coming out of prison, he was faced with his wife as his rival in politics as she favored a violent route over his preferred route of non violence.

3. German Chancellor Angela Merkel

  • Angela Merkel was widely criticized by here own people for opening the borders to the refugee crisis as a result of the Syrian conflict.
  • She has also been criticized many times for being ‘soft’ on dealings with the UK in the ‘Brexit’ negotiations.
  • Like Mandela, Angela Merkel also has been married twice.

Their details for your reference:

  1. Gandhi:
    1. Oct 2, 1869
    2. 7:08 AM
    3. Porbandar, India
  2. Mandela:
    1. July 18, 1918
    2. 14:54
    3. Mvezo, South Africa
  3. Merkel:
    1. July 17, 1954
    2. 18:00
    3. Hamburg, Germany

Note:

In case you look up their charts and get confused wrt Jupiter placement, always remember that:

  1. Look at house placement from the ‘Chalit’ chart.
  2. Alternatively you may use the Placidus House system.

As always, do remember, just one placement can’t be used to judge the entire chart, ever. You can’t make a proper prediction or estimation based on just one placement by any means. You need to analyze the complete chart.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Saturn in the 8th House: Meaning, Karma & Transformation

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

I just wrote an answer about exalted planets in ‘dushthana’ houses. Do check that out if you can. It gives an idea about how malefic and benefic planets interact differently in ‘dushthana’ houses and the underlying energies.https://qr.ae/pG3US4

  • Now, coming to this placement, Saturn is well placed in the 8th house actually and does quite well.
  • It is frustrating, yes, but it’s better than Mars or ‘Rahu’ in the 8th who can cause accidents and violent altercations. (Not all the time. Relax!)
  • See, Saturn is the planet of longevity and Saturn actually is also the planet of ‘greatness’.
  • Sun is fame and recognition, Mars is valor and dominance, Saturn is greatness.

If you would just look at Saturn ruled ‘nakshatras’ for a moment you’d get the idea:

  1. ‘Pushya’
    1. This is considered one of the most regal ‘nakshatras’ and in fact even the most regal of all ‘nakshatras’.
  2. ‘Anuradha’
    1. Once again, this is the ‘nakshatra’ of brilliance and you will often see heads of state and great leaders with placements in this ‘nakshatra’
  3. ‘Uttarabhadrapada’
    1. This is the ‘nakshatra’ of the ‘shesha naaga’ himself. This ‘nakshatra’ is one of foundations and deep spiritual knowledge.
  • Also, Saturn rules the sign of Capricorn and Aquarius, that correspond to the natural 10th and 11th house of the chart.
    • So Saturn basically rules both the ‘karma sthana’ and the ‘labha sthana’. (Damn!)
  • Saturn practically rules everything important in the chart if you talk about success on the material plane.
    • Think about it for a second, Warren Buffet, Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani and Bill Gates; all very different people but everyone has one thing in common. what’s that?
    • They’re all way over 60.
    • You don’t get to leave behind a legacy or gain respect in your field unless you’ve slowly made your way to the top and stayed there.
    • That’s the thing. (Time).
    • Saturn is time.
  • Saturn teaches you that if you want to build something valuable it will take time. If you want to be of value, it will take time. If you want to stay at the top after you’ve reached there, it will take constant effort. That’s Saturn!
  • No wonder actually that the ‘ishta devata’ of Saturn is ‘Vishnu’ the preserver.
  • So when Saturn is in the 8th house, Saturn’s biggest lesson is teaching the individual the importance of time and constant work.
    • From the 3rd and 10th aspect which are its strongest, Saturn aspects the 10th house and 5th house.
    • These aren’t easy aspects but very rewarding in the long run.
    • See, with the 3rd aspect, Saturn is making the native strive hard in the workplace.
    • With the 10th aspect on the 5th house, Saturn is making the process of improving life circumstances difficult by delaying reaping the benefits of good ‘karma’ from past life, which is what the 5th house represents.
      • The individual is forced to address and fix their emotional issues and hang-ups. This is what Saturn placed in the 8th house does.
    • It suppresses sudden events and it frustrates the individual quite a bit since marriage and partnerships take a long time to prosper or materialize.
    • For people with Saturn in the 8th, married life is usually delayed.
      • It’s because of the sheer delay and suppression in the development of the individual’s awareness about their personal power and personal expression.
  • The individual spends a long time questioning and understanding what they really are, who they really are. This may be accompanied by a confusion and lack of clarity in terms of sexual orientation and sexual identity.
    • In some cases, this placement may even show an individual who grew up being body shamed, ridiculed or suppressing their sexual identity to fit in with others.
    • Quite often these can be women who like to hang out more with men and dress up and express themselves in more masculine ways and vice versa.
  • Saturn in the 8th house ultimately pushes the individual to search for meaning through research.
    • These people are great at research and quite often can be equally good at science and occult even great sexologists and ‘tantra’ practitioners.
  • The lesson of Saturn everywhere is that it never denies only delays.
    • So the individual is forced to search for meaning and identity via the work they do and less through relationships or by acts of heroism and risk.
    • Risk is forbidden to them yet these individuals may well turn into people who are not afraid of risk at all.
    • They know exactly where to draw the line and they know exactly how far to push it. It’s because Saturn, being the hard taskmaster that he is, pushes the native to work through uncomfortable situations and navigate through unpredictable life events.
  • Death and rebirth are concepts known instinctively from childhood itself to natives with this placement.
    • It is quite possible that the death of an important family member caused them to take up important responsibility in the family or that the death of close friend, relative or sibling, maybe even a partner, had a profound impact on their life and lead them to a transformation.
    • Saturn in the 8th frustrates the individual by keeping them stuck in an identity that they cannot shake off.
      • This is the person who for example, went to law school because his parents asked him to and after working as a lawyer and saving up a lot of money when he decides to follow his passion and stop practicing, some family emergency makes him go back to the job and work for the next 20 years.
      • This is the person who is stuck in an identity that he didn’t even actively build. This frustrates the individual until the second part of life when they slowly become comfortable with the nature of life and focus on defining themselves more on the basis of the work they can do rather than softer more artistic aspects like who they are and what their purpose is.
    • Other times, Saturn will force the individual to undergo a transformation to execute their responsibilities in the material plane.
      • Example would be that of an individual forced to give up their dreams to take over and run the family business after their father dies, to be able to support the family.
  • The 7th aspect of Saturn in 8th to the 2nd house, mostly pans out in some sort of responsibility towards the family and lineage.
    • The native has ‘karma’ entangled with the family lineage that calls upon them to carry forward the work left incomplete by previous generations.
    • Most of all, it’s the ‘knowing’ of leaving behind a ‘legacy’ or a body of work that sustains even after death.
    • As that’s the whole point of the 8th house, death and rebirth.
      • How do you then become immortal?
      • Well, by never being forgotten!

Some notable examples:

  1. Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King Jr.
  • MLK was the chief proponent of America’s Civil rights movement and worked hard for the inclusivity of afro Americans into mainstream society, jobs and work culture.
  • He fought against the racial segregation of black Americans and did so peacefully.
  • He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

2. Renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud

  • Freud was instrumental in the development of the field of psychology in modern times.
  • The invention and development of psycho-analytics is attributed to him. His psycho-analytic theories explained mental illness, motivation and the structure of the subconscious.

3. Actor Dwayne Johnson (“The Rock”)

  • Dwayne comes from a long line of wrestlers. His dad and his grandad were wrestlers before him.
  • As a kid, Dwayne and his family were forced to leave Hawaii because they couldn’t afford rent. That experience stayed with him throughout his life and even later, he had to face a lot of problems to become financially stable.
  • Today he is worth more than $400 million!

Their details for your reference and study:

  • MLK
    • Jan 15, 1929
    • 12:00 PM
    • Atlanta, USA
  • Sigmund Freud
    • May 6, 1856
    • 18:30
    • Freiberg, Czech Republic
  • Dwayne Johnson
    • May 2, 1972
    • 18:02
    • San Leandro, USA

As always, please note:

  1. Planetary house placements should be viewed from the ‘chalit’ chart. Alternatively you may use the Placidus house system.
  2. Just one placement cannot dictate events. You need to analyze the entire chart to gain more details about the native’s life.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Rahu–Ketu Theory Explained: Karma, Shadow & Liberation

Hari Om!

This quote by famous psychologist Carl Jung pretty much sums up the concept of ‘Rahu-Ketu’. You will understand what I mean as you read on, however keep this at the back of your mind now as you read further.

Yeah and by the way, Jung is rumored to have used astrology as one of his tools to understand his patients’ minds better.

Now, I have written, by god’s grace, extensively on the topic of ‘Rahu-Ketu’ and you encouraged to check out my answers on this topic. Here’s one of my earliest answers that sums up this concept pretty well for someone new to the topic.

In my book I have gone into a lot of details about this topic over 4 chapters that span some inter disciplinary and allied fields of ‘Vedic’ study.https://qr.ae/pG3ZJN

So, here’s what it is for the un-initiated:

  1. ‘Rahu’ and ‘Ketu’ are eclipse points.
    1. Basically, these aren’t ‘planets’ but mathematical points of intersection of the Moon’s orbital path and the ecliptic.

2. ‘Rahu’ and ‘Ketu’ represent areas of our lives where the soul needs to grow and has pending ‘karma’ respectively.

  • So, ‘Rahu ji’ shows us, on the basis of his placement in the chart, where the lessons are for growth of our soul in this lifetime.
  • These are areas that haven’t been explored yet by our consciousness to the point that the soul can grow to any reasonable degree so that the ‘jeeva’ may fulfill his purpose and the ‘aatman’ may get ‘moksha’.
  • ‘Ketu maharaj’ shows us, by virtue of his placement in the chart, where our soul has gone through sufficient cycles of growth in previous lifetimes and where we can now, look to release control over as well as learn to trust on in our pursuit for self realization.
  • Get it?
    • Think of it this way:
      • If your soul is undergoing a course in a particular subject, say enlightenment, ‘Ketu’ represents that exercises on the book that the soul has mastered.
      • ‘Rahu’ represents the exercises in the book that the soul has yet to attempt but needs to in order to complete the syllabus and get a certificate.
    • Quite naturally, we are averse to doing the things we don’t know how to and try instinctively, to stick with things that we know well.
    • This is where all the problems arise. Well, that and planetary time periods that mess up this dynamic.

3. ‘Rahu’ conjunct a planet means you are yet to develop the qualities of that planet in this lifetime. ‘Ketu’ conjunct a planet means you need to now release the qualities of that planet since you have mastered them. All in all, ‘Rahu-Ketu’ point towards a conscious ‘integration’ of the extremes of your psyche.

  • This is very important both from the perspective of transits and natal conjunctions.
  • People fall prey to all sorts of misunderstandings and above all, fear about ‘Rahu’ ‘Ketu’ placements as most astrologers tend not to look at these entities with respect.
  • I hate it how people do not show respect at all two the most important entities in the chart. ‘Rahu ji’ and ‘Ketu maharaj’.
  • ‘Vishnu’ himself is the reason that they came into existence and were allowed to expand the ‘maaya’ ‘loka’ that is this planet.
  • So, long story short, don’t talk about ‘Rahu-Ketu’ as if they are ‘evil’ and ‘ghastly’, which is how a lot of people tend to view them and it comes without surprise that this is why they have so many problems with these entities.
  • Even the holiest person you know, if they are in ‘grihasta jeevan’ and not a ‘brahmachari’, are not, by the virtue of their way of life, a celibate.
    • So what do you do? You stop respecting them? Just because they are mortals like the rest of us?
    • Does that mean they are ‘impure’ or not as wise? How do you account for the mundane in the lives of seemingly transcendental individuals?
    • Surely you must know, they are still human and do have some human vices?
  • Wait wait before you cringe at this sentence, there is an entire episode wherein ‘Shankaracharaya’, during a debate with a married woman, was stumped, since she picked up a topic about marital life and happiness and he had no clue obviously how to respond, since he was a celibate.
  • It is said therefore, that he let go of his body for a while and experienced this knowledge in another body and then returned to his own body to resume the debate.
  • What does that tell you now?
  • It tells you that not to judge first of all haha. No seriously, don’t judge a person because you don’t know how spiritual they may have been in a previous lifetime but their soul maybe didn’t experience the ‘maaya’ enough to be able to get liberated.
  • You see people running after money and assets and doing all kinds of things and your ‘holier than thou’ attitude takes over and you judge them for being ‘lost’ but that’s not it. Their ‘Rahu’ is pointing them in the direction of what their soul needs to experience in this lifetime in order to grow.
    • Obviously, shooting yourself with drugs, being a menace to society and causing harm, is not done.
    • But see, these are negative or ‘shadow’ attributes of the energy of ‘Rahu’ that will engulf you if you don’t consciously understand and integrate this energy within you.
    • ‘Rahu-Ketu’ is a very deep concept that with the right understanding, can help you transcend this material plane and progress on the path towards enlightenment.
  • Understand please.
    • We all have a shadow side and a ‘conscious side’.
    • When you fail to integrate these sides, what happens is that havoc begins to let loose on your life.
    • All of the universe is energy and you are here in this lifetime, to consciously integrate two seemingly irreconcilable ends of your personality and consciousness and align them towards the path of self realization and ‘moksha’.

4. ‘Rahu-Ketu’ ‘mahadashas’ may not be coming in everyone’s lifetime but their ‘antardashas’ certainly will and will ask you important questions at that.

  • ‘Rahu’ and ‘Ketu’ periods are periods of extensive spiritual development.
  • What you need to understand is ‘Rahu’ is just as spiritual as ‘Ketu’. ‘Ketu’ disconnects you from ‘maaya’ to see the futility of everything. ‘Rahu’ shows you that without experiencing and conquering ‘maaya’ consciously, you can never complete these cycles of development.

So, long story short, the ‘Rahu-Ketu’ concept is analyzing a chart and using their positioning to gain a deeper knowledge about how the individual needs to grow, what they need to release and which ‘shadow’ elements of themselves they need to become more conscious of.

The story differs from chart to chart but some general themes can be analyzed and predicted however even if their planetary time periods aren’t currently active, on the background, they are always at work.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om!

Is It Ever Too Late to Change? The Truth About Growth

Hari Om!

Is it ever too late for you un-learn what you have learnt over the years and hasn’t been helping you?

Yes it is.

But it’s not impossible.

It’s just that the process of change involves ‘letting go’ to a huge extent and it makes people very uncomfortable and very scared.

You see, in order to get to a place other than where you find yourself right now, the first thing to understand is that is no one else but you who brought yourself here.

That’s where it begins.

You know all these programs of rehabilitation of drug abusers and alcoholics?

It all starts with the person accepting first of all that they do have a problem.

Unless you accept that you need to change, you can’t change.

To change, you will need to accept that you need to let go of things that no longer serve you.

You don’t have to ‘push them away’ just detach. That’s it.

If they are at the same energetic level as you, they will continue to be at your side. If they are not, they will just fall away like layers that no longer serve you.

When you take this mentality and apply it to your life, in the most easy way possible, at every step that you have to take an important decision, you will realise that:

  1. People close to you either raise their energy to match yours.
  2. People leave your side since they are only hindering your spiritual growth.

This life, this birth, our time on this planet, has a biological mundane meaning but also has a deeper spiritual meaning.

That meaning is simple. That meaning is straightforward. The meaning is this:

“You are here to grow.”

You are here to grow into the best version of who you are and in your individual excellence lies the growth of all mankind.

It’s true.

Think about it.

Think about what would have happened if Einstein had just given up. Published a few papers and that’s it. Spent the rest of his time playing the violin, which he so loved.

If Michael Phelps hadn’t decided to teach us how far a professional swimmer can push the boundaries of physical capabilities.

If Roger Bannister had never taught us that a human being can indeed run a mile in less than 4 minutes.

The list is endless my friend.

I want to leave you with one of my favorite paragraphs:

  • Don’t let the obstacles that stand in the way of your personal growth bow you down and accept where you are.
  • What is in the path, becomes the path.
  • If obstacles are in the path, they become the path.
  • You are not here to resign to a life of mediocrity and decay.
  • You are here to stand in your power and in your authentic self to show the world that maybe you were assigned the mountain.. so you can show others that it can be moved!

Now obviously, it’s easier said than done. However, if I had to crystallize it for you in 5 points here’s what you do:

  1. Fix a goal.
  2. Figure out what you need to get there.
  3. Figure out what you lack right now.
  4. Get a coach to help you develop qualities and skills required.
  5. Detach from things and people who hinder your movement in that direction.

I can say from experience as a life coach that these 5 points are all you will ever need. Seriously.

I’ve helped clients accomplish things at 50 that most 30 year olds can’t even bring themselves to do and follow through on.

To be honest I think at 50 their decision for change was backed up by a whole life of dissatisfaction about those few things that they wanted to change.

At 30 you tend to keep off putting this process until later.

But yes, I was instrumental however only as a single point in this journey of theirs. They are the ones who actually put in the work and followed through.

  1. Nobody can do the work for you.
  2. Change is not a process.
  3. Change is a decision.

And what you need to do, every single day is to decide to stick to this decision through everything that happens to you and everything that doesn’t.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om!

Rahu Dasha is almost killing me. What am I supposed to do?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

What would you do if you didn’t know how to swim at all and were picked up and thrown right at the deep end of the pool?

Don’t bother answering. I’ll tell you what you’re most likely to do.

  • You’d thrash around, trying to stay afloat.
  • You’d move your legs, your arms and try all kinds of things to be able to swim.
  • And in the process you’d inhale a lot of water into your lungs.

Don’t do that.

Do the opposite of that.

Become perfectly still.

Do the dead-man float.

You’ll be fine.

“What?”

I know, I know. This isn’t enough. You need more information.

Sure.

The basics of the North node and his energy and what his time period is all about, you can read in a lot of popular answers I’ve written over the last few years. You could try my book too. It’s very detailed and has multidisciplinary correlations you won’t find anywhere else.

But coming back to the question.

See, ‘Rahu ji’ is your teacher. He is a taskmaster.

He isn’t concerned about you getting hurt, getting stronger or anything of that sort that works with other planets.

Like, with Saturn, he is here to teach you with lack, delay and difficulties. Jupiter is here to teach you with wisdom and higher philosophy.

Every planet is here to teach you something to enable your soul to grow in a particular direction so that in the end, you can just decide to let it all go and achieve liberation.

The North node’s job is the most critical.

His job is to ensure that you absolutely, 100% go through the experiences that your soul signed up for before manifesting in a physical form here on this planet.

If you survive it or not, it honestly doesn’t make a difference to ‘Rahu’.

Why is that?

Because all of it is just an illusion.

The real lesson you are required to learn over and over and over again, that you’re missing out on and reincarnating here again and again is..

There’s always going to be some desire that is going to remain unfulfilled. You have to make your peace with that and transcend beyond this physical experience, for good; Anyway!

Even so, it won’t happen until you have reached that end of the cycle in reality.

So the job of the North node of the Moon is to deliver the experience to you. How you handle it will define how much you can gain or lose during these 18 years.

Here are some things you can do:

  1. ‘Kala bhairava saadhna’
    1. ‘Kaala bhairava’ is the deity of the North node and controls all the negative and positive duality of everything that the north node represents. Pray to him, get his blessings and you will see your life transform.
  2. ‘Going with the flow’
    1. This is actually something very deep to understand and to truly discover it, you will have to experience it and don’t worry. You will get there, within the first 6 months of this period itself. For better or worse, you will learn to not make plans but to ‘flow’ and follow your heart’s desires. To stop cheating yourself and to accept what you truly desire and go get it instead.
  3. Thinking positively
    1. The North node is about the mind. He’s about your thoughts, your consciousness, your desires and your ambitions.
    2. A very important thing to take care of during his time period is to ensure that you learn to meditate and work through your fears. If you don’t work through your fears, they will manifest very fast in this period.
    3. What would you do, I’m asking this question again. What would you do, if you didn’t know how to swim and were simply picked up and thrown at the deep end?
      1. You need to learn to stay calm.
      2. You need to learn to believe you can make it.
      3. You need to learn to believe that if you stay calm, you will have the control you need to make it through.
  4. Keep your ‘karma’ slate clean
    1. The north node is forward manifestation of ‘karma’.
    2. The North node leads you to the events and experiences that you need to perform.
    3. This also means that whatever place you find yourself in and whatever role you are performing right now, you are in ‘create’ mode. You are creating a chain of events for the future bound within the rules of ’cause and effect’. So if you do good things, good things will come back and surround you. If you do bad things, you are setting events in motion bound by the ’cause and effect’ mechanism.
  5. Learn!
    1. You aren’t in a ‘familiar’ domain in this period. Even if you have plenty of the North node’s energy already in your chart in the form of star placements or conjunctions with key planets.
    2. You need to learn from every new thing that comes across on your path.
    3. You need to learn about what you’re going through and please don’t try to solve the problems that you are encountering on the basis of past knowledge of how you’ve encountered these problems in the past.
      1. Why?
      2. Because it just won’t work!
    4. For the 18 years long time period of the North node, your life has changed irreversibly and you need to adapt to this new reality and not just ‘adapt’ to it, but ‘thrive’ in it! Forget how life was before this. Embrace and accept life as it is now!
  6. Get help.
    1. It could be because I’m a life coach myself, however the best results I have had have been with clients who were in ‘Rahu mahadasha’.
    2. With some work, after some time, It was amazing how they adjusted to setting goals and going after them. It’s the energy of ‘desire’ you see. This is what the North node is, it’s the energy of ‘desire’. The more you learn to harness it, channel it, the more it manifests faster and faster.
    3. To be able to work with this energy to your best potential, getting some help is a good idea. Early on in the time period of the North node at least, it is quite possible that you get all ‘caught up in your head’ and end up making no real moves at all. If you were to channel these energies, on the other hand, you would be able to accomplish a lot more.
      1. For this, when you’re not thinking straight and getting too overwhelmed, it is best to get someone on board to help you out. Coach, therapist, whoever works for you.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Astrology for Personal Growth: The True Purpose of Jyotisha

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Astrology can be used for personal development in the same way that any science or theories of personality analysis can be put to use for personal advancement.

See the point of ‘Jyotisha’ is to light the ‘Jyoti’ within.

That’s why it is a part of the ‘Vedas’.

And the ‘Vedas’ are ‘apurusheya’ i.e. they are considered to have originated somewhere in the astral plane (or another dimension?) and only the knowledge has been passed on to humans.

The beauty of the Sanskrit language is that even if a single ‘maatra’ is off, it will upset the entire ‘shloka’ and the entire flow.

It’s called a ‘check-sum’ system.

And, we can be 100% sure therefore, that ‘Vedic’ knowledge has not be tampered with. It has been passed on generation after generation and what you read today (Guarantees only for the Sanskrit version), is exactly what was being read thousands of years ago.

So therefore, ‘Jyotisha’ was never witchcraft, hocus pocus or ‘entertainment’ as it is being made out to be today.

This was a very serious science meant to help people discover about themselves.

And it’s saddening to see so many people running around with such little knowledge and trying to act like they know everything.

This isn’t that kind of a subject.

You can’t just read the BPHS and say “Oh I know everything!”

That’s just 1%

There’s the ‘Jaimini Sutras’, the ‘Surya Siddhanta’, the ‘Vedas’ themselves and among the many treatises about these subjects such as that of ‘Varamihira’, there’s a different way to look at every aspect.

I mean, you read the ‘Shrimad Bhagawatam’ and you’ll look at things differently.

Read the ‘Shiva Purana’ and voila! Whole new perspective.

Essentially, the more you read about all of these other subjects that most people don’t even think are related directly to astrology, the more you are able to discover new things and crack the code of present things.

For example I try to close all arguments by giving references from the ‘Bhagawad Gita’ and ‘Tantra’.

Why?

Because I’m a Life Coach.

My ideology is that.

I will tell you 1000 things about the stars planets and creation, destruction et all and in the end I will tell you to move your butt and get to work.

(Please forgive me if what I’m about to say sounds like a ‘Holier than thou’ perspective.)

This is the way ‘Jyotisha’ was always meant to be practiced.

It is supposed to help you guide the native and show them the path towards liberation.

For god’s sake it was not meant to be a competition between astrologers around the world and across fields of thought on ‘whose predictions are more accurate’!

C’mon!

When I see a debilitated Sun conjunct Venus in the fourth house, I don’t see the need to predict to the native that this means he will always have trouble at home however it is because of this that he will work more and eventually save more.

No. What good does this serve?

  • If I tell the native that you will have to compromise on your values to be able to earn the money the recognition and the accolades that you need.
  • That it will be because of your low confidence that eventually you will end up working and achieving a lot.
  • That it will be because of your unhappiness in being restricted to home and not having the kind of recognition you want, that you will actually develop your skills and get the kind of gains you want.

If I tell the client these things, these are actually things that help him.

I can make 10 more (general) predictions just by this single placement. I’m not kidding. In fact, let me do so just for illustrative purposes:

  1. Shows that the native’s father probably had difficulties in work of some sort when the native was 1 year old.
  2. Shows that the native probably dropped an year in college.
  3. Shows that the native met his wife because of some financial help that was needed.
  4. Shows that the native’s wife probably is a teacher or that the native met his wife through education or some sort of institution.
  5. Shows that the native probably bought a car or some sort of conveyance at the age of 23/24. This car or conveyance was probably white in color or possibly red/maroon.
  6. Shows that the native likes to keep a safe in the house where they store cash. Storing cash just makes them feel more confident.
  7. The native could also have bought a house at the age of 24/27 and/or taken student loans for getting into a prestigious college.
  8. The native could work in hotel management, have a home based business or also work in banking.
  9. The native’s job involves forging important partnerships and close relationships. The native could be a relationship manager, meditator, concierge or client servicing professional.
  10. The native’s family or the native alone, could have left their palatial home or family home to settle elsewhere at the ages of 1,13,18, 25.

Obviously now, these are general predictions. Exact ones will vary depending on the exact placements of other planets in the chart.

Tell me though, if you have this placement, did any of the points from 1–10 help you in any way whatsoever, develop personally?

But, if you read and imbibed those 3 points given in bullets right above this list, that is something that can actually help you grow.

Let’s say then, I looked closely at your ‘nakshatra’ and notice finer patterns, that point out towards your psyche and your mental state in general.

I give you a ‘mantra’ practice for the same.

Then I look deeper at the ‘taara’ placement and give you more inputs wrt how to best express yourself and constructively channel your assertiveness to build healthy self esteem in addition to keeping the peace in relationships.

That’ something that actually helps you grow.

Thing is, it takes more effort and it takes more work.

But that’s the price of growth man.

Discomfort.

I hope this answer helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

‘Tantra’ and ‘Vedic’ astrology part 2

Karma, Energy & Saadhna

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

(‘Ardhnarishwar is the ‘tantric’ representation of both ‘Shiva’ and ‘Parvati’)

If you haven’t read the previous part of this series yet, please do so.https://coachkaushal.quora.com/Tantra-and-Vedic-astrology-part-1

Every minute of our lives is a constant cycle of ’cause and effect’.

What you’re experiencing now is a result of a cause or set of causes in the past.

And what you’re doing now is creating ripples into the future farther than you can imagine.

The thing is, the only way to effectively clean your ‘karma’ is to work on constantly performing good ‘karma’ consciously and at the same time, bravely going through the results of bad ‘karma’ from past events, actions and maybe even lifetimes.

The moment you begin to achieve consciousness, you realise that the more conscious you become, the more conscious you become to the pain you feel and the pain that you have caused others.

Oh it’s something.. it’s something.. I wish that if you ever go through this experience, you somehow have a faith deep enough to hold you strong.

Because if you don’t, there are people who can’t handle it.

It’s tough to stay within the material plane and continue to engage in ‘conscious action’ while at the same time realizing that everything you engage in and that feels true and ‘real’, really isn’t so.

This is why I love ‘tantra’.

Because in ‘Tantra’, the energy of Goddess ‘Durga’, the divine mother, ‘Adi Shakti’, is so all encompassing and inclusive that not for a moment do you feel there is an aspect of your psyche that is not worthy of being honored.

That’s the beauty of it.

‘Durga’ is ‘Durga’, the divine godhead himself, the divine mother herself, the divine power herself and the divine feminine, ‘Adi Shakti’.

As ‘Kaali’ with sunken eyes, dried up flesh and blood curdling cries, she is still who she is. As Parvati, beautiful, fair, soft and calming, in white, she is still the same.

No part of her is less worthy of respect or acceptance.

As an old widow, in the form of ‘Dhumavati’, she is just about as powerful as she is, holding a golden cudgel, dressed in striking yellow, in the form of ‘Baglamukhi’.

No part of her is less powerful no matter what the outer experience or impression.

In fact, there’s a lot lot more to be explored and you can read lots of stories in the ‘Shiva Purana’ as well about ‘Shiva’, ‘Shakti’ and their immortal bond.

They drift apart, they meet again, they reunite and in the end it is all but an illusion because both of them are the same.

See the only way to realise that life makes sense, creation makes sense and living in this false world and experiencing it, enjoying it, makes sense, is to understand the concept of energy.

All energy is constantly trying to come to a balance.

This, when all of the universe is constantly expanding.

And all imbalances in this system, are constantly propagating forward, while searching for a way to balance themselves out.

Too abstract?

Maybe.

I wish there were clearer plainer ways to put it.

There aren’t.

The only thing that is true in all of this, is that you can change the form of energy.

What this means is, you can change the present effects of actions that you caused in the past and also perform your ‘highest karma’ that absolves you, by transmuting energy.

‘Saadhna’ is one such way of doing it.

Look, the chart that you’re born with, is just a reflection of your ‘karma’ in previous lifetimes.

It will serve you and affect you for a little while, till the time you are still connected to your mother’s ‘karma’, which is I think around the age of 12.

As soon as you cross that point, you’re on your own.

Everything good or bad can be overshadowed by the power of your action.

And it is here that ‘saadhna’ can drastically change your life.

Imagine you were born with a debilitated Mars.

This will almost always point out towards issues in your solar plexus ‘chakra’ which is the energy center of Mars in the body.

Could point out to:

  • gut issues on a physical level and
  • confidence issues on a personality level.
  • At an emotional level, points out to a lack of proper self expression
  • and at a soul level, it points out to your soul being denied its true expression and desire over many lifetimes.

These ailments and handicaps you carry, the bad ‘karma’ that you have to undergo, can be nullified by transmuting this energy into devotion and discipline towards the right ‘mahavidya’ and seeking her blessings.

‘Mantras’ awaken the energies of that ‘chakra’ within your energetic system and this creates positive vibrations that give you both:

  1. The energy to bravely face the consequences of past ‘karma’
  2. and the power to perform good ‘karma’ even when faced with opposition and temptation.

The problem is however, that the process of doing so, is one that will:

  1. Open a barrage of past ‘karma’ all at once.
  2. Tempt you every step of the way.

That’s the issue with anything that helps you change permanently. You have to clear your dues first.

What this means is, if let’s say you are doing ‘Bhuvaneshwari Saadhna’ for the Moon.

  1. The initial effect shall be of you experiencing a lot of mental stress all at once because the Moon and the ‘chakra’ connected to it are being massively activated in the first step.
  2. As the second effect, your mind will be drawn towards everything that challenge its stability.

To be able to reduce these negative impacts to the most possible degree, you then need to resort to:

  1. Sacrificing physical comforts and luxuries
  2. Learning to use your setbacks as opportunities to embrace the reality that everything as you perceive it, are merely illusions of varying degrees of believability.

The trick is to understand that to have a better material experience, you need to transcend to a level where the material doesn’t effect you.

Imagine it for a second.

Imagine for a second to be in a mind space where you can recognize the fact that to succeed materially you need to be prepared to let go completely.

Where you are mentally so prepared to be able to withstand whatever is thrown your way just so you can rebuild independently and autonomously, that the very lack of what you seek doesn’t trouble you at all.

In fact no only does it not trouble you, you are consciously able to keep it at arms length from you.

This is how a ‘saadhna’ functions.

The purpose of the ‘saadhna’ is to disconnect you from your desire just to be able to align you with your highest ‘karma’.

Once you discover your highest ‘karma’, you can repay any ‘karmic’ debt faster than you can imagine.

Imagine a life where you know creating is firmly within your hands irrespective of the chart you were born with.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Jupiter Venus Conjunction: Lakshmi & Saraswati’s Union

A powerful blessing resides where Guru & Shukra sit conjunct in a horoscope.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

I have one sentence for this conjunction: ‘Lakshmi’ and ‘Sarasvati’ together.

  1. In ‘Tantra’, ‘Lakhsmi’ or ‘Kamla’ is the goddess ruling Venus and ‘Taara’ is the goddess ruling Jupiter. ‘Taara’ is actually a ‘tantric’ form of ‘Saraswati’ as she guards hidden knowledge.
    1. That’s kind of what the conjunction of both Jupiter and Venus can be like. However, there is a little rider here. Every heard of the phrase “Too much of a good thing is a bad thing”?
    2. Make no mistake, it is a great conjunction and potentially showers the native with all the good things in life.
      1. Good family, friends, relatives, abundance, prosperity etc.
      2. Most probably, the native also has a taste for all the good things in life.
      3. The only problem here is that the native tends to not do so well in testing circumstances unless the malefic planets in the chart are also well placed.
  2. See what happens in this conjunction is, and this is something you are free to analyze in the charts of the greatest personalities in the world;
    1. What happens is that when you go through tough times, you become stronger and this translates to a lot of dominance in good times.
    2. However, when your life is naturally more aligned towards the good things, you may tend to not do so well when you are dealt a rough hand.
    3. Apart from that, everything is good. Everyone has their own life journey and learning and development process so there’s no one way for life and development to be.
  3. Venus is the ‘daitya guru’ ‘shukracharya’ and in charge of blessing the native with all the material pleasures and tastes.
  4. Jupiter is ‘deva guru’ ‘brihaspati’ and in charge of blessing the native with all the esoteric gifts and optimism.
  5. So together, when these two ‘gurus’ come along, you can say for sure that the native is blessed with good friends, good family life, good spouse and good relationships as well.
    1. Why good relationships in general?
    2. Because Venus rules relationships since it rules the natural 7th house. When Jupiter is placed with Venus, he is expanding Venusian significations in the native’s life.
  6. The native may have a love for fine clothes, fine dining, fashion, self care products and all the ‘bling bling’ new-age gadgets and utilities.
    1. In the same way, Venus has the impact of enhancing the beauty of things and when placed with Jupiter, it gives the native a very good sense of morality, philosophy and ability to think, teach and grow.
    2. The native is able to use their wisdom constructively in order to gain a better status and position in the material plane.
  7. These people actually are themselves great advisors, councilors, teachers, therapists and friends.
    1. They could do well in any area that has to do with building and sustaining relationships as well as finances, management, beautification and comforting. Therefore, they could do very well in client servicing, hospitality, luxury, apparel and body care.
    2. So there are very good impacts of having these two great benefic planets together.
  8. The only shadow side is that the person quite often lacks the ability to do the ‘grunt work’.
    1. For example, unless there are strong malefic planets also in the chart, the native is highly unlikely to be an Entrepreneur.
    2. Yes they could be a second or third generation businessman born and raised in a business family, however, highly unlikely that the could practice ‘austerity’ and keep their requirements in check and go for extended periods on a low budget for all the good things that they need to sustain themselves and their lifestyle.
  9. Sometimes, if placements are not too good in the 6th house or the ‘nakshatra’ placements aren’t good enough, this can show a person who quite often tends to be in debt because of their extravagant lifestyle.
    1. But since they have the luck, they always tend to wiggle out of any problematic situation also. Money and help just comes along from somewhere.
    2. So apart from this disadvantage, everything else is very good about this conjunction.
  10. However, there is always a solution to any problem. In this case, I’d like to remind you of something interesting.
    1. You know how whenever these two goddesses are prayed to together, you always have ‘Ganesha’ along with them?
    2. That’s the balancing aspect; ‘Ketu’
  11. So people with this conjunction, in order to guard themselves from the negative aspects of the conjunction as I highlighted above, should make it a point to thoroughly integrate ‘Ganesha’ worship before any task they perform and preferably at the very beginning of every day.
    1. There are a couple more things to keep in mind to harness the energy of this conjunction to the best degree:
      1. This is a very ‘Saatvic’ conjunction so please refrain from ‘taamsic’ life if you want this conjunction to bless you with abundance.
      2. At the very least, I understand in this fast paced life, living and functioning within the material plane, it’s difficult to go on a fast and abstain and regulate your food and drink. However, even if just for two days, Thursday and Friday, the native should keep them non veg and alcohol free. This much is manageable.
    2. In fact, if you can do ‘mantra’ chanting using a ‘sphatik’ rosary on both days, that would be even better!
    3. In addition, if you can do charity on both days, at whichever level you are capable of, that is also really good.
  12. Don’t participate in any unlawful activities with this conjunction. Especially not gambling. I say especially because that is potentially what you could be most drawn to. Refrain from that.
    1. Further the scope of success in stock markets etc can only be analyzed by studying the chart in depth. Usually it is good for people with this conjunction however please don’t go and start investing based on just a general statement here. I’m sharing it for knowledge.
    2. This is because success in stock markets is analyzed from many other things. Just by looking at a conjunction one can’t comment with full efficacy.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

What is the significance of a black Hakik stone? Who should wear it?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

(Black ‘Hakik’ or Black Agate is of the same family as Black Onyx and Black Tourmaline.)

Both are varieties of layered Chalcedony and they mainly differ in terms of the luster and texture.

These days you may have seen that Black Tourmaline bands have become very popular and are marketed as ‘anion cancellation’ and protection from negative vibrations.

How true is that really?

Well, first of all, the color black is extremely misunderstood.

  • People consider black as negative and ‘draining’.
  • In fact, many people also say that wearing black for extended periods of time can cause mental imbalances etc.
  • Then there are people who associate black with black magic and dark ‘tantra’.
  • Black is also considered the color of death in many cultures and in India especially, you will seldom see anyone wearing black on a festive occasion.

Well, let me address these misconceptions one by one:

  1. Black can be ‘draining’ yes.
    1. Why is that? Because it is extremely grounding and ‘absorbent’.
    2. Black color basically absorbs all wavelengths of light.
      1. Since light is basically a visible indicator of energy, you could say that black color absorbs all of the energy on the visible spectrum. Maybe even the non visible spectrum, we wouldn’t know for sure. That would depend on the material.
    3. However, it is not ‘draining’. It is ‘unsettling’. Please don’t forget that black is also the color of the ‘power’. It is tough to find people wearing warm tones in let’s say, the board meeting of a Fortune company.
      1. Black and dark blue are the preferred colors of clothing for people in power. Interestingly, both are deeply associated with Saturn and ‘Rahu’.
    4. Black keeps you grounded to the facts and deeply entrenched in reality. This is also why it is the color of ‘mourning’.
      1. Mourning means to deliberately and consciously delve into the energy of loss until you release it naturally from your system.
  2. Now, can wearing black for extended periods of time cause mental distress?
    1. Possibly. This is because it is a very materialistic color. It cuts off your access to spirituality. Even if you try to, it almost forcibly brings your attention back to what is in the now.
      1. Maybe that is one of the reasons that black has traditionally been associated with the law all around the globe.
      2. Why? Because the practice of law is all about ‘facts’ not emotions or spiritual wisdom. If you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused did it, you put him in prison. It’s really that simple. The guy could be innocent but if you can’t prove it, the ‘law takes its course’.
    2. So, this is why black just isn’t well handled by everyone especially long durations at a stretch.
  3. Is black associated with dark magic and dark ‘tantra’?
    1. Yes it is. The reason for that is described in point 1. That is absorbs all of the energy around it. Some ‘tantric’ practices involve the release of a lot of energy and black is good as it both ‘protects’ and at the same time absorbs the energy that you’re creating in the rituals.
      1. Obviously, these depend from practice to practice, ‘saadhna’ to ‘saadhna’ and energy to energy of the deity being worshipped. Even so, this is mostly the reason you see those exaggerated ‘tantriks’ wearing black in movies and serials.
    2. Also, one important thing here is the connection with the New moon and darkness. ‘Darkness’ is important for some rituals and practitioners of dark arts across cultures and for that reason, they prefer black.
      1. Why? Because anytime you are practicing ‘tantra’ or any occult practice for a negative or ‘taamsik’ purpose, you need to detach from the esoteric and focus only on the rituals.
  4. Now lastly, association of black with death is quite natural. The most normal and immediate perception of what comes after you close your eyes and the heart stops is darkness. Therefore, black.
    1. Yes yes, the whole “white light and tunnel” experience that people talk about, it comes later. The immediate experience for most, as the body fails, is of falling asleep and things going ‘dark’.
    2. However black isn’t necessarily ‘death’ more so ‘transformation’.
      1. Take ‘Krishna’, take ‘Kaali’. These entities are transformational.
      2. ‘Kaali’ was born off the rage of ‘Durga’ and ‘Krishna’ totally revolutionized the concept of what God can be like in human form.
      3. I mean, both of them are very hard to explain to the uninitiated. Most people get them wrong and misconstrue the symbolism.
  5. So now, what can you say about Black ‘Hakik’/ Agate/ Tourmaline/ Onyx ?
  • Black ‘Hakik’ is usually used in rosaries for chanting ‘mantras’ for ‘Rahu’ or ‘Ketu’ and also Saturn.
    • A black ‘Hakik’ rosary is worn to keep the native grounded, protected and shielded from negative emotions and negative energies.
    • In times of crises, this can have a very profound grounding effect and help the native overcome deep emotional wounds or trauma.
  • You know Black ‘Onyx’, which is of the same family, is said to be the gemstone of warriors and fighters.
    • Black Onyx rings, usage in armor, sword handles etc was common for warriors who spent long periods of time in the battlefield or on their own.
  • So yeah, it can be very helpful when you’re going through such a period of time.

However, don’t be quick to order it off the internet just yet!

The biggest catch here is that it almost always invariably strengthens the influence of Saturn in your chart.

So that is one thing to take care of before wearing it.

It will no doubt provide you grounding and take you out of your head and heart and in to the day to day workings of life on the material plane.

The manner in which it does that may not be one your prefer or are used to if Saturn is malefic in your chart.

For example, people with a strong Mars would probably prefer Red Jasper instead of Black Onyx in times of need of emotional grounding.

Black Onyx would probably numb such a person down and reduce the positive influences of Mars in the chart. You don’t want that.

Why?

Well, because people’s ways of dealing with distress is different.

Some people are like Rahul Dravid, they are ‘the wall’. When they going gets tough, they hang in there and tire out the bowlers until they make a mistake.

Some people are like Virender Sehwag. Their best form of defense is attack.

Separate schools of thought but both effective. Neither can play like the other!

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

In which house does the Moon give the best results?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

(Barack Obama has Moon in the 4th house. The 4th house corresponds to the Moon’s natural home of Cancer. Interestingly the 4th house, is the most important theme of Obama’s life: his home and motherland.)

Now, to be honest, there is no good or bad placement in the chart.

Seriously. Not saying this to make you feel better about your chart.

It’s just a fact.

Every planetary placement is a part of who you are and makes you who you are.

It’s an alienable part of your personality.

  • Now when we talk about the Moon especially, it’s all the more important.
  • Because the Moon’s placement in your chart is an alienable part of your psyche.
    • Your psyche has everything to do with the smallest details of your life.
    • From the toothbrush you prefer to the lock you use!
  • So when we talk about the Moon, there really isn’t a good or bad placement for it.
    • Wherever it is placed in the chart shows the most dominant aspect of your psyche.
    • Finer details of your psyche can be uncovered by studying the ‘nakshatra’ placements and the Moon chart.

But the Moon on its own is just a starting point. It’s more basic than even the ascendant.

Why?

  • Because every ‘taara’ is counted from the Moon’s ‘nakshatra’ placement.
  • And so, as far as the Moon is concerned yes, every positioning will come with its own challenges but primarily in the Moon’s case, those come more from aspects and conjunctions rather than the house or sign placement itself.
  • Even so, if we were to pick out the most preferable position for the Moon in the chart, what would that be?

Well, very simply looking at, the ‘best placement’ would then be in a house which:

  1. The house has high ‘bhava bala’.
  2. The Moon grants maximum ‘ashtakvarga’ points itself.
  3. Where the Moon isn’t hemmed between malefics but also
  4. Isn’t alone i.e. 12th and 2nd from it shouldn’t be empty.
  5. Ideally, it shouldn’t be at a square to the nodes as well.
  • Besides this, there is an interesting thing about the Moon to consider:
    • The Moon chart shows the ‘perception’ of the individual’s mind about the various aspects of his life.
    • For example, Moon in the 7th house can be tricky.
    • Why?
    • Because from the Moon the 1st house becomes the 7th and such a person if aspects on the Moon aren’t quite right, can end up second guessing themselves every step of the way.
    • Also, second from the Moon would then be the 8th house so definitely sudden ups and downs in assets and family environment will be seen.
  • In this way, the Moon’s placement in the chart tells us a lot about the person’s perspective towards life.
    • For example, 5th house Moon is good for creativity but then the 10th house becomes 6th from the Moon and if there is a strong planet in the 10th then it’s okay but if the planet in the 10th is also not strong enough, or the 10th lord isn’t strong enough, the individual could well spend most their life dealing with conflicts and struggles in the work place.
  • Now, considering these aspects, I’d say, 3rd, 4th, 5th house are ‘good’ positions for the Moon. By good I actually mean ‘easy’.
    • Recently I answered a similar question about what do if you have a ‘weak’ ‘Ketu’ in your chart and a gentleman actually lost his cool in the comments section, dismissing the idea of a ‘weak’ ‘Ketu’ as preposterous! Therefore I’d like to highlight here as I did there that when we are talking about a ‘good’ or ‘strong’ position, we actually are talking about an ‘easy’ position.
  • Why?
    • Moon takes maximum ‘Digabala’ on the North side of the chart i.e the left side so that advantage is there.
    • Then, 12th house, 8th house Moon would be quite introverted.
    • 6th house Moon would be not as great in dealing with conflict unless there are aspects of some benefic planets here or conjunction with a planet in good dignity.
    • 6th house is way too sordid for the soft Moon. Although would help the individual stay grounded in ‘routine’ and regularity.
    • 1st house placement for the Moon just makes the individual too impressionable and emotional. Possibly also result in a weak constitution if negative aspects are there.
    • 10th, 9th house placements are good as both houses are great houses.
    • 11th house is also fine as its an ‘upachya’ house however 10th from Moon comes the 8th house and this can represent sudden ups and downs in the career.
    • Even with the 5th house you will see that second from the Moon is the 6th house and can show the individual growing up in a family household with a lot of conflict.
    • Good aspects are there in that the individual is also very calculative with their savings but we are picking out the best position so why not pick one that works best?
  • Ladies and gentlemen, we have it.
    • The 3rd, 4th, 9th and 10th houses are the most ‘easily’ suitable then for the Moon to be in. Personally I still feel, it’s very difficult to put a planet like the Moon into a box of a ‘best position’.
      • Why?
      • Because all we know someone with Moon in the 12th or the 8th can be an amazing healer, astrologer, writer, artist, doctor. Yes they may face many challenges in life early on owing to he placement but diamonds are cooked in the microwave!
      • Diamonds are made below the Earth’s surface under tons of pressure and heat and are found in coal mines not gardens. So you can’t really expect astounding mental strength to come from easy tasks and experiences!
      • Even so, the positions given above will mostly give an ‘easy’ experience. Now, if in any of these positions, the Moon is also in a house with high ‘ashtakvarga’ points and is also itself giving high ‘ashtakvarga’ points to that house, it will translate to a very strong placement.

EDIT:

  • I just realized, thanks to the comment that I omitted Moon in second house entirely!
  • Damn, I didn’t even take it into consideration. Hmm.
  • Actually you know, even though the 2nd house corresponds to the natural house of Taurus which corresponds to the Moon’s exalted placement, the reality is that Moon in the 2nd house isn’t really all that great.
  • First of all, the ascendant is 12th from the Moon and this means that at the level of the person’s psyche, they have a tendency of not utilizing themselves to their complete potential. As the mind perceives more of ones losses rather than gains.
  • Then another problem is that the 7th house is 6th from the Moon. This shows there are plenty of conflicts and struggles in business and partnerships.
  • 8th house is 7th from the Moon. Therefore the person stands to gain a lot from partnerships especially with in laws however, 8th house is the 8th house after all and is hardly controllable and thus, partnerships tend to swing both ways.
  • These are just a few points related to this placement. Others as well and there are definitely good results of it as well but all in all, this position may be great at the level of spiritual development especially since the mind perceives there to be a gain in every loss. Also, the person gains from their imagination and foreign lands, through their spiritual development 12th house 11th from Moon.
  • It’s just that, the scope of the question is covering the easier placements of the Moon that are readily benefic. Moon in second house isn’t really like that.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Which is the correct direction to sit and work in according to Vaastu?

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Let me tell you something upfront. Every single direction has its own importance.

  • If you think only East is the best direction to face while working, you’d be mistaken.
  • East per se is for the seeking of truth and enlightenment.
  • If you think South is ‘bad’ direction, you’d be mistaken again.
  • South per se is the direction of ‘effort’ as it corresponds to the outer world and public image. More or less in ‘Vaastu’, it corresponds to the ‘foundation’.
  1. It’s important to understand that there is a natural alignment you can have with a direction based on your own chart and your line of work.
  2. For example, if you are a lawyer, East may not always be the best direction for you to face while let’s say, forming contracts for a third party.
  3. Yes for your personal benefit you can always choose the East as it is symbolic of the Sun, who is the natural ‘karaka’ for the soul and consciousness as well as vitality.
  4. However, based on the task at hand, you can actually choose a direction to face. For example, West works very well for forming contracts for a third party as West is the direction of union, relationships and commerce.
    1. People often don’t understand these things and then ignore these so called ‘bad directions’ in houses or offices they purchase and face problems.
      1. For example, if the West direction is afflicted in a house or office you will see that the relationships always are strained one way or another. The native is overcome mostly by a feeling of ‘isolation’.

You don’t have to take my word for it you can try it out for yourself.

See ‘Vaastu’ details which direction corresponds to which element and which planet, however, it doesn’t say a direction is good or bad. That is dependent on your interpretation.

Also, as I have often said, ‘Vaastu’, ‘Jyotisha’ and all other occult sciences that are a part of the ‘Atharva Veda’, aren’t like course books you can read from cover to cover and then that’s it, there’s nothing outside it.

No, you have to take into account what’s to be learnt from the ‘Riga Veda’, the ‘Yajur Veda’ as well for the necessary solutions in terms of ‘homas’ to be performed etc. and then also, there’s the ‘Fifth’ ‘Veda’ i.e. the ‘Puranas’ as well. And even after that, a lot of the other scriptures that are a part of the endless ‘curriculum’ of ‘Sanatana Dharma’.

  • Therefore, for someone with a very strong Saturn in their chart, you can very well choose to work facing the West.
  • Also, people with a strong Moon can very well choose to work facing the North.
    • The North is a great direction to work in when you desire wealth and it also has many benefits in that it grants you a lot of energy and drive.
    • That’s why it is advised to not sleep with your head pointed towards the North as it may disrupt your sleep.
  • Even so, I have often seen people with a strong ‘Rahu’ or North Node in their chart, are very comfortable sleeping with their head pointed north.
  • This is where I feel it is very important to observe and ask deeper questions about what we study and what we read.

The scriptures are written with a lot of symbolism.

If you take the literal meaning of many ‘shlokas’ then you would be disappointed when you come across very ‘literal’ connotations such as ‘punishment by the king’ and ‘death of parents’. These are indeed the literal translations that are effects of many placements and ill advised actions.

Will they really translate to a literal expression in the material plane?

Will working while facing North really impress the lord of wealth ‘Kubera’ and bless you with treasures and riches?

Well, it could.

If what you’re working on is worth that much.

Could working facing South really lead you to ‘ruin’ and conflicts?

It could.

If what you’re working on is really of that sort.

See but even then, there are good conflicts and bad conflicts.

In the same way that there is good wealth and bad wealth.

What am I trying to say here?

I’m saying you can face any direction you naturally feel drawn to and comfortable with.

The direction you prefer will depend a lot on your own planetary placements.

Yes, there are some universal rules that you could integrate here while choosing your favorite direction to face:

  1. Try to keep the space in front of your desk is open.
    1. This aids the movement of energy in general.
  2. Try to have a wall behind your back.
    1. This adds stability.
  3. Try to not be seated underneath a beam.
    1. This ensures you don’t feel a lot of stress of pressure while working at your desk.
  4. Try to ensure that your chair doesn’t squeak or shake.
    1. Your chair has to do a lot with your financial stability. Make sure it is solid. Obviously, a solid chair will lend that much more stability to you while working.
  5. Make sure the table is also solid and doesn’t shake, squeak or have cracks.
    1. As with the chair, this too is very helpful and for obvious reasons.

Also, North and East are great directions to face.

If you aren’t feeling like you can settle down and focus while facing any other direction, just pick one of the directions and it is sure to lend you a certain level of stability and concentration.

I prefer to sit on the South wall and face the North will working.

This is because the South wall represents the Earth element and is a good foundation to rest against.

The North wall is movement oriented and mainly of water element, makes a great direction to face for inspiration.

In the same way, you may choose to ideate in the NW.

This is a great corner to have a small table and chair where you only go to think of ideas and deliberate on actions to be performed.

Why?

Because this is the direction of air and represents a very fast moving energy.

This is a great direction to sit in when calling to fix meetings.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

What is the correct vaastu for Master Bedroom?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

The master bedroom is the most important room in the house to be honest, second only to the placement of the toilet, that’s in my opinion.

I’ll tell you why I put the placement of the toilet first.

It’s very simple.

Imagine not being able to go to the toilet. As in, imagine having all the best luxuries and comforts, food et all in the world but not being able to excrete waste and relieve yourself.

To be honest, it’s one of the torture techniques used by secret agencies across the world.

Similarly, now imagine a very very clean toilet but let’s say I cook your favorite meal in there ensuring the most permissible hygiene standards.

Would you eat it?

No. Not unless you are absolutely starving.

This is why the placement of the toilet in a house can make or break the house.

The bedroom is number 2.

It’s the second most important placement in a house.

It’s where the owner of the house usually sleeps.

It’s the room where the person paying for the house and all the bills and responsibilities etc. that come with it, goes to rest and recuperate, rejuvenate.

So if the master bedroom isn’t right, you need to do something to fix it or change the master bedroom.

This is why I put master bedroom placement at number 2.

You can change the master bedroom by just assigning another room to the master couple. A toilet’s placement, you can’t change.

Now, keep this in mind when you’re analyzing a master bedroom because quite often, the biggest flaw I’ve seen in modern master bedrooms is the placement of the attached toilet.

Anyways, the following points are worth keeping in mind:

  1. South West is symbolic of the Earth element and a master bedroom is best placed in this direction.
  2. If building an attached toilet, make sure the toilet isn’t at the SW direction of the room, it’s best to be in the part nearer to the inside of the house, so best placement would be on either side of the door as you enter. Preferably the side of the door where the hinges are, so that when you enter the bedroom, the toilet door is behind the opened door.
  3. Bed is best placed with the head towards the South.
  4. Placing the bed right in front of the bedroom door is not a good idea.
  5. If there’s no way around it, at least make sure that it is a little towards the side and not perfectly aligned with the bedroom’s entrance.
  6. The commode should ideally neither be placed in the wall adjoining the bedroom nor the wall adjoining the inside of the house. Best to be placed on the Western wall.
  7. It should never be placed on the Southern wall.
  8. The windows shouldn’t be directly behind the bad, ideally towards one side or opposite the bed.
  • We can go into a lot of detail here but unless I’m analyzing things myself on a visit, I advise the average person to not get too much into where the furniture should be placed, what paintings, where, etc. etc. as that is borderline OCD.
  • Haha. Seriously, not kidding. If you’re so particular about it, call a pro, that’s better.
  • On your own, just make sure the basics are right. Rest your intuition can lead you.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Whenever I feel that I am hopeless and I can’t do anything and I am the worst in the world, what do I do?

Hari Om!

Failure has a way of lying to us the same way that success has a way of making us weak.

See this is a vicious cycle. The more you feel you aren’t good enough, the more you fail at the goals you set for yourself and this just keeps snowballing.

This happens a lot after you have come from a great wave of success too. You get complacent and comfortable and then you get caught up in this cycle.

You falter, you criticize yourself and then because of that you falter again and the cycle repeats.

I’m not kidding.

Pick the example of most successful personalities in the world.

What happens after they reach their peak?

They begin to slide, slack and shortly afterwards, they retire.

However, there are the GOATs, the “Greatest Of All Time”.

These people are a separate breed.

When the going gets tough, they raise their game.

The more life is against them, circumstances are against them, the more they dig in harder and become more focused and determined in pushing further and further.

This applies to the GOATs of any field.

Let’s start with the example of Amitabh Bachchan:

  1. ABCL had failed badly.
  2. He had been on a break from acting for a while.
  3. He had tons of debt (90 crore!) and not many ways to repay that debt.
  4. What did he do? Give up? Kill himself? Flee?
  5. Nah! He reinvented Indian Television.

This is what he has to say about how he started doing the show and why:

“Without a doubt that was one of the darkest moments in my 44-year professional career. It made me sit and think, I looked at the options before me and evaluated different scenarios… I paid back one and all, including Doordarshan. When they asked for the interest component, I did commercials in lieu for them. I can never forget how creditors used to land at our door, be abusive, threatening and demanding, and worse still, when they came for ‘kudkee’ at Prateeksha, our residence (sic).”

My question to you is this.

Do you think AB felt good and confident about himself when he was going through this phase?

Obviously not.

So how did he work through the darkness and reinvent Indian television and his own career?

Simple.

Just focus on taking the next step and doing your best.

If you’re criticizing yourself, your are most certainly thinking too much about your actions and quite possibly doing too little.

Now, yes, it can be just a phase of bad mental health too.

For the purpose, you can try the following just to be sure:

  1. Meditation 30 mins a day.
    1. (Integrate Om chanting into it. That helps a lot with raising self esteem)
  2. Weight training once a day for 40-60 minutes.
    1. (Weight training is very effective in helping channelize anxious energy and lower cortisol levels that cause stress and mental health issues.)
  3. Changing your wardrobe
    1. Sometimes all you need is to add a little color to your life. Go for lighter shades like yellow, green, orange, white, red. Avoid dark colors for a while like blue and black.
  4. Challenge yourself.
    1. Challenges yourself with small daily challenges in your work.
      1. Note the keywords: “Small” and “Daily”
      2. Commit to yourself to complete one challenge a day.
      3. Prioritize it.
      4. Plan it.
      5. Imagine it.
      6. Follow through.
      7. Journal it after you have completed it.

Now, make these changes, and focus only on your goals each day and turn off your mind any time it tries to go on a negative tangent.

Any time the thought starts coming into your mind that you’re not good enough or that you won’t make it or that you’ll fail, open your schedule, see when the next task is scheduled.

Start preparing for it.

If you have to go to the gym, start preparing by getting your clothes in order, your pre work out shake, charge your earbuds or earphones, get your bag and snack, glucose etc.

Same thing if the next on the list is meditation or doing whatever challenge you have set for yourself.

In time that voice will fade away and you will start seeing the results of your new habits apparently in your life.

Ultimately that voice will disappear never to return.

Now, I have put a free Success Coaching course on Youtube. You are encouraged to check that out if you want.

Hope this helps.

Hari Om!

How do you calculate markesh in a horoscope, and what is the effect during its dasha?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

(‘Mahamrityunjaya Mantra’ is a verse from the ‘Rig Veda’ and is considered to be the most powerful ‘mantra’ for ‘Shiva’. It is said to bestow longevity, ward off calamities and prevent untimely death. It is addressed to ‘Tryambaka’, “The Three-eyed One”, who is identified with ‘Shiva’.)

As usual, when addressing tricky topics like these I like to begin with going over the general perception before I move on to my interpretation. The foundational overview is very important for you to objectively understand the concept and un learn any biases you may be bringing with you to it.

  • You know how you have ‘Lagnesh’ which is the planet ruling the first house and you have ‘Karmesh’ which is the lord of the 10th house, similarly you have ‘Markesh’ i.e. ruler of either of the ‘Maraka’ houses.
  • Therefore, ‘Markesh’ refers simply to the planet(s) ruling the 2nd and 7th house of the chart.
  • That’s it.
  • Obviously now, when you run in the time period of a planet owning one or both of those houses, you refer to it as ‘Markesh’ period.

This period, if you listen to the average astrologer or take classic texts literally, is a period of ‘grave troubles’ and ‘dangers to life’.

Invariably I see people doing ‘Maha mrityunjaya jaapa’ and what not as soon as this period starts for them.

Hopeless sometimes people become I tell you, hopeless..

If by any chance someone already has some chronic health issue or is generally an accident prone individual, when the ‘Markesh’ period comes along and they go through something bad, they are scared to death.

Spending on various types of austerities left right and center.

Which is you know.. to be honest, never a bad thing. No matter what you are going through in life, it is obvious that no matter what your belief system or religion, austerities, prayer and meditation help everyone.

Every culture has a different philosophy for these ‘cleansing’ and protection rituals. We descend from the ‘Vedic’ culture and our philosophy therefore is based primarily on the performance of offerings at the fire altar and chanting of the scriptures.

So it’s wonderful and everyone should do it in any case. On a daily basis everyone should have a consistent ritual of spirituality and cleansing.

A ‘sadhna’ ritual is like an outcome oriented workout for the soul.

Like you consistently work out to look a certain way, you also commit yourself to ‘sadhna’ to maintain yourself at a certain level of spiritual wisdom and strength; energy or ‘vibration’.

However, fear based scrambling is just not helping anyone.

Let me tell you something man, if you are going to die, try every thing in the world there is but you will die because your time here is limited and the challenge is same for everyone. ‘Krishna’ couldn’t escape it.. ‘Rama’ couldn’t.. nobody ever does. There’s no ‘remedy’ to escape death!

So just understand please that if you are going to die in the period of your ‘Markesh’, you cannot do anything about it.

Besides, just running a ‘Markesh’ period alone is not dangerous in any way. Many other things need to be looked at in the chart.

An important question arises however, why are the 2nd and the 7th house the ‘maraka’ houses? Why not 3rd and 8th or 12th or 6th?

Well, there is one logic that the 8th house is your longevity and the 3rd house is 8th from the 8th so the 7th and 2nd houses are respectively 12th from the 8th and the 3rd thereby shortening the longevity of the native.

Okay..

But still not really convincing because the 8th house is a lot of things! So this explanation just seems like an oversimplification.

Now, the 2nd and the 7th house in that respect point towards two very important aspects of living a good life.

  • What is it?
    • 2nd house: Savings and fixed assets.
    • 7th house: Partnerships and negotiations, desire.
  1. The 2nd house is also your mouth and your eyes.
    1. These are the two most important tools of experiencing the world.
  2. The 7th house is other people.
    1. You cannot experience life in isolation. You need other living beings for this simulation to make sense and engage you.
    2. However, what does an over indulgence in these matters do to you?
    3. It drains you little by little over time.
    4. It’s similar to how every breath you take and every bite you eat is slowly killing you. Did you know that?
      1. You see, energy is released at the cellular level through the process of respiration that helps in metabolizing nutrients.
      2. There are these entities in the cell called ‘mitochondria’ that burn the nutrients and release energy. Each time they do that however, they deteriorate. The body is slowly fading away due to oxidation. It’s a scientific fact.
    5. Therefore the fact that the 2nd and 7th houses are ‘maraka’ houses is symbolic to a huge degree as well. It is meant to explain something and is so assigned not without reason.

Coming to the ‘Markesh’ period:

This period can be troublesome because the native deals with the two most important areas of life in the material world:

Security (2nd house) and Relationships (7th house).

If the planets placed here are in good dignity and with great aspects and in good ‘nakshatras’, the native may over indulge.

If the planets placed here are in bad dignity or with bad aspects, bad star placements, the native will struggle to define and stabilize these areas of his or her life.

Just looking at a planet from the perspective that it rules a particular house in the chart is a very myopic and ill-informed view of the entire picture.

  1. What if it is also the Moon ‘nakshatra’ lord?
  2. What if it is the sign lord of the Moon?
  3. What if it is forming a ‘Raja yoga’?
  4. What if it is forming a ‘Panch mahapurusha yoga’?
  5. What if it’s the ‘Atma karka’ or ‘Amatya karaka’?

I could go on and on but you get the point.

  • A planet could be ruling the 2nd or 7th house or even any other malefic house in the chart, but it could still be a very very important planet in your chart and life journey, even if it is malefic.
  • Then there is the ‘Vimshopaka’ strength and bunch of other strengths to analyze too.
  • So therefore, unless there are difficult aspects and particularly difficult conjunctions or star placements, the ‘Markesh’ is mainly a planet that makes you a workaholic in one way or another.
    • It gives you stress, anxiety, mental health issues and all of them are usually related to work and desires.
    • Now guess what?
    • Workaholism and stress kill sooner or later. At the very least they take a toll on you.
    • Otherwise, mostly it’s nothing to be afraid of. The fear is unwarranted.

Notable examples to help you understand better:

Yuvraj Singh – Indian cricketer

  • Saturn is ‘Markesh’ for him and he was diagnosed with Cancer in its period.
  • However, in the same period he also earned a lot of name, fame and recognition.
  • He became player of the world cup, hit six sixes in an over, did well in the one day matches and many other tournaments, becoming India’s mainstay all rounder.

Steve Jobs – Entrepreneur

  • He spent his Mercury period from1958 to 1975, dealing with issues of material accomplishments, life, living and security. (Mercury is a ‘Markesh’ for his chart.)
  • It was in this period that he dropped out and travelled to India in 1974 seeking enlightenment.
  • It was not until his South node period that he founded Apple.
  • Interestingly when he died of cancer, it was in the period of his ascendant lord.

Marilyn Monroe – Famous movie star

  • Although her association with many weird, powerful and dangerous people has been revealed later, Monroe mainly suffered from mental health issues as we know now.
  • She died in 1962 which was not the period of her ‘Markesh’.

Important note:

The ruler of the 2nd and 7th house will obviously change with a different ‘ayanamsha’. However for the sake of convenience for everyone, I have taken the regular N.C. Lahiri calculations.

Hope this answers your question.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

Is Saturn and Rahu (North node) conjunction (‘Shrapit Yoga’) truly ‘cursed’?

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

(Aidan Gillan, (Lord Baelish of GOT fame) actually has a very tight conjunction of Saturn and the North node in Aries. It’s interesting how the role he esaayed that made him famous, this famous dialogue from said role alongwith the energy of this conjunction as you will read ahead, comes together like magic.)

You know the energy of Saturn and the North node together is really not that bad in the long run. In the early stages of life however, it can be so frustrating that it’s no wonder many people refer to this conjunction as ‘cursed’.

I for one, my readers would know, revel in the role of the ‘taboo breaker’.

So we’re going to be looking at a few charts and then I will talk about this ‘yoga’ at length; explaining the energies involved.

For this ‘yoga’ in particular I can tell you that yes, it is quite bad but only in the early part of your life. In the later part of your life it takes on a very different flavor. In fact, my grandfather, my ‘guru’.. had this conjunction in his chart. When I look back now and match his life (how he recorded it in his journal) with this placement, it makes a lot of sense.

He had this conjunction in the 8th house of his chart.

The 8th house deals with matters of inheritance, research, other people’s wealth, our legacy and also the occult.

It can deal with a lot of things btw because it is the house of the unknown. However primarily it’s these areas that I talk about. Or at least the ones we can see from the perspective of an observer since we are not privy to the hidden details of a person’s life.

  • Now, early part of my grandfather’s life was plagued a lot by problems related to his inheritance. His father died early and there were lots of conflicts over distribution of property between the brothers.
  • Many court cases in fact stretched on for so long that I remember one of them came to a resolution when I was in my late teens!
  • When it comes to in-laws, my grandmother’s father as well died pretty early and so a huge part of my grandfather’s early life was spent caring for his brother in-laws and taking care of their well being. Why? They were all just teenagers at that time and needed a father figure to guide them.
  • ‘Pitaji’ as we called him, dabbled a lot in the occult early in life. From what he told me, he had some pretty uncomfortable experiences as well from those experiments.
  • But needless to say, there’s the energy of the North node there. So he never stopped. A natural pull towards the 8th house kept him interested in exploring many different subjects of the occult sciences.
  • An aspect of the 8th is also research and well, that’s where the positive aspects from this conjunction began to flow in to his life in the later part.
  • He completed his MA in Sanskrit towards the middle of his life and truly began going deep into the scriptures only after that.
  • Before that, he tried researching a lot of ‘Vedic’ Mathematical techniques etc. since he worked as a Mathematics lecturer, but never got too far with them.
  • He also didn’t take up the role to serve at the palace of the King of Patiala as a ‘Purohit’, like his predecessors because he shifted to Delhi in a bid to break away from tradition and make his own life. A passion for research was the primary driving force. Plus I think at that time these roles and offices were done away with since there were no ‘princely states’ anymore after independence.
  • This is another place where you can see the ‘cursed’ elements of this conjunction being played out in the 8th house.
  • He got swayed by a reference into investing quite a bit of his money in ‘Anubhav Plantations’ but that company was later found to be a Ponzi scheme.
  • See this is the negative aspect of this conjunction once again. (8th house is long term investments and savings.)
  • However as I said, things changed quite a bit later on in life.
  • He made some smart investments in Reliance.
  • Was engaged in a lot of meaningful research and translation work for a renowned ‘guru’. (8th house is research and with the North node in the 8th it can be a lot of research of foreign subjects.)
  • A lot of his students had cleared entrances to reputed engineering colleges like NITs and IITs and also pre medical exams. Among his alumni therefore he was like a hero of sorts. (8th house is legacy)
  • He maintained great relationships with his in laws until his death. (8th house)
    • and he also passed on most of this knowledge to me and my brother thereby keeping it alive. (8th house of legacy again.)
  • Even so, unfortunately, a lot of what he left behind materially, had a lot of conflict attached to it. The property and lands handed down from his ancestors in fact, had to be used up to compensate for some bad times the family faced. (He always advised his children against even ‘claiming’ that property as he feared it was ‘cursed’.)

Long story short?

  • I’d say he was probably one of the most respected men I have known. I gave a eulogy at his funeral and it seemed by the kind of people present there that he was at least a moderate level celebrity haha. Why? There were many people from high and privileged offices and positions present (his students).
  • A lot of his life’s work was able to find application for great causes.

Downside?

  • Overall it’s that a lot of his work has still been ‘secret’ and without a trace back to him. This you can call a shadow aspect of this conjunction having been in the 8th house.

Upside?

  • He left behind a massively ‘impactful’ legacy.
    • One that every one of his students including me, swear by.

Now let’s move on to analyzing two interesting examples to further expand on the impact of this conjunction and how it expresses itself:

Christoph Waltz is probably one of the most versatile actors in the world today.

  • From a convincingly villainous role in the movie “Inglorious Basterds” to convincingly warm and articulate bounty hunter in “Django Unchained”, (both Oscar winning performances) he takes to roles like a chameleon.
  • Now, he has a Saturn- North node conjunction in his 9th house. In characteristic fashion of this conjunction, Waltz spent the early part of his life trying to pursue a career in the Opera but after many years of struggle had to give up on his dream because he realized his voice wasn’t good enough for the Opera!
  • He then spent a lot of his time teaching and learning Cinema and returned to Europe to pursue stage acting and then after a long time doing that, he got into movies and then after a long time doing that he churned out those award winning performances!

Kevin Hart is probably one the world’s best known comedians today.

  • A lot of kids would know him from the comedy movies that he’s done and Kevin’s a star today in that respect.
  • However, with Saturn and North node conjunct in the first house for him, his life journey hasn’t been very easy. (First house deals with life journey and ‘self’)
  • Kevin had to struggle a lot early in life. His father was a cocaine addict, his mother raised him alone. He dropped out of college and hen worked as a shoe salesman.
  • His early stand-up performances didn’t go that well. In fact, another area where you can see this conjunction bein apparently expressed is in Kevin’s short physical stature. (5 feet 2 inches)
  • However, you see that everything that was weird and difficult about his life journey became a huge basis for his massively popular persona. (First house)
  1. Saturn and the North node are a difficult combination together in the same house because on the one hand the North node is your soul’s purpose in this lifetime continuously drawn you to itself.
  2. On the other hand however, the Saturn placement is pointing out your biggest challenge in life for mastery.

It’s like putting a 4 year old kid’s favorite box of crayons at the top of a high shelf and then telling him:

“You’ll get your favorite desert for dinner honey, if you finish your art homework!”

You are driven by both desire and natural intrigue but you need to grow intothe challenge standing before you!

Frustrating as hell.

  • Now this is because the soul is naturally not good in that area of our life where the North node is placed.
  • It is driven by a natural desire for it because that is after all what your soul has manifested here in this lifetime to experience.
  • However, to begin to start on the journey of fulfillment of your North node, you are first required to survive and grow through the challenges of Saturn!
  • And you can’t even talk yourself out of wanting this thing because you have Professor Saturn sitting there who will go on producing problems for you to fix that you will have to tackle.

Why?

  • Because wherever Saturn is in the chart is where he wants to push you to greatness.

So these contradictory energies can be very frustrating especially in the early part of your life.

It’s only when the North node matures at the age of 42 that the native begins to develop more realistic ideas about how to go about managing that house.

Before that, a huge part of the soul’s evolution is taking place via the frustrations, gaffes and failures that the native is having to encounter.

  • See, the North node conjunct Saturn shows that the native is here to develop the virtues of patience, endurance and resilience in this lifetime.
    • This pretty much amplifies the relevance of Saturn in the chart.
  • All of these are Saturnian traits that the soul possibly had not developed well in previous lifetimes.
  • In this lifetime therefore the native must continuously go through experiences that shape the soul’s development in this direction.

There are a few answers that I have written about both the North node and Saturn that you are encouraged to read for a deeper understanding of these entities:https://qr.ae/prC2FChttps://www.quora.com/Is-Rahu-Mahadasha-and-Rahu-Antardasha-always-negative-irrespective-of-Rahus-good-or-bad-placement/answer/Jay-Kaushal-1

Hope this helps.

Hari Om Namo Narayana!

What is the biggest lesson you learned that no one teaches?

Hari Om!

“You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain”

Remember this quote from the famous Christian Bale starrer, “The Dark Knight”?

In the movie, Harvey Dent is an honest and seemingly incorruptible District Attorney with the sole aim of putting bad guys behind bars.

His only focus is to clean Gotham of its rot.

Fast forward to the end of the movie and you see that this changes when something irreversible happens to him in an accident.

He loses half of his face and with it, the entirety of his conscience.

It’s interesting how he was the one who opined at some point early in the movie that “You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”

As gimmicky as that may sound, the deeper message here is.. and one that no one will ever teach you..

Know when to quit.

Quitting is the hardest thing you will ever do in your life.

Quitting a job that isn’t serving you, quitting a relationship that is too mercurial for your mental health.. or quitting a passion that you are no longer fully aligned with.

The biggest test of a man’s character is his ability to let go of what he has created in order to be truthful to what he is turning into.. what he must align towards.

You hold on too tightly to what you love, you will be remembered not for your success but your failures.

I can list countless examples here but let’s just take 3 very popular examples that will put things into perspective for you.

These are the examples of people who quite too late. They held on too long.

Virender Sehwag

(‘Sehwag’ is still the only Indian player to have hit two triple centuries.)

He remained stuck to his ‘ride or die’ brand of cricket even past his prime.

He remained stuck to his ‘don’t care’ attitude even past his body’s abilities to support his playing style.

Guess what happened?

He is one of the cricketers whose career ended on probably one of the sourest notes possible.

Never mind his popularity as a commentator now, that came much later.

Remember though how it was like watching him at the end of his career?

One begged to understand why someone would choose to put themselves through all that?

Why bring it to a point where the selectors will refuse to select you, ignore you?

Why not just take a bow gracefully and draw the curtains on what has been an inspiring illustrious career?

Across his last 32 innings over 3 years, he was able to score only 1 hundred and less than 950 runs, (916)!

Here’s what his last 10 test scores looked like:

6, 2, 19, 0, 23, 49, 30, 117, 25, 43

If you look at them it doesn’t really look that bad.

Keep in mind though this was over a period of 3 years and it’s not the scores per se for a batsman of his caliber it’s the manner of his dismissals.

Sehwag could have played longer and was indeed one of India’s finest opening batsmen.

His approach however that got him where he was is what he needed to let go.

Or.. he needed to let go a little sooner when he was still at peak form instead of being ignored by the selectors for 2 years to announce his retirement.

LK Advani

There was a time when LK Advani was among the frontrunners to become the PM should NDA be voted into power. In fact he was the prime ministerial candidate for BJP’s 2008 election campaign.

He was an important number 2 during ‘Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee’s’ time.

In fact, he was the key mentor to Shri Narendra Modi the current PM of India.

So much so that it is common ‘knowledge’ that he was the one to convince then PM to keep ‘Modiji’ on as the CM after the 2002 Gujarat riots. It is said that if not for ‘Advaniji’s’ spirited support for his protégé, ‘Vajpayeeji’ had all but made up his mind to dismiss ‘Modiji’ as the CM of Gujarat.

However, ‘Advaniji’ and everyone else were aware of a pretty sizable blemish on his name:

The ‘Babri’ incident.

(A scene from the ‘Babri’ incident)

What was it?

It was well, an infamous incident back in 1992 when LK Advani lead a ‘Rath yatra’ to ‘Ayodhya’ that got out of hand as many different organizations joined it along the way.

One thing lead to another, there was a massive adrenaline rush in the participants of the ‘yatra’ and then mob mentality ensued, things got completely out of hand and the disputed ‘Babri’ mosque which was built on disputed land that is commonly believe to be the birthplace of Lord Rama.. ended up getting demolished.

The case ran long in fact a special court acquitted him and Murali Manohar Joshi for this only recently in I think 2020.

There were layers upon layers of evidence, arguments etc. and the controversy never died. Whenever BJP would prop up Advani in any level of influence, the demons of his past would come back to haunt them and foil all their attempts at taking a serious shot at coming in power.

So why should he have quit when he had time?

When exactly should he have quit?

He should have quit back in 2013 when Shri Narendra Modi became the prospective PM face.

Yes he did resign but had to take back his resignation after being forced to do so from senior leaders. However, that doesn’t really count does it?

There will always be people wanting to keep you in the current state to maintain a comfortable ‘status quo’ that serves them.

Now make no mistake, he is effectively credited for having ‘built’ the party and mentored a lot of important leaders in the party.

It’s just that being seen as a prospective PM comes with an expiry date in a country of more than 100 million.

As ‘Modiji’s’ popularity and unique style of leadership caught on, the senior party leader was ultimately phased out.

That’s it.

He began fading away until he was completely lost in oblivion.

Senior party leaders during this time such as ‘Sushmaji’, ‘Parrikar ji’ and ‘Jaitley ji’, all manned critical portfolios and did great work, reinvented themselves in fact.

‘Advaniji’ somehow kept hanging around in wishful thinking I daresay.

What could he have done?

Tons of things.

He could have quit to do sizable ground level work as a ‘people’s leader’, could have dedicated himself to a social cause fully if not anything else.

Surely he didn’t wish to express to one and all that he became a politician only to become PM some day?

Sure there was a deeper social responsibility he felt too?

That would not have gotten him into power but reinvented his image. All power is not apparent power. The greatest power in a democracy is soft power- the power of influence more than office.

Anything at all that he would have done, would have helped preserve his name in some way at least instead of it being dissolved away under the only banner he is remembered now:

As a former ‘extremist’ leader who spent most of his political career embroiled in the ‘Babri’ controversy.

Steve Ballmer

Although it does seem to me many times that Steven Ballmer bought Nokia and destroyed its smartphone business on purpose, that probably isn’t the entire story.

See Steve Ballmer was one of the earliest executives that Bill Gates hired back in 1980, to help run Windows.

Ballmer was the person behind the development and growth of the .Net platform.

During his tenure, Microsoft made a lot of progress in areas such as the XBOX. Besides that it was largely a restructuring and adaptation of services like Windows Azure, SQL and cloud based Office 365.

This is was important because it capitalized on Microsoft’s strengths and also gave the company a firmer footing in the corporate segment which has always been their cash cow.

Where Ballmer was clueless however was a mobile strategy.

We all know right?

How Nokia smartphones that ran on Windows, completely killed the Nokia brand!

(The infamous Nokia Lumia)

Probably one of the biggest reasons was that a mobile shift was not the best strategy to be executed in Ballmer who was quite a bit an ‘old school’ guy.

He should have happily shifted to the backseat after doing what he could as CEO and helping the company improve revenues and grow legacy services.

Instead, he chose to double down on something he completely bombed at!

In the end?

Microsoft conceded vast market space to Google and iOS and was completely wiped off from the up and coming smart devices segment.. which by the way is the leading segment in the world.

Needless to say, Ballmer is one of Microsoft’s most hated CEOs today.

He will forever be remembered as someone who destroyed the Nokia brand which had such widespread appeal while also completely failing Microsoft in the smart devices segment.

Lessons?

  • No one in life is ever going to teach you when to ‘quit’.
    • No one can teach you that.
  • That’s mostly because when you need to make that decision it is usually the hardest time to make that decision.
    • Either because it feels too risky or because there seems no apparent reason in your current reality that indicates to you that you need to change!
    • Either way, you need to know that when you stop aligning with what you’re doing 100% even after giving your best, that’s when it is time to move on to something else.
  • You see, your highest expression is a moving target.
    • It’s not something that is static.
      • No one tells you this!

Yes obviously, deciding on the nature of ‘pivot’ and transforming through the process is where you can always seek help from a coach or guide.

But the primary decision to change and ‘release’ the old, comes from you.

No one tells you this most important fact of life.

But now you know.

Hari Om!