Dear Brahma Mihira,Brahma Mihira wrote:Rohiniranjan wrote:Brahma Mihira wrote:Hi
I have doubt about functional nature of Mangala or Mars for Tula lagna people, some books have said it is functional benefic while other books have said it as functional malefic?
As rule - being 7th lord/2nd lord, and natural malefic it must be functional benefic but again as maraka planet it can be functional malefic. Mars is neutral for Venus (lagna lord) in term of relationship.
Like to get your ideas...
Thanks!
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Dear Brian,
I and Biltu have recently been raked on coals for wishing RRji (moderator!) a happy birthday prematurely (Biltu started that one and I trusted him...) so with that caveat, first of all let me wish you an EARLY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 32 years represents in jyotish as the domain of awakening for mercury! May you receive ITs (merc is a neuter gender in jyotish and represents expense/investments in advanced training etc and expanding horizons as a good and fruitful pursuit, this year. Very generally speaking!
A good year to patch up with a sibling or someone like a sibling possibly elder, in case there is one with whom communication had been a bit challenged or non-existent or some 'issue' unresolved. You will have to make the next active move to resolve that, though! If this makes sense, go for it!
With those personal and sincere wishes and blessings (I am older than you and we are in an Indian cultural ambience and milieu in this Jyotish corner on ecclectic and global Mystic Board!) behind and aside; mars is lord of 2nd and 7th and thus represents a neutral house and a benefic house (or Evard's benevolent!). In my puny observations which I will not share because it takes time and effort, benefics as kendradhipatis hold back on their beneficience (why? The message is already getting too long...!) but do not become malefic, and the malefics as kendradhipatis vice versa! Now, if mars happens to represent the father and is placed in the column named expenditure, it would represent some sort of loss or expenditure pertaining to the father or some sacrifice etc perhaps between ages 15-22, Whether it did take place or not is dependent on certain variables including actual time of birth, place of birth and all that astrological actuarial precision which as an 'astrology reader' as your shingle says, you know already, I am sure!
A simple and straight question from you on this thread has received much konfusion and contortions and linguistic gymnastics, some of which would present even Hath yoga, which in the west is now being marketed as HOT YOGA, and they mean it folks! They actually do hath yoga in HEATED ROOMS! Well in Mother India, that is not an additional step or expense because Lord Sun provides more heat there than necessary, but who can challenge a Father's GIFT, as long as Mother is around too to provide remedies soon thereafter!
Maraka is something which I have never taken as a 'malefic factor', but more like the final exam after a certain course or curriculum known as a "Life-plan in learning about Human-experience"!
If you fail, you go back to the same class to repeat and hopefully improve. If you pass, you get promoted to the next class and given an opportunity to remember your earlier classmates that failed, and perhaps help them in succeeding, even as you continue to learn new things!
The schooling ONLY ends when you GRADUATE! Then you move to another institution of even HIGHER EDUCATION!
And that is how it goes! It is amusing to hear questions from querrants who say,"I have been worshipping Lord Krishna and fasting and doing charity for past forty years and still see no light! Panditji, please tell me which gemstone I should wear to find my ishta devta (guardian angel!) and will I achieve Moksha (paradise)? after this birthtime?"
I hope at least some of you see the 'jaw-dropping' effect that that kind of mentality can induce in some of us!
Dear RRji
First of all thanks you for your birth day wishes! Yes, even I leant astrology since small ages, esp. again learnt it in official way via teachers between 1999 - 2001, but I practically used it after 30years at my age. Period 2000 - 2008, I did only experiments see whether there have truth in astrology (as I had scientific and technological background). If talk about mercury my mercury is in 9th house as it's own house. :)
I want to read your explanation about 2nd/7th lord (mars) in calm mind and will come back to discussion soon...
Thanks!
What RR ji mentions here is REAL Jyotish, without going to superstitious terms, rather modern terms and less 'cryptic'.
As the few times criticized Dr. B.V. Raman had mentioned that in such cases a benefic can seize to act as a benefic.
Anyway, I loved RR ji's hot yoga bit
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RishiRahul