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For opportunists and excuse seekers, Jyotish is just another "legitimate" source of excuse. Fortunately (?) the number of excuse seekrs who also know jyotish would be small enough to be inconsequential especially if you look for knowledge of Jyotish to pre-exist before they get into their devous acts!
But assuming one is not an opportunist and an excuse seeker but truly believes that the planets and the chart "mandate" him/her into undesirable acts, the silver lining is the fact that Jyothish also says that appropriate results of karma shall follow! Fruits of Venus_mars "instigated" karma will not be borne by Venus-Mars but by the native.
Nine planets, not counting the small handfuls of upagrahas and sahams (those who wish to use these mid- and other points), are simply inadequate for keeping tab of what seven billion human beings are variously engaged in! So, even instigated is probably too strong a word Now, mind you, there are some who hold on to the belief that they can utilize astrology to be able to correlate with each minute of the day (and night) in the lives of anyone as long as accurate birth-time is known, but is that even possible? I do not know, I have not seen and you know about my reservations towards anecdotal evidence!
Love and Light,
Rohiniranjan