Are you hoping to build a lasting, happy and successful relationship? Or are you just looking for an exciting romance? Skilled analysis of your Jyotisha astrology birth chart, your Janma Kundali, combined with past present and future planetary positions, will tell you everything you need to know. Some of us are destined to fall in love with a highly suitable spouse, while for others, great care may be needed, a considerable attention to details of time and/or place.
The underlying principle is that everything that comes to us is guided by our previous Karma, be it particular events like a graduation, or a period of time like a vacation, a stay in hospital, or something longer like a marriage. The Karma that comes at particular times determines the events at those times, largely, but not completely. Knowledge, understanding and acceptance of Jyotisha can, on occasion, avert disaster, and improve the quality of life that we experience – as the examples that follow make clear.
The quality of our family members and various friends will be writ large in our Kundali; as will the possibilities of romance, love, and lasting loving relationships. And also problems that may arise within them. At the same time, a certain latitude exists. According to Jyotisha, little is completely determined. Various secondary factors may avert the return of harmful Karma, or spoil the possible fruition of good Karma. The author was told that in a particular time period, he would inevitably break his right thigh. In response, he undertook a series of prayers and religious rites to his principal deity. The predicted event never occurred, averted, he believes, by that undertaking.
Let us illustrate these ideas with some examples of Jyotisha consultations and their outcomes. In one case, a man hoping to get married came with the complaint that every potential wife to whom he had been introduced was licentious – obviously incapable of being faithful. He was told that this was due to a combination of his Kundali and the present time period. But in a few months, a time period would arise when he would be able to find a virtuous lady who would become a faithful wife. That indeed happened, as the man later related.
A completely different kind of example is that of a mother who brought her daughter saying she wanted to get married. The Jyotishi remarked on her age, only 14 years old, first saying how inappropriate it was, but then he exclaimed, “But you already are married!” “No, she is not”, said the mother, with the daughter agreeing. “Go away,” responded the Jyotishi, “The Kundali does not lie.” After they had gone a few metres, the daughter ran back. “You are right, Uncle,” she burst out, “there is a street seller, who comes past our house every day. He comes into our house, and if there is no one at home, he makes love to me. I enjoy it so much, I just want to get married as soon as I can!” Jyotisha, like many traditions, treats initial acts of love as equivalent to marriage, though without the religious ceremonies or legal formalities.
A related story is that of the daughter of a professional colleague of the same Jyotishi. The colleague told him that he and his wife were beside themselves because their daughter had disappeared from college. On looking at her birth chart, our Jyotishi declared that the young lady had found a new boyfriend with whom she was passionately in love. “You will find the happy couple in a hotel on the south side of the main square in a town some 30 km south of the college she is attending”, he declared. And so it turned out. When the family search party arrived at the likely location, the daughter and her new partner were in the place specified.
The above examples illustrate that the quality of all relations, of parents, siblings etc. as well as partners and wives are written in our personal Kundali. The Kundali lays out overall possibilities, while the Dasha-Bhukti time periods determine the details.
To go into further detail: the compatibility of a proposed couple is judged by many aspects of their two birth charts. The first is the relationship between the two Nakshatras in which their respective moons reside, then the compatibility of their sexuality. The planet Mars can cause many problems, called Kuja Dosha: particularly by its relationship to the Moon, causing general anger and aggression: to Venus, making the person physically demanding; and to the rising sign, causing general problems. At the same time, certain combinations of positions within Nakshatras are said to create life-shortening effects, and must absolutely be avoided.
In particular, one location of the Moon in a female’s chart is said to be inevitably, and swiftly fatal for any partner she may have – the chance of Chandra being in the specified Navamsha in the given sign is 1 in 108, so it is a risk worth checking on if you are thinking of starting a relationship with a new partner. Could it be that certain famous, fatal romances such as Romeo and Juliet were due to this defect in Juliet’s chart – the play was based on a real story!
The name the famous Venetian lover, Casanova, became synonymous with immorality. But he is the only person reputed to have escaped the Doge’s prison by swimming out of the city along the canals at night. He later maintained that his first lover, a couple of years older than he, seduced him because of his physical beauty and prowess, but that he did not admit to that at the time to save her reputation. When he was finally permitted to return to Venice many years later, he found her fatally ill; she passed on in his arms. In the meantime, he had advised Mozart on the central character in Don Giovanni, the opera about the Spanish seducer, Don Juan; invented the concept of National Lotteries as a means of fund raising independent of taxation; and been lover to innumerable aristocratic beauties, whom he reputedly managed to leave without hurting their feelings! Thus, he became the prototype to the world’s faithless romanticizers, made famous in the English children’s songs such as, ‘Early one morning …’, or ‘The Ash Grove’, e.g. ‘Early one morning / Just as the sun was rising / “Oh don’t deceive me / Oh, never leave me, / How could you use a poor maiden so?”
Travelling singers and musicians have had such reputations all down the long corridor of time. Flautists gained such a reputation that the flute was banished as an instrument for centuries in parts of Europe. And who is regarded as the world’s G.O.A.T. flautist. Not a modern performer of Mozart’s Flute Symphony, nor even Indian flautist Hari Prasad Chaurasia, but rather the Divine Incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Lord Krishna, who played Divine Melodies of his own conceiving to his cowherd followers, the Gopas and Gopis, especially the latter, whom he romanced ‘by the light of the moon’, particularly full moon, playing hide and seek among the Grove of Vrindavan, in divine games that some say are maintained to this day.
Only Krishna could so entwine what the ancient Greeks referred to as ‘Eros’ and ‘Agape’, sexual love and Divine Love, that the one became a path to the other. The romantic adoration became a path to celibate love from the fullness of the would-be Lover’s Heart to eventually merge into the Fullness of the Divine itself. Krishna is metaphorically said to have had 10,000 lovers … The world of Jyotisha is not alone in this; in Christianity, every Nun is described as a ‘Bride of Christ’. More broadly, all souls, whether born in male or female bodies, are said to be Feminine aspects of the Divine, a marriage that is consummated when the Divine Power, Shakti, is fully awakened by ‘Union with God’, a Cosmic Ecstasy, of which a fully consummated union-in-marriage is held to be tiny taste. Can we now understand why Christian marriage services used to contain the words, “With my body, I thee worship.” A properly consecrated ‘Act of Love’ constitutes an ideal ‘Act of Worship’.
All these possibilities can be found in the world of Jyotisha astrology. As in the west, where ‘the Evening Star’, Venus, is the touchstone of romantic love, and the bringer of beauty and artistic talent, Shukra, when strong, is the bringer of nocturnal bliss and romantic fulfilment. Such actions increase her strength, lifetime by lifetime. If guarded by benefic Guru, Shukra brings supreme fulfilment both here and hereafter. A Jyotishi once told one of my great friends, whose Shukra was exalted in the 12th house, but who never married, that if she survived into her Shukra Maha Dasha period, she would become ‘Queen of Heaven’ in her next life … And so it turned out; Lucy passed on in that time period in her sleep very early one morning … I had stopped to read her Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita late the previous evening. She had struggled to speak, when she heard my voice, as she was partly paralysed and could not see. I calmed her, and read her some of her favourite passages for 40 minutes or so. Our mutual esteem was divinely inspired, and I am certain that being able to relax into a Divine Sleep aided her to cross the river to the next life.
To return to more mundane considerations: Some may think the following is irrelevant, but those with experience of relationships, and advising on them professionally, hold that details like the quality of friendship between partners is of importance to making a marriage work in the long-term; whether formalised or not, whether a relationship of love, or merely a marriage of convenience. The alternatives can be too horrid. Intolerance or incompatible tendencies can lead to violence in the relationship: an abusive marriage, where domestic violence with all its double games of forcing the blame on a weak submissive partner, who feels no alternative but to accept it. Since such negative possibilities are predictable from people’s Janma Kundalis, Jyotisha makes them avoidable.
In addition to the predictions made by the various relationships between the couple’s charts, the timing of the marriage itself, the ‘Muhurta’ of the ceremony, has definite effects on its long-term prospects. Different choices of Muhurta can lead to both alternatives, success with happiness, or failure with disastrous consequences for either or both parties. Choosing an auspicious Muhurta time that will support a long happy relationship with healthy children, is obviously worth making the correct adjustments to obtain.
Conclusion: General tendencies of a marriage are predictable from the partners’ Kundalis. These can be improved by correct choice of the time periods of marriage in the dasha periods of the two individuals, and specific timing of the marriage ceremony, its Muhurta; noting that the initial act of love is traditional held to play the role of ‘marriage’, whether or not a long term relationship was intended at the time. A genuine relationship of heart-felt love can be greatly fortified by the use of Jyotisha, and observing the Jyotishi’s advice given in the Jyotisha consultation.
One final example will illustrate this last point. Our Jyotisha expert once advised on a marriage, and immediately spotted a danger to the bride’s mother. “Under no circumstance should you personally distribute the wedding invitations yourself”, he warned her. “Otherwise, the consequences will prove fatal.” Being the traditional role in her particular culture, the lady did not heed his advice, and went ahead personally delivering the wedding invitations anyway. She had a heart attack while doing so, and died before reaching hospital. The wedding had to be cancelled.
Jyotisha is all about Life, from our birth to our transition to the next life. The overall picture that it conveys is one of progress and increasing happiness when we adhere to the laws of nature, but also of miserable consequences that are possible when we fail to do so. As an earlier blog emphasised, ‘Avert the danger that is not yet come!’ Jyotisha provides the means to do so, for those fortunate enough to be willing to take advantage of the benefits it offers.