PREDICTING WITH TRANSITS – GOCHARA
Transits are the constant motion of the planet’s cycles.The transiting planets in a chart are where the planets are currently in the sky. As they form aspects to the natal planets in a chart they trigger events in an individual’s life. We can chart where these planets will be in the future, giving us the ability to make predictions based on where the transiting planet will go in a chart (what houses) and what planets in the natal chart the transiting planet will aspect. The transits will bring to life all the indications of the houses they activate and the planets they aspect. Transits are used to time events in a life. You may see a potential in a chart, but when will the potential manifest or come to fruition? This is activated through the onset of the dashas and the activation of the natal planets through the transits aspecting them. Listed here are the rules to follow to formulate predictions based on the transits of the planets. These rules are listed in the order of importance, and the steps to be followed to make a final assessment for the basis of a prediction.
There are many charts within a chart. This shows how individuals are all interrelated. Each chart is set up where every planet’s placement affects the others in a different context depending how it is viewed. Taken step by step I will show you how to see the different charts within a chart focusing on one layer or viewpoint at a time.
Take these principles and apply them to see the truth and light that the science of Jyotish has intended.
When a question or a matter is to be assessed:
The house pertaining to the matter in question
The ruling planet of the house pertaining to the matter
The karaka of the matter or thing in question
Example: The question asked is concerning children.
The house pertaining to children is the 5th house, therefore any planets within the 5th house and any natal planetary aspects to the 5th house are relative.
The planet ruling the 5th house is imperative in giving information on children. The house the ruling planet resides in gives more pertinent information concerning children and additionally any aspects the planet is receiving from other natal planets.
Look to the planet that naturally rules the matter in consideration. The karaka means the indicator of something. The indicator or karaka of children is Jupiter. Jupiter naturally rules children in everyone’s chart. The house placement and natal aspects Jupiter receives will give an indication of the prospects of children in a chart.
These are the 3 major assessments that must be taken into consideration when a question is posed. Such as: Will I have children?
The next question that involves timing will have to incorporate the Dashas and Transits. When will I have children?
Steps for Analyzing Transits
The house the transiting planet is in. The natal planets the transiting planet is making aspects to. The houses the natal planet rules will be a major focus when a transiting planet aspects it.
The houses the transiting planet is aspecting come into play.
There are many other variables but these 4 steps must be assessed first. These are the most important rules!
I always assess the transits from the Moon to give more confluence.
will always confer to the Navamsha as to where the maha dasha ruler and bhukti are placed. Looking for any outstanding placements that confer with my prediction. I do not use the transits in any divisional charts.
A planet that rules 2 houses usually gives the results of the house ruled by the sign that is moolatricona. The moolatricona signs are air and fire. The only acceptation is Mercury’s moolatricona sign Virgo.
Charts Within Charts
There are many layers within a chart and many people who touch our lives are therefore in our charts. This brings out the multidimensional part of our chart connecting us to other people and their lives. This is called Bhavat Bhavam (meaning from house to house)
The spouse is viewed as the 7th house, but to see the happenings in the spouses life the 7th house is made the ascendant/Lagna and this is viewed in its entirety as the spouse’s chart. For timing of events in the spouse’s chart cast the transits to the natal planets addressing the transit’s aspects, but the different house rulerships as pertaining to the new ascendant/Lagna starting with the 7th house as the 1st house. Don’t hold back, do everything you have done assessing the chart as you did from the original Lagna of the individual’s chart you are reading. The rules are all the same only you are reading the spouse’s life through the original person’s chart. Yes, this opens up a Pandora’s box! Anyone in a person’s life or anything can be accurately assessed with predictions. Now you can see the interconnection of the universe, the divine science of astrology.
The eldest sibling is the 11th house and the youngest sibling is the 3rd house. Here is a way to make sense of this when there are many siblings and you want to figure out what house is who. The 11th house is the sibling above you then the one next in line to the oldest would be the 11th from the 11th and on going up till you have reached the eldest. For those who are younger than you then you look to the 3rd house as the one immediately younger than you, then the 3rd from the 3rd for the next down in age and continue on till you reach the youngest. The house you come to, will be the first house for that individual. Read that chart exactly as you would any chart, including transits for predictions.
For children, the 5th house is the oldest child, then the 3rd from the 5th (7th) is the second born, continue on around counting 3 houses away for the next child in the birth order. They are the siblings (3rd house) to each other. So, the 5th house is the first-born, 7th house is the second born, 9th house is the third born, 11th house is the 4th born and so on. The natal 12th house will be the 8th house from the 5th and with difficult malefics here there could be danger to the first-born child. The same goes for the 2nd house for the second born, for it is the 8th from the 7th. But don’t forget to read the planets from the house we are inquiring from (as to house rulerships) and not the natal ascendant. Grandchildren are the 5th house from the 5th (9th house), your children’s children.
The 4th house will be the house to start with to reveal the life of the mother. The karaka for the mother is the Moon. The 11th house is the 8th from the 4th and may indicate the mother’s death. The 11th house is the house of adoption because it represents death or separation of the mother. The 9th house will be the house to begin with to see the life of the father, the karaka for father is the Sun. The 4th can be the death of the father because it is the 8th from the 9th house. The 12th house to any of these houses can indicate the end or loss to the indications for that house. The 7th house will be the mother’s mother (4th from the 4th). The 7th house is the maternal grandmother. Likewise the 9th from the 9th house (5th house) will be the paternal grandfather. The 6th house will be aunts or uncles from the maternal side (3rd from the 4th). As well as the 11th house indicating aunts and uncles from the paternal side 3rd from the 9th. As you can see the possibilities are endless.
How to Predict Marriage or Relationship
Every astrologer is asked the question when will I meet someone, fall in love, or marry. There is one variable that I feel I must mention. The chart will indicate when the true heart felt feelings of attraction and love happen. The actual wedding may not be in the picture. Sometimes the weddings themselves are very stressful and anti-climatic.
I feel when someone asks me these questions; the chart is going to indicate the true feelings of love and when you decide to commit to someone exclusively.
When looking for a relationship of this nature here are the rules to follow.
Jupiter is the planet that grants opportunities. Look to see if transiting Jupiter is aspecting the 7th house
The ruler of the 7th house aspected by Jupiter
Jupiter aspecting the 7th house from the Moon (Chandra Lagna)
Jupiter aspecting the ruler of the 7th house from the Moon (Chandra Lagna)
Jupiter aspecting Venus in a man’s chart
Jupiter aspecting Jupiter in a woman’s chart or Venus/Mars in Western culture
The dasha ruler ruling the 7th or aspecting the 7th house
The dasha ruler in or ruling the 7th house in the Navamsha
A Transiting planet in Parivartana with a planet connected to the 7th house by placement or rulership
Example: Transiting Venus is in the 7th house in Sagittarius and transiting Jupiter (ruler of the 7th) is in Libra. I actually had this at the time of my marriage.
- If there are 3 or more of these variables in a chart you can strongly predict a relationship at that time
Birth of Children or Pregnancy
The same rules as marriage apply here as well, only the house of concern of course changes and the karakas. Sometimes the time predicted is when the woman gets pregnant, the birth is not as important as the conception time.
Rules for Pregnancy
Jupiter is the karaka for children, the transit for Jupiter is considered
Transiting Jupiter aspecting the 5th house
Transiting Jupiter aspecting the ruler of the 5th house
The 5th house from the Moon is sometimes considered more important than the Rashi chart. Transiting Jupiter aspecting 5th house in Chandra Lagna
Transiting Jupiter aspecting the ruler of the 5th house in Chandra Lagna
Transiting Jupiter aspecting natal Jupiter karaka for children
Dasha ruler ruling or aspecting the 5th house
Dasha rulers in the 5th house in the Navamsha or the Sapthamsa chart
Source : galactic center. Org.
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