WEBVTT 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:04.580 Good morning people, welcome to my channel. After 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:08.140 we have finished the Saturn Mahadasha and the 00:00:08.140 --> 00:00:12.679 Guru Mahadasha, now we come to Mercury. Before 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.619 I get started, this is the Vedic Astrology Teaching, 00:00:15.859 --> 00:00:20.399 Learning and Course channel. A free Vedic Astrology 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:24.640 full audiobook of 500 podcasts with Google Drive. 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:27.859 Files shared in the description box is available 00:00:27.859 --> 00:00:30.859 for all who want to learn. begin this journey 00:00:30.859 --> 00:00:34.939 so let's get started I do basically counseling 00:00:34.939 --> 00:00:38.960 using principles of Jyotish using your chart 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:43.179 and guiding you my consultation typically consists 00:00:43.179 --> 00:00:46.859 of one broad reading followed by a video conference 00:00:46.859 --> 00:00:49.579 if you want to do a reading for yourself get 00:00:49.579 --> 00:00:53.020 in touch over email back to Mercury Mahadasha 00:00:53.020 --> 00:00:56.469 whenever you look at the Mahadasha general principle 00:00:56.469 --> 00:00:59.289 is look at the karaka, the mercury, isn't it? 00:00:59.329 --> 00:01:03.630 The earth element. The mercury is about communication, 00:01:04.510 --> 00:01:08.230 is about vocalization of whatever is your internal 00:01:08.230 --> 00:01:11.969 thought process. Now the thought process is very 00:01:11.969 --> 00:01:15.250 simplified and put that way, but where is your 00:01:15.250 --> 00:01:19.430 thinking process, isn't it? Essentially, it is 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:21.769 a sum total of whatever is borrowed from wherever 00:01:21.769 --> 00:01:24.260 mercury is sitting in your chart. That will be 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:27.879 the focal area of Mercury. The house it is placed, 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:31.019 the sign it is placed, the nakshatra it is placed 00:01:31.019 --> 00:01:37.579 in. So these are the standing rules. What refines 00:01:37.579 --> 00:01:42.000 it is what preceded in the Mahadasha before this. 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.079 That is Guru and Saturn. What did you do that 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:50.620 will determine how you will perform as Mercury 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.319 as what will come out of your mouth as words 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:58.319 in this particular mahadasha. And so there are 00:01:58.319 --> 00:02:00.719 certain nakshatras which will be the dominant 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:04.140 ones in the prime of their life. When I say prime, 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:08.000 we are talking of 20 to 50 years old. The prime 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.219 period of a person's life. So the primary group, 00:02:11.419 --> 00:02:14.699 the strongest group who will have mercury mahadasha 00:02:14.699 --> 00:02:19.240 in this period is punar vasu nakshatra, vishakha 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.180 and purvabhadrapada. All the guru ruled nakshatras, 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:26.759 isn't it? That is from age 19 to 35, it will 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.419 kick in. The secondary group, slightly conditional, 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:33.439 is the rahu ruled nakshatras, ardhara, swati 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:37.800 and sattvisha. They will get mercury mahadasha 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.139 starting in the range between 35 and 45 years, 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:43.979 depending upon how much balance of the mahadasha 00:02:43.979 --> 00:02:49.360 is there at birth. Some others which might be 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.919 useful although they do not fall in the prime 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:59.599 are Mars Rudnakshatras which is Mrikshera, Chitra 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:03.199 and Dhanishtha. They will get between 53 and 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:06.639 60. This is important and I will come to it in 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:10.340 a second. Moon Rudnakshatras between 60 and 70. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.539 Moon Rudnakshatras being Rohini, Hastha and Sravana. 00:03:14.030 --> 00:03:16.629 These are under useful bracket because they are 00:03:16.629 --> 00:03:20.210 the elders of the civilization. They become the 00:03:20.210 --> 00:03:22.150 elders. They have already gone through the very 00:03:22.150 --> 00:03:26.250 tough path of Jupiter Mahadasha and Saturn Mahadasha. 00:03:26.430 --> 00:03:30.370 So they are the wise elder ones. The Mars Rulakshatras 00:03:30.370 --> 00:03:34.310 and the Moon Rulakshatras become that. Finally, 00:03:34.409 --> 00:03:37.710 after all the trials and tribulations of Jupiter 00:03:37.710 --> 00:03:42.340 and Saturn Mahadasha, you come to speaking. In 00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:44.759 essence, what is this trying to tell us in the 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:49.780 harmony of the universe? When you finish your 00:03:49.780 --> 00:03:52.460 learning in Guru Mahadasha and when you have 00:03:52.460 --> 00:03:55.039 finished with all the karma bit in the Saturn 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.500 Mahadasha, which were huge periods, isn't it? 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.120 Dominant periods of a person's life. Jupiter 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:04.199 Mahadasha went for a period of 16 years followed 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:07.159 by 19 years of Saturn Mahadasha. It's a long 00:04:07.159 --> 00:04:09.340 period. This finishes off pretty much a person's 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:12.439 life. in the prime of performance, if you want 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:17.079 to call it that. Then you land in Mercury Mahadasha, 00:04:17.379 --> 00:04:21.000 which means to say, if I had to put it in esoteric 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.660 terms, what does this mean? It means you have 00:04:24.660 --> 00:04:27.680 finished your learning in Guru Mahadasha, you 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:32.040 have finished your work and all the stuff which 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:34.240 I have mentioned in Saturn Mahadasha, you have 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.980 finished all the trials and tribulations of Saturn 00:04:36.980 --> 00:04:40.139 Mahadasha. Let's just wrap it up that way. And 00:04:40.139 --> 00:04:43.180 now you are in a position to open your mouth 00:04:43.180 --> 00:04:45.560 and speak. And whatever comes out of your mouth 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:50.980 will be wisdom. Wisdom 101. This is why the order 00:04:50.980 --> 00:04:54.279 of Mahadasha is very beautiful to understand. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:57.060 See the order in which it transits, even the 00:04:57.060 --> 00:05:00.990 Antardasha, which I shall deal with later. So 00:05:00.990 --> 00:05:03.649 this is a period not really of learning, skill 00:05:03.649 --> 00:05:06.189 building, communication and adaptability. It 00:05:06.189 --> 00:05:09.949 is the bringing forth of whatever has been learned 00:05:09.949 --> 00:05:13.970 in the previous Mahadashaas. You've got to always 00:05:13.970 --> 00:05:16.209 understand Mahadashaas is what followed before 00:05:16.209 --> 00:05:20.089 this and what did you learn there? In fact, what 00:05:20.089 --> 00:05:23.389 did you do there? That determines everything, 00:05:23.430 --> 00:05:27.750 isn't it? This is where conscious astrology becomes 00:05:27.750 --> 00:05:31.389 prime to understand. It's not just what planets 00:05:31.389 --> 00:05:34.189 or points appear, what mahadashas appear and 00:05:34.189 --> 00:05:37.149 go. This is just the skies. This is just the 00:05:37.149 --> 00:05:39.550 zodiac planets, nakshatras, all the rest of it. 00:05:40.089 --> 00:05:43.110 What are you doing in that? How is your daily 00:05:43.110 --> 00:05:46.889 life going? Are you consciously engaging with 00:05:46.889 --> 00:05:49.790 your daily presence or are you just waiting for 00:05:49.790 --> 00:05:52.689 some planets to hand off some stuff on your plate? 00:05:53.529 --> 00:05:56.790 That's not the way it works. I believe that's 00:05:56.790 --> 00:05:59.189 not the way certainly the ancients who gave this 00:05:59.189 --> 00:06:03.990 beautiful science intended either. You have to 00:06:03.990 --> 00:06:06.810 get it into perspective that you are here to 00:06:06.810 --> 00:06:10.189 do something. It has to be translatable all these 00:06:10.189 --> 00:06:13.269 energies coming into your brain, into your mind, 00:06:13.329 --> 00:06:17.870 body, circumstances, family etc etc. Circumstances 00:06:17.870 --> 00:06:22.420 will come and go. Ideas will come and go. Even 00:06:22.420 --> 00:06:24.399 this voice which is speaking will come and go, 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.620 but you are still there. Where is the you in 00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:30.579 all this? In Mercury Mahadasha, it will come 00:06:30.579 --> 00:06:33.060 dominantly to play, especially for the elder 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:36.180 ones whom I mentioned. So the element is one 00:06:36.180 --> 00:06:38.899 of Earth. Okay, and before we get into the elemental 00:06:38.899 --> 00:06:41.500 part, one more thing you've got to remember. 00:06:41.819 --> 00:06:45.339 Mercury is a dangerous planet. Why I say this? 00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:48.769 Because Mercury is a big copycat. It does not 00:06:48.769 --> 00:06:52.790 have a personality as a planet of its own. So 00:06:52.790 --> 00:06:55.490 always be careful what is aspecting it. Rahu, 00:06:55.610 --> 00:06:59.269 Ketu, Jupiter or Mars. Always be careful where 00:06:59.269 --> 00:07:02.589 it is sitting in. The lord of that particular 00:07:02.589 --> 00:07:06.629 house. How is that performing? All of these factors 00:07:06.629 --> 00:07:09.850 you have to check before you start seeing Mercury 00:07:09.850 --> 00:07:13.149 as a planet. How it's affecting you in Mahagasha. 00:07:14.170 --> 00:07:17.629 It's a big copycat. But unlike Rahu, Ketu which 00:07:17.629 --> 00:07:20.449 are just illusions, Mercury tends to solidify 00:07:20.449 --> 00:07:23.970 it. Mercury typically sits one house plus or 00:07:23.970 --> 00:07:27.290 minus of conjunct Sun, isn't it? So whatever 00:07:27.290 --> 00:07:30.730 your intellectual capacity, it is borrowing from 00:07:30.730 --> 00:07:34.029 everything around you and Sun is a very critical 00:07:34.029 --> 00:07:39.389 planet. So it will be prone to criticism, gossip 00:07:39.389 --> 00:07:43.889 and sort of putting others down. This is the 00:07:43.889 --> 00:07:47.089 signature of Mercury. It's a copycat. It can 00:07:47.089 --> 00:07:50.050 get into very shady kind of thinking. This is 00:07:50.050 --> 00:07:52.850 the downside of Mercury. The element is Earth. 00:07:52.990 --> 00:07:55.410 So you have to be careful with this Mahadasha 00:07:55.410 --> 00:07:58.810 in terms of your body, the physical Earth, your 00:07:58.810 --> 00:08:01.529 embodiment. It will give you all kind of skin 00:08:01.529 --> 00:08:04.490 and nerve related issues if you're not careful 00:08:04.490 --> 00:08:07.209 with how your mind is progressing in the 17 years. 00:08:08.180 --> 00:08:11.060 The Guna is one of Rajas, like I said, lots of 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:15.500 passions running in Mercury. Lots of unkempt 00:08:15.500 --> 00:08:20.439 desires running, for example. The caste is Vaishya. 00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:23.259 Mercury is a merchant, like I discussed in some 00:08:23.259 --> 00:08:26.319 of my shorts. Moon and Mercury are Vaishya planets. 00:08:26.579 --> 00:08:31.019 So they are interested in trading. This is the 00:08:31.019 --> 00:08:33.860 dominant trader. And Mercury will do it for selfish 00:08:33.860 --> 00:08:37.570 reasons. Mercury will do it for gains only. Mercury 00:08:37.570 --> 00:08:40.289 does not care about like moon about emotional 00:08:40.289 --> 00:08:46.350 body. It just wants stuff for itself Okay, the 00:08:46.350 --> 00:08:48.330 chakra is throat. So you have to be careful what 00:08:48.330 --> 00:08:52.669 you speak what you speak if you're not careful 00:08:52.669 --> 00:08:56.230 with using and Choosing your words right in this 00:08:56.230 --> 00:09:01.009 mother shuttle have a backlash The psychology 00:09:01.009 --> 00:09:05.960 of this particular Mahadasha will be one of curiosity, 00:09:06.059 --> 00:09:09.639 analysis and networking. Meeting people, talking 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:12.059 to people of all kinds, depending upon where 00:09:12.059 --> 00:09:14.620 Mercury is. If it's 7 ,000, it will be dominantly 00:09:14.620 --> 00:09:17.200 the external world. If it's 10 ,000, it will 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:21.740 be always about your profession, so on. The life 00:09:21.740 --> 00:09:25.860 themes are of education, writing, media, business 00:09:25.860 --> 00:09:28.759 and travel. These are the broadest themes which 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:30.779 can play out depending upon where Mercury is 00:09:30.779 --> 00:09:34.460 placed in your chart. So just to recap, In any 00:09:34.460 --> 00:09:37.440 mahadasha, what kicks in is first wherever the 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.940 planet is placed, the house, the sign. And next 00:09:40.940 --> 00:09:44.960 will be all the things that aspect it. You could 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.320 go even up to the extent of checking with whether 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:49.960 it's your atmakaraka or matyakaraka. I've already 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.080 covered that in the playlist on the channel. 00:09:52.899 --> 00:09:59.139 Antardasha follows in 0 .97 to 3 .4 years. Makri 00:09:59.139 --> 00:10:02.080 mahadasha grows your skills, intelligence and 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.090 communicative power. This is true only if it 00:10:05.090 --> 00:10:07.110 is coming in the earlier years when you are still 00:10:07.110 --> 00:10:10.750 sort of cultivating yourself. But the best application 00:10:10.750 --> 00:10:15.429 of Mercury Mahadasha will come with the Mars 00:10:15.429 --> 00:10:19.070 and Moon rule nakshatras. Why? Because they are 00:10:19.070 --> 00:10:22.629 falling in the elderly range 53 to 60, 60 to 00:10:22.629 --> 00:10:26.830 70 respectively. So they become useful. Mercury 00:10:26.830 --> 00:10:29.870 is useful when it has gained sufficient knowledge 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:34.059 from Jupiter and Saturn both. not singular one. 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.639 Both Jupiter and Saturn are teachers, but they 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:41.980 have different styles of offering you that. I 00:10:41.980 --> 00:10:44.399 shall see you in the next. I am unsure about 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.320 what I will make next, but I'll see you in the 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.179 next. Meanwhile, you take care and be very safe. 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:51.179 Thank you.