1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Good evening ladies and gentlemen. In this podcast we will talk about ascendants and the Vedic perspectives on the ascendant. 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Alright? Okay. So what is the ascendant? Ascendant is the sign which rises in the east wherever you are born. 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:31,000 It's important that you consider the place that you are born, the time that you are born because ascendant changes almost every hour. 4 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Ascendant is one of the most fickle points in our chart, in any birth chart. 5 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Next comes the moon. Moon changes almost every day. That's why it takes 27 days for it to finish all the nakshatras. 6 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,000 But never mind that. We are jumping ahead of ourselves. Let's speak about the ascendant as the rising sign. 7 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Why is it called the rising sign? What is it rising in the ascendant? 8 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Well, the zodiac sign, the zodiac constellation which is rising in the east at the time you were born, 9 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,000 whether you were born in the daytime, nighttime, midnight, doesn't matter. 10 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Some sign, one of the zodiac signs, one of the 12 zodiac signs was rising in the east, in the horizon in the east at the place where you were born. 11 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Why I am stressing on at the place you were born? Because it depends whether you are born in the east side of the world, west side of the world, 12 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:48,000 northern hemisphere or southern hemisphere of the earth. So basically it differs a lot depending upon time, place, year you were born, etc. 13 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Year you were born will place the outer planets, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto in particular houses depending upon the ascendant. 14 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Again we are jumping ahead of ourselves back to the ascendant. 15 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:13,000 So ascendant, why is it crucial? Well, there are 12 different signs as you know, the zodiac signs, Aries ride through Pisces. 16 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:25,000 But the ascendant sign where it points to the ascendant angle as per Vedic Astrology, as plotted in the Vedic Astrology is very very important to consider. 17 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Why do I say that? Okay, I will give the Vedic interpretations now. 18 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:37,000 According to the Vedic texts, everything is dependent on the rising of the sun. 19 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,000 The Hindu religion, the Vedic texts are mainly focused on the sun. 20 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 The sun is the soul significator or the driving force of the ascendant. 21 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Your soul, all the souls, human souls that are coming are coming forth from the sun as the porter of existence of life on the planet. 22 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,000 So the souls coming in to take birth are taking the sun as the portal to come into the earth. 23 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,000 And so the sun is the governing force of the first house or the ascendant sign. 24 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:21,000 So let's say you are born and Aries is the rising sign. Aries is governed by Mars. 25 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:30,000 So Mars will be the residing energy which you will take to the rest of the 11 houses, first houses, the ascendant sign. 26 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:35,000 So Mars is in the first house, Mars is in your head literally. 27 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:42,000 So because first ascendant sign, ascendant first house determines what's in the head. 28 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 And we usually take what's in the head to the rest of the 11 houses of the 12 houses. 29 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 This is the governing principle of Vedic astrology. 30 00:03:51,000 --> 00:04:07,000 So ascendant lord, if it is Mars as is for the sign Aries, you will take the Martian energy or the drive to push and accomplish in the outer world to the rest of the 11 aspects of your existence on this planet in this lifetime. 31 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 And so it goes on forth to Taurus which is governed by Venus. 32 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Gemini which is governed by Mercury. 33 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Cancer which is governed by Moon in the first house. 34 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 We are talking only about the first house, the rising sign. 35 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 And then Leo, Sun in the first house. 36 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Virgo, Mercury in the first house which is the next one. 37 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Libra, Venus in the first house. 38 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Scorpio, Mars and Ketu are the south node of the Moon in the first house. 39 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Then comes Sagittarius with Jupiter in the first house. 40 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Then comes Capricorn with Saturn and Rahu or the north node of the Moon in the first house. 41 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000 Then comes Aquarius, sorry, Capricorn with only Saturn in the first house. 42 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Aquarius with Saturn plus Rahu in the first house. 43 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:13,000 And then last the 12th sign of the zodiac Pisces with Jupiter and well, 44 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:19,000 if I want to combine western astrology systems which has got a very useful thing of outer planets, 45 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,000 co-ruled by Neptune in the first house. 46 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 So that being said, the ascendant is the rising sign. 47 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:35,000 That's the energy which the Lord of the first house is taken to the rest of the 11 houses. 48 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:44,000 So it's that principle in very castology of what is inside your head or what is inside your mind is projected outwards. 49 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 As within, so without. 50 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,000 What it is inside you project to the rest of the 11 houses or areas of your life. 51 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:01,000 That is why it is very crucial for you to plot your birth chart using the Vedic style of calculation. 52 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:09,000 The side real time which is far more accurate in my experience with seeing all the charts that I have seen, 53 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:21,000 including my own to plot it the Vedic style because there is a 30 degree almost a house difference between the ascendant signs of Vedic verses western. 54 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Tropical western tropical placid system. 55 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 It is an offset of about 30 degrees. 56 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000 So for example, if I take a person's individual chart which I have seen, 57 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 if it's their ascendant is Scorpio rising in the western Placid style, 58 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,000 it will become Libra rising in the Vedic style. 59 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Now there's a huge difference between ascendant in the Scorpio and ascendant in the Libra. 60 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,000 As anybody who knows astrology can make out very easily. 61 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 This is not rocket science for an astrologer. 62 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Scorpio rising sign is ruled by Mars and Ketu, the south node, the secretive one, the introverted one. 63 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Everything is about secret, secret, secret for Scorpio hidden that which is still water. 64 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,000 You can look up my other podcast on what Scorpio rising sign means. 65 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 And the Libra is driven by Venus in the ascendant. 66 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,000 So they are all about giving, giving, giving. One is about keeping, keeping, keeping secrets. 67 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 One is about giving, giving, giving away. 68 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,000 One is about Mars. One is about Venus. It's like 90 degrees apart. 69 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Okay. So be very careful about plotting charts first. 70 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000 I can't over stress this point. It is seriously a different. 71 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,000 You're looking at a different person literally between Vedic and western charts. 72 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,000 So I'll leave it up to you what you want to, which style you want to use, but I can't over stress this. 73 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:55,000 I have done both ways. I have learned Vedic astrology and certified in it. 74 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,000 I've got certification even in western astrology. 75 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I cannot over stress this. It is far, far different. 76 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 So I'll leave it to you what you want to do with it. 77 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Okay. So back to the Vedic style of ascendant. 78 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000 The sun rises in the east and sun is the sole significator of the first house, the governing principle. 79 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 That's what your soul represents. 80 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:24,000 If you want to ask me what your soul wants to bring and carry out in this lifetime, 81 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:30,000 it is where the sun lies, not the sun as per the sun sign in western system, 82 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 but the sun as which is in the first house is the governing principle. 83 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Think about it, the governing principle. The soul is the pure essence of pure light of your soul, 84 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:50,000 which is coming to do certain things in the world. Karma is nothing but doing certain things in the world this time around. 85 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 That's all. Just focus on this lifetime. 86 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:57,000 No need to go back and think karma is digging up all the old garbage. It is not. 87 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Karma is just what you have come to do this lifetime. 88 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:09,000 It's like an imprint. It's like a snapshot of the heavens which you have come to actualize and physicalize and manifest and experience in this world. 89 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 The soul just wants to experience. 90 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,000 The soul doesn't care about what your personal wants and desires are or what your mind cooks up. 91 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,000 In fact, that too can be told by the astrological chart. 92 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,000 What your propensities are, what your desires are, but are the nakshatras which we will get to in a later podcast. 93 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:32,000 But right now we are talking about the ascendant. Whatever is in your mind, in your head, the governing principle, 94 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:42,000 the lord of the first houses as per the ascendants, look up the other podcast, is what you will carry to the rest of the world. 95 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,000 That's what your inner perception of outer world will be. 96 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:57,000 That's what you will understand the world around you as, understand your relationships, your jobs, your career, your spouse, your marriage, 97 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 you name it any area of your life. 98 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:07,000 You will see it with the lens of the ascendant lord and the ascendant lord. 99 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 If it is core rule, for example, Scorpio is core rule by Mars and Ketu. 100 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Mars wants to go take the drive forward. 101 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,000 But Ketu wants to go inward. That's why Scorpios are all hidden. 102 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 It's a hidden sign. It's a sign of mysticism occult. 103 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 I'm just giving an example here. 104 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:36,000 So ascendant rising sign is interpreted in Vedic text as something rising in the east along with the sun. 105 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:42,000 And that's what happens on this planet. And that's what the souls come here for. They come from the sun. 106 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Now, physically wherever sun is sitting in your chart in whichever house might be different, 107 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:55,000 that has nothing to do with where the ascendant angle is pointing towards which house, which nakshatra, etc. 108 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Physically the sun wherever it is, you might want to achieve that. 109 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:07,000 For example, if sun is sitting physically in the 10th house, you might want to desire fame in your career in that line. 110 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Sun wants to physically when it enters the mind, it becomes ego. 111 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 It wants to concentrate on getting fame if it's in the 10th house. 112 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 If it's in the 9th house, it's focused more on learning. 113 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:26,000 If it's in 8th house, it wants to do with occult deep dive, mysticism, etc. 114 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 So this is where the difference in different ascendant points lie. 115 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,000 So I'll just leave it at this because it can go great deal of depths. 116 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:44,000 If you are new to my podcast, please visit my YouTube channel. 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