Good evening ladies and gentlemen. In this podcast we will talk about ascendants and the Vedic perspectives on the ascendant.
Alright? Okay. So what is the ascendant? Ascendant is the sign which rises in the east wherever you are born.
It's important that you consider the place that you are born, the time that you are born because ascendant changes almost every hour.
Ascendant is one of the most fickle points in our chart, in any birth chart.
Next comes the moon. Moon changes almost every day. That's why it takes 27 days for it to finish all the nakshatras.
But never mind that. We are jumping ahead of ourselves. Let's speak about the ascendant as the rising sign.
Why is it called the rising sign? What is it rising in the ascendant?
Well, the zodiac sign, the zodiac constellation which is rising in the east at the time you were born,
whether you were born in the daytime, nighttime, midnight, doesn't matter.
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.
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,
northern hemisphere or southern hemisphere of the earth. So basically it differs a lot depending upon time, place, year you were born, etc.
Year you were born will place the outer planets, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto in particular houses depending upon the ascendant.
Again we are jumping ahead of ourselves back to the ascendant.
So ascendant, why is it crucial? Well, there are 12 different signs as you know, the zodiac signs, Aries ride through Pisces.
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.
Why do I say that? Okay, I will give the Vedic interpretations now.
According to the Vedic texts, everything is dependent on the rising of the sun.
The Hindu religion, the Vedic texts are mainly focused on the sun.
The sun is the soul significator or the driving force of the ascendant.
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.
So the souls coming in to take birth are taking the sun as the portal to come into the earth.
And so the sun is the governing force of the first house or the ascendant sign.
So let's say you are born and Aries is the rising sign. Aries is governed by Mars.
So Mars will be the residing energy which you will take to the rest of the 11 houses, first houses, the ascendant sign.
So Mars is in the first house, Mars is in your head literally.
So because first ascendant sign, ascendant first house determines what's in the head.
And we usually take what's in the head to the rest of the 11 houses of the 12 houses.
This is the governing principle of Vedic astrology.
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.
And so it goes on forth to Taurus which is governed by Venus.
Gemini which is governed by Mercury.
Cancer which is governed by Moon in the first house.
We are talking only about the first house, the rising sign.
And then Leo, Sun in the first house.
Virgo, Mercury in the first house which is the next one.
Libra, Venus in the first house.
Scorpio, Mars and Ketu are the south node of the Moon in the first house.
Then comes Sagittarius with Jupiter in the first house.
Then comes Capricorn with Saturn and Rahu or the north node of the Moon in the first house.
Then comes Aquarius, sorry, Capricorn with only Saturn in the first house.
Aquarius with Saturn plus Rahu in the first house.
And then last the 12th sign of the zodiac Pisces with Jupiter and well,
if I want to combine western astrology systems which has got a very useful thing of outer planets,
co-ruled by Neptune in the first house.
So that being said, the ascendant is the rising sign.
That's the energy which the Lord of the first house is taken to the rest of the 11 houses.
So it's that principle in very castology of what is inside your head or what is inside your mind is projected outwards.
As within, so without.
What it is inside you project to the rest of the 11 houses or areas of your life.
That is why it is very crucial for you to plot your birth chart using the Vedic style of calculation.
The side real time which is far more accurate in my experience with seeing all the charts that I have seen,
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.
Tropical western tropical placid system.
It is an offset of about 30 degrees.
So for example, if I take a person's individual chart which I have seen,
if it's their ascendant is Scorpio rising in the western Placid style,
it will become Libra rising in the Vedic style.
Now there's a huge difference between ascendant in the Scorpio and ascendant in the Libra.
As anybody who knows astrology can make out very easily.
This is not rocket science for an astrologer.
Scorpio rising sign is ruled by Mars and Ketu, the south node, the secretive one, the introverted one.
Everything is about secret, secret, secret for Scorpio hidden that which is still water.
You can look up my other podcast on what Scorpio rising sign means.
And the Libra is driven by Venus in the ascendant.
So they are all about giving, giving, giving. One is about keeping, keeping, keeping secrets.
One is about giving, giving, giving away.
One is about Mars. One is about Venus. It's like 90 degrees apart.
Okay. So be very careful about plotting charts first.
I can't over stress this point. It is seriously a different.
You're looking at a different person literally between Vedic and western charts.
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.
I have done both ways. I have learned Vedic astrology and certified in it.
I've got certification even in western astrology.
I cannot over stress this. It is far, far different.
So I'll leave it to you what you want to do with it.
Okay. So back to the Vedic style of ascendant.
The sun rises in the east and sun is the sole significator of the first house, the governing principle.
That's what your soul represents.
If you want to ask me what your soul wants to bring and carry out in this lifetime,
it is where the sun lies, not the sun as per the sun sign in western system,
but the sun as which is in the first house is the governing principle.
Think about it, the governing principle. The soul is the pure essence of pure light of your soul,
which is coming to do certain things in the world. Karma is nothing but doing certain things in the world this time around.
That's all. Just focus on this lifetime.
No need to go back and think karma is digging up all the old garbage. It is not.
Karma is just what you have come to do this lifetime.
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.
The soul just wants to experience.
The soul doesn't care about what your personal wants and desires are or what your mind cooks up.
In fact, that too can be told by the astrological chart.
What your propensities are, what your desires are, but are the nakshatras which we will get to in a later podcast.
But right now we are talking about the ascendant. Whatever is in your mind, in your head, the governing principle,
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.
That's what your inner perception of outer world will be.
That's what you will understand the world around you as, understand your relationships, your jobs, your career, your spouse, your marriage,
you name it any area of your life.
You will see it with the lens of the ascendant lord and the ascendant lord.
If it is core rule, for example, Scorpio is core rule by Mars and Ketu.
Mars wants to go take the drive forward.
But Ketu wants to go inward. That's why Scorpios are all hidden.
It's a hidden sign. It's a sign of mysticism occult.
I'm just giving an example here.
So ascendant rising sign is interpreted in Vedic text as something rising in the east along with the sun.
And that's what happens on this planet. And that's what the souls come here for. They come from the sun.
Now, physically wherever sun is sitting in your chart in whichever house might be different,
that has nothing to do with where the ascendant angle is pointing towards which house, which nakshatra, etc.
Physically the sun wherever it is, you might want to achieve that.
For example, if sun is sitting physically in the 10th house, you might want to desire fame in your career in that line.
Sun wants to physically when it enters the mind, it becomes ego.
It wants to concentrate on getting fame if it's in the 10th house.
If it's in the 9th house, it's focused more on learning.
If it's in 8th house, it wants to do with occult deep dive, mysticism, etc.
So this is where the difference in different ascendant points lie.
So I'll just leave it at this because it can go great deal of depths.
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