Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Progressive Light of Illenture channel.
In this podcast we are going to be speaking about the concept in Vedic Astrology called
the natural friends and enemies. Now you have to understand this from the ascendant perspective
because whatever planet governs the ascendant it looks on to the rest of the houses with a friendly
perspective, a neutral perspective or an inimical perspective. Now a neutral perspective is something
that you predominantly ignore. You think, okay that doesn't concern me or I am not too worried
about that or that doesn't trigger me in any way. The enemy points or the houses where they fall
would be ones where you will be triggered. That particular ascendant will be triggered by those
areas of life or what those houses represent. Okay it's easier for you to follow this if you follow
my youtube channel and go and check out the playlist of friends and enemies which is linked
up in the description box. Okay the playlist is there of all about relationships and in that you
can find the whole section by ascendant which shows chart by chart all the friends and enemies. It will
be easier to understand. Anyway I will try to explain it in an audio format here. So what is the
friends and enemies? The natural friends and enemies are the ones you have to understand from an
energetic perspective, from the soul perspective, from the ascendant perspective because ascendant
lies at the soul lies at the ascendant point in every chart as you know as we've already discussed
in the previous ones. So the ascendant is where a person's soul is talking of it from a chart
point of view. So the planets we will be considering are all the planets which are like hard planets.
We are not considering the work it or the node points of the moon. We are only considering the
hard actual physical planets. Okay so we start from the sun. For the sun the friend is moon,
mars and jupiter. Enemy is venus and satan and neutralism are kiri. Why? You've got to understand
these things from a principle point of view. Rather than in astrology it is all about esoteric. So
if you don't understand in energetic terms it will be very confusing of what this means.
Planets are not friendly or inimical at all. They are just bodies in space. But here when we talk of
sun as a friend of moon, mars and jupiter, sun is about what? We talked about the energies of the
planets in the previous podcast. So sun represents the self and the self or the soul when it comes
into the body it assumes an ego. It assumes a posture of ego. That's where the lower self of sun
is in the ego. The higher self becomes the soul itself. So moon, mars and jupiter are friends.
What does this mean? Meaning moon provides the emotional content, the desire content.
This talk of moon is the desire content. Mars provides the drive content and jupiter provides
the wisdom and abundance content. Expansion. Jupiter is interested in expanding whatever it touches,
whichever area of life. So those are the friends of the moon because what does sun as the ego want?
It wants things to feel, to experience. Moon provides the emotion, mars provides the drive,
jupiter provides the expansion. Therefore they are friends. Enemy is interestingly venus and satan
as per Vedic texts. So venus and satan wire the enemies of the sun because venus is all about
beauty, is all about creating the external world. Satan is about to work in the external world.
It's about giving to others. Venus is focused on creating outwardly and satan is focused on
work in accomplishing that. It is by venus and satan are all those friends. The only friend of satan
is venus. Of course in mercury but we'll address that later. So enemy is venus and satan for sun.
Why? Because its sun is focused on the self not on others. It's that energy where one is focused
upon oneself or one is focused upon the external. That's what it comes down to folks. Neutral is
mercury for sun because sun doesn't bother much about intellect. Intellect can go on its own thing.
It doesn't affect the ego. Next comes the moon. The two luminaries first. Next comes the moon.
For the moon sun and mercury are friends and it's neutral to the rest of them. Moon doesn't bother
about the rest of them. It's a friend to sun and mercury. What's the difference between friend and
neutral you might think? The difference between friendly planets and neutral planets is that
energy where you are pulled towards. Friend is where we are pulled towards that area or that aspect
and neutral is where you don't bother about it pretty much. You're like okay that can exist
that doesn't trigger you. It's not a trigger point or an attraction point. Friend as an
attraction point. Enemy as a trigger point. Just think of it like this. It becomes a lot more simpler.
For the Mars sun, moon and Jupiter are the friends. Why? Because sun provides the energy of the
cells. The ego. Moon provides the emotional content. Jupiter provides the expansion. So Mars loves
that to get things done. Mars is the guy whose soldier on the ground he wants to get shit done.
He's a get shit done kind of guy. If you need a strong Mars, a person needs a strong Mars in the
chart to get stuff done. They're driven by Mars. Right? People think of it as aggression. Aggression
is just the aspect of Mars who is not getting his way or her way. That's when Mars becomes violent
or aggressive. Okay just think of it as a lower aspect of Mars. But anyway Mars wherever it's
placed in the ascendant that means we're talking about Aries and we're talking about Scorpio.
For the Aries and Scorpio ascendant the friendliest science would be in the sun, moon,
and Jupiter. That means Leo, Cancer and Sargeterias and Pisces would be their friends wherever
appears in the chart. Again you're going to look at my YouTube channel. It's really pictorial and
explained well. The enemy house is Mercury. Mars is enemy with Mercury. Why is Mars enemy with Mercury?
Because Mercury is all about intellect. Mercury is all about intellectual play of things, reasoning.
Mars does not understand reasoning. That's what it should tell you. Mars is only interested in
getting stuff done. He's an action-oriented guy. So typically for us, action-oriented is absent
of intellectual understanding in this case. That's what it tells us. That's what the Vedic texts are
trying to tell us. The neutral planet are Venus and Saturn. Mars doesn't bother with Venus and
Saturn because they are all about external stuff getting done. Okay you might do all that.
Mars is that funny energy between egoistic sun. This sun is the friend of Mars and in between
going outward and getting it done. That's why Mars, Scorpio can go inwards. Mars in Aries can go
outwards as we saw in the previous podcast. Next on our list comes Mercury. Mercury is friends
with Sun and Venus. Enemy with Moon. Neutral to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Now Mercury is,
we talked about, is intellect. So Mercury has an intellect. The friend is Sun and Venus because
Venus wants to perceive things in a beautiful way. Venus is the sense of beauty, inner beauty of
beauty sense that we all have. I mean what do you perceive things as beautiful or exotic or essential
or as creative forms like art, like music, like painting, like any other forms of art that we
have, okay which humanity has created. It requires Venus to perceive that. Venus is the quality which
helps us perceive that sense of beauty whereas Mercury is all about intellect. So intellect
and our sense of beauty are friends with one another. Think of that for a minute. Just reflect on
that and so is the Sun. Sun is the friend with Mercury because the Sun feels itself through
Mercury also. This is why people who are intellectual can become very egotistical,
right? Because they think intellect is everything. I understand everything that is to be understood
about everything, right? Very egotistical kind of people. Too much of Mercury can lead to too much
of Sun or too much of ego. Remember Sun is the soul but when it plays out in the body it becomes ego.
So Sun, Mercury is enemy with the moon. Why? Because what are the time tellers with this?
Mercury is intellect. Always go back to what it represents or what energy it brings. So Mercury
brings the energy of intellect. Moon brings the energy of desire. It's the queen of desires. The
moon wants to give emotional content. So what they are trying to tell us? The natural enemy of Mercury
is moon meaning intellect does not like the emotional content. That's why people who have a strong
Mercury in the chart or if they are Virgo in Jammu Naya sentence, they might be
enemy to the emotional content parts of their life because they think it's all about intellect,
not about emotion. This is how they play out. That's what they are trying to tell by this friends
and enemies concept. Mercury is neutral to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Mercury does not bother about
drive or expansion or about giving to others. Mercury is all about thought and where one feels
the ego or where one feels the like a sense of self. You feel it in ego or you feel it in your
sense of beauty, Sun and Venus. You got to reflect on all these energetically and then come to a
correct picture here. Jupiter has friend as Sun, Moon and Mars. Jupiter wants to expand. So Jupiter
if it touches the houses of Sun which is Leo or Moon which is Cancer, Mars which is Aries and
Scorpio, it will expand that because it wants to feel the expansion through these vessels. The vessel
of the ego, the vessel of desire and the vessel of drive. That's where Jupiter feels itself. So
it's friendly to that. If Jupiter is exalted in a chart, it will look at all these houses ruled by
the Sun, Leo, Moon, Cancer and Mars as Aries and Scorpio. It's enemies, Mercury and Venus. Why?
Because Jupiter just wants expansion. It doesn't care about beauty. It doesn't care about intellect.
Jupiter is all about expansion. So if you try to think too much or if you try to create too much
beauty, Jupiter is not interested in these two aspects. It's neutral towards Saturn. Jupiter
and Saturn are neutral towards each other which is a good thing I guess. Both mutually they are
neutral towards one another and Venus next comes on our list is Venus. Venus is a friend with Mercury
and Saturn because it needs the intellect. Like remember Mercury was friends with Venus so they
are mutually friendly to one another. It's important to understand its mutual aspect.
Moon is neutral to a lot of planets but a lot of other planets have enemy as the moon. So one might
look at the other as enemy but the other is not perceived this way as enemy. It's not both ways.
Okay. Understand this very clearly. Otherwise it will be making mistakes in your reading. So
Venus understands Mercury and Saturn as a friend which means Venus thinks I need the intellect
and I need Saturn. I need to work through this puzzle. So if you want to create beauty in this
life in the forms of art, culture, music, dance, drama, film, media, etc. you need the power of
Mercury intellect and you need the power of Saturn. Venus will work with very nicely with both of them.
It's enemy with the Sun and Moon. Venus. Why is that? Because Venus does not like ego. Venus
does not like too much of desire. Guess what? This becomes a little different from Eston Astrology.
Venus does not like either of these two aspects because Venus is about giving to others. That's
why Venus is friendly with Saturn. Saturn wants to do work for others. It's not about ego. That's why
Saturn and Sun are enemies. Why? Because Saturn knows about others. Saturn wants to give for the
world. Sun wants to keep everything for itself. It wants attention to me. Saturn wants attention
towards others. Yeah but what about this person? What about that person? What about caring for the
society? What about doing for giving my work away to the world? Saturn is about giving energy to the
world. Okay and it is neutral Venus towards Mars and Jupiter. It doesn't bother about drive or
expansion. It just wants to work with Mercury and Saturn in creation. Whatever the friendly
planets are, that's what it wants to work towards. That's the drive for the ascendant.
So Venus is an infobreterus and Libra. Last we come to the Saturn. So Saturn is
friendly towards Mercury and Venus. Same as the Venus, Mercury and Saturn. So they are both mutually
friends to each other. Venus and Saturn. So Saturn is friendly Mercury and Venus. Why? Because you
need intellect for your work and it's friendly towards Venus also. Creation of beauty. Why? Because
beauty or sense of beauty, art, drama, music, all these sense which we perceive as sense of beauty
in the world. Our appreciation of the earth, of the people, of everything that we see, touch
perceived through our five senses here in the physical dimension requires a sense of beauty for
us. That's what's the drive which helps us go out and create. This is why you need to be a good
creator in life in whatever you're doing. Because Saturn is going to help you. The power of Saturn
is immense and it's going to help you there. It'll help you create stuff because who is Saturn? Saturn
wants to be working for others all the time. It's not about self folks. It's about others. That's the
Saturn and signatures right there. Enemy of Saturn is sun, moon and Mars because Saturn
is not interested in self. It is totally opposite energy of the sun which is all about self.
Saturn wants about others. It's enemy of moon because it doesn't not interested in desires.
It doesn't care about your personal desires. It's about helping others. It's about going
outside and just doing the work. It's dry work is what Saturn is and it is not even interested in
Mars. It's an enemy of Mars. Natural enemy. Why? Because it's not interested in how much
a drive you have. It'll make you work. This is why people do not like Saturn much. It is neutral
towards Jupiter. This plays out in different ascendants in a different way. Let's quickly go
through them. For the Aries ascendant which is governed by Mars in the ascendant, the enemy
planet will just go through the enemy. You can watch my YouTube channel for the rest. The enemy
houses would be number three and number six. Why? Because they are ruled by Mercury. Right? Number
three and number six houses. For the Taurus ascendant, the enemy houses will be number
three and number four because they are governed by Sun and Moon. For Gemini ascendant, the enemy
houses will be number two because it is governed by Moon and Gemini ascendant ruled by Mercury.
Number four falls in number two. Please go through my YouTube channel otherwise it will get very
confusing. In Cancer ascendant because it is governed by Moon, it has no enemies anywhere else
because it's neutral to most and it has just got friends. Remember Moon has got only friends and
it is neutral towards other science. It is the only ascendant, Cancer ascendant which does not have
any enemy called triggers. Leo ascendant, the enemies will be places of Venus which is
third house which is Libra, 10th house which is Taurus, 11th house which is Saturn, sorry,
7th house where Aquarius falls which is governed by Saturn and the sixth house which is governed by
Saturn, Capricorn. So these are all lots of enemies. Leo ascendant. Then it comes to Virgo
ascendant which is governed by Mercury. So the enemy house will be only Moon, rest are friends and
neutral. The enemy house will be the 11th house social media networks etc. Virgo. For Libra ascendant
the enemy houses will be the houses of Moon and of Sun. So that will be the 11th house of social
networks and a 10th house of carrier for the Libra's. Next which comes on our list is Scorpio.
For the Scorpio ascendants the enemy sign because they are ruled by Mars would be Mercury that is
number 3 and number 6 which fall in the 8th house and the 11th house for the Scorpio's natural enemies
would be there in laws and intimacy issues after marriage and then social networks.
Okay for the Sagittarius ascendants because it is ruled by Jupiter it looks at houses of occupied
by Venus as enemies and Mercury as enemies. So its enemy becomes 7th house of spouse,
6th house of daily work and 11th house of social networks that becomes the enemy of Sagittarius
people. These are the trigger points. Understand and look at these as the energy of the ascendant
which looks at the others as trigger points. Next comes as Capricorn ascendants which is ruled by
Saturn. So obviously the Sun is the enemy, Mars is the enemy which we looked at before. So where
does it fall now? For the Capricorn ascendants Mars falls in 80s in 4th house that's the enemy,
human family, spouse which is 7th house ruled by Moon. Life after marriage intimacy and sexual
issues as the enemy for the Capricorn ascendant. They don't have much of intimacy in them.
And for the 11th house of social networks that's where the enemies come from that's the trigger
points. The Aquarius ascendant again ruled by Saturn this falls in 3rd house which kills hobbies.
Then on the 10th house of work, 7th house of spouse, 4th house of daily work. For Pisces the last one
of the signs it falls in 7th house of spouse because it is ruled by Jupiter. So enemy is Mercury
and it falls in 4th house of home and family and 2nd house of sorry 3rd house of skills and 8th house
of intimacy sexual issues, sudden changes and so on and so on. So let me just finish with this so
this has become too much extended already it's quite a lot. So if you have any questions if you
need to discuss message me on Facebook I'll be glad to have a discussion with you on Zoom or
otherwise it's an interesting topic which can be explored a lot in depth. The concept of friends
and enemies as per Vedic Astrology natural friends and enemies. Because the energy of the ascendant
is where the vantage point of a person's self looks from it's where the ego looks from.
Just remember that one crucial element it's what is inside the predominant energy of what is in the
self or in the head and how it perceives the rest of the areas of a person's life. That's all it
comes down to folks. Okay and if you consider donating I'd be glad to have some money and
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as I said go to the All About Relationships playlist on my YouTube channel and I will explain
this figuratively ascendant by ascendant and what it means what it happens to the theme of a person's
life for every ascendant that's the theme. The theme is like a house okay different rooms of a house
is the living rooms a bedroom is a kitchen the bathroom etc etc house is the same the themes
will be the same irrespective of where the planets are placed this will play out. This is where you
go to watch for the trigger points. Everyone if they understand this properly that's my idea bringing
this knowledge forth if they understand this properly it will help them in understanding
the triggers where are my triggers coming from understand them and learn to step back don't
engage too much in those areas because those are your enemy points engage more with the friendlies
in the neutrals all right take care be safe and have a great day.