Good morning ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Light of Lencia Progressive Astrology Channel.
So today we are going to be speaking about the concept of Karaka or the Doership in Vedic Astrology.
Karaka in Sanskrit means the one who does things, one who is responsible for the Doership,
the one who does things. You know what does this mean in planetary terms?
Among other things it means the planet which provides energy or that aspect of the planet it
brings to a particular house in a chart right. We have got one to twelve houses, one to twelve
signs which rotate from Aries to Pisces as we saw. So now we talk about Karaka's meaning if the
planet is placed in any one of these houses it automatically becomes in its exalted position
or in its benefit position. It amplifies more so the energies of the house. You can use these
principles even if you are plotting as per western astrology placidus which I do not recommend because
there is a little time offset. It's better to plot a chart where you desire to get the accuracy of
ascendant because the ascendant is one of the most fickle points in a chart. It moves every hour.
So in a day you would have covered all twelve signs in the ascendant because it changes every hour.
Anyway, returning back to the Karaka. So we'll today talk about
Karaka's can be for every planet but today we are going to talk about just two of them.
Two of the most crucial teachers or lessons we learned in this lifetime are through two
planets Jupiter and Saturn. So we'll talk about Jupiter and Saturn as the Karaka's
of the house, their aspects on different houses, how they work, basically how they work. Each one
of them works differently and what each one of them brings is a different energy to a person's
chart and to a person's personality and their life in general. This will play out. It doesn't matter
which the shite is going on or which period it's going on for a person. So first let's take Jupiter.
Now Jupiter wants to expand. Think of these and energetic thumbs please because these are all
esoteric sciences. It has to be interpreted as energies. The energy of Jupiter, it's a gaseous
giant of a planet, the largest one in the solar system. But in this case as an esoteric point in
space, Jupiter is a gaseous one which wants to feel like the sun. Jupiter wants to feel like the sun.
So Jupiter wherever it sits, it wants to expand the qualities of their house. It wants to provide
stuff which that house represents. And we shall see how. So Jupiter is the Karaka of which particular
house is in every ascendant. Jupiter is the Karaka or the doer of the house number two,
second house, the fifth house, the ninth house and the eleventh house. This is the Karaka ship
or the ownership or the doership of Jupiter. This is where it is most exalted in sign. It can be
anywhere else. Aspecting will see that later. So Jupiter wherever it sits becomes most exalted
wherever it is aspecting, it becomes slightly secondary. Jupiter has two aspects, three aspects
to it actually. One is the seventh aspect from where it sits looking at the seventh portion,
seventh house from itself. So Jupiter if it sits in second house for example, it'll look at the
eighth house. That'll become the opposite sign of it. So first is seventh aspect. The next is the
fifth aspect of Jupiter. The fifth aspect of Jupiter which will be in this case in our example,
if you're putting Jupiter in the second house, the fifth aspect will be on the sixth house.
House number six. What's the fifth aspect? The fifth aspect is where the Jupiter provides
learning, where the Jupiter provides inclination to learn. So this is where it, this is the fifth
aspect of Jupiter. Jupiter wants to learn, it wants to provide knowledge, wisdom. Ninth aspect is where
that education graduates into wisdom. The ninth aspect, the ninth position of aspect or vision
of Jupiter, looking at it from where it's placed counterclockwise and moving into
ninth position will be where the Jupiter will gain the wisdom. For example, in our
example of Jupiter being in the second house, the ninth aspect would be on the tenth house
from the second house. So that means the house of career. So in this example, Jupiter in second house
will, if it's placed in the second house of any ascendant, it will focus and gain knowledge through
sixth house means, means through daily work. It'll provide wealth because second house stands
for the wealth earned. This person will be very wealthy but it looks at the sixth house. That
means it'll regain that wealth through daily work and it will also provide fame because it is looking
at the tenth house which is the house of career. Right? That's the beautiful way to understand us.
But Jupiter is exalted or Jupiter has the Karaka ship or the doership of three more houses.
So second house, house of wealth, Jupiter wants to expand. Jupiter wants to teach everything about
teaching and through giving you gifts. Jupiter wants to gift you stuff from the external
and it wants to help you learn as a soul. In this lifetime, through receiving gifts,
this is what everybody wants. They have a laundry list of desires, what they want, houses, cars,
good partnership, good wealth, places to live in, good jobs or business or fame or etc. etc.
but those are all just 3D if you remember. If the soul doesn't desire any of this,
soul just desires expansion and nothing more like we spoke of in earlier podcast. So Jupiter has the
first Karaka ship of the second house which is for wealth, which is for family, yours are the one
you are born in etc. such aspects of the second house. Of the fifth house, it's of education,
your basic education, your primary school, your schooling, your graduate degree, all that is the
fifth house. It's the house of love and romance, it's the house of creativity. Creative intelligence
is in the fifth house. So Jupiter wants to expand that because that's the way you will
again gain the knowledge. Here Jupiter provides knowledge, just knowledge as in education.
You're learning the world you are in.
You're learning about the world you are in. That's the aspect Jupiter brings to the fifth house.
In the ninth house, this Jupiter itself graduates if it's placed towards wisdom.
The higher aspect of knowledge education as said by Vedic astrology is wisdom.
This happens through maturity as you know through maturity and age. Everybody is not born wise.
They have to learn through life experiences. They have to be educated in some school or
some education system where they learn art. This is how things work. This is how I need to know this
and this. Any field, let it be arts, humanity, science, physics, chemistry, biology, quantum
physics, it can be anything mathematics, psychology, any branch of human learning is in the fifth house.
But in the ninth house that becomes wisdom related to that. You go for higher learning. The higher
learning is of aspects of spirituality, of dharma, of righteer path or in basic education terms you
might do post graduation, you might be a PhD, you might become a research scientist, you might want
to know deeper aspects of philosophy, etc. Jupiter stands for all of this kind of stuff. He loves
this because remember we spoke of Jupiter as the the karaka of knowledge. It wants to gift you stuff
so you learn stuff from the real life and then move on to the soul. Jupiter wants to become the sun.
The sun is the soul but Jupiter wants to become that through providing gifts. This is what you
should remember when you talk of karakas. The 11th house is the house of gains, is the house of
popularity, it's the house of social media, social networks, that kind of thing. So 11th house is
where Jupiter wants to provide the gains you have worked for so much time in your life and you want
to gain that in terms of popularity, in terms of fame, in terms of gains of wealth. You see in
terms of your speculation in stock market that kind of thing. So Jupiter will provide you gains
there if it's placed there. That's the karaka, that's the side of Jupiter and remember from any one
of these Jupiter will aspect of 7th house, 7th place from itself, the 5th place from itself
and the 9th place from itself. So anywhere in the chart Jupiter is placed if it looks at the
5th or 9th aspect also to these houses number 2, number 5, number 9 and number 11. It becomes an
exalted position. So Jupiter will be providing benefit stuff. Now let's talk about the bad guy
of the zodiac and the malefic planet as called by Vedic astrology Saturn. Saturn is the karaka of
3 houses, the 8th house, the 10th house and the 12th house. Now right of the bat we spoke of Saturn
also in earlier as a gaseous guy. It's also a big gaseous giant of a planet but it wants to do what?
Jupiter wants to expand and become like the sun. Saturn wants to do what? It wants to feel
something. It is full of gas. It wants to feel constantly something earthly. Saturn is the energy
of the other side. Saturn has the lordship or the karaka ship of the other side of the veil
for all the spiritual enthusiast. So if you want to access lower dimensions of existence because
Saturn loves to dig deep. So lower dimensions is accessible by Saturn. He has the lordship of it
because he loves to dig deep. He loves to feel the earth. He loves to feel something that is
concrete in life. That's the energy of Saturn. That's why Saturn stands for all the practical
aspects. He wants to materialize. Saturn has lordship of Aquarius and Capricorn. Capricorn is an
earth sign. It's the strongest sign of Saturn is Capricorn because it wants to ground everything.
So Saturn in Capricorn becomes very exalted. Anyway we digress. So
Saturn in 8th house. Now what's the 8th house stand for? Why is it the karaka of the 8th house?
8th house stands for sudden changes in life, ups and downs and finance. It stands for the life of
the marriage, the relationship, the intimacy, the sexual aspects of the marriage. The intimacy,
what you feel with the other person. It also stands for in-laws. It stands for occult and mysticism.
Do you remember the occult and mysticism? Saturn what is it doing? The guy who wants to ground
in occult and mysticism which is one would think at least is more etheric in nature.
But no, according to Vedic Astrology Saturn has the lordship of it, the karaka of it.
So in any chart if Saturn is in 8th house it automatically becomes mystical because it is
by default the self of Saturn is etheric, it's gas. That's why it provides easy access to the other side.
Saturn provides highly occultic powers, actual powers where you can transform stuff in people's lives.
It's one of the exalted signs for the light worker to have.
Next sign which Saturn becomes karaka of is the 10th house. 10th house is a house of
fame, as a house of career, as a house of occupation, what you do in the world.
The first thing that people ask when you introduce them, hi I'm so and so they will tell
what do you do, right? It's one of the marks of a person in the world. What a person does in the
world as in a profession or a business or a career, differentiates that person from the rest of the
world. The person is known in the external world by that. And Saturn is the karaka, one of the
karakas of the 10th house. That means Saturn gives you the ability to succeed in life, to determine
what you eventually end up doing in life. So it has provides the energy for the 10th house.
So if it's placed in the 10th house, it becomes very exalted or its energy increases because
Saturn automatically wants to give you a good career, right? Next one in the 10th, 12th house
is the house of losses, losses as in material loss to gain spirituality. You have to understand
losses in that respect. So Saturn is also a teacher, but Saturn teaches through harsher life
experiences. Saturn is a harsh planet. That's why the dog of it has a malefic planet in very
gastrometry. So Saturn rules all these houses which are considered malefic, right? The 8th and the 12th house.
The 12th house is loss of material and gain of spirituality, losses of all kinds, traveling
off to foreign lands, settling in foreign lands, etc. So Saturn rules the 12th house also. That
means it provides access to real spirituality, not imagined spirituality. I see so many people
who want to be spiritualists, but they don't have such a kind of arrangement in their chart.
Their thing is more of, their chart is more focused on the groundly, earthly stuff this
lifetime. Of course energies of the planets are ramping up now and everybody's awakening,
awakening to what degree is where I come in. Awakening to what degree are you
signified in your chart itself? It speaks the whole story, it speaks volumes, the chart.
So Saturn here in the 12th house provides that impetus or the knowledge or the energy for
going deeply into spiritual aspect. It becomes the Karma Sthana. It becomes the
place of Karma wherever Saturn is placed. It becomes the house of Karma for that person.
That's where the work starts. Of course it can graduate into different forms, but the work starts
in the place of Karma wherever Saturn sits in. Now Saturn next as per Vedic Astrology has got
again three aspects, just like Jupiter. One is the seventh aspect where it looks to the opposite
house where it wants to bring this to the outer world, the others, self and others. Remember
the seventh aspect we spoke of. The next aspect of Saturn is the third place from itself which
is called the house of effort. The third position from Saturn is where it wants to take effort.
It requires effort in skill development, in communication, in working the puzzle.
Saturn will make a person work in the third place from wherever it is sitting.
The other aspect, the third and the last aspect is the tenth position. So it's the third position,
the seventh position and the tenth position. The tenth position is the place of Karma where you
finally the fruits of Saturn are felt. Where you must finally drive towards as you age and mature.
That's what tenth place from Saturn means in Vedic Astrology.
So that gentleman is my short take on the Karka ship of two planets. Remember both Jupiter and
Saturn are powerful teachers but they have a different style of teaching a person. One teaches
through giving gifts and giving knowledge and giving wisdom and giving just gifts, giving wealth,
giving spouse, giving children. That kind of thing but the other one is a harsh task master,
Saturn. Saturn doesn't give bother so much about your wisdom or your experience. It teaches through
hard life experiences because guess what? People don't learn or come to spirituality without losses.
The loss of materialism and gain of spirituality, this is how Vedic texts speak of. You can't be a
big industrialist. It's only go towards spirituality because they are contradictory. They are opposite
sides of a coin. One wants to go deep towards materialism while you can but then you won't
have access to spirituality. Loss of materialism, loss of health or loss of this and that is where
Saturn changes the direction of a person towards spiritual houses. That's why it has the lordship
of Karka ship of the spiritual houses like number eight and number 12. These both are of occult
mysticism and spirituality. How does it come in? Well this is how Saturn provides the necessary
loss, the necessary hard life experiences of loss of health or loss of people in your life,
near and dear ones by death. Loss of material, loss of money, loss of property, loss of people in your
life, loss of spouse, loss of children. So any kind of loss is just a gain of spirituality.
That's how Saturn works. Understand this is how Saturn works. It's a harsh teacher. Both are
teachers but the energies are very different. One wants to gift and one wants to take away
and teach you through hard work and life experience. Just keep this in mind when you read the charts
and then we'll speak about some more good stuff tomorrow. In the meantime do take care of yourselves.
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