Beautiful people. Now I'm going to be taking you through a series of presentations of my screen
shares and talking to you about astrological basics. Now this I'm going to do from two points.
One is the western style, one is the Vedic style because I combine both of them. I find value in
both of them. Why not take things which make value, which makes truth, which makes not just which
makes sense. Okay. Don't think of it as sense. Things which are true, which I have seen even
in my own personal life in my own chart. So I'm using only those parts from both these systems,
both have value and I'm using the Vedic style plot, which is plotted for western style of the chart,
but they're using the sidereal time. Now the AS that you see over there is the ascendant.
If you do the western placid as the AS will come here, ascendant will come here and so will the
house's shift because it's a different time system of measurement. But anyway, without any further
ado, we are discussing today the western part conjunctions, oppositions, trines and squares.
How do these help and what do they mean? My take on it. First of all, I want to cover something very
basic. Understand that astrology is just a science of time. It's the heavenly cycles of time.
The zodiac belt considered the constellation belt of the nakshatras considered the planetary movement
through them and the snapshot of your birth, which is the natal chart. Natal chart means it's a
snapshot of the heavens at the time of your birth. So this particular chart is for example of a female
whose capricorn ascendant because their ascendant is in capricorn in shravanakshatra and so is their
moon in shravanakshatra. So very strong shravanakshatra energy present. This person was born on 2nd
December 1981 at 12 p.m. GMT plus one in Sweden, Malmo in Sweden. So this is one of my clients.
I'm just taking an example here to explain. Remember this is Vedic style but a Vedic system
of plot, sorry, but a western style of depiction. Now the blue signs there are all water signs,
orange ones are all fire signs, green ones are all air signs and brown ones are all water signs.
Just my own coloring to distinguish this. Okay. Anyway, getting back to understand that astrology
is a science of time which is continuous and never stops. That is why in Vedic astrology it is called
the hora shastra. Hora means time. Shastra means discipline like electrical, mechanical, civil,
like that kind of a discipline. That's discipline I mean. So it's called the discipline of time.
Why? Because time periods come and go. Good times and hard times come and go in a person's life.
So this clock, this universal clock really nothing stops it. If you take time to understand this
and for yourself and not bank on any astrologer for reading, why I'm doing all the sharing?
Because I wanted to put what my knowledge is out there without you paying for a dollar for it really.
You're not paying for this. It's free on YouTube. But I have understood this. I have crunched this
in my own way, in my own time and this is the conclusions that I'm sharing with you more or less.
Understand this for yourself. You will be definitely more empowered, more conscious and more aware
of your own personality and what you'd need to do and when. One of the most common misdirection
aspect in astrological science occurs is that is in the mind of the interpreter. Now this I have
found repeatedly. I've gone to many astrologers, Western and Vedic and it's all their interpretations
which caused all this problem. It's like the Chinese whispers. It's like
lost in translation kind of a thing. You see what I mean? So it's not their fault necessarily.
I can't fault anyone really. But each one told me different aspects which makes me more confused and
that's why I was prompted to do my own investigation. Let me go and see what are these confusing people
about? What is the real deal here? It's not that the astrology signs itself which I have found
correct or incorrect. It may be that my own interpretation also may be wrong sometimes.
We are humans. We are fallible. It can also be that we need to examine some more. Even the best
astrologers always fail at many predictions because they need to interpret something more. They may
be having overlooked something or may not have considered some other aspect because it's a
really complicated science. Anything if you take Western or Vedic. It is one who interprets the
astrologer which may or may not come true quote unquote for sidereal timescale and for tropical
timescale. All will come and go. Doesn't matter which system you use. All will come and go.
And the person may choose something to do with it or not. Now this is where free will comes into
the pictures. The person may just sit there expecting some astrologer has told that you'll
get a fantastic job or fantastic promotion or raise and not do the proper work necessary in the
office or in their workplace. So their goodies or their rewards will never come. So there has to be
some action on the part. These are just snapshots of what kind of scenarios you will arrive at.
Astrology therefore is not a lottery ticket or a winning number combination. It is simply the
map of the heavens when the energies are more favorable for a given task to do with ease.
It is not to say the person cannot do that at any time of their own choosing. Of course you
can do anything at any time. It's a given. Okay. Favorable time may come and go and the person
may choose to do nothing with it. So it may never yield any result. This is more common than not by
the way. And the person can go into victim consciousness and say, ah, this was bogus.
Astrology never works. It is all a scam. See how all the misinterpretation starts. It's not only
from the astrologer's side. It doesn't matter which system they follow, but it's also from the
person they are giving reading to. They may have given the best and most accurate reading. It doesn't
matter which system again, but the person isn't doing anything with it. You're not going anyway.
If you're not starting your car, that's as simple as that. Number two. Now this is personally speaking,
I use both the western system of transconjunctions, supposition squares, which we'll talk about a
little bit later, as well as the Vedic system of Mahadasas or major periods in life. That's what
it translates to taking what is relevant from each. This is what I want you to remember where I come
from. I'm using only those which I have found relevant in my own life looking backwards. What
happened in this time in this year? Is this square conjunction opposition relevant? Oh, yeah, that
thing happened in my life at that time. Things like that, even Mahadasas. I have seen practical
benefits of both western system of trans opposition squares useful to a degree, not completely accurate,
but to a degree. Yes, it is useful to know and I'll cover that in later videos.
I use the combination which I find very useful both in personality awareness. Now what am I
doing this for? What I invariably find is it's more useful aspect of astrology to know personality
and personality aspects because that is more empowering. I come from a place of empowering
the individual. I'm all about empowering the individual. So I don't come necessarily from
the predictive astrology aspects. Oh, this such and such a thing is going to happen and such
and such a drive in your life. No, that is like trying to gamble with a person's life. I don't
believe in gambling. I believe in something which can be practically used being an engineer. That's
my quality. So I have to use ground and knowledge. So astrology is just an esoteric GPS folks.
It's like GPS of your life. If I tell you, you take plot a map on your GPS in your car from
Miami to Los Angeles. And if I say after some time, after about three days or so, you're going to come
across the river and you're going to cross over a bridge. That's the kind of astrological prediction.
What you do when you get to that bridge and that river, you might decide to step out for a little
while, take keep your feet in the water for some time, or you might just choose to drive away.
That's the free will. What you choose to do with the prediction is up to you.
Number three, I used Vedic. I use Vedic sidereal calendar. That's the plot you see on the left.
Since I have personally found it to be more accurate and more true to my own personality
and life rather than Western system. More than a personal preference, it's not a question of preference.
It's a question of telling this t-shirt is yellow. Well, I would like it to be blue,
but right now it is yellow. This is where I come from. And I leave it to you which you wish to
adopt. There's too many contradictions out there in the net. If you want to Google this and research,
well, feel free to do so. It will lead you down a rabbit hole. I'm sure as it did to me.
Number three, I used to be a person who was a little bit more than me.
Someone in the Western system of plot can have, and this is I'm telling you from experience,
someone can have a Scorpio rising as ascendant in the Western and the same person with the same
birthday time place can be a Libra ascendant in the Vedic. Now this makes a huge difference in any system.
The same person can't be a Scorpio rising and a Libra rising. It completely changes your life path,
your small houses, it changes your Mahadasha, it changes everything. Okay.
Number three, the term orb means the angle of alignment between planets, points. Points means
Rao Ketu, the north and the south node is a point. They're not, they're invisible planets, so to speak,
which is used by astrologists to say, yes, these two are now conjunct or opposed or trying, etc.
That's the orb. I'll show you here what the orb means. I use an orb of three degrees. So that's my
orb over there. See, I have put the zero degrees is conjunction, I put an orb of three degrees,
meaning plus or minus three degrees of the conjunction, that's conjunction over there.
Then comes the square here, which is at 90 degrees. The square is 90 degrees. So I have used three
degrees of first square and trying is 120 degrees apart. So three degrees of orb there and opposition
also three degrees. This is just my preference. Some people use four degrees. Typically astrologers
use four degrees for something, three degrees for something. I just use three degrees as uniform.
It's a tight orb. Tight orb means more narrow bandwidth. If you take one degree of it becomes
too tight. Typically, astrologers have found through experience and it's there all over the
web if you want to research, is that when outer planets are moving, they move at a much slower
rate. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, they move slowly. Their orbit is more longer.
So even a four or five degree orb suits because outer planets move very slowly. So they start
putting in their energies through inner planets earlier on, so to speak. So that's what is an orb.
You need to understand the orb I consider before you go any further. I use the orb of three degrees
in all my readings. Other astrologers are different aspects. Also the angle traversed in a sign or
and or an nakshatra shows the soul progress made in that energy. For example, Jupiter here has made
seven degree angle through swati nakshatra and through Libra. Pluto has just entered it. It's
just making two degree angle. Whereas if you take the moon over here in the ascendant, it has made
it 20 degree progress already. So the degree of progress is denoted by the degree of angle of the
planets and points in a chart. This person is 14 degrees ascendant. We'll talk about that a little
later. I'm jumping ahead of myself. So amount of progress that a person makes through a particular
sign and through a particular nakshatra is the angle. You have to take care of the angle. For
example, Neptune here for this individual is at zero degrees of Sagittarius. It has just entered
Sagittarius. It will make more progress as we go along. If you take a seven day ahead, look ahead
of this. It's not going ahead, but never mind. So if you take a seven degree progress of this,
there you go. It has made one degree progress into Sagittarius. See what I mean? So that's the way
things go there. Angle is important to consider as the weight of energies that the planet brings
to the particular person. If Mars is very strong, the person will go to be more aggressive in that
sign in their house. If Jupiter is very, very high in angle going through a sign or house,
it shows a very strong Jupiterian presence in that person. Okay, think of it like this.
This is especially true for angle between ascendant sun and moon. We will do this different
evaluations. I want to take piece by piece. Otherwise the pie becomes too complicated.
I will take ascendant sun and moon in the next one. The moon is at 20 degrees. Sun is at 16
degrees and ascendant is at 14 degrees in this particular natal chart. So the effects of personality
will be felt in that order. So the moon energy is very overriding for this person, wherever it is
sitting in house, sign, etc. Next comes the sun. Sun is as the ego self, where the sun,
physical placement of sun in a chart is where the person wants to shine. It's where the ego
wants to shine. It wants to gain fame, recognition, a sense of self in the world. That's what sun is
physically. Whereas the soul presence actually comes from the ascendant. That's why these three
points are very important to remember. Ascendant sun and moon to determine the personality because
I'm about personality evaluation. So the effects on personality will be in that order of magnitude.
You've got to consider angles here very strongly. In this particular chart, moon is at the highest
angle. Mars is at the highest angle. 29 degrees is Mars. So this person is very, very aggressive and
Mars is in the sign of Leo. See, this is how you start to open up the personality, peel the onion,
so to speak. Conjunction. What does conjunction mean? Conjunction means a transiting planet of point
is aligned in the same house, sign, and same nakshatra or constellation within a three degree
orb. I have already to show you that. Like a permanent union or if it's in the natal chart.
In this case, it's a natal chart or a temporary union in transitions. Two planets or points can
be conjunct simply means energies of both act in a combined way for the person. It's important to
remember that outer planets will overrule the inner planets always. For example, a transiting Saturn
will override the energies of natal moon when it is going over the moon. In Vedic system, moon will
always override the sun since it's closer to the earth. Okay, that's why it's also called as lunar
system, lunar astrology. Since conjunction or grouping of planets in a sign or house happens
in a particular sign like air, wind, fire, water, and sorry, air, earth, fire, and water,
it carries the energy of the sign powerfully. For example, in this chart, sun, mercury, and Uranus
all are in Scorpio in the 11th house and they are all together bunched in the same sign. So it'll
carry the energy of water to this person. It's in the energy of Scorpio, so it is buried and still
and deep. And this person has extensive communication abilities because mercury and the higher aspect
of mercury are conjunct in the 11th house. 11th house stands for social media, social network
community gains. And sun is also there. That means this person is strongly wanting to bring the occult
powers and hidden knowledge into the external world because this hemisphere is for external world.
It is also trined by descendant. Trine is at an angle of 120 degrees. Descendant is everything
energy which we want to bring to the external world. So that means this person's life path
is driven towards finding out what it means to me in the external world, not just for myself.
Jupiter and Pluto in this also are almost conjunct. I use 3 degree of so it is not showing as conjunct
but nevertheless it's two and just five degrees apart. They are conjunct in Libra. So Pluto will
bring its energies in the house matters of Libra via Jupiter. Think of it as outer planet Pluto is
shining through Jupiter onto the earth. Think of it as a lens. Jupiter is being the lens to get
plutonic energies into the person's life and for that house and for that nakshatra. So it's really
a complex stuff. Combustion. What is combustion? When a planet is conjunct with the sun, sun is the
soul's energy. When the planet goes over a sun either in natal chart or in transitions it's called
combust. In this case Mercury is almost combust with the sun in the 11th house as you can see.
Mercury being the closest orbit, Mercury venus to the sun. Many charts it is combust. Now what is
combust mean? This is a little different as to different astrologers. Most will tell you that
the planet has become weak. What I say is combined with the energy of the sun that means it becomes
innate to the person. It doesn't go destroyed. Nothing gets destroyed in this universe. It just
merges and changes form. Your energy of that planet Mercury has become merged with the energy of the
sun meaning this person is extremely natural and good in communications. Intellect is very natural
to them. Okay? That's what it means. Opposition is when a planet is exactly 180 degrees apart. Now
in this person's case it is not so in the natal. Let's see the transition. See in the transition
right now the sun which is going over Aries is directly opposing both Jupiter and Pluto. What
does this mean? This means that this person's self which is in the inner hemisphere, the lower
hemisphere is for the inner world. It's in the fourth house where your heart matters. So this
person is right now feeling as we speak very strong sense of ego or fire within their heart.
But the Jupiter and Pluto what they are bringing to this person's life as a natal chart is opposing
that. So it's saying no not now. An opposition is simply saying not now. Don't do this right now.
No. Wait for some time for this opposition to go over. It'll go over. Sun goes over every sign in a month.
So it's not like it'll be there forever. Let's just zoom out seven days. Seven days later it is not there.
See? No it is there but it's just a chart that will also... Sorry. My goof. Okay. So it'll pass
after a month. The opposition will pass. The prime is when two or more planets or points 120 degrees
apart. This one. In this particular natal chart, Sun and Mercury are training the descendant. Also
Venus is training from Mars. So Mars is providing all its heavy-duty energy sitting in Leo
with where it is exalted. It's providing all the fuel to this Mercury to this Venus. So Venus is
the sense of innate sensuality, sense of beauty, art, creation, all these. So this person can be very
aggressive in those terms. So energy of Mars is fueling the energy of Venus which is at one
degrees. Venus is weak here but it is being fueled by the very very strong Mars. So these people might
have a sense of aggressive sensuality. You might have seen those kind of people. And we can go on
and on. We can go on enhancing and studying deeply, go more a deep dive into their person's characteristics
in this way. I'm just showing you a rough example here. When two or more planets are points, 120
degrees apart. Sun, Mercury conjunct almost which means in this chart a person's actions outside
well known outside world because this is the outside world. This half is outside world are well
supported for them to take action throughout their life. A square is when two or more planets are
90 degrees from each other which is a square here. We see two squares in this natal chart. One is
Pluto squaring Venus means their power and sense of ego is destroying their sense of innate sense
of beauty and sensuality in their life. The creative side of them because this is in the ascendant
in the mind. It will be felt very strongly. Also Neptune is squaring Mars. Neptune is again the
heart center. The higher form of Venus is also being squared by the aggressive Mars. Now, funnily
speaking, Pluto is the higher aspect of Mars. So both the higher and the lower aspects of
transformation, aggression, drive are subduing or they will are challenges with their higher
aspects of Venus and Neptune. Higher aspect of Venus is Neptune just going ahead of myself.
But I want you to get the energy of how we're reading is done or should be done because this is
what starts making real sense as far as personality is concerned. We are focusing on personality here.
Lastly, all of the above is better interpreted if you put in also the Vedic ones which I will
do in the forthcoming videos. And what they mean you can check out my Diamond Style Indian Chart
videos which are already there in evolutionary astrology playlist. I can link it up above.
Because not all planets shine the same in different science means some planets are subdued in some
science. In this particular case, Sun is in Scorpio. Sun being a fairy planet if it's in a water
sign, it automatically becomes subdued. It becomes going with him internal because blue signs are all
emotional signs. They are water signs. They're going internal, going more intuitive. But bringing
intuition to the external world is what this person is about. And you also see the Vedic style
where Capricorn is ruled by Saturn. So we have to see where Saturn is, which is in the ninth house.
So this person is driven towards wisdom and knowledge. This Saturn wants wisdom and knowledge.
Okay. And it is exalted because it's in sign of Virgo, not really. But yeah, we got to see
all these kind of aspects. Okay. So a deeper study is required. But always remember these
things have to come as a part of personality evaluation rather than predictions.
Predictions leave a person stranded in their spot. They are expecting goodies without doing
the work. That's not how these things work, people. These big things work because you have to put some
free will, you have to put some effort in it. So from where I come from, at least you do your own
astrological research, this channel, any channels you want, there are a million channels out there.
But use your discernment. Take what makes sense to you and use it to do personality evaluation
first. Go to predictions later on. Predictions can be rough. They can be inaccurate. They can be
very accurate. But it doesn't mean you cannot do anything today right now. Life is happening right
now. Not some four months down the line when you'll get that fancy job or a fancy partner.
Okay. That's where I come from. Take care, keep watching and I will put more of this stuff.
Next one, we will deal with what shall we do then. Ascendants on end moon. Take care, be safe and be awesome.