1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,400 I want to speak to you about the three qualities of the gunas in existence as per the Vedic texts 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:12,480 and how it relates to Vedic astrology and the houses and the quality of the houses that it 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:20,160 embodies each house. So the three qualities are in existence and this relates to our 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:26,480 personally to human beings as the qualities of our thoughts, the qualities of our emotions, 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:33,280 the quality of our personalities, the qualities of the food and drink we eat. It carries through 6 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:39,360 creation. It's not just one thing. It affects all energies. It affects all consciousness. It affects 7 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:48,240 everything and it even affects the food and type of food and drink we have. So even Ayurveda takes 8 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,800 these three forces into consideration. What are you trying to balance in the body are these three 9 00:00:52,800 --> 00:01:02,240 energies? Even the Godhead which is in Hindu, the Brahma, the Vishnu and the Shiva are these three 10 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:09,520 aspects. So let's see what those aspects are just from a quality point of view because if we 11 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:15,120 examine from a quality point of view then we get a better understanding in terms of astrology and 12 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,320 the energies that each of the houses house number one through twelve carries in our charts. 13 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:29,920 So what are these qualities? Satva, Rajas and Tamas. Satva stands for conceptual level or the 14 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:35,760 idea level of things. It stands for balance. It stands for harmony. It stands for goodness and 15 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:42,720 purity. Now this goodness and purity is relatable only as a conceptual form. The higher vibration, 16 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:51,440 the highest vibration of a thing is the Satvik form of it. So it is constructive creativity. 17 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:58,640 It seeks higher awareness, higher vibration of all kinds of things. So this is the seeking point 18 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,600 which all of us human beings aspire to, a higher awareness, a higher consciousness, 19 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,920 a higher emotional value, a higher mind, a higher heart and so on so forth. We can take it to any 20 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:20,480 level as you get my drift. Second one is Rajas. Rajas is movement. Constant oscillatory movement 21 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:27,200 is Rajas which stands for passion. It translates as passion. It translates as activity, movement. 22 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:32,800 It also stands for individuation like the Uranus energy. I am trying to relate here to 23 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:39,440 astrological parts. So it stands like Mercury. It stands like Venus. It stands like Uranus. 24 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:48,560 It stands like Pluto or Mars even. So it wants to move, move, move, move things around, move the 25 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:55,520 energies around, move things in physicality in every dimension really. And the last one being 26 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:03,920 Thomas or inactivity, materialization of things, making things concrete, brick and concrete things 27 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:11,120 of this universe. So it stands for inactivity. It stands for inertia because anything material 28 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:17,520 wants to sit in one place, right? The Newton's law of motion kind of thing. It wants to remain in a 29 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:27,680 state of rest, inertia, grounding. In terms of personality, it can be selfish as ego means 30 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:33,680 egotistical people, right? In terms of human nature, in terms of personalities like I, me, myself, 31 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:39,600 what can I get for myself out of this whole thing? Always looking for deals like that. 32 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:46,720 The extreme version can be narcissism. So but basically the Thomasic energy is materialistic. 33 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:54,000 It's physical. It's wanting to make things solid, understand it in absolute sense like that. One, 34 00:03:54,720 --> 00:04:03,280 so starting from the top again, Satva is idea or concept level. Rajas is movement 35 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:10,480 or passion level, activity level. Then the third one Thomas is material level or the stationary 36 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:17,440 level, the inertial level of things. Now I put three arrows there as you can see. The arrows are 37 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:24,560 constantly moving between the three energies. Satva, Rajas, Thomas are constantly in a state of 38 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:32,400 dynamic balance in the creation, in the universe, in all dimensions of existence. It's like constantly 39 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:39,840 moving around. All the elements are present in all of us, understand this very, very clearly. 40 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,800 It's not that you just keep seeking Satva and become Satvik as it's popularly want to be told 41 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:52,720 even in India. That's some misconception folks. If you read the Upanishads, it is all three of 42 00:04:52,720 --> 00:05:01,360 them present in everything all the time. That's the way the creation is built. It's a triangular 43 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:11,280 kind of balance, balance of the three forces all the time, okay, everywhere. So understand this as 44 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:24,320 gunas are the qualities of existence. Now we come to the four ways of seeking that we humans indulge in. 45 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:30,240 We all are seeking for something other or the other in different aspects of our life. 46 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:35,920 We are seeking something in thought. We are seeking some feeling. We are seeking some kind of a physical 47 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:42,560 actualization of things in our life. We are seeking something all of the other time. Now the 48 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:50,560 ancients in India, the Rishis and the ones who wrote the Vedic literatures and the Upanishads and so 49 00:05:50,560 --> 00:06:00,320 on and so forth, they classified them into four basic types of seeking. This is my interpretation folks. 50 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:05,760 Take it for what is worth. You can do your own googling. You can take what resonates with you 51 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:14,400 here, okay. I am translating in a way in which I have understood. So dharma actually means you are 52 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:20,560 seeking meaning and you are seeking the conceptual value of whatever it is that you're looking for. 53 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:26,640 It may be a thought, it may be an emotion, it may be a task, it may be people, relationships, 54 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:31,760 business, jobs, it may be any area. Now I'm talking with respect to astrology also here 55 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:42,000 as an overlap. Next one is Artha. Artha is taken in Sanskrit to be, these are all Sanskrit words 56 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:49,600 obviously. Artha is literally taken as meaning but actually Artha means seeking the means and the 57 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:58,400 tools for accomplishing tasks. So it's a level of grounding. As an example I can say dharma means 58 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:06,400 let's say I want to have a piece of cake, make a piece of cake and eat it. Artha means what do I 59 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:15,280 need for making that cake. You get the import of this. So Artha is seeking means and the tools 60 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:24,240 for accomplishing what that dharma that I am seeking that is the Artha. It's a Sanskrit word. 61 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:32,320 Seeking means is Artha. Next one on the list is as you can say Kama. Kama means seeking desire 62 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:39,600 and fulfillment, the emotional center. So Kama means seeking desire. Okay. 63 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:50,480 And last one Moksha is seeking liberation from meanings and desires. So whatever you have been 64 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:56,720 seeking and doing in dharma, artha and kama parts of seeking, you let go of all of those 65 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:07,120 because every meaning, every thought form, every emotional form is just a construct for the soul 66 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:12,080 to have an experience. I'm just strictly speaking as per Upanishads and Vedas here. 67 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:21,680 The Vedic texts say all that the soul desires is expansion and experience. All embodied 68 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:28,720 consciousness or human bodies that have ever been there are all seeking this in their own individual 69 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:40,800 ways. So they go through these phases dharma, artha, kama and moksha. First seeking meaning and concept 70 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:47,600 and next Artha seeking means and tools to accomplish that. Kama means now you are seeking 71 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:53,200 desire and fulfillment out of those. That means you thought I will eat a cake. Artha means you 72 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:58,240 went and got the things that you need to make a cake. Kama means you are actually eating the cake. 73 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,320 Moksha means you're done with the cake. See the stages. I'm just putting it in very, very 74 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:11,760 simple terms here. So it's not too complicated or abstract. Now in the next one we will see 75 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:23,200 how these relate to the 12 houses of Vedic astrology. Now let's talk about the house meanings 76 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:30,240 and what they mean to each other from my take on Vedic astrology perspective and what I have seen. 77 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:38,560 So the blue shaded portion are called the kendraas or the foundations of a person's life. 78 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:45,120 This diamond, big diamond in the center is the kendra house or the foundation on house. 79 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:51,600 Everything that happens within the blue house affects the person singularly as in it shakes 80 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:57,360 the very foundations of their self and the sense of self and what they are to do in the world. 81 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:06,240 It's very predominant aspect and the ones outside the diamond all are something that are added onto 82 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:14,560 you as talents or removed from you as gains and losses or acquisitions and losses. 83 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,880 So these are called the konas or three konas or triangles because they are triangular shaped. 84 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:31,120 So the first house stands for self which is your head, the sense of self. First house is the 85 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:39,040 sense of self. The second house is your family, your sense of stability of life, your earned 86 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,520 wealth. It also stands for the family you were born in or the family you will create. It also 87 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,160 stands for earned wealth when you will earn it, when you will become a working professional of 88 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:58,160 some kind or a businessman of some kind. The third house stands for skills, your ability as skills, 89 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,520 communication, short travels, your sense of individuality, how you stand apart, the first 90 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:10,480 sense of individuality and expenses for self means what you expend on yourself to cultivate all of 91 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,760 this go on short travels, cultivate your individuality, your communication skill, your social media, 92 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:24,000 your abilities in all kinds of physical attributes. Third house also stands for arms, what you do 93 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:31,200 with your arms, your hands. The fourth house now we come into the foundational part again 94 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:38,400 stands for mother, your heart energy. What resides in your fourth house resides in your heart pretty 95 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:48,080 much. It also stands for house, real estate, whatever you want to buy as real estate cars, 96 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:56,240 your sense of stable things which you call home, it also stands for home. The fifth house is the 97 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:03,280 house of creativity, your creative center, your sense of self as in who are you personally, 98 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:10,320 what is your creative self all about, what are your loves, what are your desires as in romantic 99 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:16,960 love and desires, it also stands for children, the outcome of love as children, as procreation. 100 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:23,520 It also stands for gain as personal wealth, your personal sense of wealth is derived from the 101 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:28,560 fifth house, your gut, it also stands for your stomach by the way, the fifth house. 102 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,800 The sixth house is for daily grind, it's a daily work, it stands for small illnesses, 103 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:41,360 you're working for self here, your daily routines, what you do work for yourself, 104 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:48,480 it also stands for whatever you do in the waking hours when you're awake from one little sleep, 105 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:56,000 you're known enemies whom you know in the world as your enemies, it also stands for small illnesses, 106 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:01,760 cold cough, fever that kind of a thing, it also stands for energy expense on self, 107 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:08,320 what you gain as personal wealth is expended here, okay, there's the sixth house. 108 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:14,320 The seventh house is the house of spouse, is the house of romantic relationships, it's the house of 109 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:21,360 the other, it's the house of all others and what you bring to others, legal contracts, business 110 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:28,320 partnerships, what ties and binds you have with the external world and even from your own marriage, 111 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:33,840 okay, it all external ties is the other self, it's the seventh house, this is where your journey 112 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:44,080 begins in the external world. Your eighth house stands for others family, as in if you get married 113 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:51,840 here the eighth house is your in-laws, right, so other people's family as your spouse's family 114 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:58,320 or your in-laws, it stands for instability of life as opposed to second house which is your 115 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,680 second house which is your stability sense of life, every one of us has got a stable part of life and 116 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:11,360 an unstable part of life, so eighth house stands for instability, eighth house also stands for 117 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:17,040 others wealth, what you inherit may be from your in-laws, may be from your wife's side or husband's 118 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:25,600 side, that's the eighth house, eighth house also stands for the sexual organs area by the way, 119 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:32,320 so it's everything gained from your spouse which you take into the eighth house is here you get 120 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:40,240 married, here you indulge yourself in the marital acts so to speak, ninth house stands for life 121 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:45,440 philosophy, what you develop through maturing years as your life philosophy, right from the 122 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:50,320 times you are a young adult teenager and going on right up till right old age, you keep changing 123 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:56,720 your life philosophy as you gain life experiences, so this stands for that, your personal life 124 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:04,080 philosophy, not philosophy as the general world philosophy, okay, what it means to you, it also 125 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:10,400 stands for foreign travels, for example third house is short travels in and around your city, 126 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:16,960 ninth house is for foreign travels very well abroad, okay, with respect to your native house, 127 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:23,600 it stands for world view as opposed to your individuality in the third house, so as you can see 128 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,720 opposite houses have opposite qualities, you will see it everywhere, you can compare second and 129 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:35,600 eighth, first and seventh, fourth and tenth, so it stands for world view, what is your view of 130 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:41,680 the world, are you cross-cultural, are you libertarian or you're a conservative kind of a person, 131 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:47,760 are you more local, are you more world view kind of a person, what is your world view, what's the 132 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:54,400 view of the world, put it simply and what you expend for others in the form of your wisdom, 133 00:15:54,400 --> 00:16:00,080 knowledge, money, everything, this is where even ninth house stands in a person for the children's 134 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:06,960 higher education, your higher education, so you that requires some money to spend, so that's expenses 135 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:13,920 for others, then we come to the foundational house, once again the Kendra house, it's the tenth house 136 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:22,800 stands for father or the head, okay, it also stands for career, it also stands for job, business, 137 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:29,840 what you do in the external world, typically the father here is more like a archetype, this mother 138 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:37,360 is an archetype, father is an archetype, it can mean anything, so the father has a head here, okay, 139 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:43,040 it also stands for the head, what you do with your mind as in head, this is the sense of self as in 140 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:50,960 the head, eleventh house is the opposite of the fifth house, where you are exploring creativity 141 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:55,040 in the fifth house, you're giving away that creativity to the community, eleventh house is 142 00:16:55,040 --> 00:17:00,480 all about greater community of the world, it can also stand for social media these days, 143 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:06,000 because it's the greater community, what is your sense of community, what is your sense of fulfillment 144 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:13,440 of love and desires, here you make loves and desires for yourself, dare you actually fulfill it or not 145 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:19,840 whichever depending upon how your chart is, this is what you gain wealth from others, here is your 146 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:25,040 personal wealth as your gifts and talents and education and all the rest of it, your loves 147 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,160 and desires, this is your personal sense of wealth, here is what you gain from the world, so it's 148 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:36,560 more or less like money, money, fame, everything that you gain from the world, depends upon what 149 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:44,400 you're putting out from fifth house to eleventh house, okay, twelfth house, the final one stands 150 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:50,400 for service to others, let's compare it with the sixth house, working for self in the sixth house 151 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:55,840 and bringing it as service to others in the self, in their twelfth house, so it also stands for 152 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:02,560 sleeping hours as opposed to waking hours in the sixth house, it stands for hidden enemies as opposed 153 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:08,160 to known enemies, you know who your enemies are in the sixth house, you don't know who your enemies 154 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:13,600 are in the twelfth house, so depending upon how strong or weak these houses are, some people are 155 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:20,240 more hidden enemies, which they say, oh I never know, he knew he or she is my enemy or they did 156 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,880 such and such a thing to me, it could be even in the family, so those are the hidden enemies, 157 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:32,720 it also stands for chronic illnesses as opposed to small illnesses, the blood pressure, the diabetes, 158 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:38,000 all these kind of chronic illnesses are in the twelfth house, ones which require hospitalization, 159 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:44,800 twelfth house also stands for hospitalization and energy expense towards others, all these things 160 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:53,280 requires you expending your energy towards others, it also is sleeping hours, psychic dreams, spirituality, 161 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:59,120 all the rest of that, that's the twelfth house, now as an end note, I want you to remember this 162 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:05,920 and I also want you to see this particular aspect, the way I see it, this is the higher aspect of 163 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:11,920 what goes on in every single chart, I want you to have this image in mind, I want you to revisit 164 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:17,280 this particular part of every presentation that I'm going to include because you will need this 165 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:24,640 going forward, as I see it, this is the vertical split in every chart, the left half is feminine, 166 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:32,160 it's intuitive, it goes inwards, everything you cultivate towards self, the right half 167 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:40,800 is the masculine, it is creative as opposed to intuitive, it goes outwards and it goes towards 168 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:45,600 others, the rest of the world, everything that goes on in this half of the chart is towards the 169 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:51,360 external world, everything that goes on in this half of the world is your internal world, what 170 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:59,600 you do for self, okay, this will play out in every single part, in fact it plays out even 171 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:05,920 as left and right side of our body, our body if you want to go down the tantric yoga system, 172 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:14,720 the Kundalini is right in the center of us, it's right along this axis, the left half is feminine 173 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:20,720 and the right half is masculine, it's even in tantra yoga, okay, so I'll leave you with this much 174 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:29,520 and I want you to have this whole slight image in mind as we move towards each and every ascendant, 175 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:37,760 okay, I will discover, I will bring forth my own intuitive knowledge, understanding and how I have 176 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,720 seen perceived according to Vedic knowledge and study of other texts as well, not just astrology, 177 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:51,360 but of different ascendants and how they play out in each of the ascendants, so you might 178 00:20:51,360 --> 00:21:16,320 need to revisit this at that time, okay.