I want to speak to you about the three qualities of the gunas in existence as per the Vedic texts
and how it relates to Vedic astrology and the houses and the quality of the houses that it
embodies each house. So the three qualities are in existence and this relates to our
personally to human beings as the qualities of our thoughts, the qualities of our emotions,
the quality of our personalities, the qualities of the food and drink we eat. It carries through
creation. It's not just one thing. It affects all energies. It affects all consciousness. It affects
everything and it even affects the food and type of food and drink we have. So even Ayurveda takes
these three forces into consideration. What are you trying to balance in the body are these three
energies? Even the Godhead which is in Hindu, the Brahma, the Vishnu and the Shiva are these three
aspects. So let's see what those aspects are just from a quality point of view because if we
examine from a quality point of view then we get a better understanding in terms of astrology and
the energies that each of the houses house number one through twelve carries in our charts.
So what are these qualities? Satva, Rajas and Tamas. Satva stands for conceptual level or the
idea level of things. It stands for balance. It stands for harmony. It stands for goodness and
purity. Now this goodness and purity is relatable only as a conceptual form. The higher vibration,
the highest vibration of a thing is the Satvik form of it. So it is constructive creativity.
It seeks higher awareness, higher vibration of all kinds of things. So this is the seeking point
which all of us human beings aspire to, a higher awareness, a higher consciousness,
a higher emotional value, a higher mind, a higher heart and so on so forth. We can take it to any
level as you get my drift. Second one is Rajas. Rajas is movement. Constant oscillatory movement
is Rajas which stands for passion. It translates as passion. It translates as activity, movement.
It also stands for individuation like the Uranus energy. I am trying to relate here to
astrological parts. So it stands like Mercury. It stands like Venus. It stands like Uranus.
It stands like Pluto or Mars even. So it wants to move, move, move, move things around, move the
energies around, move things in physicality in every dimension really. And the last one being
Thomas or inactivity, materialization of things, making things concrete, brick and concrete things
of this universe. So it stands for inactivity. It stands for inertia because anything material
wants to sit in one place, right? The Newton's law of motion kind of thing. It wants to remain in a
state of rest, inertia, grounding. In terms of personality, it can be selfish as ego means
egotistical people, right? In terms of human nature, in terms of personalities like I, me, myself,
what can I get for myself out of this whole thing? Always looking for deals like that.
The extreme version can be narcissism. So but basically the Thomasic energy is materialistic.
It's physical. It's wanting to make things solid, understand it in absolute sense like that. One,
so starting from the top again, Satva is idea or concept level. Rajas is movement
or passion level, activity level. Then the third one Thomas is material level or the stationary
level, the inertial level of things. Now I put three arrows there as you can see. The arrows are
constantly moving between the three energies. Satva, Rajas, Thomas are constantly in a state of
dynamic balance in the creation, in the universe, in all dimensions of existence. It's like constantly
moving around. All the elements are present in all of us, understand this very, very clearly.
It's not that you just keep seeking Satva and become Satvik as it's popularly want to be told
even in India. That's some misconception folks. If you read the Upanishads, it is all three of
them present in everything all the time. That's the way the creation is built. It's a triangular
kind of balance, balance of the three forces all the time, okay, everywhere. So understand this as
gunas are the qualities of existence. Now we come to the four ways of seeking that we humans indulge in.
We all are seeking for something other or the other in different aspects of our life.
We are seeking something in thought. We are seeking some feeling. We are seeking some kind of a physical
actualization of things in our life. We are seeking something all of the other time. Now the
ancients in India, the Rishis and the ones who wrote the Vedic literatures and the Upanishads and so
on and so forth, they classified them into four basic types of seeking. This is my interpretation folks.
Take it for what is worth. You can do your own googling. You can take what resonates with you
here, okay. I am translating in a way in which I have understood. So dharma actually means you are
seeking meaning and you are seeking the conceptual value of whatever it is that you're looking for.
It may be a thought, it may be an emotion, it may be a task, it may be people, relationships,
business, jobs, it may be any area. Now I'm talking with respect to astrology also here
as an overlap. Next one is Artha. Artha is taken in Sanskrit to be, these are all Sanskrit words
obviously. Artha is literally taken as meaning but actually Artha means seeking the means and the
tools for accomplishing tasks. So it's a level of grounding. As an example I can say dharma means
let's say I want to have a piece of cake, make a piece of cake and eat it. Artha means what do I
need for making that cake. You get the import of this. So Artha is seeking means and the tools
for accomplishing what that dharma that I am seeking that is the Artha. It's a Sanskrit word.
Seeking means is Artha. Next one on the list is as you can say Kama. Kama means seeking desire
and fulfillment, the emotional center. So Kama means seeking desire. Okay.
And last one Moksha is seeking liberation from meanings and desires. So whatever you have been
seeking and doing in dharma, artha and kama parts of seeking, you let go of all of those
because every meaning, every thought form, every emotional form is just a construct for the soul
to have an experience. I'm just strictly speaking as per Upanishads and Vedas here.
The Vedic texts say all that the soul desires is expansion and experience. All embodied
consciousness or human bodies that have ever been there are all seeking this in their own individual
ways. So they go through these phases dharma, artha, kama and moksha. First seeking meaning and concept
and next Artha seeking means and tools to accomplish that. Kama means now you are seeking
desire and fulfillment out of those. That means you thought I will eat a cake. Artha means you
went and got the things that you need to make a cake. Kama means you are actually eating the cake.
Moksha means you're done with the cake. See the stages. I'm just putting it in very, very
simple terms here. So it's not too complicated or abstract. Now in the next one we will see
how these relate to the 12 houses of Vedic astrology. Now let's talk about the house meanings
and what they mean to each other from my take on Vedic astrology perspective and what I have seen.
So the blue shaded portion are called the kendraas or the foundations of a person's life.
This diamond, big diamond in the center is the kendra house or the foundation on house.
Everything that happens within the blue house affects the person singularly as in it shakes
the very foundations of their self and the sense of self and what they are to do in the world.
It's very predominant aspect and the ones outside the diamond all are something that are added onto
you as talents or removed from you as gains and losses or acquisitions and losses.
So these are called the konas or three konas or triangles because they are triangular shaped.
So the first house stands for self which is your head, the sense of self. First house is the
sense of self. The second house is your family, your sense of stability of life, your earned
wealth. It also stands for the family you were born in or the family you will create. It also
stands for earned wealth when you will earn it, when you will become a working professional of
some kind or a businessman of some kind. The third house stands for skills, your ability as skills,
communication, short travels, your sense of individuality, how you stand apart, the first
sense of individuality and expenses for self means what you expend on yourself to cultivate all of
this go on short travels, cultivate your individuality, your communication skill, your social media,
your abilities in all kinds of physical attributes. Third house also stands for arms, what you do
with your arms, your hands. The fourth house now we come into the foundational part again
stands for mother, your heart energy. What resides in your fourth house resides in your heart pretty
much. It also stands for house, real estate, whatever you want to buy as real estate cars,
your sense of stable things which you call home, it also stands for home. The fifth house is the
house of creativity, your creative center, your sense of self as in who are you personally,
what is your creative self all about, what are your loves, what are your desires as in romantic
love and desires, it also stands for children, the outcome of love as children, as procreation.
It also stands for gain as personal wealth, your personal sense of wealth is derived from the
fifth house, your gut, it also stands for your stomach by the way, the fifth house.
The sixth house is for daily grind, it's a daily work, it stands for small illnesses,
you're working for self here, your daily routines, what you do work for yourself,
it also stands for whatever you do in the waking hours when you're awake from one little sleep,
you're known enemies whom you know in the world as your enemies, it also stands for small illnesses,
cold cough, fever that kind of a thing, it also stands for energy expense on self,
what you gain as personal wealth is expended here, okay, there's the sixth house.
The seventh house is the house of spouse, is the house of romantic relationships, it's the house of
the other, it's the house of all others and what you bring to others, legal contracts, business
partnerships, what ties and binds you have with the external world and even from your own marriage,
okay, it all external ties is the other self, it's the seventh house, this is where your journey
begins in the external world. Your eighth house stands for others family, as in if you get married
here the eighth house is your in-laws, right, so other people's family as your spouse's family
or your in-laws, it stands for instability of life as opposed to second house which is your
second house which is your stability sense of life, every one of us has got a stable part of life and
an unstable part of life, so eighth house stands for instability, eighth house also stands for
others wealth, what you inherit may be from your in-laws, may be from your wife's side or husband's
side, that's the eighth house, eighth house also stands for the sexual organs area by the way,
so it's everything gained from your spouse which you take into the eighth house is here you get
married, here you indulge yourself in the marital acts so to speak, ninth house stands for life
philosophy, what you develop through maturing years as your life philosophy, right from the
times you are a young adult teenager and going on right up till right old age, you keep changing
your life philosophy as you gain life experiences, so this stands for that, your personal life
philosophy, not philosophy as the general world philosophy, okay, what it means to you, it also
stands for foreign travels, for example third house is short travels in and around your city,
ninth house is for foreign travels very well abroad, okay, with respect to your native house,
it stands for world view as opposed to your individuality in the third house, so as you can see
opposite houses have opposite qualities, you will see it everywhere, you can compare second and
eighth, first and seventh, fourth and tenth, so it stands for world view, what is your view of
the world, are you cross-cultural, are you libertarian or you're a conservative kind of a person,
are you more local, are you more world view kind of a person, what is your world view, what's the
view of the world, put it simply and what you expend for others in the form of your wisdom,
knowledge, money, everything, this is where even ninth house stands in a person for the children's
higher education, your higher education, so you that requires some money to spend, so that's expenses
for others, then we come to the foundational house, once again the Kendra house, it's the tenth house
stands for father or the head, okay, it also stands for career, it also stands for job, business,
what you do in the external world, typically the father here is more like a archetype, this mother
is an archetype, father is an archetype, it can mean anything, so the father has a head here, okay,
it also stands for the head, what you do with your mind as in head, this is the sense of self as in
the head, eleventh house is the opposite of the fifth house, where you are exploring creativity
in the fifth house, you're giving away that creativity to the community, eleventh house is
all about greater community of the world, it can also stand for social media these days,
because it's the greater community, what is your sense of community, what is your sense of fulfillment
of love and desires, here you make loves and desires for yourself, dare you actually fulfill it or not
whichever depending upon how your chart is, this is what you gain wealth from others, here is your
personal wealth as your gifts and talents and education and all the rest of it, your loves
and desires, this is your personal sense of wealth, here is what you gain from the world, so it's
more or less like money, money, fame, everything that you gain from the world, depends upon what
you're putting out from fifth house to eleventh house, okay, twelfth house, the final one stands
for service to others, let's compare it with the sixth house, working for self in the sixth house
and bringing it as service to others in the self, in their twelfth house, so it also stands for
sleeping hours as opposed to waking hours in the sixth house, it stands for hidden enemies as opposed
to known enemies, you know who your enemies are in the sixth house, you don't know who your enemies
are in the twelfth house, so depending upon how strong or weak these houses are, some people are
more hidden enemies, which they say, oh I never know, he knew he or she is my enemy or they did
such and such a thing to me, it could be even in the family, so those are the hidden enemies,
it also stands for chronic illnesses as opposed to small illnesses, the blood pressure, the diabetes,
all these kind of chronic illnesses are in the twelfth house, ones which require hospitalization,
twelfth house also stands for hospitalization and energy expense towards others, all these things
requires you expending your energy towards others, it also is sleeping hours, psychic dreams, spirituality,
all the rest of that, that's the twelfth house, now as an end note, I want you to remember this
and I also want you to see this particular aspect, the way I see it, this is the higher aspect of
what goes on in every single chart, I want you to have this image in mind, I want you to revisit
this particular part of every presentation that I'm going to include because you will need this
going forward, as I see it, this is the vertical split in every chart, the left half is feminine,
it's intuitive, it goes inwards, everything you cultivate towards self, the right half
is the masculine, it is creative as opposed to intuitive, it goes outwards and it goes towards
others, the rest of the world, everything that goes on in this half of the chart is towards the
external world, everything that goes on in this half of the world is your internal world, what
you do for self, okay, this will play out in every single part, in fact it plays out even
as left and right side of our body, our body if you want to go down the tantric yoga system,
the Kundalini is right in the center of us, it's right along this axis, the left half is feminine
and the right half is masculine, it's even in tantra yoga, okay, so I'll leave you with this much
and I want you to have this whole slight image in mind as we move towards each and every ascendant,
okay, I will discover, I will bring forth my own intuitive knowledge, understanding and how I have
seen perceived according to Vedic knowledge and study of other texts as well, not just astrology,
but of different ascendants and how they play out in each of the ascendants, so you might
need to revisit this at that time, okay.