Hi again welcome back to the healing astrology series if you're watching
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Reference and Enemy. So I want to focus a little bit more on this Yoga Karaka. What
is the concept of yoga karaka in Vedic astrology? So we saw in the beginning the
friends, Sun has different friends, Moon has different friends, different enemies.
Each planet including the North node and South node even if they don't have
Perse enemies the dispositor or the one the Lord of the house in which North or
South node are sitting, Rahu and Ketu are the North node or the South node of the
Moon will assume their characteristic the Lord of that house. We are talking
about as I'm pointing here in the inner circle of zodiac the 12 signs and their
Lordship is indicated Lordship of the sign. The placement in the houses will be
different because the ascendant is different. Like I mentioned if Sun is
the ascendant, if it's the Leo rising sign German Virgo will be the second
house, Libra will be the third house, Scorpio fourth house, Saichde fifth house
and so on. So it goes for every ascendant. If Aries is the rising sign
Taurus becomes the second house and the Lord of which is Venus. So the Lordship
is crucial to understand that's why I want to spend some more time talking to
you about it. Okay and what is the Yogaraka in context to the Lordship? The
Friends whoever you see in blue over here marked the Friends right up till
Saturn. Every planet has a particular friendship with some other planet. So
think of it as you're playing in the field of planets here. The planets
themselves have a personality, they have a friend and they have neutral to someone
and they have enemies to some other ones. So everything in Vedic
Astrology is based on Drishti or Saith or looking at the way if Sun looks at
Moon, Mars and Jupiter the first one there on the list is in a friendly way.
The way the Sun looks at Venus and Saturn is an inimical way. That's why if the
enemy planets are placed in the Lordship of the Sun that is Leo then it will not
do very well. It loses some of its good strength or whatever it can provide.
Good or bad. That being said the friend ones for the Sun as an example here in
the Leo ascendant, in the Leo sign if Moon, Mars and Jupiter are sitting they
are in a friendly sign. So those become the Yogakaraka. Yogakaraka means
what's the yoga in this context not the physical yoga that you sit and do. Yoga
means a combination of planets in context to Vedic Astrology. There are more
than 108 yogas we might get into it some time later. That's completely another
topic okay. It's a very detailed. There are lots of different kind of yogas or a
combination of planets arrangement of planets and in different houses for
different ascendants for different nakshatras and so on so forth. It's like a
rabbit hole in and of itself. We're not going to go and talk about yoga at this
point. Just want to mention it to you. Yogakaraka means these planets which are
friends to the particular planet and therefore the Lordship of the house. They
become the Yogakaraka means if they are occupying those particular signs with
their friends with it's and in certain positions and houses it becomes very
exalted for that particular individual okay. Just wanted to keep that as a side
for you to note here. So that becomes a Yogakaraka. Friends are Yogakaraka's for
every planet depending upon which ascendant depending upon which sign
etc. For example Saturn is a Yogakaraka for Taurus and for Libra because both are
ruled by Venus. Just giving you a random example over there. So now let's look at
natural friends and enemies. Natural benefits and malefics. This is pertaining
to the planets. We are still talking about the planets and as respect to Zodiac
we are not yet come to nakshatra. I will do that later. Keep following this one so
you will know what it is. If you're not subscribed I advise you to subscribe
because there's lots more material coming in. So natural benefits and malefics.
What does this mean? Natural benefits and malefics list is as shown here. This
pertinence to the 12 zodiacs and their lords. Sun as ego is cruel. As ego because
Sun also stands for the soul. The soul is not cruel but when it becomes embodied
as the Sun which wants to seek an egotistical fixed standpoint, Sun is
very fixed in its attribute, can become cruel. I'm just listing this as it is
listed in the Vedic Astrology. Benefic. Moon can be benefit as in provide good
results in a waxing one. That means it is going from new moon to the full moon.
It can become malefic in a waning style. Means it's going from full moon to the
new moon cycle. So moon has basically two halves. They call it the Shukla paksha and
Krishna paksha of the month. Every month it goes to two cycles. One it is going
towards full moon. When it is going towards full moon away from the Sun and
to the opposite house 180 degrees away from the Sun. When it is in that cycle it
is waxing moon. That means it is moving from new moon to the full moon stage.
Those 15 days. That's the when moon becomes
benefic and the more it is towards full moon the more benefic it is. It's a
question of degrees because moon is constantly waxing and waning. From full
moon going towards new moon that is the Krishna paksha. That means when it is
going in the new moon stage. When it's losing its illuminance. When moon starts
losing its illuminance slowly. From full moon going towards the new moon it
becomes malefic. As in it provides bad results. This is why I had made another
video if you're watching the channel about what defines a person as
optimist and a pessimist. In the natal chart if your moon is positioned as waxing
moon you'll be more of a glass half full kind of a person. You'll be an
optimistic person by nature. Of course you can change that. That's the reason I'm
bringing all of this stuff. It's so that you can take some consciousness about it
and awareness and move in a conscious direction. Not unconscious drifting. Left
to themselves if people do not know this stuff they will be either say I am an
optimist or I'm a pessimist. There's no such thing folks. You can decide what you
want to be. So if your moon is in a waning style for example in your natal
chart if it's going from full moon towards the new moon those 15 days you'll
have tendency to be kind of losing the positive aspect of life. You might tend to
be a more pessimistic glass half empty kind of a person. This is the
reason why. Mercury is neither benefit nor malefic. It is as per association with
others. Mercury stands for intellect, mind,
buddhi. The intellectual logical reasoning capacity of the mind is
mercury and it takes the form and fashion. It can become benefit or malefic
depending upon who it is sitting or looking at or which house or which nakshatra
okay. If it is sitting for example with a natural
animic like sun it can become very cruel in its intellect. If it's sitting with a
natural benefit like Venus as you can see over here the next one then it tends
to become more good natured. Good natured intellect versus bad natured intellect.
Now this in itself shows that the intellect is a movable energy. It's a
rajasic energy. It can go in either direction. You can use your intellect
for the good or for the bad depending on the context. So discernment is a big key
over here right there is highlighted in the Vedic text. Venus is a natural
benefit that means it invariably tends to provide good results in and of itself
doesn't matter where it is placed. It might just have a little less result if
it is in enemy houses like we saw in friends and enemies but that will dampen
the effect of the good one but it will not do anything bad in and of itself.
That's what I mean by natural benefits and malefics. Mars is a natural malefic.
It provides aggression anger and drive in whatever it sits. So natural tendency
of Mars is to provide aggression by force the one who cuts the one who is
violent that's the Mars energy by default. Jupiter is a natural benefit so as
you can see there are only two natural benefits really speaking. Moon is
shifting of course. The always natural benefits are only Jupiter and Venus. They
provide good results doesn't matter where they sit and how they sit might be
less might be more depending upon if they're sitting in a friendly lord house
or an enemy lord house. Okay that's all it is. Saturn is again like Mars a
natural malefic. It provides restriction it makes you work hard to get
something. It provides a kind of a depressive kind of state of mind because
Saturn also is responsible for nerves which we shall see next. We shall see
all these physical aspects and mental aspects later, psychological aspects later.
Rahu and Ketu the north and the south node of the moon are also naturally malefic
meaning they provide excessive obsession we shall see characteristics
psychologically of each one of these later. The psychology of the planets will
come later I think I'll do another video on that. It's already 11 minutes in the video
so I don't want to take too much time in one video you can focus yourself. Rahu
and Ketu they are not planets by themselves they are naturally malefic why
because they provide one provides obsessive attachment towards one aspect
which aspect whatever house it is sitting in the dispositor of that meaning
which whichever planet lord rules that house for example if Rahu is sitting in
the sign of Leo the lord of Leo is the Sun so Rahu placed here will start
acting like the Sun it can become too egotistical in matters of that house
wherever Leo is placed in the chart for example in Aquarius Leo is placed in the
seventh house the house of spouse so they may get excessively egotistical with
the spouse just one example it is taking on the color of the Lord that's what
dispositor means it is disposed towards acting like the Lord of the house in
whichever house Rahu sits in. Ketu is just the opposite it sits in the opposite
house in this example if Rahu is sitting in the Aquarius ascendant in the seventh
house Ketu is sitting in the first house so it makes them detached from
themselves they're always looking towards dominating the spouse but they
don't know who they are it makes them disconnected with themselves because
Ketu is sitting in the first house both of these are illusory aspects they are
not real planets it's just in your mind it's just an illusion these are
illusory aspects of our nature they're just troublemakers unnecessary
troublemakers okay think of it that way all right so I will continue this in the
next one next we will go for psychology of the planet since we are already
bordering on talking about that I hope you have understood the more clearly the
Lordship of the houses which they sit in and the friends and enemies this is
crucial because the way the planet looks at another planet is everything just to
conclude here I just thought of something let me just quickly share it with
you coming back to friends and enemies a classical example would be moon does not
have any enemies you see the moon is neutral towards a whole bunch of
planets Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn is neutral that is moon so moon is not
looking at follow the terms here looking at enemy and anybody has enemy it is
neutral to everybody else or it has friends doesn't mean everybody else has
moon as the friend look at how many how how many planets have moon as the enemy
if the planets have enemy therefore the Lord of the house also has enemy right
by extension so Mercury is enemies with the moon Venus is enemies with the moon
Saturn is enemies with the moon so whichever sign it is placed in for
example if moon is placed in the house of Gemini or Virgo ruled by Gemini ruled
by Mercury or if moon is placed in Taurus or Libra or if moon is placed in
Aquarius or Capricorn all of these are ruled by this particular planets these
signs they have a Lordship these planets have Lordship over those signs like it
shown over here so you need to remember this so it is not necessary just because
moon doesn't have doesn't look at anybody else as enemies there are some
other three guys like Mercury Venus and Saturn who look at moon as enemy see so
it depends upon the drishti it depends upon the site which one you're looking
at it doesn't mean if someone planet does not have enemies the other ones don't
look at that one as the enemy so enemy site in this case is going one-way
traffic these three chaps look at moon as enemy but moon doesn't look at these
three as enemies so it depends upon how it is placed just keep that in mind next
we will talk about natural benefits and malefics we finish that we'll talk about
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