1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Good morning my beautiful boys and girls, welcome to my channel. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:15,000 So now we start the discussion of what is called the cusp of the ascendant and this is one of the principles used in any form of astrology really. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:21,000 And it is difficult to understand astrological principles without taking case studies. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 So in this we will do three or four case studies of actual charts that I have done. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:32,000 We will take the screenshots of each one of them and analyze them for this principle. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,000 And please understand this is one of the many many principles in Vedic Astrology. 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,000 It's a highly complex system. It's like peeling an onion layers by layers by layers. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 So I will give my understanding for whatever it's worth. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:57,000 But the idea I am sharing this in such a platform like YouTube is to get you interested, to get you started on this. 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:05,000 Because I have seen many times more than once it is always the person who knows who they are the best. 11 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 We do not show 95% of who we are to the external world. 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 We have a huge internal world. Each one of us is humans. 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,000 And we show only 5% of that outside. 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Most of what happens in your life as even Sadguru would say is happening inside you. 15 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 So it's important to understand astrology from my perspective. 16 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And what I focus on is just nature and your personality. 17 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Who you are as a human being. What are your talents? What will bring you joy and so on. 18 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 So let's get into the cusp of the ascendant. 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Let's discuss the principles here first. 20 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Now on the screen you see 5 points or 6 points that I have listed in the cusp of the ascendant. 21 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 First of all understanding what does the word cusp mean. 22 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000 It comes from Latin word which basically means intersection of two lines or curves. 23 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 The intersection point of it. 24 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Now you see the Vedic Astrology screen there. 25 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 The chart. 26 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,000 And I have shown the east, west and north, south directions of the chart which you have discussed earlier. 27 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Please see my earlier videos on this series. 28 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 And what is the rising sign? 29 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Rising sign or the ascendant is that intersection point at the eastern horizon. 30 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 At the place and time of your birth. 31 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:44,000 And the cusp of the ascendant is the angle where the rising sign with its nakshatra intersects the eastern horizon. 32 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 At your place and time of birth. Wherever you are born on this earth. 33 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:54,000 So it's just an angle. It's some degrees and some minutes. 34 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Number 2. This angle carries to each and every one of the 12 houses. 35 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Starting from number 1 to number 12. 36 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,000 The ascendant angle is what you have got to look for and measure against. 37 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Because this angle is the closest to the cusp. 38 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Meaning what? You are born maybe midnight, maybe midday. 39 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 It doesn't matter which time of the day you are born or wherever you are born. 40 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:26,000 The cusp predicts the angle at which your soul is being embodied in the human form. 41 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And it comes between the male and the female, the dark and light and everything. 42 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:36,000 The soul is both all the time. I am speaking deep esoterics here. 43 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 So the soul enters the human body only at that time. 44 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:46,000 This is why the ascendant degree carries to each one of the houses and every area of our life. 45 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 That's the basis of understanding this. 46 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Once you understand that whatever angle you are born at and whatever ascendant nakshatra is. 47 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 When that theme is going to play out in all the rest of the houses. 48 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 You start the whole journey of understanding astrology. 49 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Okay, number 2. This angle carries to each and every one of the 12 houses like I have shown in the pink arrows there. 50 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Number 3. The ascendant nakshatra and the pada. 51 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 And what it transforms to in the Navamsa. 52 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,000 You can see my 27 nakshatra playlist there is what you have to check. 53 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Number 4. Check the houses in which each planet or point is situated and at what angle. 54 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 We shall see this in case studies. 55 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Find out which one of this planet is closest to the ascendant angle in your chart. 56 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Number 5. Your dominant planet or point will be that one. 57 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Even if your ascendant sign is something else. 58 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:58,000 For example, if your ascendant is Libra and Mars is closest to the ascendant angle and sitting in the first house. 59 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Your nature and personality will be more like Aries than Libra. 60 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,000 It changes completely, isn't it? Aries is the opposite sign of Libra. 61 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,000 So even you might say this person is a Libra ascendant but he is behaving like an Aries person. 62 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 His personality is more like Aries. 63 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 You would need to understand that, wouldn't you? 64 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Otherwise you would have the wrong idea of what kind of ascendant you are or what you are as a rising sign. 65 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Number 6. The same principle can be applied to all Navamsa and the divisional charts. 66 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 This is a tall claim but I will let you to investigate. 67 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Now let's get into the case studies. 68 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Now this first case study is of let's say a lady by the name A. 69 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,000 I have shown the main birth chart over there. I have shown the ascendant degrees on the right side of it. 70 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 And bottom I have shown predominant elements. 71 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 You can see the elements video in this playlist for more details. What do those mean? 72 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 So we are just analyzing personalities and cusp of ascendant here. 73 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:06,000 So the ascendant as you can see in this chart is in cancer. The ascendant is at 11 degrees in 29 minutes. 74 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Okay. So now which one of this list of planets is closest to 11 degrees? 75 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 We can see it's Rahu and Ketu. Right? 76 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,000 At 13 degrees. 77 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Everything else is a little more farther from 11 degrees. 78 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Now because Rahu and Ketu are dominant in this person, they will have a more dualistic approach towards everything. 79 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Now Rahu and Ketu are virtual nodes. 80 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:38,000 They do not have an energy of their own except amplify the dispositor of where they are signed. 81 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 They are sitting in. 82 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Rahu is sitting in this case in Sagittarius whose ruler is Jupiter. 83 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:54,000 So Rahu will behave like Jupiter and Ketu's dispositor in this case is Mercury because it is sitting in the opposite house. 84 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:01,000 180 degrees apart in the 12th house in the sign of Gemini. 85 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Okay. So now this person's Jupiter, where is the dispositor sitting of each one of them? 86 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Jupiter is sitting in the ascendant and Mercury is sitting in the fourth house. 87 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 So this person will have a bent of mind that is more spiritual in nature because it is 6th or 12th. 88 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Probably the work would also be abroad in terms of understanding deep spiritual aspects. 89 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Rahu Ketu acts in Mula and Ardra is going to the root of things. 90 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Rahu wants to in Mula go to the root of things. 91 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Even in Ardra, even in Ketu, this person brings the wisdom from the past life in that and we can go on analyzing like that. 92 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 But let's just stick to the Kaspartha Ascendant. 93 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:58,000 So this person will be more Mercury like and Jupiter like. Mercury like meaning they might be more like Gemini and more like Sagittarius in this case than a Cancer Ascendant. 94 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Even though their ascendant is Cancer, you see what I'm saying. 95 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:07,000 So ascendant doesn't mean necessarily the whole personality is like that. 96 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Let's take the second one. 97 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:15,000 This person by the name of D is a man. 98 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:23,000 His ascendant as you can see is in Aquarius in 4 degrees 54 minutes in Dhanishana Akshatra. 99 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 And so what planet or point is closest to 4 degrees? 100 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,000 First one is Mercury which is at 4 degrees 28 minutes. 101 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,000 The next one after that will be Jupiter. 102 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Again this person is more Jupiter and Mercury playing out. 103 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:48,000 In the charts, dominantly Mercury which is sitting in the fourth house and next one Jupiter which is sitting in the ninth house. 104 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Fourth and the ninth, this person will be acutely critical of nature by communication, critical intellect evaluating all of that. 105 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Why am I saying all of these things? 106 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Because Mercury is in a fixed sign of Krittika. 107 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:13,000 When communication and intellectual planet like Mercury gets into Krittika, it becomes very critical in nature, very discerning. 108 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:20,000 You know, analyzing stuff, maybe criticizing people a lot, that kind of a thing. 109 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:30,000 So even if you said Aquarius ascendant which is all about other people, this person will be involved in criticizing a lot of stuff all the time. 110 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 And one more thing I forgot to tell you in the last one, predominant elements. 111 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,000 This person's element is Earth, dominant element down there you see. 112 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 And the next one is Air. 113 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 So this one is very grounded. 114 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:53,000 He wants to think about all grounded stuff of life and then evaluate everything in mental context, in the air context. 115 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Yes, air is the thinking element. 116 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 So that's also dominant and slightly above average. 117 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,000 See how you can tell personalities just by these three. 118 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,000 The third case study we will take is of a lady named B. 119 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Okay. 120 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Now we can see her chart as well. 121 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,000 She's a Gemini ascendant at two degrees and 48 minutes. 122 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 So the ascendant cusp is two degrees, 48 minutes. 123 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Which planet or point is closest to it? 124 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:27,000 First of all, it's the moon which is in the ascendant. 125 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 And next comes the Sun. 126 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Okay. 127 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,000 So Sun and Moon are drivers of this particular individual. 128 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,000 I would rather take first two dominant principles, first two planets. 129 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,000 Okay. 130 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 So that will give us a driving point to understand this. 131 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 So Sun and Moon are the drivers for this individual. 132 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Now Sun is situated in third house in Maganakshatra. 133 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 So it's very exalted. 134 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,000 It is sitting in its own sign of Leo. 135 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 And it is sitting in the third house of skills and abilities. 136 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:07,000 So this person has excellent leadership qualities and they will want to be a leader in whatever they are doing. 137 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 This lady is a life coach by the way. 138 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 And doing very well for herself. 139 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 And it's also Moon in Mrakashira. 140 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Which is always hunting for the dual side of things. 141 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:26,000 Meaning it looking for two sides of the argument so they can become very emotionally connected to it. 142 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 And we can see even in her elements down below, she's got air and emotion dominant. 143 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 So she can be an excellent life coach. 144 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 No wonder she's doing so well. 145 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Last one on our list is a lady by the name of S. 146 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:49,000 Her ascendant is at 11 degrees 20 minutes of Gemini in Ardranakshatra. 147 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Now the closest planet or point in all the other houses when we compare in that list is Mercury. 148 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Mercury is at 15 degrees 39 minutes. 149 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,000 And Jupiter comes next which is 19 degrees. 150 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,000 Remaining all planets are all about 20 degrees which is very far from the ascendant cusp. 151 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Because of this, this person we can say quite confidently Mercury is the guiding force of this person. 152 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:23,000 This person wants to communicate and ascendant being in Gemini, it's more dominant also. 153 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,000 But Mercury is in the 12th house so it might want to do that more in foreign lands. 154 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Like 6th house is the local work. 155 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 12th house is more like foreign lands. 156 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 They might want to use that communication with people from abroad. 157 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Not of their land. 158 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Next dominant planet is Jupiter which is sitting in ascendant in Ardranakshatra. 159 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,000 So Ardra loves to dig deep into every kind of subject. 160 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Jupiter in Ardra wants to do it in a very dharmic kind of way. 161 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Using the dharma, using knowledge, wisdom. 162 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:59,000 So this person may become very wise through ears. 163 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,000 And they might also do something like coaching and teaching abroad. 164 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Ardra people also become engineers at profession. 165 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 But for that you'll have to take a lot more evaluation and other things into consideration. 166 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:19,000 But you understand the principle of the cusp of the ascendant now a little better. 167 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Because this is where guiding force becomes easier to understand. 168 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Otherwise if you open a chart and start looking at everything thrown around there. 169 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 All the planets, points, everything else. 170 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Everything else, so many angles, so many nakshatras, 12 different signs and 27 different nakshatras. 171 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 You'll get seriously mixed up. 172 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 So this is the beginning point. 173 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 And we'll keep uncovering this. 174 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 In the next one also we'll uncover another layer like this. 175 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Clues how to understand these kinds of things more easier way. 176 00:13:50,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Okay, take care, be safe.