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Good morning beautiful people welcome to my channel. Thank you for your like, share and subscribe.

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I want to do a mini series. I like to do it in many parts and this one is about the principle of exaltation and debilitation.

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You go to these traditional Vedic astrologers and they'll just mind blow you out with these concepts.

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I'm trying to demystify it a little bit, simplify it a little bit probably.

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And my hope is towards the end of these sessions if you're coming across this video midway then watch the rest of them also.

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Because we have to cover about seven planets and all the twelve ascendants.

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So it's going to take a little time and I'm breaking it up into parts, number of parts, how many parts that takes.

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So it's not exhausting to digest the concepts.

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And my hope is at the end of this exercise we will have a better idea, all these parts combined, about what is defined as a functional benefit and a functional malefic.

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As defined by the Vedic Astrology Principles.

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And why it is the importance of ascendant and ascendant sign, zodiac sign is so crucial to understand.

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Because we each one of us has a limited perspective depending on what ascendant we are and we tend to look at the world and everything around us that way.

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So I had a download which I am translating into all these slides which is very interesting because I will try to personify the planet.

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As if the planet walks into a room or walks into a bar, sun walks into a bar and sees what around.

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Like a public place, like a bar or a restaurant or a party.

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So I am trying to personify the planets too for ease of understanding.

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How the perception varies and therefore what it translates to each and every one of the twelve ascendants.

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This is just so that you get a good understanding and a grasp of what is the limited perception of every ascendant.

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And how it plays out from houses one to twelve in each of the ascendant chart and why it is so.

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And it is not necessarily all the time bad and good that is a very limited way of perceiving the world as you know.

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So let us get right into it.

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And I will stick this same video in every one of them so that you know, whichever one you come across see the rest of them.

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Take care, be safe.

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Let us talk about Mars in this one.

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So what does Mars look at as a friend, as enemy and as neutral.

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So Mars, you have to understand first Mars is an action oriented guy.

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He is the soldier. He wants to get things done.

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He wants to move, move, move and get things done.

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Very action oriented.

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Yes.

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So Mars looks at sun, moon and Jupiter as friends.

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Mars looks at Mercury as enemy.

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Mars looks at Venus and Saturn in a neutral kind of way.

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Like I really don't care kind of.

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So if Mars were to walk in the room, what does Mars say?

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I like that woman who is confident and leader like.

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Like the sun.

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Okay.

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Leader who is who?

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Who is the sun?

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Mars also says I like that guy who seems wise and learned like Jupiter and says I also like that lady who is emotional and sensitive.

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So you can see the Mars here, right?

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This will be typically Aries, Ascended and Scorpio.

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This whatever I'm saying will be strongly applicable for Aries and Scorpio.

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Because they both are ruled by Mars in Ascended.

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So Mars has this kind of a tendency.

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Why does Mars not like Mercury?

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It does not like intellectual stuff.

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So if you find people in your friend circle, in your group, in your relationships or in your workplace,

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people who say, no, I don't like this guy is too intellectual.

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I don't like this woman. She talks too much from the brain, more intellectual analysis, logic, etc.

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Mars does not typically like that. Why?

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Well, you might analyze it psychologically saying Mars only wants action.

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The guy who wants action, the woman who wants action is not very turned on by sitting around and thinking about things.

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They want just to go and get things done.

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So this should give you a psychological analysis of Mars saying action.

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And intellectual analysis are not really in congruence there, so to speak.

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Mars also says, I do not mind a chap who talks about work or is a workaholic or a very serious kind of guy, Saturn like.

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Or the lady who rambles about culture or her favorite artist Venus like.

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So Mars does not really care about artistic stuff or about work related stuff.

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It is neutral towards it. It is not liking or disliking that.

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It is neutral. That is a neutrality.

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Although if you observe that table, Saturn does not like Mars.

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See, Mars does not care about Saturn. Saturn does not like Mars.

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We will see that the Saturn videos is different.

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So each planet you got to understand, it's like putting on a colored lens.

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It's like putting on glasses with color in it.

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Mars puts on a red colored glasses and looks at the whole world.

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So who will this affect?

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Now let us see two phases of Mars because Mars rules two ascendents.

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It rules Aries and it rules Corpio, which we shall see now one by one.

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First we look at the Aries ascendent, the first sign ruled by Mars.

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So Mars is a ruler of the first house.

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You got to remember this as a principle.

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Whatever rules the first house, the lord of the first house is very important.

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Why?

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Because in every person, the lord of the first house, wherever it is placed,

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the person is looking for that area of life prominently.

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Also, it is looking for the other sign in which it is placed.

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In this case, Scorpio because Mars rules two signs Aries and Scorpio.

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So the Aries person in his chart, his or her chart will look at where the Mars is physically placed

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and it will also look at the sign of Scorpio.

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Just remember this kind of a principle.

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Now, in the Aries chart if we see Mars's friends with whom,

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Sun, Moon and Jupiter, which are the houses in an Aries ascendent ruled by Sun, Moon and Jupiter.

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As marked, it is the fourth house which is ruled by Cancer,

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fifth house which is ruled by Leo,

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ninth house which is ruled by Pisces which is Jupiter

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and the 12th house again Pisces which is ruled by Jupiter.

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So wherever Sun, Moon, Leo, Cancer and Sagittarius are falling,

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it will be friendly to those houses.

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You have to remember in terms of houses.

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So we are talking about houses here.

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So whatever planets fall in these houses,

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the Aries ascendent will look at them as friendly.

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Now there is another combination here.

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What about planets which are exalted or debilitated in those houses?

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For example, let us say fourth house.

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Jupiter is exalted, Mars is debilitated, right?

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In the water sign which is marked over there.

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But it is a friendly house.

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So if I stick in Mars there, if somebody is born with,

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as Aries ascendent and Mars in fourth house, is it good or bad?

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That becomes the question.

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Well, it is good in a good way but Mars does not have the strength in a water sign of Cancer

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or in Pisces for that matter.

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It is only having a value or it holds more strength in Scorpio

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because it is ruled by Mars again.

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That is what it means.

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That is the interpretation you have to use.

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Now let us see the neutral ones.

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Mars is neutral towards Venus and Saturn.

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Okay, which are the Venus and the Saturn houses?

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In the case of Aries ascendent, it is the second house which is Taurus.

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Which other one is there?

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It is the seventh house which is Libra.

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It is the tenth house ruled by Capricorn,

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eleventh house ruled by Aquarius, so both are Saturnian houses.

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So it is neutral towards these.

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My coffee has turned to kicking.

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It is early morning here.

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So because of this arrangement, whatever planets fall in second house,

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seventh house, tenth house and eleventh house for an Aries ascendent

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becomes a kind of neutral playing around.

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They do not really care much about it.

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But if good planets are placed there, for example Venus is placed in the second house

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or in the seventh house for an Aries ascendent, it is good by itself.

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It is exalted in the sign of Taurus and of Libra.

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Same way, if Saturn is placed in the tenth house or eleventh house for an Aries ascendent,

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it becomes good for them.

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So the planet, if it is deposited in its own sign, always is exalted by default.

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And therefore it does well for an Aries ascendent.

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But it has to be a neutral house.

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If it is a higher planet, let's say Mercury is bad for Mars.

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Mars does not care about intellect.

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So Mars, if it sees the houses, the third house and sixth house for an Aries ascendent,

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those are the enemy houses as I have marked.

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So what happens if I stick in Mercury in third or sixth, which is good.

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Mercury in third and sixth is very good.

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But now it is an enemy sign.

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Functional malefic.

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This is functional malefic.

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Functionally speaking, the Aries is seeing the entire chart with the lens of Mars.

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Therefore, whatever you place in Gemini or in Virgo,

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both of which are ruled by Mercury, in this case for an Aries ascendent,

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it becomes the third house and the sixth house.

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Even if you place Mercury there, Mercury does well by itself because it is in its own sign.

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Yet it becomes an enemy for the Aries ascendent.

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What does it mean by enemy?

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It becomes issues.

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They have issues and challenges with respect to those areas of life, the Aries ascendent.

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The third house in this case being everything for younger siblings,

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competition, skills, developing communication skills,

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developing hand skills, third house stands for hands,

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third house stands for younger siblings.

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A sense of competition, early education and life.

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All these are aspects of the third house.

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Sixth house is for work, your daily routines, it constitutes healthy shoes because it relates to the intestines.

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Sixth house is also for debts, for loans, for enemies.

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Whatever you face.

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So Mars typically does well there.

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If I stick Mars as a planet in the sixth house for an Aries ascendent, it is good.

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But it is still in an enemy house.

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Right?

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So this is the way you got to see functional, beneficial and malefic.

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Now let's see Scorpio what it does.

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Now there's the chart of a blank Scorpio ascendent.

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As you can see Mars is ruling again the first house.

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But the placements of houses and friends and enemies and neutral have changed.

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Why? Because we have put eight in the first house.

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In Aries it was number one in the first house.

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So number one has gone to the sixth house now.

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As you can see, Mark there. Aries has gone to the sixth house.

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So in this case the friends and enemies and neutralities change for the Scorpio.

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The Scorpio ascendent is ruled by Mars which is a fiery planet.

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Although it is in a water sign.

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Scorpio is a fixed water sign.

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This means Mars here wants to go internally, take the drive and the vibration internally

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and process it through the water body, through the emotion.

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Internal emotional evaluation.

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Very deep internal emotional evaluation.

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That's what Scorpio is in a sense.

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So let me turn the little lamp.

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There's no...

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So for a Scorpio ascendent, remember the friends.

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Sun, Moon, Jupiter.

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So the Jupiter falls in the second house because Pisces rules the second house.

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Jupiter also rules the fifth house which means Jupiter ruling the Pisces there.

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So it friends with the fifth house.

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Scorpio ascendent is also friends with the ninth house because it is ruled by Moon.

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Mars is friendly with the Moon.

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And it is also ruling the tenth house because Sun rules the tenth house for a Scorpio ascendent.

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So those are the friendly houses.

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The neutral houses are the ones between Omnivienus which is Capricorn Aquarius, Taurus, Libra.

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And as we move towards the enemy houses, now how does the enemy house shift the houses of Mercury?

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Which is what?

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Which is Gemini and Virgo.

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So number three has now shifted to the eighth house.

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As you can see there, it's marked enemy in the eighth house and also to the eleventh house.

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That's also enemy to the Scorpio ascendent.

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This is not one size fits all folks.

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It's not same for every ascendent.

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Changes, we shall see this one hour.

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And this has everything to do with planet being friendly or looking at one planet as being friendly

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and the other planet as being enemy.

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It's just a filter. It's just a lens.

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Once you know this in your chart, you can consciously begin to change.

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Ah, okay, this is why I have challenges in this area of my life.

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Scorpio, for example, has issues.

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Although they are about change and transformation.

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Scorpio is the eighth sign.

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It is about change and transformation through life.

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They have issues with the area of change and transformation.

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Why? Because it is, they don't want change and transformation in their life.

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They hate change and transformation.

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All the Scorpio is supposed to be about that because functionally the eighth house is inimical to them.

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Even though I stick in Mercury there in the eighth house, which is good because it's in its own sign of Gemini,

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it will still do not so well because it's an enemy sign.

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Same way, they have issues with the eleventh house, everything to do with elder siblings,

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everything to do with gains from the external world, everything to do with social media platforms like YouTube.

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So they have issues with the eleventh house gains, getting money from the external world.

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What animatrically means is only that you have challenges through life in these particular areas.

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So we all have challenges in one area of life or another.

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It just changes with the ascendant.

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It changes with who the ruler of the first house is, in this case Mars.

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That's why Mars looks at the houses of Mercury, which is number three in Gemini and number six,

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where it's most exalted.

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So even if I put Mercury in the eleventh house, this Scorpius and it will do good there

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because they're using the communication skills properly.

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Yet they will have challenges through that area of life

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because that area of life is ruled by Mercury.

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This is the way you have to interpret exaltation and debilitation in each other.

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Okay.

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Next, we shall talk about Venus and the two phases of Venus.

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These are the two phases of Mars we have spoken of.

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So when you think of this video, think in terms of, I am seeing the two phases of Mars,

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one which wants to go externally as an Aries, as an initiator and gets things done,

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which wants to go internally and process in emotional content.

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These are the two phases of Mars we work with in Aries and in Scorpio.

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Exaltation and debilitation of planets, even though they might be in their own houses,

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it all depends upon how it is friendly looking from the ascendant perspective.

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The ascendant or the glasses that you wear colors your entire perspective on who is like what.

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So essentially there is no good or bad or right or wrong,

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it's just what lens we are looking from as ascendant.

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Okay.

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Next we'll look at Venus.

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Venus, meanwhile, I think you have to be safe.