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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.
You go to these traditional Vedic astrologers and they'll just mind blow you out with these concepts.
I'm trying to demystify it a little bit, simplify it a little bit probably.
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.
Because we have to cover about seven planets and all the twelve ascendants.
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.
So it's not exhausting to digest the concepts.
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.
As defined by the Vedic Astrology Principles.
And why it is the importance of ascendant and ascendant sign, zodiac sign is so crucial to understand.
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.
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.
As if the planet walks into a room or walks into a bar, sun walks into a bar and sees what around.
Like a public place, like a bar or a restaurant or a party.
So I am trying to personify the planets too for ease of understanding.
How the perception varies and therefore what it translates to each and every one of the twelve ascendants.
This is just so that you get a good understanding and a grasp of what is the limited perception of every ascendant.
And how it plays out from houses one to twelve in each of the ascendant chart and why it is so.
And it is not necessarily all the time bad and good that is a very limited way of perceiving the world as you know.
So let us get right into it.
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.
Take care, be safe.
Let us talk about Mars in this one.
So what does Mars look at as a friend, as enemy and as neutral.
So Mars, you have to understand first Mars is an action oriented guy.
He is the soldier. He wants to get things done.
He wants to move, move, move and get things done.
Very action oriented.
Yes.
So Mars looks at sun, moon and Jupiter as friends.
Mars looks at Mercury as enemy.
Mars looks at Venus and Saturn in a neutral kind of way.
Like I really don't care kind of.
So if Mars were to walk in the room, what does Mars say?
I like that woman who is confident and leader like.
Like the sun.
Okay.
Leader who is who?
Who is the sun?
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.
So you can see the Mars here, right?
This will be typically Aries, Ascended and Scorpio.
This whatever I'm saying will be strongly applicable for Aries and Scorpio.
Because they both are ruled by Mars in Ascended.
So Mars has this kind of a tendency.
Why does Mars not like Mercury?
It does not like intellectual stuff.
So if you find people in your friend circle, in your group, in your relationships or in your workplace,
people who say, no, I don't like this guy is too intellectual.
I don't like this woman. She talks too much from the brain, more intellectual analysis, logic, etc.
Mars does not typically like that. Why?
Well, you might analyze it psychologically saying Mars only wants action.
The guy who wants action, the woman who wants action is not very turned on by sitting around and thinking about things.
They want just to go and get things done.
So this should give you a psychological analysis of Mars saying action.
And intellectual analysis are not really in congruence there, so to speak.
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.
Or the lady who rambles about culture or her favorite artist Venus like.
So Mars does not really care about artistic stuff or about work related stuff.
It is neutral towards it. It is not liking or disliking that.
It is neutral. That is a neutrality.
Although if you observe that table, Saturn does not like Mars.
See, Mars does not care about Saturn. Saturn does not like Mars.
We will see that the Saturn videos is different.
So each planet you got to understand, it's like putting on a colored lens.
It's like putting on glasses with color in it.
Mars puts on a red colored glasses and looks at the whole world.
So who will this affect?
Now let us see two phases of Mars because Mars rules two ascendents.
It rules Aries and it rules Corpio, which we shall see now one by one.
First we look at the Aries ascendent, the first sign ruled by Mars.
So Mars is a ruler of the first house.
You got to remember this as a principle.
Whatever rules the first house, the lord of the first house is very important.
Why?
Because in every person, the lord of the first house, wherever it is placed,
the person is looking for that area of life prominently.
Also, it is looking for the other sign in which it is placed.
In this case, Scorpio because Mars rules two signs Aries and Scorpio.
So the Aries person in his chart, his or her chart will look at where the Mars is physically placed
and it will also look at the sign of Scorpio.
Just remember this kind of a principle.
Now, in the Aries chart if we see Mars's friends with whom,
Sun, Moon and Jupiter, which are the houses in an Aries ascendent ruled by Sun, Moon and Jupiter.
As marked, it is the fourth house which is ruled by Cancer,
fifth house which is ruled by Leo,
ninth house which is ruled by Pisces which is Jupiter
and the 12th house again Pisces which is ruled by Jupiter.
So wherever Sun, Moon, Leo, Cancer and Sagittarius are falling,
it will be friendly to those houses.
You have to remember in terms of houses.
So we are talking about houses here.
So whatever planets fall in these houses,
the Aries ascendent will look at them as friendly.
Now there is another combination here.
What about planets which are exalted or debilitated in those houses?
For example, let us say fourth house.
Jupiter is exalted, Mars is debilitated, right?
In the water sign which is marked over there.
But it is a friendly house.
So if I stick in Mars there, if somebody is born with,
as Aries ascendent and Mars in fourth house, is it good or bad?
That becomes the question.
Well, it is good in a good way but Mars does not have the strength in a water sign of Cancer
or in Pisces for that matter.
It is only having a value or it holds more strength in Scorpio
because it is ruled by Mars again.
That is what it means.
That is the interpretation you have to use.
Now let us see the neutral ones.
Mars is neutral towards Venus and Saturn.
Okay, which are the Venus and the Saturn houses?
In the case of Aries ascendent, it is the second house which is Taurus.
Which other one is there?
It is the seventh house which is Libra.
It is the tenth house ruled by Capricorn,
eleventh house ruled by Aquarius, so both are Saturnian houses.
So it is neutral towards these.
My coffee has turned to kicking.
It is early morning here.
So because of this arrangement, whatever planets fall in second house,
seventh house, tenth house and eleventh house for an Aries ascendent
becomes a kind of neutral playing around.
They do not really care much about it.
But if good planets are placed there, for example Venus is placed in the second house
or in the seventh house for an Aries ascendent, it is good by itself.
It is exalted in the sign of Taurus and of Libra.
Same way, if Saturn is placed in the tenth house or eleventh house for an Aries ascendent,
it becomes good for them.
So the planet, if it is deposited in its own sign, always is exalted by default.
And therefore it does well for an Aries ascendent.
But it has to be a neutral house.
If it is a higher planet, let's say Mercury is bad for Mars.
Mars does not care about intellect.
So Mars, if it sees the houses, the third house and sixth house for an Aries ascendent,
those are the enemy houses as I have marked.
So what happens if I stick in Mercury in third or sixth, which is good.
Mercury in third and sixth is very good.
But now it is an enemy sign.
Functional malefic.
This is functional malefic.
Functionally speaking, the Aries is seeing the entire chart with the lens of Mars.
Therefore, whatever you place in Gemini or in Virgo,
both of which are ruled by Mercury, in this case for an Aries ascendent,
it becomes the third house and the sixth house.
Even if you place Mercury there, Mercury does well by itself because it is in its own sign.
Yet it becomes an enemy for the Aries ascendent.
What does it mean by enemy?
It becomes issues.
They have issues and challenges with respect to those areas of life, the Aries ascendent.
The third house in this case being everything for younger siblings,
competition, skills, developing communication skills,
developing hand skills, third house stands for hands,
third house stands for younger siblings.
A sense of competition, early education and life.
All these are aspects of the third house.
Sixth house is for work, your daily routines, it constitutes healthy shoes because it relates to the intestines.
Sixth house is also for debts, for loans, for enemies.
Whatever you face.
So Mars typically does well there.
If I stick Mars as a planet in the sixth house for an Aries ascendent, it is good.
But it is still in an enemy house.
Right?
So this is the way you got to see functional, beneficial and malefic.
Now let's see Scorpio what it does.
Now there's the chart of a blank Scorpio ascendent.
As you can see Mars is ruling again the first house.
But the placements of houses and friends and enemies and neutral have changed.
Why? Because we have put eight in the first house.
In Aries it was number one in the first house.
So number one has gone to the sixth house now.
As you can see, Mark there. Aries has gone to the sixth house.
Okay?
So in this case the friends and enemies and neutralities change for the Scorpio.
The Scorpio ascendent is ruled by Mars which is a fiery planet.
Although it is in a water sign.
Scorpio is a fixed water sign.
This means Mars here wants to go internally, take the drive and the vibration internally
and process it through the water body, through the emotion.
Internal emotional evaluation.
Very deep internal emotional evaluation.
That's what Scorpio is in a sense.
Okay?
So let me turn the little lamp.
There's no...
Yeah, now you can see my face.
Okay.
So for a Scorpio ascendent, remember the friends.
Sun, Moon, Jupiter.
So the Jupiter falls in the second house because Pisces rules the second house.
Jupiter also rules the fifth house which means Jupiter ruling the Pisces there.
So it friends with the fifth house.
Scorpio ascendent is also friends with the ninth house because it is ruled by Moon.
Mars is friendly with the Moon.
And it is also ruling the tenth house because Sun rules the tenth house for a Scorpio ascendent.
So those are the friendly houses.
The neutral houses are the ones between Omnivienus which is Capricorn Aquarius, Taurus, Libra.
And as we move towards the enemy houses, now how does the enemy house shift the houses of Mercury?
Which is what?
Which is Gemini and Virgo.
So number three has now shifted to the eighth house.
As you can see there, it's marked enemy in the eighth house and also to the eleventh house.
That's also enemy to the Scorpio ascendent.
This is not one size fits all folks.
It's not same for every ascendent.
Changes, we shall see this one hour.
And this has everything to do with planet being friendly or looking at one planet as being friendly
and the other planet as being enemy.
It's just a filter. It's just a lens.
Once you know this in your chart, you can consciously begin to change.
Ah, okay, this is why I have challenges in this area of my life.
Scorpio, for example, has issues.
Although they are about change and transformation.
Scorpio is the eighth sign.
It is about change and transformation through life.
They have issues with the area of change and transformation.
Why? Because it is, they don't want change and transformation in their life.
They hate change and transformation.
All the Scorpio is supposed to be about that because functionally the eighth house is inimical to them.
Even though I stick in Mercury there in the eighth house, which is good because it's in its own sign of Gemini,
it will still do not so well because it's an enemy sign.
Same way, they have issues with the eleventh house, everything to do with elder siblings,
everything to do with gains from the external world, everything to do with social media platforms like YouTube.
So they have issues with the eleventh house gains, getting money from the external world.
What animatrically means is only that you have challenges through life in these particular areas.
So we all have challenges in one area of life or another.
It just changes with the ascendant.
It changes with who the ruler of the first house is, in this case Mars.
That's why Mars looks at the houses of Mercury, which is number three in Gemini and number six,
where it's most exalted.
So even if I put Mercury in the eleventh house, this Scorpius and it will do good there
because they're using the communication skills properly.
Yet they will have challenges through that area of life
because that area of life is ruled by Mercury.
This is the way you have to interpret exaltation and debilitation in each other.
Okay.
Next, we shall talk about Venus and the two phases of Venus.
These are the two phases of Mars we have spoken of.
So when you think of this video, think in terms of, I am seeing the two phases of Mars,
one which wants to go externally as an Aries, as an initiator and gets things done,
which wants to go internally and process in emotional content.
These are the two phases of Mars we work with in Aries and in Scorpio.
Exaltation and debilitation of planets, even though they might be in their own houses,
it all depends upon how it is friendly looking from the ascendant perspective.
The ascendant or the glasses that you wear colors your entire perspective on who is like what.
So essentially there is no good or bad or right or wrong,
it's just what lens we are looking from as ascendant.
Okay.
Next we'll look at Venus.
Venus, meanwhile, I think you have to be safe.