1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Good morning beautiful people welcome to my channel. Thank you for your like, share and subscribe. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:14,000 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. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000 You go to these traditional Vedic astrologers and they'll just mind blow you out with these concepts. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 I'm trying to demystify it a little bit, simplify it a little bit probably. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:32,000 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. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:38,000 Because we have to cover about seven planets and all the twelve ascendants. 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,000 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. 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 So it's not exhausting to digest the concepts. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:01:05,000 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. 10 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,000 As defined by the Vedic Astrology Principles. 11 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:18,000 And why it is the importance of ascendant and ascendant sign, zodiac sign is so crucial to understand. 12 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:26,000 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. 13 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:34,000 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. 14 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,000 As if the planet walks into a room or walks into a bar, sun walks into a bar and sees what around. 15 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Like a public place, like a bar or a restaurant or a party. 16 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:49,000 So I am trying to personify the planets too for ease of understanding. 17 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:56,000 How the perception varies and therefore what it translates to each and every one of the twelve ascendants. 18 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:06,000 This is just so that you get a good understanding and a grasp of what is the limited perception of every ascendant. 19 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And how it plays out from houses one to twelve in each of the ascendant chart and why it is so. 20 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:20,000 And it is not necessarily all the time bad and good that is a very limited way of perceiving the world as you know. 21 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,000 So let us get right into it. 22 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And I will stick the same video in every one of them so that you know whichever one you come across see the rest of them. 23 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Ok. Take care. Be safe. 24 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 So now let us discuss Venus. 25 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Venus and the enemy and neutral column are there. 26 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So Venus is friendly with Mercury and Saturn as you can see in the tables there. 27 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Venus is inimical or has enemies in Sun and Moon. 28 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,000 Venus is neutral to Mars and Jupiter. 29 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Now how does this play out in terms of personification? 30 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:07,000 We are trying to understand the psychology of the planets, how they interact with one another and how this plays out in the chart. 31 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 In the different ascendants Venus governs two ascendants, Taurus and Libra. 32 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 So we will see that later on in this video. 33 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 So Venus for personification. 34 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Venus walks into the room or into the bar if you choose and says, 35 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:35,000 I like that man who is shrewd in business matters, Mercury and that sober, serious woman, Saturn. 36 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I would prefer not to engage with that pompous woman, Sun, Pomposity 37 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,000 or that emotional drama queen, which is the Moon. 38 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 So this is how the Venus perceives. 39 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,000 And Venus also says, I find those action oriented guys, Mars and the college professor kind of guys, Jupiter. 40 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 You will be curious. It is like you are curious but you are neutral to it. 41 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 You are not liking or disliking. There is no polarity there. 42 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Neutral means basically there is no polarity in the planet for these other planets. 43 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:21,000 So Venus is pretty neutral to Mars and Jupiter, but it is very inimical to the Sun and the Moon. 44 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,000 So this is how you personify the planet. This is how you study the psychology behind it. 45 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Okay. Now let us see the two ascendants and how it plays out because Venus rules the ascendant of Taurus and Libra. 46 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Two signs. One is Earth sign, one is air sign. Let us see how this plays out. 47 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:48,000 So there you have the Taurus ascendant. By Nakshatra's and you see placement of houses. 48 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:57,000 So ascendant starts from 2, which is Taurus and it goes all the way up till Aries in the 12th house, which is number one. 49 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000 So I have shown the first house till the 12th house here. 50 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,000 And I have also marked friends and enemies and neutrals here with respect to that chart over there, which we just saw. 51 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:16,000 So Venus, talking of Taurus. Now Taurus remember is the Earth sign. It is very grounded, earthly and fixed. 52 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 It is a sick female and fixed sign. So what does it provide this Venus? 53 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Venus has two colors. One is very earthly, one is very airy, mental. 54 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:37,000 So you might say the aesthetic sense of Venus varies between grounding it in the earthly form and between thinking and conceiving in the mind, which is the Libra. 55 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Okay. So in Taurus, first let us see where the friendly signs of Venus come in. Mercury and Saturn. 56 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Now Mercury and Saturn rule four houses. Mercury rules Gemini and Libra. Saturn rules Aquarius and Capricorn. 57 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:06,000 So wherever Virgo and Gemini fall and wherever Aquarius and Capricorn fall, the Taurus ascendant will have friendly energies towards those houses. 58 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:14,000 In the case of Taurus ascendant, it falls in second house. Gemini falls in the second house, as you can see. 59 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Which means what? For a Taurus ascendant, the elder siblings will be friendly to them. 60 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Second house is also for the elder siblings. Whereas if they have younger siblings, they will have enemies. 61 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Why cancer falls in the third house? Third house is also for the younger siblings. 62 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Taurus is also having fierce competitive energies coming into their lives. 63 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Why? Because fourth house is for peers. You are peer group, you are competitive group. 64 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,000 People you study with, people you do business with. You are competitors in business. 65 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:57,000 So Taurus ascendant will have challenges with respect to third house areas. 66 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Because it is an inimical sign. Why? Because cancer is ruled by moon and Venus is inimical towards moon. 67 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:11,000 It will also have challenges with the home front, with the matters of the heart, the emotional front. 68 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Why? Because Leo falls in the fourth house for a Taurus ascendant. 69 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:22,000 As you can see, number five is marked ruled by the sun. And it is an inimical sign. As you can see in the table there. 70 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:30,000 So Taurus ascendants will have two challenging areas through life. Or what we call as functional malefics. 71 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 They are not malefics by themselves. Nothing is malefic or bad by itself. 72 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:41,000 It is a relative term. Why? Because Venus puts on a pink red glasses and looks at the world from the ascendant. 73 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:51,000 Therefore, the house number three matters of that house. And matters of the fourth house, heart, mother, homeland, etc. 74 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Are challenging to the Taurus ascendant. Now let's see the friendly ones. Mercury and Saturn. 75 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:04,000 So house number two, the elder siblings, home, family, everything works out well for the Taurus ascendant. 76 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Generally a good area for them. Children, romance, house, family, speculative gains, education is also friendly. 77 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Because the fifth house is ruled by Virgo. And Taurus being an earth sign, they are very grounded in that respect. 78 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:31,000 So for example, if Mercury falls there, Mercury is exalted in the sixth house. These people will be very good business people. 79 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Just giving an example there. So is the sixth house. Sixth house is for daily work, routines, etc. 80 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,000 So their health also, and it's also for health and diseases. So their health also will be generally good. 81 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 And especially if Saturn is placed there, which is friendly to Venus, it will do good there. 82 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:56,000 It will give them a good sense of work. I think slow and deliberate and systematic, structured, disciplined work. 83 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:04,000 Okay. Now seventh house is neutral, meaning what? They are not paying much attention to the spouse area of life. 84 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Not to watch. It's there. It's like many things are there on this table. I'm not paying attention to that. 85 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Think of neutral that way. Lots of things are there around us all the time. Lots of people are there around us all the time. 86 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:22,000 But we choose to put on a lens and see one specific aspect and kind of tend to focus on that. 87 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Look at astrology and the psychology of astrology this way. It will help. 88 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Now, eighth house is neutral. Ninth house is a friend. We tend to look at friend and enemy more because this is a polarized world. 89 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:46,000 So just look at the friends and enemies. Friends in the ninth house, meaning higher philosophy, foundational aspect of world view. 90 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Means what is your view of the world? What do you think of the world? Taurus tends to focus on that as well. 91 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:59,000 The fifth and the ninth house are good for the Taurus assembly. The tenth house, the area of work is also good for them. 92 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:05,000 So if there are good planets, for example, even 11th house, if Saturn is placed there, it will give them a very good sense of work. 93 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Saturn becomes exalted there, right? Because it's in its own sign of Aquarius and it's good for Venus. Saturn and Venus are friends. 94 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:26,000 So sixth house and tenth house means career matters. If Saturn is placed for a Taurus assembly, it becomes really good for them, right? Support side. 95 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 So in that context, you can't say Saturn is always malefic. You see where I'm coming from. 96 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Now, in the 12th and 11th house, there's not much going on because it's neutral, right? 97 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:46,000 This is the way you perceive and see how energies work for a Taurus assembly. 98 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Now let's switch over to the Libra assembly because things shift there. 99 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:57,000 So now we are seeing the Libra assembly in the chart. This is a blank chart of a Libra assembly. 100 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:02,000 And number seven comes now in the first house, which is Libra. 101 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:08,000 This is also ruled by Venus, but with a different taste, a different touch because Libra is an air sign. 102 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:15,000 It's a Rajasic movable male air sign. So it looks at the outward world and it goes out. 103 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Its energy goes out into the world from the mental plane. Air sign. 104 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Now, let us see again back to where Venus falls in here. 105 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Friendly houses are Mercury houses and Saturn houses, which is Gemini, Virgo and Capricorn and Aquarius. 106 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,000 So for the Libra ascendant, if you have noticed, it is completely opposite to the Aries ascendant. 107 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Yes, you will find everywhere, right? Because they are Aries and Libra opposite to one another. 108 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:50,000 The sunrise and the sunset. Both the equinoxes I talked about before. 109 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:59,000 So this one, Libra guy, will find friends in 10th and 11th house, the Saturn houses first. 110 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,000 10th house, sorry, 4th house and 5th house, which is 10 and 11. 111 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:10,000 So 4th house and 5th house matters are friendly to the Libra. 112 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Okay, so matters of the home, they are always comfortable in home. 113 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 They are always comfortable with the children. 114 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:21,000 And since it is Aquarius, you can also stretch it to the Libran kids. 115 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 The children of a Libran ascendant will always have a little eccentricity. 116 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:30,000 They will always be a little different. There's an Aquarius signature to the children of the Libran ascendant. 117 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 You can stretch it this way. 118 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Also the 9th house, 8000 and 9000 matters are friendly to the Libran. 119 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Why? Because it is ruled by Venus and by Gemini. You see, the Taurus falls in 8000. 120 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:54,000 So for them, matters of occult mysticism, transformation are very fascinating to the Libran. 121 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Why? Because it's a friendly house. 122 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:02,000 They tend to look at the friendly houses more, every one of them, every one of these ascendants. 123 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:08,000 9th house matters, they love philosophy, higher education, higher view of life, wisdom. 124 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 Because this area also becomes a focus. It's a friendly house. 125 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:17,000 It's ruled by Mercury and Mercury is friendly to Venus. You see. 126 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Now if you take 10th house, this is a challenging area for the Libran. 127 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 10th house is for career, but it is ruled by the moon. 128 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:32,000 So ruled by the moon, any house which is ruled by the moon typically tends to vary in their life. 129 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,000 So Libran's have a challenge on the hands, career wise. Why? 130 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Libran ascendant faces constant changes in career because cancer rules that house. 131 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 And also it's an enemy sign. 132 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:52,000 So they have an emotional attachment to work yet they're having constant changes through the work area and the career area. 133 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,000 And it's an enemy sign because it is ruled by the moon and Venus does not like the moon. 134 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,000 That's why it becomes challenging for them. 135 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:06,000 Also challenging for them is the next one which is ruled by the sun because Venus does not like the sun. 136 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:13,000 And which is the 11th house of gains of elder siblings of money received from the world. 137 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 Gains, economic gains. 138 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Fulfillment of desires is also the 11th house. Whatever we desire, we wish for a number of things. 139 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,000 But not necessarily we may get all of it, some part of it probably. 140 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Now that becomes an enemy house for a Libran ascendant because Venus which rules the first house does not like the sun. 141 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 You can analyze this in another way also. 142 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:45,000 12th house is ruled by Mercury so they are very fond of spirituality and wisdom. See 9th house and 12th house and 8th house. 143 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 8, 9 and 12 Libra is very fond of. 144 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 So Libran ascendant is usually very focused on matters of spirituality. 145 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Ask me I know. 146 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Anyway, so as I was saying, you got to understand this in terms of psychology. 147 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Venus is the one who is artistic, aesthetic, culture, arts, drama, music. 148 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:18,000 These things fascinate both Taurus and Libra but they approach it in different ways because of this. 149 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 One is an earth sign, one is an air sign. 150 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:29,000 So their right there is a difference in approach both are needed, both are necessary because we approach to in the world of duality, 151 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,000 in this realm of duality we approach everything in two different ways. 152 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Specific to what we think, specific to what our ascendant is and the placement of planets is. 153 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 This is the way it works. 154 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:48,000 A person who is aesthetically attuned will like to know more intellectual aspect about it. 155 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Will like to work the puzzle. That's why friendly with Mercury and Saturn. 156 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 You can also look at it that way. 157 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,000 It does not like egotistical claim. 158 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Artistry is not about egotistical claim and not about emotional drama. 159 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 That's why it is not like the sun and the moon. 160 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Whereas Mars and Jupiter are action-oriented guys and wisdom guys. 161 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 They are nothing against it. 162 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Okay, you're there. You don't bother me too much. 163 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:20,000 So that my dear friends is the story of Venus. 164 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Next let us see Mercury. 165 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Next video we will do Mercury. 166 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Take care.