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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 the same video in every one of them so that you know whichever one you come across see the rest of them.
Ok. Take care. Be safe.
So now let us discuss Venus.
Venus and the enemy and neutral column are there.
So Venus is friendly with Mercury and Saturn as you can see in the tables there.
Venus is inimical or has enemies in Sun and Moon.
Venus is neutral to Mars and Jupiter.
Now how does this play out in terms of personification?
We are trying to understand the psychology of the planets, how they interact with one another and how this plays out in the chart.
In the different ascendants Venus governs two ascendants, Taurus and Libra.
So we will see that later on in this video.
So Venus for personification.
Venus walks into the room or into the bar if you choose and says,
I like that man who is shrewd in business matters, Mercury and that sober, serious woman, Saturn.
I would prefer not to engage with that pompous woman, Sun, Pomposity
or that emotional drama queen, which is the Moon.
So this is how the Venus perceives.
And Venus also says, I find those action oriented guys, Mars and the college professor kind of guys, Jupiter.
You will be curious. It is like you are curious but you are neutral to it.
You are not liking or disliking. There is no polarity there.
Neutral means basically there is no polarity in the planet for these other planets.
So Venus is pretty neutral to Mars and Jupiter, but it is very inimical to the Sun and the Moon.
So this is how you personify the planet. This is how you study the psychology behind it.
Okay. Now let us see the two ascendants and how it plays out because Venus rules the ascendant of Taurus and Libra.
Two signs. One is Earth sign, one is air sign. Let us see how this plays out.
So there you have the Taurus ascendant. By Nakshatra's and you see placement of houses.
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.
So I have shown the first house till the 12th house here.
And I have also marked friends and enemies and neutrals here with respect to that chart over there, which we just saw.
So Venus, talking of Taurus. Now Taurus remember is the Earth sign. It is very grounded, earthly and fixed.
It is a sick female and fixed sign. So what does it provide this Venus?
Venus has two colors. One is very earthly, one is very airy, mental.
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.
Okay. So in Taurus, first let us see where the friendly signs of Venus come in. Mercury and Saturn.
Now Mercury and Saturn rule four houses. Mercury rules Gemini and Libra. Saturn rules Aquarius and Capricorn.
So wherever Virgo and Gemini fall and wherever Aquarius and Capricorn fall, the Taurus ascendant will have friendly energies towards those houses.
In the case of Taurus ascendant, it falls in second house. Gemini falls in the second house, as you can see.
Which means what? For a Taurus ascendant, the elder siblings will be friendly to them.
Second house is also for the elder siblings. Whereas if they have younger siblings, they will have enemies.
Why cancer falls in the third house? Third house is also for the younger siblings.
Taurus is also having fierce competitive energies coming into their lives.
Why? Because fourth house is for peers. You are peer group, you are competitive group.
People you study with, people you do business with. You are competitors in business.
So Taurus ascendant will have challenges with respect to third house areas.
Because it is an inimical sign. Why? Because cancer is ruled by moon and Venus is inimical towards moon.
It will also have challenges with the home front, with the matters of the heart, the emotional front.
Why? Because Leo falls in the fourth house for a Taurus ascendant.
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.
So Taurus ascendants will have two challenging areas through life. Or what we call as functional malefics.
They are not malefics by themselves. Nothing is malefic or bad by itself.
It is a relative term. Why? Because Venus puts on a pink red glasses and looks at the world from the ascendant.
Therefore, the house number three matters of that house. And matters of the fourth house, heart, mother, homeland, etc.
Are challenging to the Taurus ascendant. Now let's see the friendly ones. Mercury and Saturn.
So house number two, the elder siblings, home, family, everything works out well for the Taurus ascendant.
Generally a good area for them. Children, romance, house, family, speculative gains, education is also friendly.
Because the fifth house is ruled by Virgo. And Taurus being an earth sign, they are very grounded in that respect.
So for example, if Mercury falls there, Mercury is exalted in the sixth house. These people will be very good business people.
Just giving an example there. So is the sixth house. Sixth house is for daily work, routines, etc.
So their health also, and it's also for health and diseases. So their health also will be generally good.
And especially if Saturn is placed there, which is friendly to Venus, it will do good there.
It will give them a good sense of work. I think slow and deliberate and systematic, structured, disciplined work.
Okay. Now seventh house is neutral, meaning what? They are not paying much attention to the spouse area of life.
Not to watch. It's there. It's like many things are there on this table. I'm not paying attention to that.
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.
But we choose to put on a lens and see one specific aspect and kind of tend to focus on that.
Look at astrology and the psychology of astrology this way. It will help.
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.
So just look at the friends and enemies. Friends in the ninth house, meaning higher philosophy, foundational aspect of world view.
Means what is your view of the world? What do you think of the world? Taurus tends to focus on that as well.
The fifth and the ninth house are good for the Taurus assembly. The tenth house, the area of work is also good for them.
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.
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.
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.
So in that context, you can't say Saturn is always malefic. You see where I'm coming from.
Now, in the 12th and 11th house, there's not much going on because it's neutral, right?
This is the way you perceive and see how energies work for a Taurus assembly.
Now let's switch over to the Libra assembly because things shift there.
So now we are seeing the Libra assembly in the chart. This is a blank chart of a Libra assembly.
And number seven comes now in the first house, which is Libra.
This is also ruled by Venus, but with a different taste, a different touch because Libra is an air sign.
It's a Rajasic movable male air sign. So it looks at the outward world and it goes out.
Its energy goes out into the world from the mental plane. Air sign.
Now, let us see again back to where Venus falls in here.
Friendly houses are Mercury houses and Saturn houses, which is Gemini, Virgo and Capricorn and Aquarius.
So for the Libra ascendant, if you have noticed, it is completely opposite to the Aries ascendant.
Yes, you will find everywhere, right? Because they are Aries and Libra opposite to one another.
The sunrise and the sunset. Both the equinoxes I talked about before.
So this one, Libra guy, will find friends in 10th and 11th house, the Saturn houses first.
10th house, sorry, 4th house and 5th house, which is 10 and 11.
So 4th house and 5th house matters are friendly to the Libra.
Okay, so matters of the home, they are always comfortable in home.
They are always comfortable with the children.
And since it is Aquarius, you can also stretch it to the Libran kids.
The children of a Libran ascendant will always have a little eccentricity.
They will always be a little different. There's an Aquarius signature to the children of the Libran ascendant.
You can stretch it this way.
Also the 9th house, 8000 and 9000 matters are friendly to the Libran.
Why? Because it is ruled by Venus and by Gemini. You see, the Taurus falls in 8000.
So for them, matters of occult mysticism, transformation are very fascinating to the Libran.
Why? Because it's a friendly house.
They tend to look at the friendly houses more, every one of them, every one of these ascendants.
9th house matters, they love philosophy, higher education, higher view of life, wisdom.
Because this area also becomes a focus. It's a friendly house.
It's ruled by Mercury and Mercury is friendly to Venus. You see.
Now if you take 10th house, this is a challenging area for the Libran.
10th house is for career, but it is ruled by the moon.
So ruled by the moon, any house which is ruled by the moon typically tends to vary in their life.
So Libran's have a challenge on the hands, career wise. Why?
Libran ascendant faces constant changes in career because cancer rules that house.
And also it's an enemy sign.
So they have an emotional attachment to work yet they're having constant changes through the work area and the career area.
And it's an enemy sign because it is ruled by the moon and Venus does not like the moon.
That's why it becomes challenging for them.
Also challenging for them is the next one which is ruled by the sun because Venus does not like the sun.
And which is the 11th house of gains of elder siblings of money received from the world.
Gains, economic gains.
Fulfillment of desires is also the 11th house. Whatever we desire, we wish for a number of things.
But not necessarily we may get all of it, some part of it probably.
Now that becomes an enemy house for a Libran ascendant because Venus which rules the first house does not like the sun.
You can analyze this in another way also.
12th house is ruled by Mercury so they are very fond of spirituality and wisdom. See 9th house and 12th house and 8th house.
8, 9 and 12 Libra is very fond of.
So Libran ascendant is usually very focused on matters of spirituality.
Ask me I know.
Anyway, so as I was saying, you got to understand this in terms of psychology.
Venus is the one who is artistic, aesthetic, culture, arts, drama, music.
These things fascinate both Taurus and Libra but they approach it in different ways because of this.
One is an earth sign, one is an air sign.
So their right there is a difference in approach both are needed, both are necessary because we approach to in the world of duality,
in this realm of duality we approach everything in two different ways.
Specific to what we think, specific to what our ascendant is and the placement of planets is.
This is the way it works.
A person who is aesthetically attuned will like to know more intellectual aspect about it.
Will like to work the puzzle. That's why friendly with Mercury and Saturn.
You can also look at it that way.
It does not like egotistical claim.
Artistry is not about egotistical claim and not about emotional drama.
That's why it is not like the sun and the moon.
Whereas Mars and Jupiter are action-oriented guys and wisdom guys.
They are nothing against it.
Okay, you're there. You don't bother me too much.
So that my dear friends is the story of Venus.
Next let us see Mercury.
Next video we will do Mercury.
Take care.