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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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So now let us talk about Mercury in this one.

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Mercury is what first of all it is our intellectual power.

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It is our creative intelligence.

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It is our logic, reasoning, analysis, understanding, intellectual capacity as the mind with the brain.

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That part of us which helps us analyze things and understand things.

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So from a planetary point of view you see the chart over there again the friend and neutral chart.

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So Mercury is friends with home.

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It is friends with sun and it friends with Venus.

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That means Mercury does not mind soul power.

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It does not mind egotistical things.

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Mercury likes to be egotistical.

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This is why intellectual people can be very egotistical.

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Point to remember, Mercury's friends with Venus means it is good in creative intelligence in the form of aesthetic sense,

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in the form of art, in the form of drama, music.

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Mercury helps you with all of these things.

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So you need some degree of intellectual capacity even to get into the field of arts.

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Point to remember.

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Mercury's enemy with the moon.

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Why would Mercury be enemy with the moon?

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Mercury is intellectual knowledge.

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Moon is emotional content.

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So this should give us an idea about the polarization of personalities.

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At best what is Vedic Astrology give us?

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It gives us this knowledge of polarization of how we perceive things in duality.

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Remember the soul does not have polarization.

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Embodied soul in the body has in this dimension.

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So Mercury is inimical to the moon which means what?

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Mercury does not like emotional stuff.

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He wants only intellectual stuff.

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This is why you might find intellectual people are not particularly fond of all emotional fuzzy stuff, right?

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Fluffy stuff.

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And Mercury is neutral to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn which means what?

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Mercury does not mind action.

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Mercury does not mind wisdom knowledge.

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It does not mind working.

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It does not mind it.

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It's neutral towards it.

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So now when Mercury walks into a room let's personify Mercury.

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Mercury walks into the room or the bar if you wish and says,

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I like that woman who's confident and leader-like, which is Sun.

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I like that guy who seems sensitive and artistic, Venus.

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I don't like that man who's too emotional about everything.

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Moon.

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Remember I have reversed the genders and stereotypes.

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Mercury also says, I do not mind those women who are wise, Jupiter, serious types, Saturn,

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or those who are macho women, Mars.

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It does not mind all of that.

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Now let us see how this plays out in the two governing ascendents which will play out most strongly.

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Which are the two rulers, which are the two zodiac signs where Mercury rules in the ascendant,

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Gemini which is the air sign and Virgo which is the earth sign.

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So it's similar to the Venus which we did in the previous video.

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Venus also has two parts.

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One is Taurus is the air sign and Libra which is the air sign.

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Taurus which is the earth, Libra which is the air.

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So even Mercury has this earth and air duality to it.

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So let's get into that ascendant and see how it plays out in the various houses of these two ascendants.

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So let's see what happens with Mercury in the ascendant in Gemini.

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So what happens here?

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Mercury when it rules the ascendant in Gemini, it's an air sign as indicated with those swirls there.

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That's the air sign.

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So if it's in the ascendant, it's an air sign and Mercury being about intellect.

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These people are highly seeking answers and questioning everything.

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It's a beautiful aspect of Mercury there.

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Intellectual seeking, learning, growing through mind.

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That's the guiding path of the Gemini ascendant.

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Now we take the first one, the friends.

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Because we tend to be focused on the friends and enemies area of our lives as the ascendant more than the neutral ones.

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It's almost like neutral ones, we don't care.

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We might have good planets there, we might have very strong planets there, but it does not bother so much about it.

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We are more bothered in our lives about friends and enemies.

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So let's see Mercury as friend with Sun and Venus.

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Now which are the signs that rule Sun and Venus?

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Sun is Leo, Venus is two.

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Taurus and Libra.

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So where does it fall in Gemini ascendant?

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The first friend house is the third house.

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So Gemini people, if they have got good planets ruling, especially friend in the third house, Sun in the third house, which is exalted, Sun in Leo,

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they can be very good in skills, in competition.

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They might be very egoistical and have that drive, the fiery drive.

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I need to accomplish this.

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I need to get past my competition.

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Mercury is very good at that because now it's using its mind combined with the ego.

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It's good with the fourth house.

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Why? Because it's Virgo.

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It is ruled by Mercury itself.

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So of course all matters of the home family, they are very focused on Gemini ascendants.

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They love to take care of their home family, mother, their relationships are typically good, unless there are bad planets aspecting it, which is a different matter.

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The fifth house, that also is good for Mercury.

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Why? Because it is ruled by Venus.

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Number 7, Libra is in the fifth house.

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Very liberal in terms of the children.

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The Gemini ascendant is very liberal minded with the children.

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They might have children who are Libra ascendants, for example.

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And they guide their children with the mind and the creativity.

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So fifth house is also good for the Gemini ascendant.

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Next one is the 12th house, which is also ruled by Mercury, which is Taurus in this case.

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Very grounded.

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So they might have a grounded idea of spirituality more than sort of an airy fairy idea of spirituality.

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So 12th house is also good, whatever planets are placed there.

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For a Gemini ascendant, this will show up more if majority of planets and points are in these houses.

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Right?

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Now let's see how it plays out in the...

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Next one, the Virgo ascendant.

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House number 6.

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Now Mercury as Virgo in the ascendant, the sixth house is all about grounding because Virgo is an earth sign.

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So in the sixth house or ascendant as Virgo, Mercury looks for grounding, looks for practical stuff.

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Virgo people have very, very practical in nature.

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They are very earthly in nature.

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So when intellect looks for practicality, it will look for practical things of life.

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They are focused on material aspects of life.

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They are here to build something, to creatively use the earth.

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They might be good in the field of accountancy, in the field of taking care of body for example.

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These people might be very focused on having yoga centers, having massage parlors, having beauty salons, so on and so forth.

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So it's very, very grounded.

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They want to use it in a grounded manner, their intellectual knowledge.

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In terms of friend and enemy, now Mercury is friends with Leo, Taurus and Libra.

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So where is Taurus, Libra and Leo fall?

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First of all in the second house.

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So they are very good with their...

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They might find themselves having very good elder siblings.

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Because second house stands for elder siblings.

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They might have very good relationship with their family, immediate family, home and family.

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Or the created family after they get married and have children and so on and so forth.

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So second house is good for the Virgo.

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They will be focused on those matters.

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Also the money that you earn, because Virgo remember is very earthly sign.

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It's very focused on the money aspect.

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Next friendly sign is the ninth house.

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They are very interested in higher knowledge, philosophy, wisdom and so on.

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Why? Because Taurus governs the ninth house.

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But in a very grounded way.

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In the sense the Virgo will look at this Mercury.

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In Virgo will look at wisdom as in how can I use this stuff?

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You are giving me all this knowledge.

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That's okay.

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But how do I use it in my real life?

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How do I implement this stuff?

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How do I make more money with this kind of a thing?

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See the attitude of Virgo as an end is all about how do I find practical meanings in my personal life with this knowledge.

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That's the way it looks at it.

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So even though we may consider ninth house as the house of wisdom, higher learning spirituality, further studies etc.

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You must think how each ascendant views it.

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It's different.

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It's always different.

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10th house is also ruled by Gemini.

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So obviously it's Mercury's own sign so it is friends with it.

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So Virgo is very focused on career.

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The matters of career.

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The matters of what am I achieving in this world.

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Is it meaningful to me?

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It has to make a grounded meaning to Virgo ascendant.

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That's what it looks for.

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The fifth sign of Leo falls in the 12th house for the Virgo ascendant.

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So they are also interested in matters of spirituality.

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They want to give things.

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They want to donate things to charity for example.

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They are more inclined towards all this stuff.

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All the money that they are making from the second house and all the wisdom that they are gaining and all the career that they are having.

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Virgo is more inclined at least in later stages of life.

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At least with some degree of spirituality.

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We need to have some consciousness with these things.

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They will be able to give more back to the world also because they love to do that.

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The enemy house is cancer of course.

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So Virgo ascendant has a little bit of difficulty with social media.

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With presence in social media circles.

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With gains from the external world.

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So they have challenges in that area.

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Even if Sun is present there.

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Moon is ruler of the 11th house.

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Even if it is present.

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It will have an emotional content towards that gains.

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But it will not do very well.

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Challenges. Little challenges through life.

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You all have little challenges through life.

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So this my dear friends is Virgo and Gemini.

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I think in terms of polarization of air and earth with respect to intellect.

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If I am using my intellect only for intellectual knowledge.

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That is Gemini.

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If I am using my intellect and my brain for making things in life.

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Practical money earning, proper material estate.

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All these real things of like paying bills.

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That becomes Virgo.

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Think of these mercury polarizations this way.

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Then you will get a general picture of what your chart is like.

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Next let's talk about Jupiter in the next video.

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I will take care and be safe.