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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.
So now let us talk about Mercury in this one.
Mercury is what first of all it is our intellectual power.
It is our creative intelligence.
It is our logic, reasoning, analysis, understanding, intellectual capacity as the mind with the brain.
That part of us which helps us analyze things and understand things.
So from a planetary point of view you see the chart over there again the friend and neutral chart.
So Mercury is friends with home.
It is friends with sun and it friends with Venus.
That means Mercury does not mind soul power.
It does not mind egotistical things.
Mercury likes to be egotistical.
This is why intellectual people can be very egotistical.
Point to remember, Mercury's friends with Venus means it is good in creative intelligence in the form of aesthetic sense,
in the form of art, in the form of drama, music.
Mercury helps you with all of these things.
So you need some degree of intellectual capacity even to get into the field of arts.
Point to remember.
Mercury's enemy with the moon.
Why would Mercury be enemy with the moon?
Mercury is intellectual knowledge.
Moon is emotional content.
So this should give us an idea about the polarization of personalities.
At best what is Vedic Astrology give us?
It gives us this knowledge of polarization of how we perceive things in duality.
Remember the soul does not have polarization.
Embodied soul in the body has in this dimension.
So Mercury is inimical to the moon which means what?
Mercury does not like emotional stuff.
He wants only intellectual stuff.
This is why you might find intellectual people are not particularly fond of all emotional fuzzy stuff, right?
Fluffy stuff.
And Mercury is neutral to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn which means what?
Mercury does not mind action.
Mercury does not mind wisdom knowledge.
It does not mind working.
It does not mind it.
It's neutral towards it.
So now when Mercury walks into a room let's personify Mercury.
Mercury walks into the room or the bar if you wish and says,
I like that woman who's confident and leader-like, which is Sun.
I like that guy who seems sensitive and artistic, Venus.
I don't like that man who's too emotional about everything.
Moon.
Remember I have reversed the genders and stereotypes.
Mercury also says, I do not mind those women who are wise, Jupiter, serious types, Saturn,
or those who are macho women, Mars.
It does not mind all of that.
Now let us see how this plays out in the two governing ascendents which will play out most strongly.
Which are the two rulers, which are the two zodiac signs where Mercury rules in the ascendant,
Gemini which is the air sign and Virgo which is the earth sign.
So it's similar to the Venus which we did in the previous video.
Venus also has two parts.
One is Taurus is the air sign and Libra which is the air sign.
Taurus which is the earth, Libra which is the air.
So even Mercury has this earth and air duality to it.
So let's get into that ascendant and see how it plays out in the various houses of these two ascendants.
So let's see what happens with Mercury in the ascendant in Gemini.
So what happens here?
Mercury when it rules the ascendant in Gemini, it's an air sign as indicated with those swirls there.
That's the air sign.
So if it's in the ascendant, it's an air sign and Mercury being about intellect.
These people are highly seeking answers and questioning everything.
It's a beautiful aspect of Mercury there.
Intellectual seeking, learning, growing through mind.
That's the guiding path of the Gemini ascendant.
Now we take the first one, the friends.
Because we tend to be focused on the friends and enemies area of our lives as the ascendant more than the neutral ones.
It's almost like neutral ones, we don't care.
We might have good planets there, we might have very strong planets there, but it does not bother so much about it.
We are more bothered in our lives about friends and enemies.
So let's see Mercury as friend with Sun and Venus.
Now which are the signs that rule Sun and Venus?
Sun is Leo, Venus is two.
Taurus and Libra.
So where does it fall in Gemini ascendant?
The first friend house is the third house.
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,
they can be very good in skills, in competition.
They might be very egoistical and have that drive, the fiery drive.
I need to accomplish this.
I need to get past my competition.
Mercury is very good at that because now it's using its mind combined with the ego.
It's good with the fourth house.
Why? Because it's Virgo.
It is ruled by Mercury itself.
So of course all matters of the home family, they are very focused on Gemini ascendants.
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.
The fifth house, that also is good for Mercury.
Why? Because it is ruled by Venus.
Number 7, Libra is in the fifth house.
Very liberal in terms of the children.
The Gemini ascendant is very liberal minded with the children.
They might have children who are Libra ascendants, for example.
And they guide their children with the mind and the creativity.
So fifth house is also good for the Gemini ascendant.
Next one is the 12th house, which is also ruled by Mercury, which is Taurus in this case.
Very grounded.
So they might have a grounded idea of spirituality more than sort of an airy fairy idea of spirituality.
So 12th house is also good, whatever planets are placed there.
For a Gemini ascendant, this will show up more if majority of planets and points are in these houses.
Right?
Now let's see how it plays out in the...
Next one, the Virgo ascendant.
House number 6.
Now Mercury as Virgo in the ascendant, the sixth house is all about grounding because Virgo is an earth sign.
So in the sixth house or ascendant as Virgo, Mercury looks for grounding, looks for practical stuff.
Virgo people have very, very practical in nature.
They are very earthly in nature.
So when intellect looks for practicality, it will look for practical things of life.
They are focused on material aspects of life.
They are here to build something, to creatively use the earth.
They might be good in the field of accountancy, in the field of taking care of body for example.
These people might be very focused on having yoga centers, having massage parlors, having beauty salons, so on and so forth.
So it's very, very grounded.
They want to use it in a grounded manner, their intellectual knowledge.
In terms of friend and enemy, now Mercury is friends with Leo, Taurus and Libra.
So where is Taurus, Libra and Leo fall?
First of all in the second house.
So they are very good with their...
They might find themselves having very good elder siblings.
Because second house stands for elder siblings.
They might have very good relationship with their family, immediate family, home and family.
Or the created family after they get married and have children and so on and so forth.
So second house is good for the Virgo.
They will be focused on those matters.
Also the money that you earn, because Virgo remember is very earthly sign.
It's very focused on the money aspect.
Yeah?
Next friendly sign is the ninth house.
They are very interested in higher knowledge, philosophy, wisdom and so on.
Why? Because Taurus governs the ninth house.
But in a very grounded way.
In the sense the Virgo will look at this Mercury.
In Virgo will look at wisdom as in how can I use this stuff?
You are giving me all this knowledge.
That's okay.
But how do I use it in my real life?
How do I implement this stuff?
How do I make more money with this kind of a thing?
See the attitude of Virgo as an end is all about how do I find practical meanings in my personal life with this knowledge.
That's the way it looks at it.
So even though we may consider ninth house as the house of wisdom, higher learning spirituality, further studies etc.
You must think how each ascendant views it.
It's different.
It's always different.
10th house is also ruled by Gemini.
So obviously it's Mercury's own sign so it is friends with it.
So Virgo is very focused on career.
The matters of career.
The matters of what am I achieving in this world.
Is it meaningful to me?
It has to make a grounded meaning to Virgo ascendant.
That's what it looks for.
And last one.
The fifth sign of Leo falls in the 12th house for the Virgo ascendant.
So they are also interested in matters of spirituality.
They want to give things.
They want to donate things to charity for example.
They are more inclined towards all this stuff.
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.
Virgo is more inclined at least in later stages of life.
At least with some degree of spirituality.
We need to have some consciousness with these things.
They will be able to give more back to the world also because they love to do that.
The enemy house is cancer of course.
So Virgo ascendant has a little bit of difficulty with social media.
With presence in social media circles.
With gains from the external world.
So they have challenges in that area.
Even if Sun is present there.
Sorry. Even if Moon is present there.
Moon is ruler of the 11th house.
Even if it is present.
It will have an emotional content towards that gains.
But it will not do very well.
Challenges. Little challenges through life.
You all have little challenges through life.
So this my dear friends is Virgo and Gemini.
I think in terms of polarization of air and earth with respect to intellect.
If I am using my intellect only for intellectual knowledge.
That is Gemini.
If I am using my intellect and my brain for making things in life.
Practical money earning, proper material estate.
All these real things of like paying bills.
That becomes Virgo.
Think of these mercury polarizations this way.
Then you will get a general picture of what your chart is like.
Next let's talk about Jupiter in the next video.
I will take care and be safe.