In our business, which is the business of
living, there are things which impede and there are things which further.
The impediment is not to be trifled with.
It does exist and none of us need to be reminded because we know it. It would
be easy to get overpowered by the impediment without even knowing what it is or
worse still, that it is.
It is equally easy to get cosy with the
notion that all is well with the world because sometimes there is apparently
nothing to worry about and things appear to be on course all on their own.
Both are quite dangerous.
But we may not be in either situation but
in one which most conscious people find themselves- in the pushes and pulls of
the positive and the negative, given above.
But we know that the impeding negative is
described as such because it is precisely that, and for that reason devastating
in its results.
It is often a situation of great
desperation or total darkness which leads to faith, spirituality. There is
nowhere else to go. And as it turns out later, there is no better place in the
world to go to than to spiritual high ground.
In Vedic Astrology the impeding negative
can take various forms. The most universal of which is Saturn or Śani (Shani),
the significator of bad Karma which thwarts all. This is its job- to put a
spanner in the works, preferably to an extent which entails there being no
works at all to talk about. Or which is the same thing, the Sisyphus toil, the
donkey’s work which leaves nothing but the burden and its fatigue.
It would be easy to say that the will
should be strengthened to an extent where all this is nothing before the Man.
But this is not existentially true. The forces of Nature are larger than us but
there is a balance in Nature. For the negative, there is a corresponding positive.
It is not only Saturn but all natural
malefics who can take on this role of keeping us from realising our true goals
and objectives in life. This immediately
includes Mars (Mangala), Rahu, Ketu and the Sun (Surya) and also the afflicted
Moon and Mercury
(Budha).
Saturn of course impedes and riddles our
path with difficulties and obstacles leading always to great sorrow and
depression while someone like Rahu will work as a flash and shock the wits out
of us. Ketu is the great nothingness which convinces us that the end result of
everything will be nullity and it is all a great, big mistake while Mars
threatens with violent opposition and accidents.
The Sun burns us from within and either authority
mistreats us or we feel mistreated as authoritative figures by the pedestrian
reality around us. When the benefics turn, it is even more problematic, the
mind and maternal figures in the case of the Moon, and the legal tender and
relatives in case of Mercury- whenever we utter we receive brickbats.
But this is general and we can have any
planet, say, lording the Dusthana or the evil houses from the Ascendant (Lagna)
playing this role.
Since the play of life is mostly acted
out in a social and financial setting, some adverse locations from the Ārūḍha
Lagna can very strongly give this result.
The hope is always with the benefics
Jupiter and Venus (Guru and Shukra) and the un-afflicted Mercury as too the
bright Śukla Pakṣa Cañdra (Shukla Paksha Chandra).
But who is telling us all this with so
much clarity and timeless wisdom which transcends entire Yugas and more. It is
Vedic astrology (Jyotiṣa) as seen through the eyes of the adept Brahmin.
What if one flounders in this destined
roller-coaster without a clue as to the very existence, and then the nature of
the cosmic dramatis personae. What if the unrecognised and the untreated
(un-remedied) malefic damages the human character so much that there is no
spirit left to fight back with. What if the level of ignorance is so much that one
places trust in the wrong quarters to learn only too late that reliance was on
something no better than a transient figment of the imagination.
These are possibilities that must be
facts in a great number of lives. The blackness of that experience is truly
something to eschew.
We are here to fulfil a potential and to
make this play interesting that journey has been made quite difficult. This is
the backbone of universal human experience. It is not an absolute pre-requisite
to have the pillars of great spirituality like Vedic astrology in life so as to
achieve or even begin to strive but research into this aspect will reveal a
support system which is no less, whatever it may be. Without it sustained life
of significance is not possible.
One finds achievement, but there is so
much vulnerability and ignorance at its back that it becomes virtually
toothless and almost comic, definitely ironic. The contours of life will have
their way in any case but to be a man is to know.
Maybe not in the beginning, or even while
doing the work that life demands of us as unique and precious individuals, but definitely
at some point in the journey.
Vedic astrology is high up there in the
scheme of things for the same reason that people searched out, and continue to
find, India. There are things here which are nowhere else and perhaps nobody
needs them more than us because we live (again) in very important times where
things change at incredible speed and yet nothing at all has changed at our
core.
Let this distance not defeat us inwardly.
Let us keep pace, ironically with one of the oldest wisdoms known to
mankind. It’s always going to be too early for the ultimate truth, but let it
not be too late for the penultimate truth which is what this is.
When I write briefly about the Jupitertransit, what I am doing is accentuating the positive influence that planet
Earth and its inhabitants feel with the movement of this greatest benefic.
When I write about the Saturn transit,
and here and here too, I am dealing with the changing focus of one of the most
challenging forces in life.
But what we truly need to do is to know
ways of breaking free of the shackles of negativity and things which hold us
back, and these can be quite seductive in their rationality at times. We are
all keyed up to conquer worlds but we feel childish in saying so because of
these missing links within. When I work and consult astrologically with peoplefrom across the world in a variety of ways, one of the major themes is to
clearly and without demur identify the malefic forces that are impeding, remedying
them metaphysically and behaviourally and then knowing and strengthening the
forces that are all there to aid us in our journey to where we are intended to
go.
We need to carry out this exercise in any
way we think best, whether it is through the ancient wisdom of the Ṛṣis or
through some other avenue. There is usually no time to lose, irrespective of
the point in the journey one is at, because we have covered all there is, at
the stage of defining the themes that rule.
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Disclaimer: For those who have glimpsed the magic of Jyotish, magnificent treasures await in the vast ocean of this knowledge. Hindu Astrology Analyses offered by the Consultant are not empirical pronouncements of the type made in the realm of the physical sciences. The Analyses are not in the true or false format but delve into the horoscope to derive insights about the life of the native in a spiritual reference frame. These insights should be used by those availing them at their sole discretion and responsibility.
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