Bhavartha Ratnakara Part 22: Fortunate Combinations - A Modern Guide
A modern English guide to the classical Vedic astrology text by Sri Ramanujacharya, translated and annotated by B.V. Raman.
Part 22 of 28
Chapter Viii
Fortunate Combinations
If thelord of the 9this in the 11th and thelord of the 11this in the 9th or if the 9th and 11th lords are conjoined together or aspect each other, the native will be fortunate.
The native will be very fortunate if eight planets occupy four houses in pairs of two each.
The person will be fortunate if six planets occupy three signs in pairs of two each.
If four benefics are aspected by malefics the person will not be very fortunate but he will have some wealth.
The person becomes fortunate if malefics occupy the 3rd, 6th, and 11th houses.
The person will be fortunate in respect of that bhava whose karaka is situated in the 12th from Lagna.
Bhagya implies fortune as different from wealth. A man may command any amount of wealth but still he cannot be called fortunate if he is devoid of children, if his relations are inimically disposed, if his wife is quarrelsome, and if his reputation and name are sullied. Thus 'fortune' is an invisible
goddess whom no wealth can count. In this chapter, the author refers to the various combinations which make a man generally 'fortunate'. According to stanza 2, a person will be very fortunate if the eight planets are situated in four houses in pairs of two each. This combination more or less corresponds to Kedara yoga—one of the 7 Sanchaya yogas referred to in Brihat Jataka, with this difference that our author specifies the number of planets as 8, which includes Rahu also, while the author of Brihat Jataka has not included Rahu in his treatment of Sanchaya yogas. The planets must occupy 4 houses in pairs of two each. Here again the reader should use his intelligence in differentiating the results: if the four pairs happen to be the 7th to 10th houses the native's fortune will be generally centered on the indications of these houses while if the four houses are 10th to 1st, the degree of fortune and the source from which it flows must necessarily differ.
is important because it gives a combination which, while making one wealthy, renders him unfortunate. The four benefics are the waxing Moon, well associated Mercury, Jupiter and Venus. These should be free from malefic aspects.
In his horoscope it will be seen that all the four benefics
modified form applies to the above horoscope. Jupiter is aspected by Saturn while the Moon, Mercury and Venus are not aspected. Thus the native is fortunate in regard to children, name, fame, profession and money matters.
says that in upachayas (3, 6 and 11) malefics promote fortune.
gives an important clue. It says that the native will be fortunate only in respect of such bhavas whose karakas are in the 12th from Lagna. Here emphasis is laid on the karaka of the bhava and not on the lord of the bhava. The following are the important karakas for the different bhavas:
Thanubhava or 1st house The Sun
Dhanabhava or 2nd house Jupiter
Bhratrubhava or 3rd house Mars
Matrubhava or 4th house The Moon
Putrabhava or 5th house Jupiter
Satrubhava or 6th house Saturn
Kalatrabhava or 7th house Venus
Ayubhava or 8th house Saturn
Pitrubhava or 9th house The Sun
Karmabhava or 10th house Jupiter
Labhabhava or 11th house Jupiter
Vyayabhava or 12th house Saturn
Thus if the Sun is in the 12th from Lagna, the native will be fortunate in respect of 9th house indications; if the Moon is in the 12th, in respect of 4th house indications; if Venus is in the 12th, in respect of the 7th house indications, and so on.
If thelord of the 4th, Venus,lord of the 7thandlord of the 9thare in the 11th or 9th and are aspected by or conjoined with Saturn,
the native will have access to elephants in the course of the period and sub-period of Saturn. This yoga is ascribed to Brihat Jathaka by the learned in Astrology.
In the modern times very few people can think of possessing elephants and riding on them excepting a few Indian Princes and religious heads. However the yoga may be taken to mean that one would have access to conveyances either in Saturn's Dasa or in Saturn's Bhukti provided (a) the lord of the 4th is in the 9th or 11th in conjunction with or aspected by Saturn, (b) Venus is in the 9th or 11th in conjunction with or aspected by Saturn, (c) the lord of the 7th occupies the 9th or 11th in conjunction with or aspected by Saturn and (d) the lord of the 9th is in the 9th or 11th aspected by or conjoined with Saturn.
If the lords of the Lagna, 9th and 4th are in the 10th, 1st or 7th in conjunction with the lord of the 10th, then during the periods and sub-periods of such lords,
the native will ascend the throne, becomes very fortunate and enjoys wide fame.
This is one of the important Khara Raja yogas and is a rare one too. One becomes a king, enjoying fame and prosperity in the course of the Dasas or Bhuktis of the lords of Lagna, 9th and 4th if such lords are combined with the 10th lord--occupying the 10th house or Lagna or the 7th.
If an exalted planet is situated in the 5th or 9th the person becomes fortunate and famous.
Ordinary Dhanayogas are mentioned in stanzas 11 and 12. They are simple to understand and easy to apply, and hence call for no explanation. Stanza 13 is more or less a repetition of the idea given in stanza 6. The native will be fortunate in respect of father, and he will be happy, if the Sun is exalted; the reverse holds good if the Sun is Neech. This principle does not apply in case of Dhanur Lagna—viz. here the Sun will be lord of the 9th and situated in the 11th causing a favourable yoga. Somehow the author seems to lay special emphasis on the fact that a bhava shines well if the appropriate karaka is in the 12th from Lagna. Thus, statement of the author should be accepted with due reservation.
Let us take the Moon. He is the karaka for the 4th house. If he is in the 12th from Lagna it means he is in the 9th from 4th bhava. Similarly if we take Venus—karak
of 7th house, he will be in the 6th from 7th—if he is situated in the 12th from Lagna. The 6th is an Upachaya. If we take Mars—Karaka of the third, he will be in the 10th—if he is placed in the 12th from Lagna. A karaka in particularly good position from the appropriate bhava renders the bhava beneficial. The author must have had this idea when he formulated the general principle referred to in the above stanzas.
The native will be fortunate in respect of wife and mother respectively if Venus and the Moon are in the 12th from Lagna.
Whoever has Mars in the 12th, he will be fortunate in respect of brothers. If the 9th lord is in the 12th the native will be fortunate in regard to father.
If the 9th lord is in the 7th and the 7th lord is in the 9th the person will be fortunate in regard to wife, and he will have self-earned wealth.
The native acquires money through cousins if the 6th is occupied by Mercury and the 2nd lord. If Mercury alone is in the 6th then also he will get money through cousins.
The learned in astrology opine that one's children will become fortunate if Jupiter, as lord of the 5th, is exalted.
The chapter is headed Bhagyasogah or Fortunate Combinations. In other words, these combinations help us to decipher as to how one could be happy and fortunate in regard to wife, brothers, cousins, parents and the like. They also reveal how gain of money is shown through different relatives. The combination mentioned in stanza 21 holds good only with reference to persons born in Simha and Vrischika Lagnas.