Bhavartha Ratnakara Part 8: Scorpio Ascendant (Vrischika Lagna) | VedAstro
A modern English guide to the classical Vedic astrology text by Sri Ramanujacharya, translated and annotated by B.V. Raman.
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Vrischika Lagna
For a person born in Vrischika, if Jupiter and Mercury are in conjunction or in mutual aspect, much wealth will be conferred.
If Jupiter is in the third, the native will have a charitable disposition. If the Sun, Mercury and Venus are in the 7th,
then during the period (dasa) of Mercury the person will enjoy much fame and power.
A person born in Vrischika Lagna will undoubtedly become very fortunate and wealthy if Jupiter and Mercury are in the 5th and the Moon is in the 11th.
For a person born in Vrischika Lagna, if Jupiter, the Moon and Ketu are in the 9th house, fame and power will be conferred during Guru Dasa while Ketu Dasa will be ordinary.
The author has devoted 22 stanzas for Meena Lagna while he has disposed with Vrischika Lagna within a short space. The combinations given are no doubt valuable. According to Parasara, Guru is a benefic for Vrischika Lagna as he is lord of the 2nd and 5th, while a combination of the lords of the 9th and 10th (the Moon and the Sun respectively) results in a Raja Yoga. But in this work the author seems to stress the importance of the mutual conjunction and aspect of Budha and Guru. Budha is evil as he is lord of the 8th and 11th, but he seems to lose the evil nature by being placed in the 5th house with Venus and the Sun (vide Stanza 2, supra) to the extent that during Rahu Dasa, Sun will confer fame and power. The temporary evil of ownership, acquired by Budha, seems to disappear by his presence in Pisces with Jupiter and by the Moon being in Virgo or the eleventh. This combination (stanza 4) may be diagrammatically represented thus as in Chart No. 10. Jupiter Mercury
gives the combination for immense wealth and fortune. Jupiter is the lord of wealth and fortune and he is in the 5th aspecting the Moon,lord of the 9th. There is thus Gaja Kesari Yoga also which will further increase the house of wealth. Mercury, though evil (by lordship), happens to belord of the 8thand the forces of the Sun, 9th and 11th focused on the5th housebring a distinct Dhana Yoga. The principle adumbrated in stanza 5 may be further extended, thus:
(1) The Moon may be in Pisces and Jupiter and Mercury in Virgo.
(2) The Moon may be in Pisces, Jupiter in Cancer and Mercury in Virgo.
(3) The Moon and Mercury may be in Pisces and Jupiter in Cancer.
(4) The Moon and Mercury may be in Pisces and Jupiter in Virgo.
(5) Mercury may be in Virgo, the Moon in Pisces and Jupiter in Cancer.
(6) Mercury may be in Cancer, the Moon in Virgo and Jupiter in Pisces.
Other permutations and combinations may also be obtained similarly.
comprehends the presence of a very powerful Gajakesari yoga while the presence of Ketu with the Moon and Jupiter seems to deprive Ketu of the power of conferring any yoga during his own Dasa.