Sunday, August 30, 2009


Maya and Retrogression of Planets

Everything is Maya here till one understands the actual truth.

The Sun setting is a Maya for many who don't know that the Sun is always there..
The Flat earth was a Maya till they understood it is round.
You and me are Maya until we go up.
Pluto was a Maya until now till they understood that it is not a Planet.
When we say that two planets are in conjunction in same degrees, does not mean that they are actually kissing each other.
Because when we watch from a point on earth the angular distance makes them to be seen
together from here, whereas they may be millions of Miles or Light Years away from each other. This is Maya.
The 7 colors of the Rainbow may be Maya for us, for actually there may be many more, but we will have to reach the heavens to know the truth.
The space we know of as empty, may not be actually so, there may be many worlds there in the Universe, which may not be seen with our eyes through the mortal body.. There may be many more Universes we may not know of.
The 3 dimensions we know may be Mayavic truth, whereas there may be another dimension too which this physical body may not be able to fathom, and which may be the truth.

There are hundreds of such truths we know as truth, till we come to know what actually the
truth is. Till then, it is all Mayavic truth for us.

Remember truth is a relative term. For the person who has never come out of a island in remote jungle, a tape recording voice of a tiger growling may be truth to him, that a tiger is there nearby.
For a very great astrologer just watching a Natal chart without planetary degrees given , for few moments glance may bring out the truth whereas for mediocre astrologers, it may not come out
even with hundreds of statistical Data sheets taken out of the Printer .
The quotient is realization. The more realization and intuition coupled with studies one may have devoted to, the more nearer to the truth would he be.

In a Divine science like astrology, it is very necessary and a boon for all of us, that there are no single shot rules working for cause and effect in reality. And rightly so, for
astrology is not meant to be in hands of every Harry,Dick and Tom. There has to be a mixture, a synthesis of rules, with proper study of Bhanga (Cancellation of these Rules)part of these, along with the other requisites I mentioned above, for one to predict. It cannot be everyone's cup of tea.

Talking of retrogression, when we are traveling in a train, sitting near the window, and when another train passes speedily on the parallel track next to ours, we feel sitting in our train, that our train is actually going behind, when the truth is that it is also moving forward, but slow in comparison to the other train which we are watching. This is the same state of retrogression of planets. All imaginary.

We can never be able to interpret retrogression completely because there are various angles to each.

1) Retrograde Planet in The Kendras.
2) Retrograde Planet in evil Houses.
3) Retrograde planets as Lords of evil Houses.
4) Retrograde planets as benefic Lords
5) Retrograde planets in conjunction with other retrograde planet.
6) Retrograde planet in conjunction with Exalted Planet.
7) Retrograde Planet in conjunction with Debilitated Planet.
8) Retrograde planet in own house.
9) Retrograde planet in inimical house.
10)Retrograde planet coming out of debilitation.
11)Retrograde planet moving towards exaltation.
12)Retrograde planet in 6,8,12th in Natal but in good house in Navamsha chart.

I can write another 20 placements like above. Can anyone possibly answer the results of all above? Then there are 9 Planets and 12 houses. How to contend with so many permutations

and combinations ? It is not possible humanely.

But individually answers can be sought and found. Every astrologer has to search for his own way and style of judgment which should be changeable and flexible throughout his Life. Intuition has to be developed, which would give the answer when one is
watching a chart. There can be no hard and fast or rigid rules for retrogression. Everyone has to find his own answer. Because there are contradictory results written by various famous astrologers, so which one to believe and which one to not ?
This has to be an individual decision.
Therefore we may be able to/ and we may not be able to so far interpret retrogression completely. Depends on individual to individual.

Yet we do have some basic rules on retrograde planets which we shall take up some other day.

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