Transit of the major-period planet

We now study a new method of transit analysis. This is a very effective method.
The transit of the major-period planet gives results very clearly. With a little practice results can be deduced with comparative ease. The effect of transit is dependent on the following factors:
(i) The contact of the transiting major-period planet with a karaka. This contact can either be with the natal karaka or it can be with that very karaka in transit.
(ii) The major-period planet in transit brings about a contact between two houses taken from the ascendant. The karaka mentioned above has to be relevant to the contact between the houses. Suppose there is a contact established between the first and the ninth houses. This gives rise to the possibility of a journey abroad, but the karaka for such a journey, Rahu, must at the same time be in contact with the major-period planet. If there is no such contact between the two planets, or if the major-period planet contacts some other planet and not Rahu, then journey abroad will not materialize.
Let us consider a live chart to clarify this concept. This is the chart of a male individual who was born on 10 August 1960 at 0810 hours at Rajpura (30ON29’, 76OE36’) in Punjab, India. The time differential between Indian Standard Time and GMT is 0530 hours East.
The ascendant is at 23O50’ in Leo. Sun (Cancer), Moon (Pisces), Mars (Taurus), Mercury (Cancer), Jupiter (Sagittarius), Venus (Leo), Saturn (Sagittarius), Rahu (Leo).
The individual met with a vehicular accident on 18 December 2008. He was in the major-period of Venus.
Venus was in Capricorn in transit on the date of accident associated with Jupiter and Rahu. Its dispositor was in Leo in the ascendant. Thus a contact is established between the sixth house (accident) and the ascendant that signifies the physical body of the individual. Natal Mars is in sambandha with natal Venus. Saturn is passing over this Venus. Hence Mars the karaka for accident is involved in this affair. We can go into more and finer details but limiting ourselves to the barest minimum the event is still clearly discernible.

An Illustration of Transit Analysis

Female, DOB 5 January 1969, 11:45 am, Provins, France
This individual has Pisces in the ascendant at 5 deg 17 min with Rahu and Saturn. Moon is in Cancer in the fifth house, Ketu and Jupiter in the seventh, Mars in the eighth, Sun in the tenth, Mercury in the eleventh and Venus in the twelfth.
The sub-period of Rahu is operating in the major-period of Venus.
The question is how to determine the transit effects of Rahu.
The first issue is to determine the houses that a Node would influence. There is a difference of opinion on the houses that a Node projects an aspect to. Some say the aspects are on the 2, 5, 7, 9, and 12 houses from the place of the Node; others say that it is only on the 5, 9, and 12 and so on. So, without entering the controversy we should take the houses the results of which an unassociated Node would give as follows: the house the Node occupies, the house where its dispositor is placed, the house that the owner of the constellation occupied by the Node occupies and the house determined by the sign that the Node occupies in the navamsha chart and the house where the owner of the navamsha sign is placed. We will explain these through the above illustration.
In the above chart, the Node:
(i) Occupies the ascendant;
(ii) It is placed in the sign of Jupiter which is placed in the seventh house;
(iii) Rahu is in a constellation of Saturn which is also in the first house;
(iv) Rahu is in Libra navamsha. This sign is placed in the eighth house in the birth chart. Hence Rahu will give results relating to the eighth house from the ascendant.
(v) Venus owns the sign that Rahu occupies in the navamsha chart. Venus is placed in the twelfth house from the ascendant. Rahu will be related to this house as well.
Rahu is thus related to the I, VII, VIII and XII houses from the ascendant.
Taking Venus (major-period planet) as the ascendant Rahu should give results of the II, VIII, IX and I houses.
Since Rahu is associated with Saturn in the chart all the houses that Saturn operates through occupation, aspect, constellation and navamsha will also operate in the sub-period of Rahu.
The above is the analysis of the likelihood of the houses the results of which may appear in the sub-period of Rahu in the major-period of Venus. Now, what happens when Rahu in transit enters Sagittarius. As of now (Jan 11, 2010) Rahu is in Sagittarius and this is the eleventh house from natal Venus. Hence Rahu will give results of the eleventh house.
Jupiter is in Aquarius (the major-period planet ascendant). Hence Rahu will give results of the first house.
Further, Rahu is placed in a sign of Jupiter so it gives again the results of the first house from natal Venus.
Rahu is in a constellation of the Sun which is in Sagittarius hence the above conclusion will be reiterated.
Rahu is in Sagittarius navamsha.
Rahu will therefore give results in its current transit of the first and eleventh houses. This is valid till Jan 14 when the Sun changes sign and a fresh analysis is required to be carried out.

Analysis of a Transit

Transits have been very tricky. Should we take them from the natal Moon or the ascendant is a question that has been exercising the minds of all. Each one of us has worked out his own solution to the issue.

Why should a transit be analysed from the Moon? In ancient times when birth time was not known accurately, this could have been a workable via media, but today when this is not the case, taking the Moon sign as the ascendant for analysing transits is not acceptable.

A better alternative is the ascendant. Why? Because all the persons having their Moon in the same sign could be further subdivided into twelve sets according to their natal ascendants. This enables us to give twelve distinguishable predictions to all these persons who otherwise would have got the same prediction.

How can we distinguish further? It is not right that everybody in this world should get the same prediction out of a set of twelve predictions at any given point of time. Here comes in the use of major-period planets. There are nine planets the Vimshottari major-periods of which run at any moment of time in different charts. When we are analysing the effect of a sub-period in a major-period we take the place of the major-period planet as the ascendant and analyse the sub-period accordingly. For example, if the major-period of Jupiter placed in Aries is running and we wish to know the effect of sub-period of Mars placed in Virgo, we will take Aries as the ascendant. We will notice that Mars is placed in the sixth house from Jupiter in an inimical sign and therefore according to the significations of the sixth house and its own it should cause an accident or injury in its sub-period. Since it is the owner of the ascendant signified by the major-period planet (Aries) placed in the sixth house it will cause the common signification of the sixth house and its own to appear on the physical body. Mars and sixth house both signify injury and accidents. Therefore the likelihood of injury/accident is more than that of a dispute arising.

Similarly, when we analyse the transit from the place of the major-period we should notice the placement of the planet in transit from the natal major-period planet and analyse its effect at that time. For example, suppose in the above illustration, Mars is occupying the fourth house (Cancer) in transit from natal Jupiter. Both Mars and the fourth house signify property. Since it is also the owner of the ascendant (place of major-period planet) it involves the self of the individual in matters relating to property. Hence during the transit of Mars through Cancer this person will be involved in handling property. As Mars would be debilitated here the results may not be too satisfactory. Going into the nakshatras in the fourth house, when Mars enters Cancer, it will be in the nakshatra of Jupiter. Since Jupiter owns the ninth and twelfth houses from Aries, this would be the time when the individual tries to dispose of the property of his father (ninth house and twelfth house). The individual will get stalled in his efforts when Mars enters the nakshatra of Saturn and he would face obstacles and may decide to earn through (Saturn ownership of the tenth and eleventh houses) that property and when it enters the nakshatra of Mercury he may part with it (third house/twelfth from fourth ownership of Mercury). We can analyse all the nine planets in transit in this manner and we will notice that this method gives much closer to real experience results.

The analysis of a transit from the natal position of the major-period planet has another advantage. The transits of major planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu will pose the question of repetition of results if we analyse from the natal Moon. The position of ascendant determined by the natal position of major-period planet will probably differ with each return of the major planet. Jupiter returns after twelve years, Saturn after thirty and Rahu/Ketu after eighteen. Hence with each return of a major-period planet the possibility of the same major-period continuing remains slender.

We must super-impose this analysis over the conclusions drawn by taking the planet in transit from the natal ascendant, but this we will discuss in another blog. Further, another very interesting avenue opens when we consider transits from the natal position of the sub-period planet!!