Aspects
This is the aspect of planets. These aspects are general and special. Let me first take up general aspects.
All planets aspect the seventh house form their position. It can tabulated thus.
Keep practising this lesson first.
Take up any horoscope and see which planets, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn are aspecting the 7th house from its location in a horoscope. This must become a natural habit with you.
You must remember that planets give their effects not merely from where they are in a horoscope but also produce these effects in the house which they aspect.
Three planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have special aspects. Mars has two additional aspects the fourth and the eighth. Jupiter has two additional aspects the fifthe and the ninth. Saturn has two additional aspects the third and the tenth.
So Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will have three aspects, one general and two special. These are being given in a tabular form here.
Note – Mars will influence four houses, the first the house where he is positioned in and then three other houses through his general and special aspects.
Remember – Even when Mars is in transit he will be aspecting three houses and is positioned in one house. I have made an effective use of this in my books, "Planets and Children
P (Position) A (Aspect) C (Conjunction)
How this P is applied is being shown here. After this try any other horoscope.
Why you must start with P first?
1. Remember by doing P you start your astrological adventure of collecting information, intelligence and clues about the lord of each house of a horoscope. A particular lord may be excellently placed while another may be in a bad condition.
2. Now you begin to see that life is never a story of all round joy or total sorrow.
3. But P is only the opening chapter of a seven layered story of your life which this book will teach.
4. So proceed patiently first by doing this exercise intensely.
Instructions
There is no book on Hindu astrology in which such tables have been given to oversimplify the understanding of aspects and earlier, of friendships and enmities of planets, as here. It has been done mainly with the intention to help people avoid memorizing. The traditional subject, late in their lives, and have no capacity to memorise. When learning through rote memory is not possible, what is surely possible is to learn through associative memory.
My Advice
1. Never start the analysis of any horoscope without applying the Memory Tablet coined by me to make learning of astrology easy, methodical and scientific.
2. As you will see in the given example of John F Kennedy, the tragedy of his career is well explained by wrong placement of many lords of different houses
3. You can develop your own astrological skill when you apply the first of two Memory Tablets, I am teaching and keep repeating it... the first limb of PAC is P.
In the state of Uttar Pradesh there is a special branch of police known as PAC created to control communal riots.
But the astrological PAC is meant to control anarchical and chaotic analysis of a horoscope.
Therefore I have evolved a memory tablet, the first part of which is :
PAC – P stands for the position a planet has occupied in a horoscope. Instead of taking fragmentary, confused and unsynthesized view, it is better, to proceed systematically so that you are able to arrive at a meaningful conclusion.
In all horoscopes first of all see how the lord of a particular house is placed.
Therefore let me read a sermon to you first a dangerous sermon, which if you remember, you will not take a fragmentary, muddle-headed and jumbled view of a horoscope.
