Daivajna Vallabha · Attributed to Varahamihira
Chapter 10 · The Thought in the Mind
मनोमुष्टिचिन्ताध्यायः
भागे चरे चरविलग्नगते च मध्याद् भ्रष्टप्रवासविषया भवतीह चिन्ता ।भ्रष्टः स चेद्भवति सप्तमतस्तदा तु व्यावर्तते यदि न वक्रगतो ग्रहोऽसौ ॥ ५ ॥
The rising sign may be a movable sign, and its navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) movable too. Then the thought is about someone who has gone away from home. A planet may have slipped away from the 7th house. Then the one abroad comes back, if that planet is not retrograde. (Our text is unclear here: what 'from the middle' means, and how the planet leaving the 7th works.)
Simple meaning: A movable rising sign shows a thought about someone abroad. He may come back.
दीर्घास्तुलालिमृगनायककन्यकाः स्युर्मध्या धनुर्मकरकर्कटयुग्मसंज्ञाः ।
The sign shows the size of the thing: long, middle or short.
रक्तौ सूर्यमहीसुतौ शशिसितौ श्वेतौ सुधादीधितेः सूनुः स्याद्धरिताकृतिः सुरगुरुः पीतः शनिः श्यामलः ।
Each planet has a colour and a shape. These show the colour and shape of the thing.
जीवो वृत्तवपुः सितस्त्वतिकृशः सौरिश्च दीर्घाकृतिर्मध्ये रंध्रसमन्वितश्च कथितं रूपं ग्रहाणामिदम् ।
Use the strong planets to tell the colour and shape of the thing the asker thinks of.