Miscellaneous Questions

[Bad planets] in the 7th house tend to block a journey. In the 10th house they tend to spoil the work. In all these cases, if good planets do not look at that house, success comes only with great trouble.

If the Moon is with bad planets or seen by them, the asker may quarrel with women. Say the same when bad planets are in the 4th and 7th houses.

Take the Sun in the 8th house from the rising sign, with a good planet or seen by one. Then say: his father has gone from that place to another place.

The Sun is hot and sharp in taste. The Moon is salty. Mars is bitter. Mercury is a mix of tastes. Jupiter is sweet. Venus is sour, and Saturn is astringent. Here the strong planet in a corner house is the one to take.

Or take the planet that looks at the rising sign at that time. The taste named for it is the one to tell. If there are two, tell the tastes in the order of their strength.

A planet in a good planet's sign gives a good taste. In a bad planet's sign the food has no taste. With a backward planet, the eater does not eat the food at first. He eats it when it is served again on the plate.

If the rising sign is a fixed sign, there is no going and no coming. The illness does not end. No money is lost. [The person asked about] has not died and is not lost. There is no defeat. A moving rising sign gives the opposite.

A dual rising sign gives a mixed result. In its two parts, they say it works like a moving sign and a fixed sign. Also, if good planets look at the rising sign or the Moon, the result is good. If not, it is bad.

The houses from the rising sign on stand for body parts. With the first drekkana (one-third part of a sign) rising: head, eyes, ears, nose, cheeks, jaws and mouth. With the second: throat, shoulders, arms, sides, heart, chest and navel. With the third: lower belly, the private part and anus, testicles, thighs, knees, calves and feet. The houses are counted on both sides of the rising sign. So the body is read three ways, by the third of the sign that is rising.

If bad planets are with that house, there is a wound there. If good planets are with it and look at it, tell of a mark. The planet may be in its own sign, its own navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) or a fixed sign. Then the mark is from birth. Otherwise it comes later. Saturn: a cause from stone or wind. Mars: fire, a weapon or poison. Mercury: the earth. Sun: wood or a four-legged animal. Moon: a horn or a water creature. With the other planets, the mark is a good one.

Where three planets with Mercury fall together, that part surely gets [a mark]. This is so whether they are good or bad. A bad planet in the 6th house from the rising sign makes a wound. It is on that sign's body part. If good planets look at it many times, it is a mole. Such a person carries a mark.

For a four-footed animal, the signs from Aries stand for body parts. Aries is the head. Taurus is the face. The next, Gemini, is the front feet and shoulders. Cancer is the back. Leo is the chest. Virgo is the sides. Libra is the belly. Scorpio is the anus. Sagittarius is the [hind] feet. Capricorn is the private part and testicles. Aquarius is the buttocks. Pisces is the tail. So it is said. (Our text is unclear here: one word after 'face' for Taurus.)

Find the rising sign at that time from the shadow of a pole, measured in finger-widths. Take its minutes. Multiply them by the finger-widths of the shadow. Then divide by seven, keeping each result apart.

The multipliers for the remainder belong to the planets. Sun 5, Moon 21, Mars 14, Mercury 9, Jupiter 8, Venus 3, and Saturn 11.

Multiply by these numbers: 5, 21, 14, 9, 8, 3 and 11. Then take the remainder by seven. If it falls to a good planet, that planet is rising. Then the asker's wish will come true. If it falls to a bad planet, nothing will come of it.

Divide that by the total of the multipliers. Then take away the numbers of the Sun and the other planets in turn. The planet whose number cannot be taken away shows the time.

If the remainder is with Mars or the Sun, it is days. With Venus or the Moon, it is fortnights. With Jupiter, it is months. With Mercury, it is seasons. With Saturn, it is years.

This is for questions about conceiving a child, and victory or defeat. It is also for the death of enemies, a meeting, or getting money. Think over this time of the question, then tell all the good and the bad, and when.

With the Sun in the rising sign, the dream was of fire, a lamp, red cloth, or seeing a king. If the Moon is there, it was of white cloth, white flowers and scents, or a woman.

With Mars in the rising sign, the dream was of coral, gold or flowing blood. It may be of the fresh meat of deer and other animals. If Mercury is there, it was of going through the sky. If Jupiter is there, it was of meeting gods and relatives.

If Venus is in the rising sign, the dream was of crossing water. If Saturn is there, it was of climbing a high place. This is what to tell in a dream question. If mixed planets are there, the dream is mixed.

The planets [in the rising sign] may be in an enemy's sign or their low point. Or they may have lost a planet fight. Then tell of a bad dream. If their body is hidden by the Sun's rays, the dream may bring the asker a setback.

The time when the result ripens is told by the number of signs between the rising sign and the Moon. For one's own dream, judge it as before. So said Yavaneshvara (the Yavana king). (Our text is unclear here: the words about what is to be judged in one's own dream.)

Letter groups are given to the planets. The a-group is the Sun's. The ka-group is Mars's. The cha-group is Venus's. The Ta-group is Mercury's. The ta-group is Jupiter's. The pa-group is Saturn's. The ya and sha groups are the Moon's. In a question, take the first letter spoken.

From that letter, find the rising sign and tell the asker the good and the bad. The first letter may be the first, middle or last of its group. Then take the planet's odd sign.

With the other letters, tell the planet's even sign as the rising sign. This holds for Venus, Mercury and Jupiter, and for Mars and Saturn. It is not so for the Sun and the Moon, because each has only one sign.

So tell all the good and bad at the time of the question, as before. Always use this in a question when the time is not known.