Aspects, Strength, Results

Here, first, in place strength, a hint of the panchavargi (five-part strength) wheel with its special points is given. It is told by Samarasimha in the Kuttha (a planet in strength) yoga (planet combination). Strong in its own sign, trairashika (of a four-sign group) sign, hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), uchcha (high point) and musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign), a planet is the best.

This is stated clearly, with the working, in the Tajikamuktavali. In the house, the numbers are tarka (6), veda (4), agni (3), netra (2), rupa (1) and halves. These are for own, great friend, friend and the rest. Each is divided by arka (12). In the uchcha (high point): veda (4), agni (3), ashvin (2), and each time its half. In the hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign): rama (3), two, and then their halves.

In what arises from the trairashika (of a four-sign group): two, then its half, and half of that. In what is called musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign): half of the trairashika figures. Or, for own, friend and enemy, take a twelfth part. Starting from the house, the numbers are anga (6), abdhi (4), agni (3). Then abdhi (4), agni (3), dasra (2) ...

... Then rama (3), ashvi (2), abja (1). Then netra (2), chandra (1) and a half. Then, in order, rupa (1) first and then halves of chandra (1). Clear the planet from the 7th from its own or other house. With the remainder, take half the signs [as the full span]. Elsewhere, a proportion is to be made.

Take the strength worked out here from the wanted houses and the rest. Multiply it by the known drishti (a planet's look) in each case. Divided by sixty, it becomes exact.

Now the numbers beginning with six (tarka) and four (veda) are divided by twelve. The strength comes in rupa (unit of strength), kala (one-sixtieth part) and so on.

Now here, the strength is full in its own sign. It is said in dutashka [as printed]: 'svagriha-naga-bhaga', that is, in the 7th sign from its own sign. So a planet in the 7th sign from its own sign has no strength. In between, the rule of three is to be known, as for uchcha (high point) strength. For the Sun and Moon there is only one own sign, so there is no doubt. But Mars and the others have two own signs. So their 7th also is of two kinds.

This table gives the strength by the fivefold friendship. These numbers, divided by twelve, are the strength. The columns are: house, uchcha (high point), hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), trairashika (of a four-sign group) and musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign). The rows are the own group, great friend's group, friend's group, neutral's group, enemy's group and great enemy's group. Own group: 6, 4, 3, 2, 1. Great friend's group: 4, 3, 2, 1, half. Friend's group: 3, 2, 1, half, quarter. Neutral's group: 2, 1, half, quarter, then the mark '='. Enemy's group: 1, half, quarter, the mark '=', then a blank. Great enemy's group: half, quarter, the mark '=', a dash, then three strokes.

How is the strength found here? The method is told. For Mars and the others, because of their movement, only the nearer own sign is meant, not the far one. This is the reasoning of the tradition.

Now take the planet's place away from the 7th from its own sign. If the remainder is more than six [signs], clear it from twelve. If not, keep it as it stands. Then divide its degrees by six. The strength comes in kala (one-sixtieth part) and so on.

Here is the proof. At the start of its own sign, the strength is full, thirty kala (one-sixtieth part). At the start of the 7th from it, it is nil. In between, the proportion applies. If the degrees of six signs, 180, give full strength 30, what do the wanted degrees give?

Here, cancel multiplier and divisor by thirty. The multiplier place gets 1 and the divisor place gets 6. So it is proved. In the same way, a planet in its great friend's sign has full strength 20. In the 7th from the great friend's sign it is nil. Take a planet that stands in its great friend's sign away from the 7th sign of that great friend's sign. If the remainder is more than six, clear it from twelve. If not, keep it as it stands. Divide its degrees by nine. That is the strength of its great friend's sign, in kala (one-sixtieth part) and so on.

Here is the proof by proportion. If the degrees of six signs, 180, give full strength 20, what do the wanted degrees give? Here, cancel multiplier and divisor by twenty. The multiplier place gets 1 and the divisor 9. So it is proved. In the same way, take the planet's strength, each one's own greatest strength and each one's own 7th sign. The strength with its proof comes as before, by the way of proportion. The uchcha (high point) strength was already worked out by proportion. For a great friend's and the other high points, the strength is worked out by proportion, as told. Where there is no high sign, only its own high-point strength is to be taken.

Now, for hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), drekkana (one-third part of a sign) and navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign): no weakness at the 7th is stated. So the proportion is by degrees only. It goes so. At the start of the planet's present hadda, strength begins. In the middle of the hadda, the greatest strength is 15. At the end of the hadda, strength is nil. There, take the smaller of the degrees already crossed and yet to cross in the planet's hadda. Multiply it by fifteen. Divide it by the degrees of half the present hadda. That is its own hadda strength. Here is the proof by proportion. If the degrees of half the present hadda give fifteen kala (one-sixtieth part), what do the smaller degrees give? So it is proved.

Now, at the start of its own drekkana (one-third part of a sign), the result begins to grow. At the end of the fifth degree, full strength is 10. At the end of ten degrees, the strength is nil. There, take the smaller of the degrees already crossed and yet to cross in the planet's present drekkana. Double it, in degrees and so on. That is the strength in kala (one-sixtieth part) and so on. Here is the proof. If five degrees give a strength of ten kala, what do the wanted degrees give? Cancel by five. The divisor place gets 1 and the multiplier place 2. So it is proved.

Now, at the start of the musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign), strength begins. In the middle, full strength is 5. At the end, it is nil. There, take the smaller of the degrees already crossed and yet to cross in the planet's present musallaha. Make it three times, in degrees and so on. That is its own musallaha strength. Here is the proof. Half the musallaha measures one degree with forty kala (one-sixtieth part) added. If it gives a strength of five kala, what do the wanted degrees give?

Here the multiplier is three times the divisor. So 'degrees and so on, made three times' is proved. In the same way, work out the strength of a great friend's and other drekkana (one-third part of a sign). Work out the planet's hadda (a planet's own small part of a sign), drekkana and musallaha (its own one-ninth part of a sign) strength too, by the greatest strength told before. In the same way, take own and other navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign), and own and other hadda. The result is known by proportion with their degrees. There, the greatest strength in hadda is 15 kala (one-sixtieth part). In musallaha it is 5 kala. Then take the sum of all the strengths. Multiply it by the sum of the drishti (a planet's look) that other planets have cast on that planet. Divide by sixty. It becomes exact.

Next, after telling the panchavargi (five-part strength) wheel with its special points, another place strength is told there by Samarasimha. A planet in the lagna (rising sign) or a kendra (corner house), or near it, or one that looks at the lagna ... Male planets: from gagana (the 10th house) as far as the 3rd house. Female planets: also up to the end of the 9th ...

Male planets are strong in a male sign. Female planets are strong in a female sign. Or all of them, female and male, are strong in a sthira rashi (fixed sign).

This is stated clearly, with the working, in the Muktavali. Take a planet in the lagna (rising sign), in a kendra (corner house) and in those standing near them. The strength is rupa (unit of strength) 1, half 1/2 and a quarter 1/4. For female planets, one rupa from the 4th (avana) up to the end of the 9th. For male planets, [the strength follows] the house result, in the others. In a fixed sign, for all. In a male sign and a female sign, for those called male and female.

Here a planet in the lagna (rising sign) has full strength. In a kendra (corner house) it has half strength. In panaphara (succeeding house) and apoklima (falling house) it has quarter strength. Full strength is sixty kala (one-sixtieth part). Half is thirty kala. A quarter is fifteen kala.

Now for a planet at the same point as the lagna (rising sign): the strength is full. From the vikala (one-sixtieth of a minute) at the end-point of the 12th junction, the lagna house begins. From there up to its end-point, the result grows. Take the vikala at the end-point of the 1st house, up to the end-point of the 1st junction. There the house result grows. For a planet standing in between, there is proportion. That proportion was already made to find the house result. It was made by the words beginning 'first the gap between the planet and the junction is to be made'. So for a planet in the lagna, the house result itself is the strength. For a planet in a kendra (corner house), half the house result is the strength. For a planet in panaphara (succeeding house) or apoklima (falling house), a quarter of the house result is the strength.

Now, female planets are said to be strong in the six houses beginning with the 4th. So, by the earlier reasoning, the house result there is itself the strength of female planets standing in those houses. In the same way, take male planets standing in the six houses beginning with the 10th. The house result itself is their strength.

Now the strength of a planet in a fixed sign. There, at the start of the sign the strength grows. At fifteen degrees it is full. At the end of the sign it is nil. So for a planet in the first half of the sign, take the degrees already crossed. For a planet in the second half, take the degrees yet to cross. Four times these is the strength. Here is the proof. If fifteen degrees give full strength 60, what do the degrees crossed or yet to cross give? Cancel both by fifteen. The 'tryamsha' [as printed] are to be made four times. So it is proved. In the same way, take male and female planets standing in odd and even signs. Their strength is to be known like that of a planet standing in a female sign. This is the place strength.

Now directional strength is told in that same book. Take the planets in order from the Sun. In the 9th, 3rd, 6th, 1st (anga), 11th (aya), 5th (putra) and 12th (antya) houses, they become rich in directional strength here.

Here, take the Sun and the others standing in the 9th and the rest. By the reasoning told before, their strength equals the house result. This very strength is the first harsha (a planet's place of joy) strength told by Samarasimha. This ends the directional strength.

Now time strength. There Samarasimha says: Jupiter and Saturn are strong if they rise in the last part of the night. Venus, the Moon and Mars are strong if they rise at evening. Male planets are strong by day, and the others at night.

Here, the time when the lagna (rising sign) 7th from the Sun rises is called evening. In it, the Moon and Mars have full strength, 60. Venus can never be the 7th from the Sun. So the word 'seventh' here is to be known as meaning the greatest distance. So the strength of Venus is worked out from the greatest distance between the Sun and Venus, fifty degrees.

And it is said in the Muktavali. In the 7th from the Sun, the Moon and Mars are rich in strength. Venus (the demons' minister) [is rich in strength] at a gap equal to fifty degrees (kha-pancha, 50).

When equal to the Sun, all are without strength. Now the working. Keep the gap of the Sun with the Moon and Mars under six [signs]. Its degrees divided by three are the strength. The proof is as for uchcha (high point) strength. Put the gap of the Sun and Venus within fifty degrees. Then multiply its degrees by six and divide by five. That is the strength of Venus. Here is the proof. If fifty degrees give sixty kala (one-sixtieth part), what do the wanted degrees give? Cancel both by ten. The multiplier is six and the divisor five. So it is proved.

Now Jupiter and Saturn. Their strength begins after midnight. At the end of the third prahara (a quarter of the day or night) the strength is full. At the end of the fourth prahara it is nil. Work out the length of the night from the Sun. If the wanted time is after midnight, take half the night away from it. If the wanted time is after the third prahara, take it away from the length of the night. Multiply the remainder by sixty. Divide by the length of a prahara. The result is the strength of Jupiter and Saturn.

Now the strength of the planets by day and so on. There, take the Sun away from the lagna (rising sign). If the remainder is less [than three signs], multiply its signs and so on by twenty. That is the strength. If it is more, take it away from six. Multiply the remainder, in signs and so on, by twenty. That is the strength of male planets. When the lagna less the Sun is more than six [signs], male planets have no strength. In the same way, when it is less than six, female planets have no strength. When it is more than six, take six away. Or, if it is more [than nine], take it away from twelve. The remainder multiplied by twenty is the strength of female planets. This is because males are said to be strong by day, and females by night. At the junction, however, there is a stop.

This is stated clearly in the Muktavali. In the lagna (rising sign) less the Sun, rupa (unit of strength) comes by growth up to three signs, beyond that by decrease. This is for male planets. For the other planets, a careful person should know it from six signs on, and beyond that by decrease.

The meaning: in the lagna (rising sign) less the Sun, the strength comes by growth up to three signs. Beyond three signs, for male planets, the strength comes by decrease. For the other, female planets, strength comes by growth from the 7th to the end of the 9th. In the other part, from the 10th to the end of the 12th, know it by decrease. This is the meaning. This ends the time strength.

Now natural strength. There, natural strength is told in the Tajikapradipa. A seventh part of a rupa (unit of strength), 8;34, is the strength of Saturn (the Sun's son). Two times that and so on is the natural strength of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, the Moon and the Sun.

This ends natural strength. Now the cheshta (strength of motion). Samarasimha says it. A planet is strong if it is slow in motion, not fast and not retrograde. It must be free of the look of a papa (bad planet) and not joined with a papa. Strong too is one joined with or looked at by a shubha (good planet). [So too is] one that has made its rising, and one in the same part as the Sun.

This is stated clearly in the Tajikamuktavali. Now, for those going in the Sun's navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign): the doubled degrees, taken from a rupa (unit of strength), give the strength. For one with minutes equal to a shubha (good planet), there is strength. Our text goes on: for one joined with a papa (bad planet), it would be one rupa. Or [it is a rupa] for one at the half point of its direct motion or of its rising. [So too] for one not fast, at middle motion.

Here, take the navamsha (one-ninth part of a sign) in which the Sun stands. For a planet standing in that very navamsha, double its degrees and so on, and divide by sixty. What is left [from a rupa (unit of strength)] is the strength. Now, for a planet with minutes equal to a shubha (good planet): the strength is sixty kala (one-sixtieth part). If the minutes are more or less, take the gap of the two from thirty degrees. Twice the degrees left is the strength. Here also know this: when the one with equal minutes is joined with a papa (bad planet), there is no strength.

Now count the days from a planet's direct motion up to retrogression. Count also from its day of rising up to setting. Take half of that number of days. On the day with that count, the strength is sixty kala (one-sixtieth part). On the day of retrogression and on the day of setting, the strength is nil. In between, there is proportion. If the middle days give full good strength, what do the days gone or still to come give? Count them from the direct day, and from the planet's day of rising.

This table gives the figures for Mars, Jupiter and Saturn between setting, rising, retrogression and direct motion. From setting to rising: Mars 4, Jupiter 1, Saturn 1|7/30. From rising to retrogression: Mars 10, Jupiter 4|7/30, Saturn 3. From retrogression to direct motion: Mars 2, Jupiter 4, Saturn 4. From direct motion to setting: Mars 10, Jupiter 4|7/30, Saturn 3/15.

This table gives the days for Mercury and Venus between six points. First, from the eastern setting to the western [rising]. Second, from the western rising to retrogression. Third, from retrogression to the western setting. Fourth, from the western setting to the eastern rising. Fifth, from the eastern rising to direct motion. Sixth, from direct motion to the eastern setting. Mercury: 32, 32, 4, 16, 4, 32 days. Venus: 75, 240, 23, 9, 23, 240 days.

Now the knowledge of the days of rising, setting, retrogression and direct motion [is given]. By an easy method, my revered teacher told it in the Siddhantachintamani. From the eastern setting, the western rising. From this, up to retrogression. Then setting. Then the other rising, in the east. Direct motion, before the setting. [The counts], in order, are danta (32), danta (32), veda (4), nripa (16), veda (4) and rada (32). So it is for Mercury.

For Venus, in order, the counts are two and a half months, eight months and 23 days (tri-ashvi). Then nine, 23 days (tri-ashvi) and likewise eight months.

For Mars: from setting, rising. From that, up to retrogression. After that, direct motion. Then setting. In this order, by veda (4), 'kashthodvi' (2) and pankti (10).

For Jupiter, in months: one (bhu), four with a quarter (sa-anghri-veda), four (yuga) and four with a quarter (sa-anghri-yuga). For Saturn: one with a quarter (sa-anghri-bhu), three (rama), four (veda), and three (vahni) with a half.

This ends the knowledge of the days of rising, setting and so on. Now the strength from a planet's motion. There, what does 'not fast-moving' mean? A slow planet whose true motion is less than its mean motion has strength. So does a planet whose true motion equals its mean motion. A planet whose true motion is more than its mean motion has no strength.

Here, for Mars, the minutes equal to its motion, doubled, become the strength. For Mercury, the minutes of its motion times six, divided by 79, become the strength. For Jupiter, times twelve. For Venus, [the minutes] without their own third. For Saturn, times thirty. This is the essence, to be known from the teacher's tradition. This ends the cheshta (strength of motion).

Now aspect strength. There, as much as a planet looks at the lagna (rising sign), so much is its strength. Take one looked at by a shubha (good planet), and without the fourth look of a papa (bad planet). [Its strength is] a quarter less.

Here, however much look a planet has on the lagna (rising sign), that much is its aspect strength. Now take a planet looked at by a shubha (good planet). The good look, as much as it is, less a quarter, becomes its strength. But a planet free of the fourth look of a papa (bad planet) is wanted. If that look is present, there is no strength. [The words] 'looks at the lagna, is strong': so says Samarasimha. This ends the aspect strength.

Now the strength of the twelve houses beginning with the lagna (rising sign), and of the sahamas (special points for one life topic), is worked out. It is told in the Muktavali. For the houses beginning with the lagna here, the strength of the lord is itself declared to be the strength. [A house] joined with the look of its own lord, Jupiter and Mercury has a rupa (unit of strength) added in human signs. In water signs ...

... and also in the signs called four-footed, a half is to be added. In the insect sign, nothing is to be added. Add a fourth part of the look of the shubha (good planets) that go in the sky. Take off a fourth part of the look of the papa (bad planets). Then it becomes exact.

Vamana states a special point: A sign is to be known as stronger by the strength of its own lord. [Likewise one] joined with Jupiter and Mercury, or looked at [by them]. Or one joined with or looked at by its own lord.

These are the prishthodaya (back-first rising signs): Cancer, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Aries and Taurus. The remaining signs are to be known as shirshodaya (head-first rising signs). Pisces is remembered as rising both ways.

The shirshodaya (head-first rising signs) are strong by day. The remaining signs are remembered as strong by night. Human signs [are strong] standing in the lagna (rising sign). Four-footed signs [are strong] standing in the 10th.

Scorpio [is strong] in the 7th place. Water signs [are strong] in the 4th. At twilight Scorpio [is strong]. By day the human signs [are strong].