Practice: Reading Real Charts

Now we practise

We have covered Dwadash Bhavam, the twelve houses. So now we practise the twelve houses, and this is very important. Knowing what each house shows is one thing; standing in front of a real chart and saying what will happen is another.

This chapter holds two kinds of practice. The first is the live readings I did for viewers at the end of the basics class, one chart after another, with the person on the line confirming or correcting me. The second is the practice session I held after all twelve houses were taught, where I put one combination on a blank chart and made my students predict it in front of everyone.

Before we started that session, I asked: how many of you have covered all the lectures fully, listened to them, or referred to the PDF you were given? Those who have done even 70 to 80 percent are fine. If something got missed, no problem. I only need an idea of where you stand.

And I told them beforehand: today I will chop you very, very hard, and it will stay strong. Do not get upset. In the live class I said the same thing in another way to everyone waiting in the queue: stay on the line and learn, because learning is what matters most. Listen to the other person's story as well. Your story will also come.

No bias: extract in the 8th, refine in the 9th

Before practising, you should understand some data points. The first is that there should be no bias. What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right, but right and wrong should not be your parameters. You are there to predict the chart. You have been given the work of prediction, not of judging.

Judgement is the 9th house. The 8th house is about secrets. So you have to bring out the secrets without judging them.

It is like extracting oil. From where? From inside the ground. The refining happens in the 9th house. There you can tell the person: "Please do not do all this. This has this implication, that has that implication, this is the remedy, it should not be done like this." That is a 9th-house thing. But the 8th house is about extracting the data, and not from the client: from the chart.

Predict on a blank chart, and let the client confirm

How many times do we set very tricky questions, so that the person tells us everything? It happens. We ask exactly the kind of question that makes him tell all, and then we "predict" that same thing. Not like that.

You go to the blank chart, you make the prediction, and you see how much accuracy you are getting. Not this fake thing, where you drew the information out of him and then said, "Yes, yes, this shows like this in the 3rd house." You predict, and then the client confirms.

Predictions have to be given like this, clear-cut. When you predict that way, it becomes clear to you: "This is the actual prediction I am making. Here this much is wrong, and this much is right."

That is also why, in every live reading, I keep asking the person to confirm on the screen, quickly. I want people's trust to build on what actually happens, on whether the predictions are going right or not. You will see in the readings below that some go exactly right, some get corrected, and some miss. All of it is kept, because that is how you learn where you stand.

You have to predict, and then the client will confirm.

A sniper, not a philosopher

You do not have to become a philosopher. You have to become a sniper. Become a philosopher in the 9th house: take a little Gita class, and become one then. But during a consultation you should be very cut to cut in prediction.

One of my students, who had taught astrology herself for three batches, described it like this: "It is not that I am studying astrology for the first time; I have studied all the rashis before. But the cut-to-cut way you teach is very nice. Even while there is a story, it is so to the point. When we are lost and the mind is not working at all, we can think, 'This is the way to do it,' like in school when you are able to answer the question paper. It is right-on-the-spot prediction, and not just one idea. If you are talking with someone, you can tell him exactly twenty things about himself that should hit. It is like a sniper firing: phat phat phat phat phat." That is the level. And sometimes theory is actually needed as well, so learn that way too, because some people will come to you just to talk.

Here is what cut to cut means in practice.

• Give khat-khat predictions. Crisp: one, two, three. Not a loose flow of thoughts.
• Take the house's own list, point by point. What all do we see from the 5th house? Relationships, education, mantra, punya, the chair. Go down it one item at a time.
• Take one graha at a time. When two grahas sit together, read the first one fully, then mix in the second. First handle one planet.
• Answer what is asked. When I ask you about chair and position, you tell me chair and position. When the client asks about his married life, you predict his married life. Leave everything else.
• Stay with the present question. Do not jump ahead to "he will become spiritual later on". Stay on this.
• Say what kind. "Aggressive" and "angry" say nothing; quarrels happen in every relationship. Say what kind of aggression, in what way, and from which graha.
• Elaborate. When a point is good, open it further before you move to the next.
• Give a little at a time. Two predictions, three, four, five. I know the full layering will not come yet. Give what you can derive, a little at a time.

No intuition, no guesswork: use logic

You do not have to "see". When a student began, "I have seen that whoever has Ketu in the 5th house...", I stopped him. Use your brain. Do not use your intuition. Do not use your experience. Use the logic.

This is actual astrology. You do not use intuition and you do not use guesswork. You understand it, you feel it, and you deliver it. You see the house, the rashi and the planet, and you predict cut to cut. Whether it is going right or wrong, you think, and you put it in your prediction. That is it.

Justify every line from the graha's own nature. When a student said Ketu gives an older partner, I asked: elder would be given by Shani, no? So how is Ketu giving elder? If you cannot say why a graha gives a thing, do not say it.

Then it will no longer be: "Today is Monday, so the prediction won't come. Today is Tuesday, so the prediction won't come." You are not relying on your intuition. Why are you doing it like a butcher?

Use the material you have been given. You have the notes and you have this book. Open the house, look at the list of what it shows, and go down it. Look up the individual grahas: what have I written for Mangala in the 7th, what have I written for Shukra in the 7th? Then quote it, and make the prediction. Keep a notebook beside you. If I have given you material and you do not use it, you will be drained. You are actually not using things properly; use them properly, and derive the prediction.

Practise like mathematics

The way you solve questions in mathematics, I will make you solve questions the same way. The way you solve numericals in physics. The way you make things in chemistry: what compound will form? a plus b: ab will form, a₂b will form, a₃b will form. You have to make it. Understand it that way, and question it from the base.

So here is what you do. Draw the chart by hand. Beside it, write the predictions for all twelve houses. You have to understand the nature of the thing as you go. There is no point in worrying whether it is going wrong or right; you have to practise. I have not taught you the rashis yet; I will. There are already videos on them, and those who have been taught the rashis are doing the predictions with them. It always grows. Prediction grows slowly. It gets fine-tuned. But you will have to make the effort, and then you will become a very good astrologer.

Practise blank charts daily. Put one placement on a chart and predict it. Rahu in the 1st house: predict. Rahu in the 7th house: predict. Ketu in the 4th house: predict. And once the rashis are taught, the same with them: Tula in the 7th house, Tula in the 4th house, Tula in the 3rd house.

I am telling you one thing clearly. When I teach you, you will very quickly stop understanding. This is what happens in the IIT batches: as the water level rises, half the people start dragging themselves towards the back bench. They understand nothing. If you do not want this to happen to you, quietly practise questions. Question practice means: pick up a chart and start predicting.

We do not want to mug up anything. We will remember concepts. What we see from each house, that you can remember. But you should not have the predictions memorised. The remembering will happen slowly, on its own, when you keep practising.

Pick up five charts, ten charts. Then you will see that the divorces you predict are not happening everywhere. That is how you understand how the dynamics are actually set.

And remember that things are different from one environment to another. The same combination can play out differently where the culture treats relationships differently. You will see an example at the end of the 7th-house practice. We will understand these dynamics slowly as we grow in prediction.

How I will train you

It is very easy to judge someone: "He does not get it." But when we do it ourselves, our condition becomes bad. That is why, to the people who judge that I did not teach well, I say: fine, say I did not teach well. When you do not practise, nothing will happen from you. So you have to be humble, and you have to actually practise.

I do not want to make you a khoji astrologer, one who digs the answer out of the client. I will beat you very hard. I do not want to hear from you, "Very good teacher, this, that." Because I know how deep in the water I really am. I get beaten very hard myself, when my friends from IIT take predictions from me.

That is where you have to go, with the divisional charts. In the practice session I am only on the D1, and from the D1 alone not much is known. The D1 is a two-hour chart. In two hours, how many children will be born autistic? But with the two-hour chart you will at least throw your hands and legs about and make an attempt.

Do not get upset with me. I do not want to insult you. I want to show you that when pressure comes on you, and in 30 minutes you have to see a chart cut to cut, you have to see it exactly like this. All of you will reach there. Even if I put one of my older students on a chart, he gives cut-to-cut predictions. Why? Because they are being trained in that way.

That is why, when people watch the videos, they get a little put off by me. But understand: you are under training. If I do not chop you into shape, you will come out of here as donkeys. You will not grow that way.

Scaring you is my job, because the client will do exactly this with you. I will not put lollipops in front of you. Whatever scenarios come in front of me, those are what I put in front of you. The client will say, "How has my married life been?", and you will have to predict exactly that.

Point by point, cut to cut, no intuition.

Reading 1: Ketu on a Dhanu lagna

This was the first chart of the live basics class, read right after I had taught how to look at a chart. I usually work on Jagannatha Hora, but for beginners I made the chart on a free kundli website in front of everyone. Only after I had begun did the student tell me it was his own chart. It is the chart you drew in Drill 4 of Chapter A5.

The chart. First I said it aloud, exactly the way I had just taught: the number in each house, the rashi it represents, and the graha sitting there.

I read out the empty houses as well: Kumbha (11) in the 3rd, Meena (12) in the 4th, Karka (4) in the 8th, Kanya in the 10th and Vrishchika (8) in the 12th. The chart writes each graha in two letters: SA is Shani, RA is Rahu, JU is Guru, MO is Chandra, VE is Shukra, SU is Surya and ME is Budha. If you have learned this much, the number, the rashi and the graha in each house, understand that you have got the basics.

The ascendant falls in the third pada of Purvashadha. The dasha: Ketu's mahadasha was over, Shukra's was running, and the Sun's would come after it.

What I said, in order.

1. Born by dharma. Ketu is on the lagna, in Dhanu, and the 1st house is your personality, so this person works in accordance with dharma. The Moon is in the 9th, which also represents dharma. So one thing became certain: he was born to his mother and father in accordance with dharma, by the grace of Lord Rama and by the grace of the guru.
2. A long view. Ketu on the lagna is a sannyasi, a renunciate, and the Moon sits in the 9th in Simha. So this person has lambi soch: he thinks very far ahead.
3. Upliftment through a guru or a temple. With Ketu on the lagna, his uddhar (upliftment) will happen with some guru, or in a temple. If he goes to the temple his mind feels good, and if he does seva (service) there, his upliftment will come from that, because the lagna and the 9th house are both very good.
4. The lagna lord. Every rashi has a lord, and the lord of Dhanu is Devguru Brihaspati. So the next question is always: where is Brihaspati sitting? Here he is in the 7th, with Rahu. (At this point I cleaned up the chart so that I could give predictions directly; done slowly, it takes a lot of time.)
5. The mobile. Rahu and Guru are together in the 7th, in Mithuna, and the 7th is his relationships. I asked: does the mobile trouble this boy a lot, regularly, in his studies and in his daily routine? This person regularly has trouble from the mobile, because Guru is with Rahu.
6. The fall in the last life. The reason he was born, the reason for his fall in his last life, is that he had got into veshyavritti (prostitution). In his previous life he had relations with many women and misused his own body. That is why he has been born on this earth, and that is why he will have trouble: his mind will not settle in his studies.
7. Alcohol and the sexual life. The 11th is the house of social media, and its adhipati (ruler) is Rahu. Here Shukra, Surya and Budha are together. Whenever these three are conjunct, the person has a problem with alcohol and intoxication. You have to keep him completely saved from it. If you do not, his sperm count will become low, and there will be problems in sexual relations.
8. Three sources of money. Whenever Shukra and Budha are with the Sun in the 11th, money comes to the person from three places, and he does well in it.
9. Things done in secret. Shukra's degree is close to Budha's, and the Sun is ahead of them. So he will do many things secretly. Keep a watch on him.
10. Money and quarrels at home. Shani is in the 6th, and vakri (retrograde). He will accumulate money well, he will have little trouble with money in life, and he will put in a lot of effort for money. But at home there will always be fighting over money.
11. Relatives. I asked: do you suffer loss because of relatives, or not?
12. A job. There is a prabal yog, a strong combination, for a job. He can make money by doing a job.
13. Responsibility at home. Mangala sits exalted in the 2nd. He takes the household's responsibility very well, and at home he is seen as a responsible person. No problem there.
14. The father. The Moon in the 9th: his father will love him well. But the Sun is in sign 7, Tula: is there some problem with the father? How is his father's health?
15. Business and partnership. He asked whether he could do business. At first I said Ketu's dasha was running and he should wait a little, two more years; then I corrected it. Ketu's dasha is over; Shukra's is running, and after Shukra comes the Sun's, and the Sun sits in sign 7. In partnership he will have losses. For now things will run along. Rahu is in the 7th, in Mithuna, so partnership is not right for him: a very close person will cheat him, and there will be fights and quarrels, because the Sun's dasha is about to run. Do business on your own; there is no problem in that.

Reading 2: Shani and Budha on the lagna

The next student's chart came up, and I asked him to keep confirming on the screen as I went.

The chart, as I read it. Shani and Budha on the lagna, with Shani in the nakshatra Ashwini. Mangala and Surya in the 2nd: the lagna lord there with Surya, the lord of the 5th, and many grahas in Krittika. Shukra exalted in the 12th. Rahu in the 5th. Guru, Chandra and Ketu together. The dasha: Budha's mahadasha, and within it Budha's antardasha.

What I said, in order.

1. Patience. There is a great lack of dhairya, patience.
2. The fault-finder. Shani and Budha: as an accountant, a CA, or the one who keeps the bahi-khata (books) in a business, you will do very well. You know very well how to find the shortcomings in any field. Use that in the right direction: wherever shortcomings have to be found, you will do very well.
3. Family and word. Mangala and Surya in the 2nd house: you belong to a very good family. When this combination is in the 2nd, it tells us you were born in a good kul and gotra, lineage and clan. And whenever Surya and Mangala are in the 2nd, the person is zabaan ka pakka, true to his word.
4. The profession. He wrote "ATC": an air traffic controller. Very beautiful. All the work of controlling, of stopping someone, of fault-finding, of putting restrictions: all of it is very good for you. Air traffic control comes because your Shukra is in the 12th, and this is going into Mesha.
5. Speech and resources. Mangala and Surya in the 2nd: very good control over your vani, your speech. You will get a good position, and even work related to speech will give you very good results. Your house, your vehicle, all the resources you want to gather, you will get comfortably. It is a very good chart.
6. Enjoying the money. Shukra is exalted in the 12th. In a temple, in any math (monastery), wherever you do seva and give donations, you will get very good results. Whenever Shukra is exalted in the 12th, the person is able to bhog, to enjoy, his money. Earn more or earn less, you will be able to enjoy all things. You will be fond of good clothes, good fragrance and getting ready.
7. Sexual health. Whenever Shani and Budha are on the lagna, take care of your sexual health, because together on the lagna they give problems in the sexual life.
8. Dhana yoga. The lagna lord sits in the 2nd with the Sun, the lord of the 5th. That is a dhana yoga, a combination for wealth: work with resources. And because the 5th lord and the lagna lord have both gone into the 2nd, work related to education will bring you good money. Do courses, because money will come from there. Keep studying something or other regularly, because studying gives you ideas.
9. Investment. Rahu is in the 5th, so your mind will work in the stock market, in investment, in mutual funds. That too looks good.
10. The salary. There is a combination of Guru, Chandra and Ketu. Your salary will come less. Ketu makes it 50 percent. The money will come, but whatever salary comes gets finished at once. It shows restriction.
11. Marriage. He asked when his marriage would happen. Budha's mahadasha is running, with Budha's own antardasha. Do not try right now: there are very high chances of the marriage happening and then breaking. Try after 5 April 2026. After that a yoga forms, between 2026 and 2029. After April next year, things will get fixed.
12. Force and deceit. Many of his grahas are in Krittika, and Shani is in Ashwini. So I asked: has something forceful (zor-zabardasti) happened to you? Or, with your mother, a marriage by deceit? Has deceit happened to you in your profession, in a partnership or in a relationship, where the person you were with deceived you and went off with someone else? Sexual abuse, something unnatural, in childhood? I asked because I saw Ashwini.
13. Anxiety. You get anxious very quickly. Keep a little patience.

Reading 3: A young man preparing for the banking exams

A very young viewer, preparing for the banking exams, gave his details.

The chart, as I read it. Shani on the lagna (I also called it "Shani in number three"). Guru exalted in the 2nd. Surya and Mangala in the 3rd. Shukra and Budha in the 4th, and Shukra "very exalted" in the 5th. Ketu in the 6th. Chandra in the 8th. Rahu in the 12th, with Rahu's mahadasha running. In transit, Shani had moved into the 10th. In the D10, Shani sits with Rahu.

What I said, in order.

1. A government teacher. A very beautiful chart. You can easily become a teacher in a government school, and there is a combination in the chart for becoming a headmaster.
2. Feelings held inside. It will take you time to speak up. You do not express your own feelings.
3. Late information. Shani is in number three: anything will reach you late, any information will reach you late, so stay a little alert about that. Give up laziness. Whenever Shani sits on the lagna, you have to charge yourself up, and you have to pay attention to your health regularly.
4. Sleep and tension. Rahu is in the 12th. It will give you trouble sleeping. You take tension beyond all limits, and that is a very bad thing.
5. The banking result. He wrote that he was preparing for banking. A very good combination: Guru is exalted in the 2nd, so the result will come easily. Do not take tension; keep preparing calmly. Your Surya and Mangala are also very good. You will get promotions too, and plenty of them (ragad ke). Shani is on the lagna: your effort, your valour, is your hard work.
6. Why last year failed. Shani has now transited into the 10th, a very good combination for a government job. Last year some deception happened to you, or you made some error in your calculations; that is why the result did not come. Within two and a half years, Shani will give you the result.
7. A cheerful nature. Shukra and Budha in the 4th: you are a cheerful, fun-loving, good person. But you take things seriously very quickly. Do not take things so seriously.
8. A spiritual chart. Shukra sits very exalted in the 5th. Surya and Mangala in the 3rd, again very good. Guru in the 2nd. Yours is a very good spiritual chart.
9. Nobody stands up for you. Your biggest difficulty is that you will never be able to express your feelings. You can stand up for others, but nobody will stand up for you, because your Moon is in the 8th.
10. The grace in the 3rd. In your 3rd house there is the grace of Lord Rama and of Bajrangbali (Hanuman). Whatever rog dosh (disease and defect) is coming in your way, whoever is creating obstacles, all those problems will go with the remedy below.
11. The exam hall. Ketu is in the 6th. Again and again your result falls short by a few marks. In the exam you fall into anxiety very quickly: the question comes slightly different from what you studied, and your problem starts. Ketu here gives anxiety in the exam hall. You always feel, "However much I study, I get 50 percent of it in marks." You get 50 percent because you get frustrated when you get there. And you are making calculation errors.
12. How you study. Do not solve the same question again and again; this is Ketu's rule. And Shani on the lagna makes you read the same thing over and over. There is a lack of practice.
13. Traitor friends. The friends you get will be traitors. I am telling you clearly, because your Shani is on the lagna. You have to go forward by your own effort alone. Later, things will be fine.
14. The situation now. Your situation is not good. I can see in the chart that you are troubled more than you should be. Rahu's mahadasha, of the 12th house, is running. Put things a little into gear.
15. Crying at night. In the D10 you are very troubled, emotionally very troubled. You cry a lot; many nights you are crying. It shows there: Shani is with Rahu, and the two are troubling you emotionally, completely.
16. Intoxication and hair. In the 5th house, you must not do the wrong things. Never get addicted to intoxication, whatever the situation: no cigarette, no drink. Otherwise your hair will fall, because pitta (bodily heat) is increasing. Rahu with Shani gives unmaad, frenzy. Work with a little control and things will happen.
17. The job. He asked when he would get a job. There is a full yoga for it next year, and a yoga this year too, in the Guru period: Guru is the lord of your 10th house, and it is going into the 6th. You are running good dashas. You will get the job: do what I have told you. Your time is going well, so work hard. Shani is running, and Guru is running on top of it. Get it done within two years.

Reading 4: Vrishabha lagna with Rahu on the lagna

The chart, as I read it. A chart of number 2, Vrishabha lagna, with Rahu on the lagna. Mangala and Ketu in the 7th. Surya and Budha in the 4th, in Simha. Shukra in number six. Shani in the 6th. Chandra in the 9th. Guru in the 8th, in his own rashi. Guru's dasha running, with Shani's to follow. In the D10, the dasha of the 4th house, the lagna's dasha, is running.

What I said, in order.

1. The married life. You will have problems in married life. If your marriage has happened, you will have a lot of difficulty: one partner is not interested in the sexual life. Shukra is in number six. Yours is a marriage issue; you are having problems in the sexual life.
2. Honesty. There are very beautiful grahas in the 4th house, and the 4th shows how honest a person is. You are an honest person, because your Surya and Budha are in the 4th, in Simha rashi. A very beautiful yoga.
3. A house. Guru's dasha is running. It will end, and Shani's dasha comes after it. In real estate, you will get a house built. I am giving you the prediction of building a house; there is no difficulty in this.
4. Partnership and assault. Mangala and Ketu are in the 7th. You will have difficulty in partnership, in business and in relationships. Cases of maarpeet, assault, can be made.
5. Rules of dharma. The Moon is in the 9th, and when the Moon is in the 9th you have to walk according to dharma. Fix your times for sleeping, waking and chanting. The 9th is Brihaspati's house, and the Moon there does not go by the rules, so you will have difficulty.
6. Guru in the 8th. Guru has gone into your 8th house, but he sits in his own rashi, so he will give you good results. And between Shani and Guru lies your 7th house. You will have to do the yoga of dharma and karma: that is, Bajrangbali's sadhana, done regularly.
7. Money or family. Rahu on the lagna, in a chart of number 2: the desire is to earn a lot of money, and you will get it. You will have no difficulty earning money. But there will be strife in the family. Either you will get the family, or you will get the money. The chart shows that your family members will move away from you.
8. The wife. Shani is in the 6th: there are chances of strife with your wife. Do its remedy. Shani's dasha is also about to run, and you will have difficulty there.
9. Strife at home. There is a conjunction of Shani and the Moon. There is a lot of strife at home, a lot of fighting and quarrelling. Set things right at home, because otherwise a down time will come for you.
10. Land and construction. In your D10 the dasha of the 4th house, the lagna's dasha, is running. Do work related to land and you will get good success. The house will be built. Do work related to construction.
11. His work. I asked: what do you do at present? Do you have a factory? Do you manufacture something? Are you in real estate? No clear answer came.
12. Drinking and relationships. Looking at the support of fortune: you are troubled, I can see it in the chart. Shani is with Rahu, so I asked whether he drinks. If there is a habit of drinking, you will get into difficulty from it. I can also see a case of assault in the chart. If you have relationships here and there, stop them, because the chart shows a lot of difficulty in married life. And if you are paying money and doing those things anywhere in the market, do not do it. I told him to meet me privately: I cannot say this much publicly.
13. The job. I asked: are you doing a job? What kind of job? This one is running very far behind.

Reading 5: A woman in teaching who asks about a job

A mother who had been waiting from the beginning gave her details; I checked her birth place carefully so as not to read the chart wrongly. She works in the teaching field.

The chart, as I read it. Shukra and Chandra on the lagna. Budha in the 2nd. Rahu and Shani in the 3rd. Guru in the 4th, in Mithuna. Ketu in the 5th. Mangala in the 12th. Budha's mahadasha running; within it, Rahu's period until now, with Guru's lined up next. In the D10, Shani is in the 6th and Rahu in the 11th.

What I said, in order.

1. Marriage. A beautiful chart, but problems in marriage, and maarpeet (assault): this we can see. Mangala is in the 12th.
2. The father. Rahu and Shani in the 3rd: problems with the father. Initially you will have difficulty with your father, 110 percent.
3. Ketu in the 5th. A remedy will have to be done there.
4. Her nature. Guru in the 4th: your nature is good.
5. The exam. She asked when she would get a job. Budha's dasha is running, very beautiful; within it Rahu has been running, and Guru's period has now lined up. I asked: in this period, between the 7th and the 9th month, have you given some exam or interview?
6. The result. Your result will come out next year. Up to the 5th month of next year Rahu is coming, and the result may come in it; if not in that one, then in the next. In 2026 your result will definitely come. It forms in 2026, and in 2028 too it forms well. Your whole chart is running well.
7. The D10. In the D10 your Shani is in the 6th house: very beautiful. And Rahu is in your 11th.
8. The past attempts. Rahu got activated here. Did an opportunity come in 2023 too, and the result did not happen for you? Is it still pending? Then next year it is forming for you again. You gave an exam in 2022–23 as well, and no result came. Then, sister, you will have to do remedies.
9. Why it is not happening. Look here, all you viewers, at why it is not happening even though the dasha is running well. The lord of the lagna has gone into the 8th house, together with the Moon and Guru. That is why the trouble is coming. In the 8th, I have seen, it gives a lot of trouble. Later it will give good results. The rest of the chart is fine. I see it for you in 2026–27.

Reading 6: A young woman in Shani's mahadasha

A young woman who had been waiting a long time asked about a job.

The chart, as I read it. Shani's mahadasha running, with Guru's period inside it; Budha's mahadasha comes next. The lagna lord in the 8th with Shani and Ketu. Budha and Mangala together, with Shani, in the 6th. Shukra in sign 9, Dhanu. Chandra in the 7th. In the Navamsa, Rahu is in the 2nd.

What I said, in order.

1. Bhakti now. Within Shani, Guru is running: bhakti and bhajan. That is good.
2. When the job comes. When this Guru phase ends, Budha's dasha comes, and in it there are chances of a job. Budha is the karaka here. After 2027 I see things for you: between 2027 and 2029 you will get a job. Not now; it is not visible in the chart now. You are still young. You are doing bhakti now, so do bhakti properly. After 2027 your things will change. Keep making the effort, and work towards it in that period: it will happen. In Shani's mahadasha he ragadte hain, he grinds you. When Budha comes, he gives the results.
3. Which job. A government job. You can go into the SSC; the Income Tax department is also good. Budha and Mangala with Shani in the 6th: tax collection, all these things are visible. Prepare for the general competitive exams in the government sector. It will happen.
4. Insult. Then she asked about her life. The lagna lord is in the 8th, with Shani and Ketu: you will always be insulted. Especially in the phase now running, many allegations will be put on you. You will be made a party to things, useless allegations, in which you had no hand at all.
5. Friends. Your relationships will also go bad. Your friends will always misunderstand you, and they will insult you too.
6. Dressing the deity. Shukra is in sign 9, Dhanu: you will dress Bhagavan very beautifully.
7. Relationships. The Moon is in the 7th: you will come into relationships regularly, and problems will come there too. Do not activate this, because many people will use you.
8. The Navamsa. Rahu in the 2nd is a good placement; no problem there. But looking at the Navamsa, you will be troubled about marriage. And some steps you have taken there will bring you maanhaani, loss of reputation. Do not get into those things.

Reading 7: Mesha lagna with Ketu on the lagna

A young man asked about a government job.

The chart, as I read it. Mesha lagna with Ketu on it. Mangala in the 4th. Surya with Guru, Guru exalted (said once as the 8th house, then as the 4th). Shani sitting fine. Rahu's mahadasha, with Guru's period, as the 9th lord, running.

What I said, in order.

1. Breakups. How troubled you have been in relationships! I see one in school time; you have gone into many. Two breakups have already happened. Do not go further. Generally marriage happens with the third, but this is Rahu, so it can do anything.
2. Selling yourself. Do not sell yourself. Your biggest problem is that you sell yourself in a hurry. And starting anything new is a big jhamela (hassle) for you; you feel very afraid. With anything new there is always a problem in the family.
3. An affair in the family. In the family there is also an extramarital affair. I asked him: whose extramarital affair have you seen in the family? And again: do not sell yourself. This problem comes with Ketu in Mesha, on the lagna. You will have problems.
4. Breath and the sexual health. You take short breaths. Mangala will give premature ejaculation here. But it is curable; it will get fixed easily.
5. Anger. Mangala is in the 4th: you get angry very quickly. You must not do that.
6. The teacher. Surya and Guru: when the teacher teaches in class, listen quietly. There are many things in which you will not want to face the teacher, and then the problems come.
7. Shani. Shani sits fine.
8. Temper. I can see temper issues; that is why the breathing practice.
9. The government job. Guru's dasha is running, the 9th house's. This is not a good dasha, I said; but Guru sits in your 4th house, exalted, with the Sun, and then he will give you the result. I asked what he was preparing for: IAS, SSC, the Income Tax department? He said banking and insurance. 110 percent, good; you are preparing well. Shani is also running, which shows a good position for you. Guru's frequency is a little low, but you will get the support of bhagya, fortune. Your job will happen. At the end of 2025 this dasha starts, so you can expect it in February 2026. By the end of 2026 the job will be done, in banking. There is anxiety about banking, but there is no problem. The yoga is there; keep studying calmly. Your chart is good.
10. The madness. You must not go crazy here and there. The madness you are doing is why the trouble is happening; I can clearly see it in Rahu's mahadasha.

A quick reply: the father's shop

A viewer asked about sitting in his father's shop. Your bhagya is good. Sit at the shop. When you sit at the shop, customers will start coming. You will not have to do much. Guru's mahadasha is running, and in the Dashamsha you will become the lucky charm for your father. Don't worry.

Reading 8: Mesha lagna with the Moon in Karka

A young man asked about a government job and an exam he was about to take.

The chart, as I read it. Mesha lagna, Moon sign Karka: Chandra in the 4th, very good. Mangala in the 5th, very beautiful. Rahu in the 6th, again good. Ketu with Shani. Shukra's mahadasha has begun; the lagna's dasha has gone. In the Dashamsha, Shukra is in the 5th, and Guru sits with Rahu, in the 10th.

What I said, in order.

1. The maternal uncles. I had just taught this, so I put it to him the way you will do it. Your lagna is Mesha. How is your mama's family, the maternal uncle's family? Have the maternal uncles been ruined, or have they survived? I am asking in one line: in the maternal uncle's house, how many deaths have happened? Among the mama and the bua (father's sister), how many have died?
2. The father's travel. If your father did not have to travel regularly in this phase, between 2017 and 2024, and if his condition did not get bad, then there is something wrong in the chart.
3. The dasha. Shukra's mahadasha has begun. In the Dashamsha, Shukra is in your 5th: you are getting the support of bhagya. No problem.
4. A government job. What are you preparing for? An officer's post? Something related to export, to education, to teaching? A government-job yoga is certainly forming in the chart. The state government is fine.
5. Banking. Mangala and Shukra: you are looking at banking. In Shukra's mahadasha, banking. Shukra is in Guru's rashi, so 110 percent, you will get it. Guru is with Rahu, and in the 10th house too, so that is also a good conjunction. In Shukra we want a little flavour of Guru, and Rahu is getting activated for you, so now we are connecting.
6. The result. Within Shukra, Guru's period is coming, and there is a chance of a result. Have you given an exam just now? Its result will come in February–March next year.
7. The exam date. He said the exam was next month, so it falls in your 8th month; the 9th month is the Sun's period. That is correct; continue, and it will happen. The 28th had just passed that day. If the exam falls between the 28th and the 2nd, there will be trouble. If it is within the 15th, it is fine, and from the 15th to the 23rd it is Guru's time, which is also good. Things are running positive.
8. The 23rd. He said the exam was on the 23rd. He has got it stuck right on the 23rd. It is giving an opportunity in the 3rd house. If God's grace is there it will happen; the chances are a little like this, but they are good. Your time is running well. Positive things are visible next year.

A quick reply: a good nakshatra period

To another viewer: thank you very much. Do it with trust in God. The time running now is fine. In the nakshatra, the period running now is good. Don't worry; continue.

Reading 9: A husband's chart, with his wife in the chat

A woman asked about her husband's chart. Their family runs a business in partnership, and he was preparing for an election.

The chart, as I read it. A Shani–Shukra combination in the birth chart. The Moon's period had started on Guru. In the Dashamsha: Surya and Ketu on the lagna, Shukra in the 4th, Shani fine. In the Navamsa: Guru on the lagna, and Shukra with Ketu. A Mangala–Rahu combination and a Mangala–Chandra combination are also named. Guru's mahadasha, with Mangala's period running in it. For the election I also looked at the D4.

What I said, in order.

1. Two ruined years. Arre baap re baap! After 2024 you must have been ruined. 2025 must have gone to waste. Are fights and quarrels happening at home regularly too?
2. Who speaks. There is a Shani–Shukra combination. Does the wife not let you speak? Only one of the two of you can speak: either you will speak, or the wife will speak. The wife is a little heavy.
3. The partnership. In partnership you will get betrayed. Were you cheated in a partnership? Is money stuck right now? The Moon's period has started on Guru. Did you give money to someone, trusting them, in 2025? From the end of 2024 into the beginning of 2025, has there been a loss in a partnership?
4. The settling. Now its bhugtan will happen: the settling of that account.
5. The Dashamsha. Surya and Ketu on the lagna: a very beautiful Dashamsha chart. Shukra is in the 4th, so the person also likes watching movies at home. Shani is fine here too.
6. Fighting. For business you also have to look at the relationship a little, so I opened the Navamsa. Guru is on the lagna. Arre baap re: there is a case of physical fighting, maar-peet, here. Is there a lot of fighting and quarrelling? Did it happen earlier?
7. The sexual life. Between the two of you, fix your physical compatibility, your sexual life. That is where the problem is, because Shukra is with Ketu. One person has a problem: when the other touches, he or she has a difficulty with it. Until husband and wife get along properly with each other, there will be problems. Then your business will become fine. If the relationship is going fine, there is no problem at all, because Guru is on the lagna: if things are running on God's trust (Bhagwan bharose), it is right.
8. The husband. As per the chart, your husband should have a little problem in his sexual life: there is a Mangala–Rahu combination.
9. Friends and the election. Does your husband roam around a lot with friends? How big is his circle? She wrote that he was preparing to contest an election. Good: now it will be fun. The time is running right.
10. The circle. There are no children. Look at this: he is very much with his dost-yaar, his friends, and there are no children. There is a Mangala–Chandra combination: that is why his friends are supporting him, pumping him up (chadha rahe hain). Guru's mahadasha is running, and he will get the Moon's support. In the election there is a very big circle. It will pull money.
11. The election result. Guru's mahadasha with Mangala's period: I looked at the D4, because he is contesting. He will get support. It is a good chart. The time is going well, the Mangala period is right, and he is going in the right direction.
12. Drinking and the child. Tell him to cut down on peena-khana, drinking and eating, because I can see it goes on regularly. And the reason there is no child is a problem in the sperm count.

Reading 10: A government job and the stomach

The last viewer of the session, who had waited a long time, asked about a government job.

The chart, as I read it. Guru's dasha running. Blessings of the mother in the 4th house. In the D10: inside Guru, Shani's period getting stuck; the Shani dasha running fine until March 2025, then Budha–Ketu, then the Dashamsha's Guru, with a two-month period from the end of 2025.

What I said, in order.

1. The year. In 2026 a yoga is forming. In 2026 it will happen.
2. The mother. In the 4th house you should get your mother's support: there are the blessings of the mother.
3. The periods. Your Shani dasha is going fine until March 2025. After that it went into Budha–Ketu, and there the chances are not forming. Then a good dasha comes: the Dashamsha's Guru, with a two-month period from the end of 2025. In 2026 the yoga is forming.
4. The stomach. In Guru a health issue is coming. That means you did something wrong in Rahu. Is there a stomach problem? There should be a bacteria problem.
5. The gut. It is a gut-bacteria issue in the stomach. The enzyme that should be released is not being released: there is an enzyme problem.
6. His further question. No, that kind of time is not running right now. It will become fine.

That was the end of the session. We looked at many people's charts, and we will keep looking at them regularly.

Practice 1: Shukra and Budha in Tula in the 8th

This was the practice session after all twelve houses had been taught. I started with the new students. I asked one: suppose someone has a Shukra–Budha combination in the 8th house, and the sign is Tula. What will the prediction be? I drew it as we went.

The chart. Tula (7) sits in the 8th, so the lagna is Mina. Shukra, lord of Tula and Vrishabha, rules the 8th and the 3rd. Budha is the 4th lord, the lord of Mithuna.

The first student.

• He began: "Shukra is found in the 8th house when, as you told us, intercourse happened during the pregnancy." Right. But that is very common. I think 70 to 80 percent of couples go for sex during pregnancy too. So how will you actually validate this? It becomes a useless point.
• He went on: "The 8th house shows depth, so such a person will be very loving; he loves in depth." In the 8th house? Which graha is debilitated in the 8th? The Moon. And what is the Moon the karaka of? Expression, emotions. So when Shukra goes there, from where will he love? He agreed. Next. Do not be afraid; continue.
• He tried to bring in what I had taught about Budha with Shukra, but the sign would not come to his mind. Take some time. Drink a little water, and start writing.

The second student.

• "If there is business, it will be a source of hidden money." Very good. Then he started on Budha. No, do not keep Budha there yet. Tell me Shukra.
• "It is Shukra's own house; Shukra is the lord there, so he will be comfortable in Tula." What is "comfortable", brother? Everyone is comfortable. This prediction is nothing.
• "There will be a chance of an extramarital affair." Yes. With whom?
• "A sibling..." The extramarital affair will be with a sibling? "No, I mean it will stay within the family, relation-wise." And how is the family coming from the 8th house? "The 8th house is the sign of the extramarital." But the sign of the extramarital here is Tula. "No, Budha and Shukra are together in it."
• Do not take that Budha combination yet. Leave Budha. First handle one planet. Why are you going for a threesome? First satisfy one partner; satisfy at least one partner. And I had even given you a prediction for Budha with Shukra: there was a hint in it.

My reading, one layer at a time.

1. Shukra alone. What is in the 8th house? Shukra. Shukra in the 8th, in Tula, can very easily go into an extramarital affair. Because Budha is with him, you were saying it can go with siblings, or with someone younger. But remove Budha for now: Shukra in Tula in the 8th.
2. Appreciation. Shukra represents your quality of appreciating, how much you appreciate others. That is exactly the 7th house: "You are looking beautiful." Now, in the 8th house there is Ketu's effect. Will he be able to speak? Curd will set in his mouth (munh mein dahi jam jayega). He will not be able to appreciate his wife.
3. Fights over money. Wherever Shukra is, there is fighting over money; he is the guru of the asuras. So when he goes into the 8th, with whom will the fight over giving be? There will be a fight with the in-laws over money.
4. Now mix in Budha. Whom will Budha represent here? The jija or the bahnoi, a sister's husband or a brother-in-law, or the husband of your mausi (mother's sister).
5. Sudden gain. The 8th house represents a sudden gain of wealth: anything you get suddenly.
6. Lordship. Tula is in the 8th, so Shukra is the lord of the 3rd and the 8th. The 3rd is any money, any medal, that you have gained through what you did. And Tula is marriage. So we predict what will happen to the person after marriage: whatever skill set he used to practise, he will leave all of it. It has gone into loss, into the 8th.
7. The married life. We will say the married life will either slowly improve or slowly deteriorate. Here, deteriorate. And with Budha sitting with Shukra, a third party will be introduced there.
8. The mother. Budha is the 4th lord: the lord of Mithuna has gone with Shukra into the 8th. The relationship will get spoiled because of the mother. The mother could have a kidney problem: the 4th lord going into the 8th. And the person may have had a very traumatic childhood: again the 4th lord going into the 8th.
9. The wife. The wife will be soft-spoken. Why? Because the 8th is the wife's 2nd house, and Shukra sits in it. And the wife's family can be rich, because Shukra sits in Tula.
10. The income. From where will this person earn his salary? One from known sources, one from unknown sources, as you said. Very nice.

So you have to use it properly. More predictions can be made in this chart, which I did not go into in detail, because I had not yet taught the rashis. The old students know how deeply we analyse it when we go into that.

Practice 2: Chandra and Ketu in the 5th

Next I said: suppose someone has Ketu and the Moon in the 5th house. You people have to practise. Do not think that you do not have to practise. If you do not practise, you will not be able to learn.

The student's first attempt. "Ketu and the Moon in the 5th house. First, there will be some discord around emotional relationships, because Ketu and the Moon are together. And second, his creativity: when he puts his hand on something emotional, the creativity in it will come out beyond." Creativity? How are you seeing creativity, and how are you seeing "beyond"? "I am trying, right or wrong." Yes, continue; no problem. "The 5th house shows creativity, and the Moon is there, emotionally. If a person with the Moon and Ketu is writing poetry, he can add motherly emotion. And because Ketu is there, there can be a beyond connection, a oneness with the universe."

Then I stopped him. Give khat-khat predictions. The way you are thinking is not right. What all do we see from the 5th house? Then I took him through it point by point.

1. The partner. "Relationships." Yes: the boyfriend–girlfriend kind of relationship. Which partner will you like, now that the Moon and Ketu have gone there? "A little older, an elder, because Ketu gives elder." Elder would be given by Shani, no? So how is Ketu giving elder? He accepted that: "Whoever comes into the relationship, only then will his emotional state become disbalanced." Good. And what kind of partner? "It is the Moon, so first, someone of a motherly nature will be liked." Yes: you connected it very, very well. Such a partner will be liked to whom nothing has to be said: without speaking, he understands, the way a mother understands, "Are you hungry?"
2. Using the book. Next he said creativity. Creativity you have already told me; tell me more: what else do we see from the 5th house? "When a person is reading anything, he can drown in that energy..." Why are you doing it so loosely? Go and look. You have the Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam book, no? "Yes, I only got it today; I have not read it." Take it out and open the 5th house. He found it and began reading the Ketu lines: "Ketu prefers a minimal, professional and quiet space, naturally introvert..." Arre, what do we see from the 5th house? Look above. He read the list: wisdom and depth, and second, education.
3. Education. "Because of Ketu, a break will come." Good: now you are predicting correctly. And because of the Moon, he will not be able to settle his mind in it. He will do nautanki (drama) about going for his education: "I don't want to go. I don't want to do this course. I won't do it here. I don't like this subject. That teacher beats us a lot; I won't go because of him."
4. Staying on the point. "And whatever his style is, it will become spiritual later on." Arre, leave that, that he will become spiritual later on. Stay on this. Tell the next one.
5. Mantra siddhi. "I am a little stuck on mantra siddhi." Where are you stuck? Whom does the Moon represent? "Emotion." It represents Chandra, no? And who appears in the Chandravamsha, the dynasty of the Moon? Bhagavan Sri Krishna appears in the Chandravamsha. So he will do His bhakti.
6. Punya karma. Go with punya karma, accumulated merit. Don't worry, you are doing well; predict it, don't be afraid. The punya karma is from the mother's side. And there is also pending karma with the mother, because the Moon is with Ketu.
7. A lifelong bond with the mother. The student said: "One thing I have personally seen: whoever has the Moon in the 5th, their bond with the mother runs very long. My own mother has the Moon in the 5th; I have noticed this." Yes, it is from the past life: the mother herself is coming from the past life, so that will always stay. And the 5th is naturally the Sun's house, so he will take her on with responsibility, his whole life long. "Yes, he takes care of her a lot right now."
8. Chair and position. "Naturally it is the 5th house, and Ketu has come here, so I have seen that whoever has Ketu in the 5th..." You don't have to see. Use the logic. "Okay, sir: it will be research-oriented." I am asking you chair and position, so tell me chair and position. "That part I could not understand." What are you not understanding? The Moon is mood itself. Whatever comes into his head, he will leave that position: "I have no attachment to this. Here, people are not listened to." The Moon represents the masses. Why are you doing it like a donkey? Use your brain.
9. How he holds a position. He will come into a position and treat everyone like a mother. "Have you eaten? Is everyone treating you well? Are you getting enough respect in the office? Does everyone listen to you?" A mother talks exactly like this. And it is with Ketu, so he will not even know who is right and who is wrong. Whoever cries, he will say that one is right. What is Ketu? The headless torso. The Moon is the head. So he always takes decisions from emotion. All his decisions will be emotional.

Next would have been the grandfather, but I did not stretch it further with him. You did well. Don't worry; don't feel anything. You did really well. The one who was crying yesterday, "I am not able to do this assignment": the assignment is exactly like this.

The grandfather, by an older student. Then I showed the class cut to cut with one of my older students. Predict the grandfather.

• "First, in his decision-making the grandfather will have a very intuitive side. And for the grandfather's position, there isn't much."
• "We can also give this from the mother's family: the mother will do a lot for her family. She may not get that much back, but she will stay very emotionally attached and do as much as she can to support her family."
• "And the child too: the child may come after a lot of prayers, after mantras and such things."

Yes. Wherever the Moon sits, that thing comes after a lot of crying. Until he cries, he will not get it. Good.

And I added: the grandfather will be sanki, eccentric and obsessive, because the Moon and Ketu are on his lagna. His health will stay weak. He will always stay troubled. He will be controlled by his wife. There will always be suicidal tendencies. Moon and Ketu in the lagna.

The older student added one more: "He will study the same way too: when he feels like it, he will do half the course and not the other half. He will study for a while and leave in the middle. Ketu gives the cut." Yes. Good.

Practice 3: Surya and Rahu in the 6th

Who will go next? Start the 6th house. And if I have given you material, use the material.

The student began: "In someone's 6th house there are the Sun and Rahu. So, rules and regulations... Sir, shall I go point by point?" Yes, go exactly like that: point by point, cut to cut, no intuition.

1. The first rush. "They are very good managers, but there will be ego clashes. Gastric problems will be chronic. And there can be clashes with the government; government money, tax money may be stuck somewhere." Yes, but do them one by one. Rules and regulations first: how will this person behave?
2. Tax and money: corrected. "He will make bypass rules to save tax from the government. People make small NGOs so the money goes there and the tax is saved. Or they do something against the bureaucracy, illegal things." Understand: does Surya–Rahu look to you like a lowly graha? The Sun and Rahu are together: how big will his ego be? Manifold. Surya and Rahu run after position. So why would he try to save money in the 6th house? Budha saves money; the trader is Budha. Shani saves. Budha and Shani make CAs. Surya–Rahu in the 6th will not make a CA. He will say: "Let everything be sold, let it all be sold, but my name should never be spoiled." That is Surya–Rahu: very high self-ego.
3. In the office. He will not get along with anyone in the office. Wherever he works, he works with his chest puffed out (chauda karke). That is the 6th house. If he sees a manager stealing or cheating, he will scold him right there and point it out on the spot. In the office meetings he will speak confidently. Why? The Sun has gone into the 6th, and the 6th house is your office space.
4. Rules. He will make his own rules and regulations. He will not follow at all the rules of Shani's kind, like saying "sir, sir" to everyone. He will say: "Nonsense. It is your work; you are doing it."
5. Disease. "High gastric problems, acid-related issues." Yes. "The Sun also represents bone, so the bones may be big: inside perhaps not that dense, but broad." That is fine. And Surya–Rahu gives the problem of epilepsy (mirgi). If he becomes a doctor, Surya–Rahu always makes a radiologist, people who deal with cancer patients: Surya–Rahu represents X-rays. Whenever the Sun and Rahu meet, ego is always mounted on his head, madness is mounted on it, and that is why the epileptic fits come. The Sun is the karaka of heat, and fever comes from the Sun. So with Surya–Rahu in the 6th, the person will have a lot of heat or fever, the kind that stays at 103 or 104.
6. Enemies. "Because there is Rahu, he will dominate the enemies, by hook or by crook. Enemies will not be able to stay, even in the office. Conflict will be very high: with a lot of ego and manifold energy, he will attack so that there is no chance of escaping." Okay. Next.
7. The anarthas, the unwanted inner tendencies. - Lust: "for money it may be, or position." Yes: lust for position, not money. - Anger: "anger will definitely be there." Yes: "If you won't listen to me, get out of my sight." - Greed: "because he wants position." Yes: he will eat up his manager. - Pride: "he feels that what he knows, nobody else knows." - Envy: "he will not count anyone in front of himself." Good.
8. The maternal uncle. How will the mama be? "Big name, big fame." Okay. His married life will be bad: Surya–Rahu has gone onto his lagna.
9. Competitive exams: corrected. "Good, very good." There will be deception, always: Rahu is with it. He will not get it. When Rahu comes onto position, it makes it unstable. He will not get support from the government.
10. The tag. A student asked: "Some people who did not get into IIT for the B.Tech try for the M.Tech; if not the M.Tech, they go in through law. They want the tag. Is he in this category?" Surya–Rahu will not run after a tag. They create tags. They give certificates; they do not take certificates from anyone. Once his Sun matures, nobody's opinion makes any difference to him. Surya–Rahu, or strong malefics, work in start-ups. They do not work in regular companies; they would get fired immediately.

But a good prediction.

Practice 4: Mangala, Shukra and Shani in the 7th

Let's go with the next person. From the second batch, I can't see you people. Second batch, don't spoil the quality. Raise your hand, anyone. Be confident; don't be troubled. Good: a lot of people are actually taking it up.

A newer student.

• "In the 7th house, Mangala, Shukra and Shani. I will look at the book a little and refer to it." Yes, the book. You have to look at the book; that is why it was given.
• "The 7th house is of relationships. We also look at the 7th house for business." Yes. First take them one by one: take marriage.
• "From Mangala, what did you say, sir?" Shukra, Mangala, Shani. Do you have a notebook beside you or not? No, right? This is how the questions come. Tell me directly about relationship and marriage. Leave everything else.
• "The partner will be aggressive." Aggressive meaning how? "A little bit quarrelsome." What is "a little quarrel"? Quarrels happen in every relationship. "From Mangala, more aggressive." More aggressive meaning how? "Quarrelsome, a little angry." How is an angry one? Every man stays like that. Slowly maya, the illusory energy, beats us so much that the emotions inside a man die. He faces so much outside. Wherever he shows his emotions, right there maya gets his corpse ready. Slowly everyone becomes stone. That is very common. Tell me something different: what kind of anger? "I can't say. Anger, this much only."
• So I gave it to him. Mangala–Shani makes an engineer. He is passionate about things, about material things. Now Shukra is there, so the husband will be a person who earns heaps. Why? Mangala is passion, Mangala is your vehicle, Shani is the road, and on it he is carrying money: he is carrying Shukra.
• "Since Shani is there, the marriage may be late." Yes, but Mangala is counterbalancing it.
• "Since Shukra is there, the partner will be good-looking." Okay, but how is "good-looking"? Everyone is good-looking. Tell me the characteristics.
• "There is a Shukra–Mangala combination. From Shukra he can be a little soft-spoken; from Mangala, aggressive... how will we do this, sir?" You yourself: this is the very scenario that will come in front of you. "Sir, this much only I can predict." No problem.

An older student. Any other warrior? The old warriors.

1. The spouse's body. "Mangala will give the spouse a good body. Shani will give an elderly look, a little more mature than his age." Good.
2. Passion: corrected. "Shukra and Mangala give good passion in marriage. But at times, when Shani plays its role, he will be absolutely away from the spouse, not interested." No. The same thing I keep telling you: Shani, wherever it is, does not want to change.
3. Stubborn. "Shani makes a person very stubborn." Yes. What is Mangala–Shukra? Sexual impulse. What is Shani? Very materialistic, and stubborn. So however he wants to play with her, he will play like that. She will be like a toy car. However he feels like it, he will have sex with her like that. Whether she feels like it or not, says so or not, makes no difference to him: "If I want it, it will go this way." He will dominate very aggressively, because it has become a sport for him. Mangala–Shani: give challenges, take challenges. Physical abuse can also be there.
4. What makes it work. So how should both partners' sexual impulse be? At peak. "Both should match each other." Yes: both should have a very, very strong sexual impulse. Then the marriage will run very well.
5. Hot blood. This is a warrior's combination, because the blood is very heated here. There can be physical fights too. For the husband: he can kill or he can die. Mangala is there.
6. Suspicion. "You are mine. You will stay only mine. You cannot go here and there." If you so much as looked at someone else: Shani in the 7th suspects a lot. And the real fun comes when Ketu is added to this. Then he becomes completely sanki: "You were looking at him, weren't you? You are talking to him, aren't you?"
7. Still a good combination. The only thing required is that both should be madly in love with each other and both their libidos should be high. Then the marriage will sustain.
8. The provider. He is madly in love with the partner and can do anything for her. If she wants a Rolls-Royce, Mangala–Shani in the 7th has the guts to bring a Rolls-Royce. If she wants a 10,000-rupee bag, he will get her the 10,000-rupee bag. He will give her all the material things she needs. And this love of Mangala, Shukra and Shani matures slowly, when the blood calms down. A passionate lover.
9. Business. The same will be there in business too. You will be very good in business, because Mangala–Shani is found in builders' charts: very passionate for money, very passionate for building things, creating housing societies.
10. Gadgets. A student added: "The spouse may also like gadgets, electronic gadgets." Very nice. "Shall we go to the next point?" Elaborate this one more. Mangala–Shani will even make sex toys.
11. Age and maturity. A student asked: "Will Shani cause early maturity, the husband becoming a little frail earlier than the wife?" No. Mangala stays with Shani, so it gets balanced. "Can the age difference with the spouse be too much because of Shani?" No. Mangala–Shani does not like that body type. They will be of the same age, and the height will also be the same. You choose a vehicle you can actually ride, don't you? If your body is heavy, you will not like a 130 or 150 cc engine at all; you will take a 180 cc, a 200 cc. That same cc is here, in the relationship.
12. The business, in detail. "In business he will be very aggressive and will try to earn money by hook or by crook." Yes. "He will be more on the technical side, like engineering." Yes: he can have his own company. "An architect." Yes. "An interior designer too, because Shukra is there." Very nice: the wife can be an interior designer too.
13. The wife's hair. Shani is also hair. So how will the wife's hair be, with Shani alongside Mangala and Shukra? "Definitely long, and black because of Shani." Yes, good.
14. Partnership. "If he enters a partnership, he will always dominate the partners." Yes. My way or the highway. Plain and simple, Mangala has only one thing: "Stay with me, go by my reckoning." And Budha's qualities should never come into it, fighting over five or ten rupees.
15. Public perception. "People will perceive him as aggressive but a nice person, because Shukra and Mangala are both there. He will appear aggressive, but when someone talks to him and gets to know him, they realise he is basically a nice person." Yes. And a money-making machine too. "And he will be very mature in his talk, because Shani is there, so he will be able to guide others."

When the culture keeps the marriage going

Then I added a pattern you will meet. Extramarital affairs will be there, Budha will be in the 7th house, and still the relationship goes on. The wife will know, the husband will know, that they are involved with someone else, or that she likes someone, but they will laugh it off, mazaak-mazaak mein, as a joke. The reason is that that is the culture there. You have to understand that there is a fragment of Budha and Mangala in it. That is what they do around relationships.

That is what I am telling you: things are different from one place to another. We will slowly understand these dynamics as we grow in prediction.

What my students told me, and what I answered

Near the end of the course I asked everyone who had attended 60 to 70 percent of the lectures to share their realisations: how it was for them. I teach at a pace, and it is necessary; if I do not teach at a pace, you will all fall asleep. These are the questions and the feedback from those sessions, with my answers.

A student asked: "Are the grahas in the houses read on the basis of the Kalapurusha kundali?"

No. The houses we have studied are twelve houses, so the 12th house is simply the 12th house. "So only on the basis of what the houses denote, what they mean?" Yes.

A student asked: "What is your view of the Lal Kitab?"

"I ask because you used the word barsati nala (a seasonal storm drain), which is a Lal Kitab concept." That is exactly it: it is mixed in, here and there. But it is a thick book, and its remedies are very heavy. So we use it, but in a simple way. It is a valid book. I myself do not know how much I use it, but I do use it.

Why this study does not tire you

A student said: "After coming from the office I join your session, and three or four hours simply pass. When I study for an interview or something technical, I cannot sit that long; I get distracted and can only do it under pressure. Here four hours go, and I don't feel stressed or irritated. I think it is interest."

Yes. There is our natural inclination, and it is also fun to understand how things run. It is about life. Look at the Gita. It explains that whatever has a soul is not jada, inert matter. What we study in the material subjects is jada, and that is why there is not much interaction with it and it is not much fun. But what we study here has atma, soul, in it. It has consciousness. So when we study it we are able to connect, because we are also living beings.

When you study something jada, you do not enjoy it, because its nature and your nature are very different. You are the jivatma, the living soul; that is an inferior nature. Spirituality is also living, and you are also living, so the interaction is good.

You can use a coffee machine, but you cannot love it. You can love a person, because he is also conscious, and you are also conscious. In the same way spiritual knowledge is conscious. It can embrace you, and you can embrace it too.

A student asked: "If no graha is in the 11th but Budha's rashi is there, does the same effect come?"

Yes, the effect will come, but less, because the grahas are the delivery agents. But it will come in that same way.

A student asked: "Shukra in the 8th gives success either in spirituality or in marital happiness. Why?"

"Does it mean the marriage will not happen at all, or that its happiness will be blacked out, or what happens in spirituality?" The 8th house is your Muladhara chakra. Either you mould its energy into the form of knowledge, or into the sexual life. You can use the energy in one of the two places; you cannot use it in both. It does not channelise both ways. That is why, if Shukra is in the 8th, the person can do bhakti, but he cannot do the occult. That becomes tough for him.

"And you said there are high chances of an extramarital affair after marriage. So the chance will come, and it is up to the native whether to accept it?" The person does fall.

"Is there some solution? If the person knows he is going to fall, there must be some way to escape it." That is what I was telling you: only Bhagavan can actually save you. Nobody else can save you.

Saturation, and teaching cut to cut

The student who had taught three batches herself went on: "You spoke about the saturation point in education. I think I got saturated in jyotish, because there were so many stories that now, where I used to predict so well and give remedies, I am not able to predict. You ask me about a partner, I talk about Mangala, and I feel, 'He will say Shukra.' The saturation you talk about, and the question-paper solving you talk about: now I can understand how it should be cut. The notes you gave, I had printed them and gone through all of them. Now that I have attended these classes from the start, an understanding is coming. I told people: 'Sir is distributing diamonds for free; go and take them.'"

Thank you so much. So teach exactly like this: cut to cut. Do not tell stories at all when you are teaching.

How I study

She is very sincere. I am not that sincere. When I study a half-hour lecture, I get up four times to drink water. I study slowly, at leisure. When I teach you, the effect of Dhanu (Sagittarius) comes into me, and I teach very fast. But when I study myself, the effect of my debilitated Mangala comes into me: I study for half an hour, then I get distracted, then I use Instagram for ten minutes, then I study again.

That is why I build the lectures slowly, and it takes quite a lot of my time. When I study, I need time to process. That is also why I never used to do live classes. I always did recorded classes, because in those, if I wandered off a little or drank some water, it was fine. Thank you, everyone: there is good potential in you for studying.

Doing the assignments slowly

A student who had done the whole course said: "Initially I had a lot of interest, but I got very stuck in the assignments. I searched the net for help, but they tell a little and hide a little, and that spins the mind. I am a very slow learner; it has to go in layer by layer. When I found your video, it was what I needed; it was a blessing."

Great. Now do the assignments properly. If you need help, I can give you my own assignments too, but do not copy them.

"I have been stuck on the third chart for ten days, and I have done only five. In the first two I made 212 predictions, but after that they kept decreasing, down to 15." The energy actually keeps draining. So do it slowly: sit, and sit, and do it. It will come only by doing the assignments.

"My own chart is very bad, and my health is also getting bad. All the malefics are sitting in one place." No problem, but continue the process.

Keeping the routine

A student said: "Whatever chart came to my mind, everything felt very relatable. But the schedule was hectic. Yesterday's class stretched very long, and we have a routine of sleeping early and waking early, and then the class again the next day without a break. What kept us going was that you are doing it too: you wake early and chant sixteen rounds, and you stay awake for us. So we should do this. Otherwise perhaps we would never have done it." No, no. Sleep tomorrow, on Sunday. That is why I finished it today.

"For us matajis (the women devotees), the routine work goes on anyway. Once we get up at five, we do not sleep again. There is no break." Yes, mataji, I understand. Thank you so much. Hare Krishna.

Bind the notes, and relate them

• One student said that in the earlier batch she had been lost, "this went into the 4th, the 7th, the 8th," and nothing made sense; now there is a direction. Refer to the notes a lot, especially the predictions part. Bind them with big spirals, so that you can fold them open easily and write your own realisations and your own predictions in them. That will help you a lot.
• Another said the best part is that I set a benchmark: hearing cut-to-cut predictions, they know from today the level they have to touch, and the approach I take to prediction, and to astrology as a whole, helps in itself. Yes, because you will see a lot of things that are very different.
• He added that I am Rahu-driven, and that the teaching shows it: an unconventional approach, unconventional techniques, unconventional topics, in sync with today's society and today's times. That is the quality of Ashlesha; that is the quality of the 8th house. It is not the quality of Rahu. Rahu would take you towards the stock market in astrology, but Shukra will take you to relationships.
• Another said that for a year and a half his study had gone on in bits and pieces and the threads did not connect. If you relate it from now on, it will all start becoming clear.
• Another, who had joined an earlier batch midway and missed many concepts, said that starting from the basics made them clear. Good. So what do we have to do with these things? Understand them.

An assignment of mine: researching real charts

Some of you asked to see an assignment email, so I put my own on screen and a student read it out. It is one of my own assignments: I had worked on some charts, the charts of serial killers and psychopaths.

This is the basis of the analysis:

1. The lagna should be in a special position.
2. The Moon and the 4th house should be afflicted.
3. There is an imbalance in the energy of the chart.
4. The person is secretive in nature.

Then I give the divisional charts and go into the research. That is the first chart. Then I go to the second chart and do the research in the D4, the D10 and the D16. Then the third, the fourth and the fifth chart.

After that, look: Mangala gives passion; it is not related to a gay relationship. Check the D9. It is very clear: Shukra and Mangala will not give a gay relationship. Then check the lagna of the D9.

When you are working on real relationships, always look for Shukra. You will find it in a special position: exalted or debilitated, or with Mandi, Gulika and so on. You will also find a connection of the 3rd and 7th lords, or of Shukra and Budha. And as you go into the advanced lectures, like the D9, check the rising signs and the lagna of the D9. That is the hint: there you will find most of the story.

This is how you have to send it. And it takes a lot of hours: 17 or 18 hours for one assignment, because you are writing it and fine-tuning it. It is like a research paper you are always doing. That is why, when a student said she finds it a great struggle, I understood her pain. You send a lot of assignments, and it becomes very heavy.

One line I gave you, that in the 4th house we look at the malefics, has helped a lot. Otherwise you are always left with the doubt: will he get beaten or not?

Do not become insecure

A lot of you are doing really well. The prediction a student just made was really good. Whoever made the first prediction, that was good. Another of you is also going correctly: you are going right, so don't worry on that part. You are going well. Don't worry.

So you must not become insecure. I have seen this problem with a lot of my students. Last time too, with two or three students: they were doing well, but they said, "Sir, I am fed up with you." Understand: you have to go slowly. Don't get upset. Just stay. Stay on the ship. Slowly you will reach that level.

Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprashnena sevaya, upadekshyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva-darshinah. Tad viddhi pranipatena: go to the guru. Pariprashnena sevaya: ask him questions, with humility. Upadekshyanti te jnanam: they have seen that thing, so they will show it to you too.

So don't overthink: "It is not happening for me; I am completely gaya-guzra (hopeless)." Everyone is like that at the start. In the Navamsa it is the same with everyone. Every time the correction is: "Look, here you left out the 4th house; here you left out this." It has to become inbuilt. Why do many people stop submitting assignments? Because after three or four times they get frustrated: it is very tough, and they did not get it.

So start. Start predicting. Don't worry too much. Keep hammering, continuously. You will reach there. I will teach you the rashis soon; I am preparing the material.

I don't expect anything from you. I don't even expect you to become very good at predictions. That you will become; that I know. At the start many people joined just for fun, and in the beginning I used to read the charts for them. Now people see what good astrologers they have become. Just today I was with one of them, and he was making great predictions in a personal consultation. You will reach there. And the best part is that you are young, fresh minds. You can listen.

We have to learn. We do not have to prove that we are very good. We are gadhe, donkeys, only; we know that, because maya is very powerful. But we have to slowly sync our energy.

And what has been given to you is very valuable. You do not realise how much I used to struggle when I was doing my assignments. You have this bomb: you can look things up. You can look at each graha in the 7th house, what I have written for Mangala there, what I have written for Shukra, and then quote it and make the predictions. This is just the beginning. Calmly, slowly. I will keep hammering you, and after that we will go to the rashis.

We have to learn. We do not have to prove that we are very good.

Remember

• No bias. Predict, do not judge: the 8th extracts the secrets from the chart, the 9th refines them into advice and remedy.
• Predict on a blank chart first, and let the client confirm. Never fish the answer out with a trick question; give clear-cut timing.
• Be a sniper, not a philosopher: khat-khat, point by point, one graha at a time, and say what kind, not just "aggressive".
• No intuition, no guesswork, no "I have seen": the house, the rashi and the graha, and a reason for every line.
• Practise like mathematics: draw the chart by hand, write the predictions beside it, and do 48 to 50 predictions across the twelve houses. Remember concepts, never predictions.
• Check the birth time (AM or PM) and place before you read. Look properly; a casual look shows only a little.
• Take five or ten real charts: not every chart gives a divorce, and culture changes how a combination plays out.
• The live readings keep every confirmation (the parents' health with a debilitated Sun, the two breakups, the maternal uncle's affair, the partnership loss) and every miss (the maternal uncles, the drinking).
• Assignments take time: one research assignment takes me 17 to 18 hours. Do them slowly, use the material, and continue the process.
• Do not become insecure. Stay on the ship, approach with humility and questions, and learn rather than prove.

Check yourself

1. In the practice session, why did I call the first student's point about intercourse during pregnancy "useless"?

• aBecause the 8th house has nothing to do with pregnancy
• bBecause it is true of most couples, so it cannot be validated
• cBecause Shukra is debilitated in Tula

2. Which house judges, and which house extracts the data?

• aThe 9th judges and refines; the 8th extracts the secrets, from the chart and not from the client
• bThe 8th judges; the 9th extracts
• cThe 7th judges; the 12th extracts

3. A student said Ketu with the Moon in the 5th gives an older partner. What was my correction?

• aKetu gives a younger partner
• bAge is Shani's matter, so justify every prediction from the graha's own nature
• cOnly Rahu gives an older partner

4. Surya and Rahu are in the 6th. Will this person bend the rules to save tax?

• aYes, because Rahu always cheats
• bNo: Surya and Rahu chase position and name; saving money belongs to Budha and Shani
• cYes, because the 6th is the house of debt

5. What illness did I link with Surya and Rahu together in the 6th?

• aKidney stones
• bEpilepsy, with high fever of 103 to 104
• cWeak eyesight only

6. How many predictions does the house-by-house assignment ask for?

• aTwelve, one per house
• bAbout 48 to 50: three or four from each of the twelve houses
• cAs many as you can memorise

7. Mangala, Shukra and Shani are in the 7th. What did I say about the spouses' age and build?

• aA big age gap, because of Shani
• bThe same age and the same height; Mangala balances Shani
• cThe spouse will be much younger and smaller

8. In the same 7th-house chart, what must both partners have for the marriage to sustain?

• aSeparate bedrooms
• bA very strong sexual impulse in both, and to be madly in love
• cA business partnership together

9. Shukra is in Tula in the 8th for a Mina lagna. What happens to the person's skill set after marriage?

• aIt doubles
• bHe leaves it, because Shukra, the 3rd lord, has gone into the 8th
• cIt moves abroad

10. In a live reading the lagna lord had gone into the 8th with the Moon and Guru, and the exam results kept failing. What did I prescribe?

• aChange the exam
• bListen to a guru regularly, the Hanuman Chalisa 11 times, daily *shringar* of Gopal-ji, and prayer to Sati Mata for the Moon–Mars combination
• cWear a gemstone

11. In a live reading I asked a Mesha lagna whether his maternal uncles had been ruined, and he said no. What did I conclude?

• aThat he was lying
• bThat his Ketu with Shani is not very powerful
• cThat the birth time was wrong

12. Why did I say Shukra in the 8th lets a person do *bhakti* but makes the occult hard?

• aBecause Shukra hates the 8th
• bThe 8th is the Muladhara chakra, and its energy goes to knowledge or to sexual life, not to both
• cBecause the 8th is Guru's house