Brihajjataka 8

Planetary Periods and Sub-periods

Those [planets] situated in the cardinal, succedent, and cadent houses from the strongest among the ascendant, the Sun, and the Moon
give their results in the first, middle, and late age;
for the maturation of results does not fail to occur; in the absence of [planets] in cardinal houses, the ripening of results indeed occurs earlier even in cadent houses.

Whichever longevity was produced by whichever [planet], that very [measure] is to be reckoned as its planetary period; the first [period belongs] to the strongest;
when many are equal, to the one granting more years; and when they are equal, to the one that rose first.

A planet situated in the same sign takes away half and gives [it to the other]; one in a trine gives a third of its own; one in the seventh house gives a seventh part;
one in a quadrate house gives a fourth of its result; and along with the horā, thus situated mutually, they bring about the ripening [of sub-periods].

Having converted these varied positions to a common denominator, all freed from fractions below,
the multipliers in the sum of the years of the planetary period are according to their shares; the divisor is their sum; thus is the division of the sub-period.

A planetary period is full for one fully powerful in its degree of exaltation; empty for one devoid of strength;
for one gone to its degree of debilitation or in an enemy division, it should be known to have undesirable results at birth.

For [a planet] fallen from its exaltation, the designation is 'descending'; it is middling when in a friend's sign or in [its own] portion of exaltation.
For one departed from its depression, it is 'ascending'; it is base in debilitation, an enemy's sign, or [an enemy's] portions.

For [a planet] positioned in debilitation or an enemy's sign or portion, but residing in an auspicious house, mixed results are declared.
I shall now state, in accordance with the circumstances, the results in their planetary periods conforming to their designations.

In mutable signs, the decans are base, middling, and praised, respectively; in movable signs, the reverse.
In fixed signs, they are declared in order as inauspicious, auspicious, and middling: such are the planetary periods calculated for the horā.

One, two, nine, twenty, eighteen, twenty, and fifty are respectively the years of these planets: the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, the Sun, and Saturn.
The maturity of their planetary periods occurs in succession, each strengthened in its results by its own natural characteristics; at the end comes the planetary period of the ascendant—such is auspicious, [though] the Yavanas and some others do not desire it so.

When the planetary period begins with the ruler of the period situated in the ascendant, or in a friendly or benefic division, or when the ruler of the period is in the third, tenth, sixth, or eleventh house, it brings good fortune.
The Moon, situated in a friendly or exaltation sign, an upacaya house, a trine, or the seventh house from the ruler of the period, brings awareness of good results; and otherwise, bad ones.

When the planetary period begins with the cool-rayed [Moon] in its own domicile, it brings honour, wealth, and happiness; in Mars' domicile, it brings ruin to one's woman; in Mercury's domicile, it gives learning, friends, and wealth.
In Leo, it leads to agriculture in forts, forests, and routes of travel; in Venus's sign, it gives food; in Capricorn and Aquarius, it gives a base woman; in Jupiter's domicile, it brings honour, wealth, and happiness.

In the Sun's [period, one obtains] wealth through nails, teeth, hide, gold, cruelty, roads, kings, and battles, sharpness, courage, continuous delight in effort, renown, brilliance, and eminence;
[or] misfortunes arising from one's wife, son, wealth, enemies, weapons, fire, and kings; [or he becomes] generous, delighting in wicked deeds, with quarrels among his own servants, and afflicted by ailments and pain in the chest and belly.

Upon reaching the planetary period of the Moon, one obtains results arising from mantras, Brahmins, sugar cane, milk preparations, cloth, flowers, games, sesame seeds, and food through labour;
sleep, indolence, pleasure with gentle Brahmins and gods, birth of a daughter, intelligence, loss of renown and wealth, and enmity with the powerful and with one's own kin.

In Mars' [period, one obtains] wealth through crushing enemies, kings, brothers, land, wool, and goats; hatred toward sons, friends, wife, and brothers; hatred toward the learned and gurus;
diseases born of thirst, blood, fever, bile, and fractures; love-intrigues conducted with another's woman, delight in wicked people, devotion to unrighteousness, harshness, and severity.

In Mercury's [period, one obtains] wealth through envoys, friends, gurus, and Brahmins, praise from the learned, fame, skill, commodities, gold, mules, land, good fortune, and the acquisition of happiness;
sill in humour and attendance, accumulation of intellect, success in righteous actions, harshness, fatigue, imprisonment, mental sorrow, and affliction from the three humours.

In Jupiter's [period, there is] the rise of honour and virtues, accumulation of intellect, lustre, brilliance, eminence, greatness, effort, and wealth through mantras, statecraft, kings, study of scriptures, and sacred formulas;
an abundance of gold, horses, sons, elephants, and garments; friendship with good rulers; subtle understanding of deep hermitages, ear disease, and enmity with those devoted to false doctrines.

In Venus's [period, there is] delight in singing, joy, fragrant articles, food, drink, clothing, women, jewels, lustre, instruments of love, knowledge, and the arrival of cherished friends;
skill in buying and selling, acquisition of agriculture and buried treasures, inflow of wealth, and enmity and sorrow arising from affection toward crowds, rulers of the earth, outcasts, and the unrighteous.

Upon reaching Saturn's [period, there is] the acquisition of donkeys, camels, birds, she-buffaloes, and elderly women; honour born of authority over guilds, villages, and towns; and an influx of coarse grain;
phlegm, envy, wind, anger, delusion, dirty conditions, calamities, drowsiness, fatigue, reproach from servants, offspring, and wife, and even mutilation of limbs.

In auspicious planetary periods, planets bring about auspicious things; and those with inauspicious designations bring about their own inauspicious results.
In mixed periods, the results of the periods are mixed; the result of the horā is equal to that of the lord of the ascendant.

Whatever substance has been stated for each in the chapter on designations, and whatever livelihood and occupation has been taught for each,
and whatever arises from house, position, aspect, and planetary combinations—all that should be applied to that planet in its period.

All [planets], upon reaching their own planetary period, also manifest the aura produced by the great elements,
and their qualities born of earth, water, fire, wind, and ether, which are inferable through the nose, mouth, eyes, skin, and ears.

In a planetary period that yields auspicious results, the inner self is of the very same nature; it produces much friendship and inflow of wealth for men.
One should infer the current [period] from the ripening of the stated results; the realization of results matures through dreams, thoughts, and one's own bodily seeds.

When there is conflict between equal results of a single planet, one should pronounce the destruction [of both]; that which is greater ripens.
Another planet does not destroy an equal result of another planet; arriving at their own respective periods, they become givers of their results.