Brihajjataka 20

English (machine translation) 20

Language: English

Valiant, stubborn, with defective eyes, and pitiless when the Sun is in the ascendant; in Aries he has wealth and night-blind eyes; in Leo night-blindness; / in debilitation he is blind and destitute; when in Cancer he has bubble-like eyes. In the second house, the Sun gives abundant wealth, wealth seized by the king, and a diseased face.

20.2

With intellect and prowess when the Sun is in the third; devoid of happiness and afflicted in mind in the fourth; / childless and bereft of wealth in the trine; powerful and a conqueror of enemies when gone to the house of enemies.

20.3

Humiliated by women when the Sun is in the seventh; with very few sons and impaired vision in the eighth; / endowed with sons, wealth, and happiness in the ninth; endowed with happiness and valour in the midheaven; very wealthy in the eleventh; but fallen in the twelfth house.

20.4

Dumb, mad, dull, blind, deficient, deaf, and servant-like when the Moon is in the ascendant, / but in its own sign or exaltation, wealthy, with many sons, possessing property, and having a family; in the second house, / cruel in the third; in the fourth, endowed with sons and the qualities spoken of that house; with many enemies, of frail bodily fire and passion, sharp, and indolent in the sixth.

20.5

Jealous and of intense passion in the seventh; intelligent and tormented by illness in the eighth; / endowed with fortune, sons, friends, kin, and wealth when the Moon is in the ninth; / he attains completion endowed with virtue, wealth, intellect, and valor when in the midheaven; famous, endowed with the qualities of that house in the eleventh; vile and defective of limb in the twelfth.

20.6

When Mars is in the ascendant, his body is wounded; in the second, he eats bad food; in the ninth, he is sinful; elsewhere, he resembles the Sun. / When Mercury [is in the ascendant], he is learned; in the second, wealthy; in the third, very wicked; in the fourth, learned; in the fifth, a minister; in the sixth, without enemies; in the ninth, knowing righteousness and of renowned virtue; elsewhere, like the Sun.

20.7

Learned, of good speech, miserly, happy, intelligent, devoid of enemies, superior to his father, / vile, ascetic, wealthy, gainful, and wicked, respectively from the ascendant, when Jupiter is situated.

20.8

Skilled in love and happy in the ascendant; fond of quarrels and longing for coitus in the seventh; / happy when Venus is in the fifth; in the other signs, like Jupiter; and wealthy in the twelfth.

20.9

Without seeing wealth, sickly, overcome by desire, very filthy, afflicted with suffering in childhood, and slow of speech when Saturn is in the ascendant; / but in Jupiter's sign, its own sign, or exaltation, he is like a king, lord of a village or city, very learned, and of handsome limbs; elsewhere, he is stated to be like the Sun.

20.10

The effect of planets situated in a friend's sign, enemy's sign, another's sign, own sign, or exaltation should be considered in relation to the houses beginning with the ascendant and body. / Satyācārya declares growth and ruin through benefics and malefics, and the reverse in the twelfth, sixth, and eighth signs.

20.11

By planets in exaltation, trine, domicile, friend's house, enemy's house, debilitation, and conjunct the Sun, / the good result is full, three-quarters, half, a quarter, very slight, and fruitless.

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Bṛhajjātaka — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit