Upagraha – SubPlanets | Vedic Astrology

The word Upagraha means sub planet. Apart from the base 9 planets – Sun, Moon, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Rahu and Ketu – these subplanets are defined. Like Rahu and Ketu (Chaaya Grahas), Upagrahas doesn’t exist physically. In fact, these are particular mathematical points calculated based on Sun’s longitude position.

In this post we are going to cover on the calculations to find the placement of five upagrahas. Later, we can discuss on the effects of Upagrahas in each houses. All the Upagraha mentioned below are malefic in nature.

Here is the list of Upagrahas

Ratio Of Effects | Vedic Astrology

Ratio of effects talks about the strength and good effects yielded by the planet based on its position and placement.

Here are the 5 different states. Click on each state to know more.

Compound Relationship between Planets | Vedic Astrology

Compound relationship is the key factor to decide on friends and enemies of the planet. I recommend to read my previous posts on Natural Relationship and Temporary Relationship.

Compound relationship between the planets works based a 5-Fold rule.

Here are the preliminary steps to gather data for 5-Fold Rule

Temporary Relationship between Planets | Vedic Astrology

What is Temporary relationship ?

In general terms, It determines the friends and enemies of a planet during specific period of time. -. Temporary relationships are very easy to derive. There aren’t multiple rules like the natural relationship.

Eager to know more? Do read along 🙂

Natural Relationship – Contd.

Recommended reading [ 5 mins ] – Natural Relationship of Planets . After reading my previous post, I am sure this question would have popped in your mind – How can planets have different relationship between them back and forth.

Read along to know how this works

Natural Relationships – Planets | Vedic Astrology

Like humans planets do have friends and enemies. Yes.. To understand the natural relationship between the planets ensure to read my previous post on moolatrikona – https://wp.me/pJUcZ-2zl. Moolatrikona houses are the base to determine whether a planet is friend, enemy or neutral.

These are the four main rules by which the planets are considered to be friend, enemy or neutral.

Moolatrikona | Vedic Astrology

After a long day at work , when we get back home we feel really tired, calm and relaxed. There would be days when we went for an outing, looking at the nature and getting chilled. We would be so happy and excited and of best behaviour in those circumstances. Planets have the same behavior as well. In fact, I would say we inherited such attributes from planets.

There are certain places where planets feel really comfortable and happy. Such places are called Mooltrikona Sthanas. The word Moola stands for root. And trikona means a triangle. 1st, 5th and 9th houses are said to be trikona sthanas. If we draw lines between 1, 5 and 9th house, it would form a triangle. For now, we will to know more on moolatrikona stahanas for each planet.

Planetary Strength – Dhigbala – Part 2 | Vedic Astrology

Lets take this opportunity to learn about directional strength in 12 different Ascendants. Before getting into the chart analysis, lets keep these four houses in mind 1, 4 , 7 and 10. Instead of calling the house with numbers we have a specific name for them.

House Number	House Name
1st House	Ascendant
4th House	Nadir
7th House	Descendant
10th House	Meridian

Planetary Strength – Dhigbala | Vedic Astrology

Planets gain their strength when placed in certain directions. To understand dhigbala lets set our basics clear. The planetary movements are visually represented in form of horoscope chart. But when the planets are moving, how do we set the directions and strength?

Lets get back to the basics when we learnt about Ascendant. Ascendant is nothing but the sign rising in the eastern horizon. So, in a chart, wherever we see ascendant that denotes the direction East. Easy right ?

Vedic Astrology | Planets and their Details

In the last post, we discussed about the planet appearances and how they are related to the human life. This post have some other details which we can correlate with human nature.

The elements of the Hindu astrology has a very close correlation with the nature and the things evolve around us. The elements which man is made of, the nature of the human being , things which we like, the elements which we are surrounded with.