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Annual Rains -2 : Worst Years
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Due to great difference in transit time between Suryasiddhantic and physical planets, there was a large difference in Lagna in most cases which made comparison easy. For instance, the 10 worst rainfall years show an average difference of 34º:21' in Lagna.
In individual horoscopy, Saurapakshiya and Drikpakshiya physical planets and bhāvas show relatively small differences of at most a few degrees, which cause Drikpakshiya D1 chart to perform well in about 70% cases (this count is from a study carried out by Mr Arun Bansal, maker of Leo Gold software and editor of Future Point, this report was published in his editorial). But even a 15' difference in Sun will cause a 6 hour difference in samkrānti timing, due to which Lagna will differ by 3 rāshis ! hence, for a comparison of efficacy of Suryasiddhanta and physical astronomy for astrological purposes, mundane charts of solar transits are best means. In individual horoscopes, most of the software using astrologers remain contended with 70% good results and imagine rest 30% to be due to wrong birth time &c, and neglect the importance of finer divisionals if they fail to deliver. Suryasiddhanta works 100% perfectly in individual horoscopy too, but those enamoured with the success of physical science in physical progress of the world seem determined to bury Suryasiddhanta because they compare planetary positions instead of comparing the astrological results.
It should be noted that I did not select years for comparison according to any subjective criteria, I selected ALL best and worst years of known recorded history without any exception.
Click this link to see Forecasts for Indian Monsoons - 2009 , which use same method as illustrated in above article.
( Sun always exalted in Mesha Samkrānti charts )
NOTE : SAME METHOD HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY USED IN FORECASTING STOCK PRICES FOR BSE AND NYSE (BOMBAY AND NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGES).
TABLE - 2 : Worst Rainfall Years
| official DATA | Astrological Analysis of Meru Kundali : Saura vs Drik |
| YEAR 1899 -------- ALL INDIA -24.3% ------- Penin -sular -27.5 ------- NW -66.7 ------- NE +13.2 ------- Central NE -0.01 -------- West Central -43.1 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 15:08:37.6 AM IST, 12 Apr 1899 (test it in free Kundalee Software). North falls in 12th and South in 11th bhāvas, both lorded by Venus because middle points of both bhāvas fall in Vrish. Venus in in fast friend Saturn's 9th house and aspects North, Central and South India 41', 39', 24' respectively. So far very good, but Venus is in control of Saturn due to bhāvesh-drishti (lord's aspect) of 49', and Saturn in highly malefic by dint of sitting in 6th house with Rahu. Saturn's full 60' aspect on northern portion of Vrish (ie, NW India) caused record deficit of -67% in NW. Moon in 11th house also reduced evil effects in South and 12th house by its own nature was also bad for north. But Sarvatobhadra Vedha of Moon was good for Assam and Sun was good for Uttar Pradesh. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, Mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 19:44:47.2 PM IST or 17:14:47.2 PM Kenyā Time, 12 Apr 1899 , with Lagna at 9º:16':00" in Kanyā (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Mithuna 28º:16':25" having a huge difference of +70º:59:35 in Lagna, as a result of which bhāvachalita chakra should be rotated by 71º degrees in following map. Thus, middle of 9th bhāva will move to 12º degrees of Vrish. Most of India will fall in 9th bhāva which extends from Mesha 24º:07':54" to Vrish 24º:02':28". Lord of 9th bhāva Venus is under Saturn's 49' or 82% bhāvesh-drishti control, but Saturn is sitting in 4th house and is not as malefic as in Saurpakshiya chart. Hence, 9th bhāva should have little more than normal rains because Saturn was in its friend Jupiter's rāshi in Kendra. Mercury was not only combust in exalted Sun but defeated also in war due to less than 1º degree difference, hence Mercury is ineffective itself, but having a conjunction relation with exalted Sun is not inauspicious for NW India which falls in 10th bhāva lorded by Mercury and influenced by exalted Sun in 8th bhāva (mixed results). But most parts of India experienced historic drought, unexplained by physical astronomy.  |
| YEAR 1972 -------- ALL INDIA -21.6% ------- Penin -sular -0.81 ------- NW -38.8 ------- NE -17.5 ------- Central NE -21.1 -------- West Central -27.1 |  (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 12:28:48 PM IST, 13 Apr 1972 (test it in free Kundalee Software). Excepting some portion in southernmost parts, India falls in Lagna with lord Venus situated in middle of Lagna. But Venus was sandwiched between its enemy Mars on northern side and Saturn on the south. Placed netween Mars and saturn, Venus lost all its good power of being svagrihi. Saturn was samagrihi while Mars was in enemy's house , as a result NW India experienced worse drought (Mars was on that side). Saturn was a benefic by dint of being lord of kendra and trikona (10th and 9th houses respectively), and therefore Peninsular India escaped drought (only -1 % shortfall in rainfall). Most of TN and Kerala were in 12th house whose lord Mars had zero aspect, and only Jupiter was aspecting it (34' in end of 12th house and 23' near Kanyakumāri). jupiter was svagrihi in 8th. Hence, TN and Kerala got slightly better than normal rains. This year's example shows that some yogas work in mundane astrology as well, such as sandwiching of a benefic between two natural malefics destroying the good power of that benefic. Here, it is noteworthy that Saturn worked as a natural malefic in the sandwich yoga, while worked as a benefic in South India by dint of being lord of kendra and trikona. All these three planets were in Vāyu and Chandā naadis, which was not good for rains. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, mesha samkānti at Meru was at 13:50:18 PM IST or 10:20:18 AM Kenyā Time, 13 Apr 1972 , with Lagna at 26º:23':29" in Vrish (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Vrish 21º:11':28" having a difference of +5º:12':01" in Lagna, as a result of which 12th house extends from 5º degrees to 10º:12' in Vrish rāshi. All other conditions are same as in Saurapakshiya case. But extension of 12th house means good rains should cover Karnataka and Andhra too, which is disproved by the regional data from IITM (Indian Institute of tropical Meteorology, Pune) shown in map on the left here. Physical astronomy fails in Karnataka and Andhra which did not get as good rains as TN and Kerala.  |
| YEAR 1965 -------- ALL INDIA -20.3% ------- Penin -sular -18.1 ------- NW -26.1 ------- NE -8.47 ------- Central NE -21.8 -------- West Central -23 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 17:00:33.6 AM IST, 13 Apr 1965 (test it in free Kundalee Software). Many planets are influential this year and a detailed analysis is needed. Excepting Peninsula and coastal East India, most of India is in 11th bhāva, whose lord Venus has a meagre aspect on 11th bhāva : 14' at Vrish end and 6' at start of 11th bhāva. Venus is under the influence of 44' lord's aspect (bhāvesh-drishti) relation. Venus is in conjunction with exalted Sun and debilitated plus combust Mercury. Exalted Sun has parivartana relation with Mars. Hence, bhāvesh-drishti influence of (44') Mars on Sun is ineffective and parivartana yoga is effective. Saturn has a full aspect relation with Mars and Moon has conjunction relation with Sun. Mars, Moon and Saturn are in watery nādis. Mars, Saturn and Moon have 8' to 16' , 39' to 46' and 14' to 22' aspect on Indian portions of 11th bhāva respectively. Saturn is in moolatrikona in 8th. Mars is lord of kendra and trikona (4th and 5th houses) and therefore a benefic. Moon is Lagnesh. Hence, these three related planets suggest a normal or slightly better than normal rains, with somewhat higher incidence in southern portion of 11th house, if Venus and its conjuncts are discounted. But actual data show drought instead of normal rains. Hence, Mars and Moon are exerting their influence not directly but as enmical relatives of Venus which is lord of 11th house, and are therefore only negating the good influence of Venus (being in 9th house). Saturn is neutral to Venus, hence it reduced the evil effect of drought in southern regions of 11th house. As a net result of all these effects, exalted Sun with Venus becomes most influential planet, which is casting a bitter enmical aspect of 15' in NW India and 7' on southern portions of 11th house. Hence, drought was severer towards NW and less severe elsewhere. Weak Mercury is ineffective. Mars, Moon and Saturn have higher aspect on north, but data show effective planets should have higher malefic aspect on north and NW. Sun, Venus and Mercury have such aspects. But Venus is benefic, whose influence is negated by Mars &c, while Mercury is ineffective. Hence, exalted but bitter enmical Sun decides the issue in favour of a more severe drought towards NW and north. Exalted Rāhu in 11th house fails to save drought, esp in NW India which was nearest to Rahu's location in chart. Hence, shadow planets (nodes) play insignificant roles in mundane astrology, and are influential only when all other planets are ineffective for a particular bhāva. Peninsula and coastal east is in 10th house lorded by Venus. Venus, Sun and Mercury have neglible aspect there. Jupiter sits there neutrally, as lord of 6th and 9th house, and foretells a normal rainfall on its own, but it has strong enmical aspect of Saturn (51') which works adversely on Jupiter through enmical aspect relations with its bitter enemies Mar and Moon, all of which are effective due to direct or indirect relations with lord Venus. Jupiter in Chandā nādi and enmical Saturn in Jala nādi are also preventing rains. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 17:59:20 PM IST or 15:29:20 Kenyā Time, 13 Apr 1965 , with Lagna at 10º:52':50" in Simha (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Karka 25º:24':59" having a difference of +15º:27:51 in Lagna, as a result of which middle of 10th bhāva moves from 0.3788 degrees in Vrish to about 16º degrees, and 10th bhāva almost overlaps all of India, excepting J & K. Lord Venus and its conjunct relatives exalted Sun and combust Mercury have higher aspect on north and negligible on south. Sun and Venus are in 9th bhāva (extending from Mina 27º:42':20' to Mesha 28º:55':24") and are auspicious for Noth and NW India which actually experienced severe drought ! Hence, physical astronomy utterly fails this year to explain actual data.  |
| YEAR 2002 -------- ALL INDIA -18% ------- Penin -sular -19.4 ------- NW -34.7 ------- NE +4.5 ------- Central NE -20.5 -------- West Central -20.3 |  (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 6:46:57.1 AM IST, 14 Apr 2002 (test it in free Kundalee Software). This year IMD (Indian Meteorological Dept) and other scientific organizations dealing with weather forecasting were predicting a normal monsoon, but were surprized with a severe drought, fourth worst in recorded history. Suryasiddhāntic chart shows a mutual lordship (sthāna parivartana) relation between Venus and Mars in Rāsi Chart, but both are conjunct in the Bhāvachalita chart, together with Moon. Other relations are irrelevant for India. Most of India was in 4th house of Venus, Peninsula being in 3rd bhāva of Mars. There were Saturn and Rahu in 4t bhāva, and Venus-Mars-Moon in 3rd.Venus-Mars-Moon have almost no aspect on 4th house. Hence, Saturn ought to dominate 4th house. Saturn is in fast friend's house, being lord of Lagna and 12th bhāvas. 4th bhāva is not a bad house. Hence, at worst we should expect normal rainfall. Even if we suppose Saturn to be a malefic, its worst (or best) effects ought to be felt at about 6 degrees of 4th bhāva where Saturn was situated and not in NW India where worst drought occurred. Hence, we must ascribe the actual outcome to parivartana relation between Venus and Mars, which gave Venus a complete control over its house. Parivartana relation is the most powerful of all relations and complete control means that Saturn or rahu or even many exalted planets sitting in 4th house would be totally ineffective and only the lord Venus and its relatives would have any sway there. Moon is just 14 degrees ahead of Sun and is lord of 6th house, which makes the Moon highly malefic. Mars is also a malefic. Venus is sandwiched between two malefics, both of whom are enmical to Venus. Hence, the good influences of Venus are choked. Sum total of their aspects is 9' more in the north. Hence, while the whole of 4th bhāva receives equal effects of parivartana yoga, 9' extra aspect in north (actually NW India due to curved Merucentric meridians) meant more evil effect in NW India. Other major parts of India had more or less homogenous distribution of ~20% deficit, while NW had 35% deficit. Although finer nuances of medini Jyotisha is not our topic at present, here it is important to mention one anomaly which calls for some other ancient devices : Desha Chakra shown on left and Sarvatobhadra Chakra which gives regions with names beginning from 'a' and 't' (e.g, Assam, Tamil Nādu) being viddha by Mars, and a,v,k,h,d,l,n beibg viddha by Moon, none by Venus, in Merucentric chart. Moon is away, Venus is maliciously sandwiched, but Mars is located in southern India where it gives its own good results to viddha Tamil territory by dint of being lord of 10th house and sitting in 3rd , Assam also gets a respite from drought due to Mars (and Moon). All effective planets were in Vāyu or Chandā nādis, not conducive to good rains. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 5:38:06.1 AM IST or 3:08:06.1 Kenyā Time, 14 Apr 2002, with Lagna at 5º:19':41" in Kumbha (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Kumbha 22º:45':03" having a difference of -17º:25':22" in Lagna, as a result of which Merucentric Bhāvachalita in following map ought to be rotated clockwise by over 17º degrees. As a result, 4th bhāva will extend from Mesha 23º:47':09" to Vrish 23º:47':09", and entire NW will fall in 5th bhāva.Lord of 5th bhāva was Mercury, in friendly rāshi of Mars and combust in exalted Sun as well as being conjunct with Sun in 3rd bhāva. Besides, Sun and Mercury had 15' and 10' aspects on NW India. Exalted Sun's 15' aspect was enough for a better than normal rains, and to it we must add samgrihi Jupiter sitting in 5th bhāva of NW India. But data show a severe drought in NW India.Hence, physical astronomy fails miserably this year to explain actual data. Venus (21º:46':39") , Mars (6º:18':39") and Moon (13º:35':21") : Venus and Mars being in 4th and Moon in 3rd bhāva with Sun-Mercury. Although Venus was in the rāshi of Mars, it was lord of 4th bhāva and was sitting there. Therefore, in spite of being sandwiched between two malefics Mars and Moon, there was some respite due to shift of Moon to another bhāva and ownership of 4th bhāva by Venus. Thus, 5th bhāva shows excellent rains while 4th bhāva shows normal rains, which defy data.  |
| YEAR 1918 -------- ALL INDIA -18% ------- Penin -sular -16.3 ------- NW -61 ------- NE +9.4 ------- Central NE -11.8 -------- West Central -21.6 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 13:08:07.4 AM IST, 13 Apr 1918 (test it in free Kundalee Software). NW, north and most of central and western india was in Lagna lorded by Mercury which was combust in its enemy exalted Sun. Sun had 15' aspect on NW and 7' on middle of Vrish, and could have caused excellent rain because Mercury was powerless (being combust), but parivartana relation of Sun and Mars made Mars also effective for Lagna slightly. But these effects were minor due to Jupiter in Lagna, which was more effective for Lagna than only 15' aspect of Sun or of a weaker Mars. Jupiter was a high order malefic on account of following factors : (1) being lord of 11th and 2nd houses, (2) being in bitter enemy rāshi of Venus, sitting in Vāyu nādi which is owned by Jupiter : sitting in own nādi makes the nādi-phala a certainty, which here means more winds and less rains, and (4) Ketu conjunct with Jupiter : although nodes do not matter much in rains, but they slightly affect rainfall which is seen when other planets are totally ineffective. Another interesting fact was a chain of relations. Exalted Sun had a benefic (being exalted) parivartana relation with Mars, Mars had an evil (being lord of 6th) bhāvesh-drishti relation of 28' with Moon, Moon had an evil (being in enemy's 12th house) bhāvesh-drishti relation of 34' with Saturn, Saturn had a strong 47' bhāvesh-drishti relation with Venus, Venus had an 43' enmical bhāvesh-drishti relation with Jupiter, and Jupiter was related closely to Ketu and Rāhu. Jupiter was already bad for Lagna, and enmical influences of Saturn and Venus made the situation worse. Farther and weaker relations do not count much. Combination of all these factors caused severe drought in NW India : deficit of -61% ! In peninsula and coastal east India was in trika 12th house, and Moon sitting enmically there as being lord of 2nd and 3rd bhāvas made things worse. Moon was in Chandā nādi which does not give rains if the planet and bhāva is bad. Hence a drought in 12th house, which was not as severe as in Lagna because lord Venus was sitting in 9th bhāva and had 44' aspect on 12th house, although somewhat checked by Saturn's relation mentioned above. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, Mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 16:47:09.1 PM IST or 14:17:09.1 Kenyā Time, 13 Apr 1918 , with Lagna at 22º:15':19" in Karka (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Mithuna 0º:30':29" having a large difference of +51º:44':50" in Lagna, as a result of which Bhāvachalita Chakra in the following map needs to be rotated anti-clockwise 51º:44':50" , as a result of which 11th bhāva will extend from 11º:21':11" in Vrish to 09º:42':52" in Mithuna. Most of Peninsula will fall in 10th bhāva lorded by Mars and rest of India in 11th bhāva lorded by Venus. Venus (at 313º:59':29") will fall in starting sandhi of 8th bhāva, having much more aspect on India than any other planet except Rāhu : aspect of Venus being 37' on NW India at the end of Vrish, and 42.36' on start of its 11th bhāva. If Venus in 8th bhāva is treated as a malefic causing drought, than it should cause more severe drought in the start of 11th bhāva which had higher aspect than on NW India which had lower aspect, but data show -61% deficit in rains in NW India and only about -22% around the upper Deccan (West Central india). But if Venus in 8th bhāva is treated as a malefic causing destruction by means of excessive rains on regions with high aspects (higher than 30' or 50%) then we should expect excess rains in all parts of 11th bhāva containing all India excepting Peninsula. Both these alternatives are not supported by actual data. Peninsula was influenced by Lagnesh Moon sitting there in 10th bhāva which should cause very good rains instead of -16% deficit as the data tell. Hence, physical astronomy fails to conform to data this year.  |
| YEAR 1877 -------- ALL INDIA -17.3 ------- Penin -sular -0.14 ------- NW -41 ------- NE -5.6 ------- Central NE -26.7 -------- West Central -16.1 |  (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 22:31:19 AM IST, 11 Apr 1877 (test it in free Kundalee Software). Most of India was in 8th bhāva lorded by Venus which was exalted and combust in exalted Sun ; Venus was sitting in 6th bhāva with Moon. 8th bhāva produces destructive rains if its lord and relatives have high aspects, and drought if low aspects. Here, aspect of lord Venus is low (20' in north, 10' in middle and zero in south of Vrish). But its bitter enemy and conjunct relative Moon has good aspect (39') on NW, causing severe drought there. Here, combust and exalted Venus could not cause good rains as it did in other cases when not disturned by other planets because Venus (354º:32':50") was sandwiched between two malefics : Sun at 360º and Moon at 336º:28':22", all were malefics due to placement in 6th bhāva, and Moon being near Sun (tithi 14th black half). Benefic power of exalted Venus was choked due to sandwich effect, and therefore even Sun could act only as a bitter enemy of Venus and as a malefic, with aspect 15' on NW adding to the severity of drought there.South had negligible aspect of these afflicted planets, hence it escaped drought and was benefited by good aspect of other planets, most notably of Saturn which was auspicious by dint of being lord of kendra (4th bhāva) and trikona (5th bhāva) and sitting in its own 5th bhāva : Saturn had a near total aspect of 56' on south India, but could cause only a normal rainfall in Peninsula because it was not a relative of lords Venus in upper Deccan and Mars in southernmost India. Lord Mars was exalted and had an aspect 33' on South, and its conjunct relative Jupiter was svagrihi (in own house) and had an aspect 27' on South, but they could not cause excessve rains because their mutual enmical relation with Mercury caused the latter to oppose their good effects. But Mercury was combust and could not completely destroy the good effects of Mars and Jupiter which caused a more than normal rainfall in TN and Kerala as shown in more detailed map on the left. It is interesting to note that Karnataka received more rains than Andhra, although both had same aspects of Saturn (and other planets), because in Sarvatobhadra Chakra 'k, d' were viddha by Saturn ('k' cause good rains in Karnataka). (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 4:17:57 AM IST or 1:47:57 Kenyā Time, 12 Apr 1877 , with Lagna at 15º:06':19" in Makara (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Tula 22º:29':31" having a huge difference of +82º:36':48" in Lagna, as a result of which most of kerala and TN were in 4th bhāva lorded by Mars and the rest of country was in 5th bhāva of Venus. Venus was in 3rd bhāva with Sun, both exalted. Venus was sandwiched beteen Moon and Sun. In Saurapakshiya method, both Moon and Sun were highly malefic by dint of being placed in 6th bhāva, which is not the case now. Now, they are in 3rd house, Moon being lord of 7th and Sun of 8th but Sun was exalted. Hence, at most we should predict normal conditions, and certainly not a severe drought. The benefic effects of Venus could be destroyed by full fledged malefics only, which is not the case. Hence, physical astronomy fails to conform to data this year.  |
| YEAR 1920 -------- ALL INDIA -16.4% ------- Penin -sular -0.34 ------- NW -19.5 ------- NE -7.91 ------- Central NE -8.26 -------- West Central -31.9 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 1:33:20 AM IST, 13 Apr 1920 (test it in free Kundalee Software). NW and adjoing parts of India were in 7th bhāva lorded Mercury, while rest of India was in 6th bhāva lorded by Venus. Mercury and Venus were conjunct in 4th bhāva. Venus was exalted but highly inauspicious by dint of being lord of 6th and 11th bhāvas, and being in enemy Jupiter's house. Mercury was debilitated and it was also in enemy Jupiter's house. Jupiter had 57' bhāvesh-drishti aspect on Venus, and 53' bhāvesh-drishti aspect on Mercury ; hence both Venus and Mercury were in near total control of Jupiter which was malefic by dint of sitting in 8th bhāva, in spite of being exalted. Jupiter in its turn was in total control of 60' bhāvesh-drishti aspect of Moon which was malefic because of being lord of 8th house and sitting enmically in 2nd house. Mars was under 44 ' bhāvesh-drishti aspect control of Venus.Mars had parivartana relation with exalted Sun. These are all strong relations. Besides, Mercury had mutual aspect relation with Saturn, which is only a half strong relation but is important due to Saturn's high aspect on India. Thus, we have all planets being highly influential for India, which creates a highly complicated situation because some have friendly and some have enmical aspects. Let us start from the fact that most of India falls in 6th bhāva which normally means either drought or destructive rains if the bhāva is strong. Its lord exalted but malefic Venus and conjunct relative debilitated Mercury have more aspect on NW and north India than on south. Both of them are in enmical control of Jupiter, which means only bad effects (of Venus being lord of 6th and 11th houses and Mercury being debilitated or Neech) will be passed on and good effects (of exalted Venu in Kendra) will be suppressed. Jupiter is in enmical control of Moon, which means the same : good effects of exalted Jupiter will be suppressed by Moon and only bad effects of a Jupiter in 8th house will be passed on. Moon is not controlled by any planet and is final controller in this strong chain. Moon is highly malefic, being lord of 8th house, in enemy's sign, in 2nd bhāva, combust and malefic being near the Sun. In this chain, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter will pass on only evil effects to India, sum total of their aspects divided by three (for averaging) show 26' aspect on north, 16' on middle and 11' on south. Hence, north and NW has more evil effects than south. Data show severe drought in north and NW India (-20% deficit in rains, 38' aspect) as well as central India (30' aspect on regions having -8% to -32% deficit), while south had normal rains. Moon has more aspect on south (38') than on north (16). Moon being in its own Amrita nādi means regions having good aspects must receive good rains in spite of Moon being malefic (malefic Moon may give good rains in bad geographical or temporal pattern of distribution). Due to Moon, south India recreived positive rains. But all these influences were overtaken by the influence of Mars, which was in enemy's house, lord of 5th and 12th houses, sitting in 11th, which meant a normal rainfall due to Mars in regions of full aspect because Mars was half powerful due to being in enemy's sign. The real power power of Mars, which overtook the power of all other planets, was its parivartana relation with exalted Sun and bhāvesh drishti relation with exalted Venus. Two exalted planets transferred their powers to Mars. Mars had full 60' aspect on south, which resulted in a normal rainfall their (well above normal in Tamil Nadu and Kerala because T of Tamil and E of Kerala were pierced by Mars in Sarvatobhadra Chakra, no other planet pireced T and E). Mars also pierced G (Gujarat) but there Mars was opposed by Moon which also pierced G with friendship opposite to that of Mars. Merc:Sat relation being weak may be neglected. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, Mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 4:59:05 AM IST or 2:29:05 Kenyā Time, 13 Apr 1920 , with Lagna at 25º:15':28" in Makara (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Dhanu 5º:53':18" having an appreciable difference of +19º:22:10 in Lagna, as a result of which Bhāvachalita circle in following map will need to be rotated anti-clockwise by 19 degrees. Thus 4th bhāva will extend upto Vrish 14:17:37 in central India and north to it will be 5th bhāva, both lorded by Venus because mid-points of both bhāvas will fall in Vrish. Exalted Venus as lord of 4th and 5th bhāvas, sitting in sign of exalted Jupiter in 7th bhāva, the latter placed in sign of Moon situated in Lagna, follow same chain of relationsas shown above, but their evil effects are gone, due to which onlt excellent rains could be predicted for whole of India. Mars was in sandhi, hence less effective. Data show drought instead of excellent rains. Hence, physical astronomy utterly fails this year.  |
| YEAR 1901 -------- ALL INDIA -15.6% ------- Penin -sular -3.21 ------- NW -48.2 ------- NE -5.72 ------- Central NE -20.2 -------- West Central -11.1 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 3:33:50.2 AM IST, 13 Apr 1901 (test it in free Kundalee Software). NW India lies in 6th bhāva lorded by Mercury and rest of India is in 5th bhāva lorded by Venus. Exalted but combust Venus with exalted Sun in 4th house and lording 5th plus 6th bhāvas normally produces excellent rains, but here lord of 4th bhāva Mars is afflicted in 8th house and has a lordship exchange (parivartana) relation with Sun, due to which 4th house is in complete and evil control of Mars ; this evil influence of Mars destroys the otherwise benefic combination of Sun and Venus. Venus is in Jupiter's rāshi which has a strong 47' bhāvesh-drishti control of Venus. Jupiter is in its own rāshi in Lagna and is Lagnesh. juoiter and its conjuncts in Lagna have high aspect on south India (Jup :44'), due to which adverse effect of Mars was mitigated there considerably and a normal rainfall waqs ensured with only -3% deficit. Parivartana relation is stronger than 47' bhāvesh-drishti relation, hence Jupiter could not overpower the evil effect of Mars and could only reduce it, due to higher aspect of Jupiter than those of Mars or its parivartana relative Sun on South India. Jupiter had no aspect near the end of 5th bhāva, which had higher deficit than south India. NW India was in Mercury's 6th trika bhāva. Mercury was debilitated, and lord of 6th and 9th bhāvas. A debilitated Mecury with exalted Sun gives fine results, but in this case Sun was not conjunct. Hence a severe drought in NW India followed. Jupiter had a 30' (i.e, half) bhāvesh-drishti control over Mercury, which prevented a record level of drought due to 6th bhāva and its debilitated lord. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, Mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 8:00:03.1 AM IST or 5:30:03.1 Kenyā Time, 13 Apr 1901 , with Lagna at 13º:25':22" in Mina (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Makara 3º:51':40" having a large difference of +69º:33:42 in Lagna, as a result of which Bhāvachalita circle in following map will need to be rotated anti-clockwise by ~70º. Thus 3th bhāva will extend from Kanyākumari upto Vrish 27º:38':47" in central India, only Punjab and JK being in 4th bhāva lorded by Mercury. Lord of 3rd bhāva Venus (Mina 25º:18':55") was in Lagna, Sun being in 2nd bhāva. Thus, Sun:Mars parivartana relation did not affect Venus and the latter being exalted exerted benefic influences on its bhāvas, while data show a severe drought. Hence, physical astronomy utterly fails this year.  |
| YEAR 1968 -------- ALL INDIA -14.4% ------- Penin -sular -9.65 ------- NW -33.2 ------- NE +1.83 ------- Central NE -13.8 -------- West Central -17.9 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 11:38:22.6 AM IST, 13 Apr 1968 (test it in free Kundalee Software). Excepting a major portion of NW India in 2nd bhāva of Mercury, whole of rest India was in Lagna lorded by Venus. Venus was exalted in 11th bhāva with Saturn, in the rāshi of Jupiter and aspected with 50' bitter enmical Drishti of Jupiter which destroyed all benefic effects of Venus. Saturn is also enmically aspected by 54' drishti of lord Jupiter which was a malefic (being lord of 8th and 11th bhāvas). Venus and Saturn are combust too. A very complex situation is created. Exalted Venus combust in exalted Sun normally produces good overall effect, but here Sun is in another (bad) bhāva and lord Jupiter is opposing the benefic influences of Venus. Weak Saturn was sandwiched between two exalted planets and was therefore ineffective. Both Venus and Saturn being neutralized, and Jupiter having negligible aspect on India, Moon was the only effective planet by dint of its high aspect (33' at end of Lagna and 45' on India's southernmost tip), which was languishing in 6th bhāva but had full aspect relation with exalted Sun, and was a close elative of Venus too (dual relations of bhāvesh-drishti and mutual aspect relation). Rainfall in Lagna approximately followed the aspects of Moon on various Merucentric meridians. Mercury was debilitated and combust in 12th bhāva with exalted Sun, Sun being sandwiched between two malefics Mercury and Mars. Jupiter had 55' bitter enmical bhāvesh-drishti on Mercury. Thus, Sun could not help Mercury and Jupiter allowed only evil traits of Mercury to pass, which caused a drought in NW India where Mercury has 22' aspect. Mercury and all its conjucts were in non-watery nādis too. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, Mesha Samkrānti at Meru was at 12:17:19 PM IST or 9:47:19 Kenyā Time, 13 Apr 1968 , with Lagna at 18º:44':35" in Vrish (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Vrish 9º:18':49" having a difference of +9º:25:46 in Lagna, as a result of which whole of India was in Lagna excepting most of TN and Kerala which were in 12th bhāva (upto 3º:13':43" in Vrish). Lagnesh Venus was in 11th bhāva with Sun, Mercury, Saturn and Rāhu. Mars was in 12th, Jupiter in 4th and Moon in 5th. As for Lagna, we can say good effects of exalted Lagnesh Venus and its conjuncts were in enmical control of high bhāvesh-drishti of jupiter, but exalted Sun was not in Jupiter's rāshi, and by dint of being conjunct of Venus Sun must exert its benefic influence on North India, which actually witnessed -33% deficit in rains. Hence, physical astronomy utterly fails this year.  |
| YEAR 1979 -------- ALL INDIA -13.8% ------- Penin -sular +1.81 ------- NW +7.65 ------- NE -10.6 ------- Central NE -32.1 -------- West Central -16.6 | (A) Suryasiddhāntic computation : Mesha samkrānti at Meru (37:19 E ; 0:0 N) was at 7:57:02 AM IST, 14 Apr 1979. Barring J&K and parts of Punjab, entire India was in 3rd bhāva, lorded by Venus sitting in Lagna with friends Mercury and Mars. Mecury was debilitated and in enemy Jupiter's rāshi. Mars was samgrihi (neutral) and Venus in enemy Jupiter's rāshi. As we saw earlier, debilitated Mercury acquired the powers of its powerful relatives when it was not alone. These three planets are in Lagna, all in watery nādis, Mars and Venus being samgrihi (neural), it is noteworthy that Mercury and Mars were in near total control of high bhāvesh-drishti of Jupiter, and Venus was in near total control of high bhāvesh-drishti of Saturn. Saturn in 6th bhāva of its bitter enemy Sun was ill placed with Rahu. Saturn had a full 60' aspect in middles regions of India, 36' on north of 3rd bhāva and 45' on south. Hence, Saturn was most baleful for central India, which experienced severe drought. Regions with less than full aspect of Saturn experienced relatively more benefic effects of lord Venus and its conjuncts in Lagna. As for J&K and Punjab, it was marred by debilitated Mercury under bitter enmical bhāvesh-drishti of Jupiter, causing severe drought, which was more than offset by excellent rains in large parts of Rājasthān not clear by macro level data presented here. Finer regional break-ups will be studied in Desha-Chakra centred at Vidishā in MP. (B) On the basis of modern physical astronomy, Mesha samkrānti at Meru was at 7:59:07 AM IST or 5:29:07 Kenyā Time, 14 Apr 1979 , with Lagna at 13º:15':43" in Mīna (by JHora) and Suryasiddhāntic Lagna at Mīna 11º:33':20.5" having a small difference of +1º:42:22.5 in Lagna, as a result of which India falls almost entirely in 3rd bhāva (Mesha 27º:43':31" to Vrish 27º:22':04"). Mars and Mercury remain in Lagna, but Venus shifts to 12th bhāva in the bhāvachalita. Other things remaining nearly the same as in Saurapakhiya chart, such conditions suggested drought throughout India, and fails to explain more than normal rains in NW and South. Even with a small difference in Lagna, Hence, physical astronomy utterly fails this year due to change in bhāva of Venus.  |
CONCLUSIONS of 20 Case Studies
While Suryasiddhantic (Saurapakshiya) computations prove to be correct in all 20 cases, Drikpakshiya computatons based on physical astronomy utterly fails in 19 cases, and gives overestimate in 1955. Hence, physical astronomy fails almost completely.Due to great difference in transit time between Suryasiddhantic and physical planets, there was a large difference in Lagna in most cases which made comparison easy. For instance, the 10 worst rainfall years show an average difference of 34º:21' in Lagna.
In individual horoscopy, Saurapakshiya and Drikpakshiya physical planets and bhāvas show relatively small differences of at most a few degrees, which cause Drikpakshiya D1 chart to perform well in about 70% cases (this count is from a study carried out by Mr Arun Bansal, maker of Leo Gold software and editor of Future Point, this report was published in his editorial). But even a 15' difference in Sun will cause a 6 hour difference in samkrānti timing, due to which Lagna will differ by 3 rāshis ! hence, for a comparison of efficacy of Suryasiddhanta and physical astronomy for astrological purposes, mundane charts of solar transits are best means. In individual horoscopes, most of the software using astrologers remain contended with 70% good results and imagine rest 30% to be due to wrong birth time &c, and neglect the importance of finer divisionals if they fail to deliver. Suryasiddhanta works 100% perfectly in individual horoscopy too, but those enamoured with the success of physical science in physical progress of the world seem determined to bury Suryasiddhanta because they compare planetary positions instead of comparing the astrological results.
It should be noted that I did not select years for comparison according to any subjective criteria, I selected ALL best and worst years of known recorded history without any exception.
Click this link to see Forecasts for Indian Monsoons - 2009 , which use same method as illustrated in above article.
TABLE - 3--:--Special---Areas---of---Research
(All facts and ideas mentioned in this part have already been treated in previous two parts of this article)
A peculiar phenomenon has been watched in these studies. Among 10 cases of best rainfall, 4 cases had exalted Venus in conjunction with exalted Sun, Venus being combust in 3 out of 4 cases. Among 10 cases of worst rainfall, 4 cases had Venus in conjunction with exalted Sun, Venus being combust in 3 out of 4 cases, exalted in 3 cases and both in 2 cases. In all these eight cases which constitute 40% of all 20 cases studied here, Sun and Venus had bitter enmical relation always. It is interesting to note that half of such 8 cases produced excessive rains, while other half produced severe droughts. It is wrong to deduce anything from just this information. All these eight cases must be closely examined to find out the peculiarities of overall conditions. A horoscope has a cumulative effect and just one or two traits should not be used to predict anything. These eight cases are as follows :( Sun always exalted in Mesha Samkrānti charts )
| YEAR | Effects--of--'Sun : Venus'--Conjunction--on--India | |||
| Overall rainfall % | Venus Conditions | Other Conditions | Explanations | |
| 1917 | +21.5 | Exalted & combust | in 2nd Bhāva, Mars too | Good effects of both exalted Sun and exalted Venus add up in spite of mutual bitter enmity, because of combustion of Venus. |
| 1961 | +18.4 | Exalted | in 9th Bhāva, Mars Merc too | Many planets are effective, see their overall complex effect in Table-1 . |
| 1893 | +17.9 | Exalted & combust | Venus with Merc in 4th, Sun in 5th bhāva. | Normal rules work, no special condition. |
| 1933 | +16.9 | Exalted & combust | in 12th, Merc too. | Venus defeated in planetary war by Sun , all power of both planets transferred to Sun. |
| 1968 | -14.4 | Exalted | Sun in 12th with Mars Merc & Rahu too, but Venus in 11th with Saturn | Venus exalted, but in house of Jupiter and aspected with 50' bitter enmical Drishti of Jupiter which destroys benefic effect of Venus. Saturn is also enmically aspected by 54' Drishti of lord Jupiter. Venus and Saturn are combust too. A very complex situation is created. Exalted Venus conmust in exalted Sun produce good overall effect, but here Sun is in another (bad) bhāva and lord Jupiter is opposing the benefic influences of Venus. |
| 1901 | -15.6 | Exalted & combust | Both in 4th bhāva | Similar conditions produce excellent rains, but here lord of 4th bhāva Mars is afflicted in 8th house and has a lordship exchange (parivartana) relation with Sun ; this evil influence of Mars destroys the otherwise benefic combination of Sun and Venus. |
| 1877 | -17.3 | Exalted & combust | In 6th bhāva, with Moon too. | Most of India in 8th bhāva, which produces destructive rains id lord and relatives have high aspects, and drought if low aspects. Here, aspect of lord Venus is low. But its bitter enemy Moon has good aspect (39') on NW, causing severe drought there. South had negligible aspect of these afflicted planets, hence it escaped drought and was benefited by good aspect of other planets. |
| 1965 | -20.3 | In enemy's house & combust | in 9th bhāva, with Merc too. | Sun's parivartana relation with Mars creates two groups of six influential planets having a complicated network of influences on India. See Table -2 above for details. |
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