| Indian Astrology is based
upon nine planets; they are the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury,
Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the two Shadow planets are Rahu
and Ketu. Out of these the first seven are material planets
and can be seen with naked eye, the remaining two are imaginary
points formed by the intersection of the paths of the earth
and the moon. There are other planets also in the space
namely the Uranus, Neptune and Pluto but they do not find
any place in Indian Vedic astrology. The reason is that
they were not discovered at the time of Parashar, the father
of Indian Vedic astrology or the planets are far away from
the earth to give influence upon human beings. The sun and
other planets, owing to the relative distance from the earth,
are able to give a specific influence on human destiny. |
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| The Sun |
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Sun is a royal
planet and the king in astrology. Sun is the ruler of the
zodiac sign Leo. It is regarded as a malefic planet, but
it is actually an auspicious planet. Its' friendship with
Jupiter is pure, as Jupiter is the teacher of the Sun. With
the Moon the relationship is royal and with Mars, Materialistic.
One of its names is Aditya ("first born"). It
is the ruler of all the planets. The Sun represents the
male or father principle.
The sun stays in each sign for one month and takes one year
to complete the round of the zodiac. Its motion is quite
fixed and a lot of Indian festivals are as per the suns
entry into the various signs. For example on January 14
it enters Capricorn and this day is celebrated as Makara
Sankranti, On April 13th/14th it enters Aries and this day
is celebrated as Baisakhi. The change in seasons is also
linked to the suns entry into various signs and nakshatras.
It is the planet connected with father. |
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| The Sun gives us vitality and the power of
resistance and immunity. It is responsible for our physical
strength and body's constitution. The Sun gives life force,
power of will, intellect, brilliance, prosperity, success
in worldly affairs, wealth, personal conduct, activity,
cheerfulness, good fortune, wisdom, ambition, fame, and
understanding of the phenomenal world, It gives knowledge
of medicine also. The Sun represents the soul, the ego and
the body of the individual, and therefore its placement
is of great importance. The Sun is best placed in Aries
where it is exalted and in Libra it is least auspicious
and called debilitated. The sun is lord of the sign Leo
and also of the house where Leo is located. |
| The
Sun |
| Mass |
1.9891×1030 kg |
| Surface area |
6.09×1012 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
5780 K |
| Distance from earth |
149.6×106 km |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
The King |
| Exalted |
Aries |
| Debilitated |
Libra |
| Friends |
Moon,Mars,Jupiter |
| Enemies |
Venus, Satin |
| Body Part |
Right Eye |
| Mahadasha |
6 years |
| Gem |
Ruby |
| Numerology |
1 |
| Mantra |
Om ghrani suryay namah |
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| The
Moon |
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Moon is the fastest moving planet and
takes approximately two and half days to move in a sign.
When the sun and moon are in the same sign it is called
new moon day. When the sun and the moon are in the exact
opposite signs or 180 degrees apart, it is called the full
moon. The Moon is lord of the sign Cancer and the house
where Cancer is located.
The color of Moon is white and is the presiding deity of
the element water, rules over the tides of the sea. Moon
is a royal planet and is the queen in astrology. The Moon
represents the feeling nature in of the human i.e. mind,
emotions, sensitivity, the mother, house and domestic comforts,
milk and hotel and food industry, textiles and apparels.
It’s cold and calm. An individual's ability to share,
participate, reflect and be a member of society is signified
by the Moon. |
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Moons nature is tender-hearted, wise, mucus
dominated, and learned. It controls comfort, general well-being
peace of mind, and the fortune of human. The Moon represents
illumination, taste, youth, love of poetry, fine arts and
music, sense of purpose, attractive appearance, wealth,
good fortune intuitive nature, sensuality, fine arts and
love of jewellery.
Moon makes us sensitive moody, and emotional. An individual's
ability to share, participate, reflect and be a member of
society is signified by the Moon The Moon also rules the
associations of thought, which are the reflections of the
senses. The moon is also said to represents receptivity,
vulnerability.
Yoga is deeply related with the moon only in fact Pranayama
is a process of regulating the two movements of breath,
Ida and pingala. Man cannot
control the Sun and the Moon in the sky but he can control
the currents of Ida and pingala which represent the sun
and the moon. By controlling both the currents, he can overcome
the influence of the sun and the moon and can get over the
adverse effects of the same. |
| The
Moon |
| Mass |
7.347 673×1022 kg |
| Surface area |
3.793×107 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
396 K max |
| Distance from earth |
384403 Km |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
The Queen |
| Exalted |
Taurus |
| Debilitated |
Scorpio |
| Friends |
Sun, Mercury |
| Enemies |
None |
| Body Part |
Left Eye |
| Mahadasha |
10 Years |
| Gem |
Pearl |
| Numerology |
2 |
| Mantra |
Om som somay namah |
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| The
Mars |
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Mars is the commander-in-chief of the
assembly of the nine planets. It represents energy, courage,
armed forces, the police forces, commanders, and administrators,
Men in high position, land, engineering, metals, real estate
agents and surgery. Mars takes about fourty five days to
travel one sign. It is the planet connected with brother.
Mangal Dosha is an astrological condition that occurs if
Mars is in the 1, 4, 7, 8, or 12th house of chart. Mangal
Dosha is supposed to be inauspicious for women.
Mars represents the energy, stamina and younger brothers
of the individual. It is a warrior by nature and dominated
in temperament. It rules over courage, bravery, patience,
self-confidence and leadership abilities. Mars makes its
natives short-tempered; argumentative; lovers of weapons,
commanders, generals, soldiers and policemen. |
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| It also gives them great technical and mechanical
abilities. Mars is fond of law and order and arrangement.
It gives energy, drive, determination, and a strong sense
of purpose, great administrative ability and independent
spirit. It is also considered as the god of war. Mars aspects
three signs 4th, 7th, 8th from its position. |
| The
Mars |
| Mass |
6.4185×1023 kg |
| Surface area |
.1448×108 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
293 K (20 C) max. |
| Distance from earth |
35 million miles |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
The commander |
| Exalted |
Capricorn |
| Debilitated |
Cancer |
| Friends |
Sun, Moon, Jupiter |
| Enemies |
Mercury |
| Body Part |
Muscles |
| Mahadasha |
7 Years |
| Gem |
Red Coral |
| Numerology |
9 |
| Mantra |
Om ang angarkaya namah |
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| The
Mercury |
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Mercury is the prince in astrology, sexless
and neutral and is a cold and moist planet. Being a neutral
planet it changes according to its placement in a sign and
house, and that is why it is said to have a "mercurial"
nature. Because it is nearest to the Sun it is restless,
which also makes it quick-changing, fickle, and often retrograde.
Mercury sometimes precedes the Sun and sometimes follows
it. It is always within 27 degree distance from the sun
from astrological point of view. Mercury can be seen in
the morning and evening as a shining star and sometimes
even during the day because of its power of radiation. Mercury
is the smallest planet of our solar system. Mercury takes
about a month to travel a sign.
Mercury represents the speech, intellect and friends of
the individual. |
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| It is a very, adaptable and curious planet.
If afflicted, it gives speech problems and a poor discriminative
ability. Mercury rules education, writers, lecturers, artists,
teachers, traders, businessmen, the nervous system, lungs,
and intestines. It rules intelligence, self-confidence,
humor, wit, astrology, mathematics, printing, publishing.
and short journeys. |
| The
Mercury |
| Mass |
3.302×1023 kg |
| Surface area |
7.5×107 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
700 K |
| Distance from earth |
77.3 million km |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
The Prince |
| Exalted |
Virgo |
| Debilitated |
Pisces |
| Friends |
Sun, Venus |
| Enemies |
Moon |
| Body Part |
Skin |
| Mahadasha |
17 year |
| Gem |
Emerald |
| Numerology |
5 |
| Mantra |
Om bum budhaya namah |
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| Jupiter |
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Jupiter is associated with the principles
of growth, expansion, religion, higher education, prosperity
and protecting roles. Jupiter is a benefic planet, significator
of luck and fortune. It rules religion, philosophy, spirituality,
wealth, and progeny. If favorable, this planet gives name,
fame, success, honor, wealth, and good relationship. It
brings benefits to whatever planets or house it is associated
with. Jupiter is very important for a female, because it
determines her marriage and her relationship with her husband.
Jupiter takes about one year to travel a sign. It represents
higher knowledge, spirituality, priests, temples, teachers,
research & scientists, layers & judges, children
and knowledge of the Vedas and astrology. It is the planet
connected with children. Jupiter is best placed in Cancer
where is called exalted. |
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| Opposite from there, in Capricorn it is least
auspicious and called debilitated. Jupiter is lord of the
signs Sagittarius and Pisces and also of the house where
these sign are located. Jupiter aspects three signs, the
5th, 7th and 9th signs from its own position. Through the
placement of Jupiter in a birth chart we know about the
benefits earned by a native from the karmas of his past
lives. Jupiter also affects long-distance travel, wisdom,
truthfulness, morality, charity, benevolence, compassion,
and meditation. |
| The
Jupiter |
| Mass |
1.899×1027 kg |
| Surface area |
6.14×1010 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
110 K min. |
| Distance from earth |
588 million km |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
The Guru |
| Exalted |
Cancer |
| Debilitated |
Capricorn |
| Friends |
Sun, Moon, Mars |
| Enemies |
Venus, Mercury |
| Body Part |
Fat |
| Mahadasha |
16 Years |
| Gem |
Yellow Sapphire |
| Numerology |
3 |
| Mantra |
Om bram brahaspataye namah |
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| Venus |
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Venus takes about a month to travel a
sign and completes the round of the zodiac in one year.
From astrological point of view it is always within 48 degrees
of the sun. It is the planet connected with spouse. Venus
belongs to the Brahmin caste. An embodiment of love, he
is a benefic planet and governs the refined attributes,
romance, beauty, sensuality, passion, comforts, luxuries,
jewelry, gambling places wealth, art, music, dance, season
of spring, rains and the bed-room.
Venus is generous and fecund, and presides over the left
arm. When rightly aspected Venus is strong, and it brings
wealth, comfort, attraction to the opposite sex in the early
part of life. It makes its natives tender, gentle and considerate.
They are lovers of jewelry, sour taste, white dresses, decoration,
perfumes, tasty foods and the fine arts. |
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| Venus is also important because of its association
with the science of mantras and Ayurvedic medicine, Tantra,
the casting of spells, hypnotism, mesmerism, and alchemy.
Venus is lord of the sign Taurus and also of Libra and of
the houses where these signs are located. |
| The
Venus |
| Mass |
4.8685×1024 kg |
| Surface area |
4.60×108 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
773 K max |
| Distance from earth |
40 million km |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
An Adviser |
| Exalted |
Pisces |
| Debilitated |
Virgo |
| Friends |
Mercury, Saturn |
| Enemies |
Sun, Moon |
| Body Part |
Sexual Organs |
| Mahadasha |
20 year |
| Gem |
Diamond |
| Numerology |
6 |
| Mantra |
Om shum shukraya namah |
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| The
Saturn |
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Saturn is the slowest moving planet because
it takes about two and a half years or so to pass through
each constellation of the sidereal zodiac and completes
the round of the zodiac in thirty years, represents hard
work, sorrow, old men, servants and the lower level workers,
people in the iron, mineral, oil and steel industry, municipality
and drainage works. It is typically described as the bringer
of grief and misery in life, A well placed Saturn can bestow
excellent power, prestige, name and fame and a badly placed
Saturn can devastate you.
Saturn is the son of the Sun by his wife Chaya or shadow.
Saturn is cold and dry, lethargic and an elderly planet.
Saturn is sad, morose, and presides over the left leg. It
is associated with the principles of limitation, restrictions,
boundaries, reality, crystallizing and structures. |
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| Saturn is worshipped by individuals going
through a "bad" phase in their life. Saturn aspects
three signs, the 3rd, 7th and 10th signs from its own position.
Saturn destroys the house it occupies (except if positioned
in the seventh house, where it receives directional strength)
and any houses it aspects or any planet it conjoins or aspects. |
| The
Saturn |
| Mass |
5.6846×1026 kg |
| Surface area |
4.27×1010 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
82 K min. |
| Distance from earth |
1.2 billion km |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
Servant |
| Exalted |
Libra |
| Debilitated |
Aries |
| Friends |
Venus, Mercury |
| Enemies |
Sun, Moon, Mars |
| Body Part |
Nerves |
| Mahadasha |
19 Year |
| Gem |
Blue sapphire |
| Numerology |
8 |
| Mantra |
Om sham shanesharaya namah |
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| The
Rahu |
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Rahu is the point in the
zodiac where the paths of the Sun and the Moon cross Rahu
or Dragons Head or North Node represents, foreigners, foreign
countries, foreign travel, engineering and the technical
trades, smoke, old men, grand parents, theft, gambling,
drinking, nonconformists, the underworld and the bad elements
in the society.Rahu takes approximately one and half years
to travel a sign and hence completes the round of the zodiac
in eighteen years.
It is believed that either Sun or Moon is conjunct with
Rahu or Ketu, a solar or lunar eclipse takes place. In astronomy
Rahu is considered the dragon's head and is also known as
the north node of Moon. Rahu and Ketu are not real luminaries
and are regarded as shadow planets. They do not have ability
to cast aspects, as other planets do, they do not rule any
zodiacal signs and are not characterized as male or female.
Because they are related to Moon as its north and south
nodes, they reflect the basic bipolarity of energy within
the cosmos and the individual. They are both regarded as
malefic half-planets and they bisect the natal chart of
the horoscopes of all individuals. |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
Serpent |
| Exalted |
Taurus |
| Debilitated |
Scorpio |
| Friends |
Mercury, Venus, Saturn |
| Enemies |
Jupiter |
| Body Part |
Nerves |
| Mahadasha |
!8 Year |
| Gem |
Gomeda |
| Numerology |
None |
| Mantra |
Om ram rahuve namah |
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| The
Ketu |
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Dragon’s tail or Ketu
is not really a planet, but rather a mathematically calculated
point in the heavens, Because of its lack of a "body".
it represents uncertain, unexpected and unpredictable phenomena.
It is intelligent and relates to mathematics and other abstract
knowledge. .Ketu is a headless half-planet, shadowy as Rahu
and malefic, though not as malefic as Rahu. It is therefore
considered a moksha-karak (cause of liberation from the
cycle of birth and death). It bestows spiritual tendencies,
ascetism and nonattachment to worldly desires and ambitions.
It represents grand parents, technical trades, spiritual
inclinations, superstitions and electronics. Ketu is always
in the opposite sign to Rahu, i.e., exactly 180 degrees
away. Ketu also takes approximately one and half years to
travel a sign and hence completes the round of the zodiac
in eighteen years.
Ketu in Each of these 9 planets produce different results,
and at times totally opposite results, while placed in the
12 different rasis. Again each has some good results and
some bad results in each sign. The motion of Rahu and Ketu
is always opposite to that of the other planets. |
| Vedic
astrology |
| Nature |
Liberation |
| Exalted |
Scorpio |
| Debilitated |
Taurus |
| Friends |
Mercury |
| Enemies |
None |
| Body Part |
Nerves |
| Mahadasha |
7 Year |
| Gem |
Cats eye |
| Numerology |
None |
| Mantra |
Om kem ketave namah |
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| The
Uranus |
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| Uranus was discovered only
in 1781 by Sir William Herschel. The planet Uranus is the
ruling planet of Aquarius. Modern interpretation associates
Uranus with the principles of genius, new and unconventional
ideas, discoveries, electricity, inventions, and radical
politics, among other things. |
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| The
Uranus |
| Mass |
8.6832×1025 kg |
| Surface area |
8.084×109 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
59 K min |
| Distance from earth |
2.57 billion km |
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| The
Neptune |
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| Neptune associate with illusion,
deception, religions, spirituality, the mass media, music,
drugs, extreme sensitivity, psychic phenomena and altered
mental states. The discovery of Neptune in 1846 coincided
with the discovery of anesthetics and hypnotism around this
period. Neptune is the ruling planet of Pisces. Prior to
the discovery of Neptune, Jupiter was considered the ruler
of Pisces, and some modern astrologers consider Jupiter
a co-ruler of Pisces. Some astrologers do not believe that
Neptune rules any particular sign, even though they may
use the planet in interpretation. |
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| The
Neptune |
| Mass |
1.0243×1026 kg |
| Surface area |
7.619×109 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
50 K min |
| Distance from earth |
4.3 billion km |
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| The
Pluto |
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The discovery of Pluto in
1930 coincided with the rise of fascism in Europe and the
major proliferation of organized crime in the United States.
Pluto is the ruling planet of Scorpio. Called "the
renewer", Pluto is considered to represent the part
of a person that destroys in order to renew. A commonly
used keyword for Pluto is "transformation". Many
more traditional astrologers do not use Pluto as a ruling
planet, but do use the planet for interpretation and predictive
work.
Pluto is also associated with extreme power and corruption;
It is also associated with nuclear armament, which had its
genesis in the research of that decade. |
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| The
Pluto |
| Mass |
(1.305±0.007)×1022 kg |
| Surface area |
1.795×107 km2 |
| Surface Temperature |
55 K max |
| Distance from earth |
4.28 billion km |
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