1) The navamsa is a division of the zodiac into nine parts used in Vedic astrology to judge conjugal life and adherence to dharma.
2) It indicates how one lives their social role and relationship to culture, beyond just marriage, divorce or widowhood.
3) Each planet's placement in the navamsa shapes their character, like the moon in Mangala's navamsa indicating a thief who finds pleasure in harming others.
4) Dharma refers to upholding intrinsic functions in society, like marriage, which allows people to live dedicated lives and sustain civilization through progeny.
1) The navamsa is a division of the zodiac into nine parts used in Vedic astrology to judge conjugal life and adherence to dharma.
2) It indicates how one lives their social role and relationship to culture, beyond just marriage, divorce or widowhood.
3) Each planet's placement in the navamsa shapes their character, like the moon in Mangala's navamsa indicating a thief who finds pleasure in harming others.
4) Dharma refers to upholding intrinsic functions in society, like marriage, which allows people to live dedicated lives and sustain civilization through progeny.
1) The navamsa is a division of the zodiac into nine parts used in Vedic astrology to judge conjugal life and adherence to dharma.
2) It indicates how one lives their social role and relationship to culture, beyond just marriage, divorce or widowhood.
3) Each planet's placement in the navamsa shapes their character, like the moon in Mangala's navamsa indicating a thief who finds pleasure in harming others.
4) Dharma refers to upholding intrinsic functions in society, like marriage, which allows people to live dedicated lives and sustain civilization through progeny.
1) The navamsa is a division of the zodiac into nine parts used in Vedic astrology to judge conjugal life and adherence to dharma.
2) It indicates how one lives their social role and relationship to culture, beyond just marriage, divorce or widowhood.
3) Each planet's placement in the navamsa shapes their character, like the moon in Mangala's navamsa indicating a thief who finds pleasure in harming others.
4) Dharma refers to upholding intrinsic functions in society, like marriage, which allows people to live dedicated lives and sustain civilization through progeny.
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Navāṁśa and dharma
Among the sixteen vargas taught by Parāśara, the
most popular and used is the navāṁśa , which consists of a division of a sign of 30º00 'into nine parts of 3º20', where the first part corresponds to a sign of the same element, but of mobile nature ( chara ). P. e., If we wish to calculate the navāṁśas present in the bull sign, we must start from capricorn, which is also a land sign, but of a mobile nature. From there we know that the firstnavāṁśa is capricorn (00º00 'to 03º20'), the second aquarium (03º20 'to 06º40'), the third fish (06º40 'to 10º00') and thus follows until virgin (26º40 'to 30º00' ), the ninth and lastnavāṁśa of the bull sign. There is no secret! The calculation is simple. Once we learn to divide signs into nine parts, just determine where in each graha falls, also including the lagna and thus get a new map, the Navamsa , which according to Parāśara comes to kalatrā - wife or husband , that is, it deals with conjugal life. But there is something else to be understood from this one term that Parāśara uses to define the theme of the navāṁśa . Kalatrā refers to the condition of wife, that is, one who has accepted the dharmaconcerning conjugal life within society, rather than simply living relationships at random, which conveys the idea of commitment or responsibility related to navāṁśa . Even the navāṁśa is a division of a sign into nine parts, the ninth bhāva being called dharma-bhāva , which speaks about ethics and morals . Therefore, when we speak of navāṁśa , we speak not only of marriage but also of dharma, that is, conduct, adherence to principles and inner substance. Therefore, the navāṁśa is not only intended to judge the nature of the wife or husband, whether the individual will marry or not, whether he will be divorced or widowed, etc. It also serves the purpose of determining how the individual lives his social role, what sense he gives to his own life in relation to a wider context, for when we speak of the ninth bhåva , we speak of the individual's posture in relation to the culture that he has inherited (both in his community and country and outside it, through personal experiences and pursuits), which includes his philosophical and religious view. P. e., When a graha occupies the same sign both the natal chart as the Navamsa , it is said that he isvargottama where varga means 'division' and uttama 'superior', ie 'superior character of division'. This word has a quantitative sense of force [1] , but also a qualitative sense, in which the graha remains faithful to its particular interest, represented by the sign occupied, which can also be understood as a duty or dharma . No cp. 32 of Yāvana jātaka are given several examples of how the navāṁśa occupied by a grahasignificantly shapes its character or function. P. e., It says the following about Chandra occupying anavāṁśa of Maṅgala (32: 1-2): "If Chandra occupies a navāṁśa of Maṅgala under the eye of the same, the individual will be a ferocious thief whose pleasure will reside in killing and to cause damages; if Śukra is who looks at it, then the individual will enjoy wealth, drink and women in abundance; Budwa, he will be a thief who will always be changing his residence, if Sūrya, will be a king who will severely punish the criminals, if Guru, will be a very intelligent king and endowed with good qualities; dragged by many fears. " It is evident, through these ślokas, that the posture of an individual can not be determined successfully without considering the navāṁśas occupied by each graha , including also the lagna . In view of this, a more appropriate consideration for the navāṁśa is that it deals with conjugal life because in the first place it is related to our social posture or conduct, and marriage is a basic institution for the maintenance of a civilized society, that is , which is based on dharma , the central theme of thenavāṁśa . In fact, it is worth saying that dharma derives from the word dharaṇa , which means 'to hold' or 'to hold', so dharma is the ability to maintain or fulfill an intrinsic function. P. e., The function of fire is to burn, illuminate and always move upward, while the function of the human being is to serve lovingly, which presumes to develop social order, living in an altruistic and dedicated way. Marriage enters there as a fundamental aspect, since it is through it that most people can live in a more dedicated way, sacrificing for the other. In addition, without marriage there is no possibility of generating good progeny and consequently sustaining human civilization, since marriage and dharma go together and are the basis ofkarma kāṇḍa - the section of the vedas which deals with fruitive action.