--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > In jyotish, Mars is the culprit to much of the natural disasters at > > this time. > > Mars can be a benefic in a number of ascendants. Like mine - Pisces. > In fact, its lord of my 9th. The stuff of great crusaders :) A benific > Mars can have an invigorating, powerfully positive effect -- its not > just destruction an blood. As are all grahas -- they can be good or > bad or both.
Actually, Mars is best for Cancer and Leo ascendants, and is considered the yoga karaka for these two ascendants. > > > Mars represents earthquakes and when transiting a watery > > sign, it causes floods, tornados, hurricanes and typhoons. > > And great buildings, muscles, strength, vigor, sex, passion, debate, > motivation, ambition, rulers, engineers, designers, technical ability, > courage, positively directed energy, gold, etc. > > What is in the chart(s) you are looking at that make you simply draw > on earthquakes and floods? I am using the kala purusha (cosmic man) or the natural zodiac, starting with Aries and ending with Pisces. > > > At the present time, Mars is debilitated in Cancer, a watery sign. It > > doesn't like to be in this constellation. Thus, we have the > > astrological reason for the current natural disasters. > > Do all natural or even most natural disasters occur when mars is in > cancer? Not necessarily. It all depends on the transits of the planets, particularly the malefic planets, Mars and Saturn. Do significantly more that 1/12 of all disasters occur when > mars is in cancer? I don't have the data to answer this. Do significantly less natural disasters occur when > mars is exhalted? Technically, this statement is correct. > What happnes when mars is debilitated by in Necha banga? In technical terms, there should be cancellation of the weakness of Mars. But this term only applies to the birth charts. Neecha bhanga does not apply to analysis of transits. > > > > > In addition, Mars is causing the current high prices of crude oil. > > Why? Because Mars is the ruler of Scorpio, which represents oil > > wells. Thus, the debilitation of Mars is causing less production of > > oil which results in high prices of crude oil and gas prices in the > > local market. (It may not be all of Dubya's fault.) > > And was mars debilitated in the 73 oil crises, the 77-79 oil crisis, etc? Not necessarily. Mars is only debilitated for about two months or so in its transit over Cancer. Since the crises mentioned occurred over many months, the transit of Mars should not be cause of it. One should look at the US natal chart period to analyze the reason. I have not done so at this time. > Do oil prices do down when Mars is exhalted? Not necessarily. It just means that the significations of Mars would be enhanced during the transit in Capricorn, the exaltation constellation of Mars. > > What happened to oil pre 1850 when mars was debilitated? See my response above. > > > > > There should be some improvement of natural conditions starting on June > > 20, 2008 when Mars exits Cancer and transits into Leo. > > > > And by what metric would you test this hypothesis? I'm using the jyotish rules of interpretation, as briefly described above. In short, an astrologer should be aware of the current events and any fields of interests in order to understand how the planets in transit would affect the areas under scrutiny. If you are an investor in stocks and commodities, you should be able to use various techniques in jyotish that would help you better time the fluctuations of the stock market and commodities market. In other words, jyotish is a tool to understand the facts, figures, and experiences of any subject. It is the science of light which is sung by the vedas JR
