| 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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