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Introduction
Astrology is a
system of divination that connects our transcendent soul nature to the
concrete and tangible worldly life that we are living. When rightly
understood Astrology is inclusive of everything. The myriad of human
experiences is shown by the Astrology chart, including the profundity and
complexities of human relationships.
Exploring
relationship dynamics is no different than exploring the deeper mysteries
of life. The concepts of yin and yang, masculine and feminine, are
universal principles. The qualities of assertion and expression (masculine
energy) are always being harmonized with the qualities of receptivity and
reflection (feminine energy). This is not only in relationships, but also
in life. When we look through the mind we perceive the world in a
dualistic way, good/bad, night/day, life/death, etc. Upon close
examination we can see this world of duality is in fact the same as the
masculine/feminine dynamic. The pendulum of duality in our minds swings
between these two forces.
According to the enlightened minds taught the world Yoga and Vedic
Astrology, our lives on Earth unfold through four elements. The four
elements are powerfully expressed in the Astrology chart through the
astrological signs. The deeper truth however, is we are made of five
elements. The fifth element, which is not confined just to this Earth, is
the element of space (ether). Space extends into infinity. Space is the
part of our being that is pure consciousness beyond the Karma of the four
elements as shown in the Astrology chart and enacted in our daily lives.
Regardless of what happens to us, ultimately we determine how it affects
us, as we are a freely functioning consciousness. This freedom is also
shown in the Astrology chart through the planets.
Male /
Female Energy in the Astrology Chart
Even the most cursory look at a basic Astrology book will
show the importance of masculine and feminine energy in life. There are
two female and two male elements in the chart, each element is repeated
three times through different modalities. (Cardinal, fixed, mutable)
The four elements in the Astrology chart from the densest to finest are:
Earth and Water (female) -- Fire and Air (male) -- LET'S LOOK DEEPER.
Earth
shows our physical body as well as all things that are practical, useful,
tangible and material. Our life unfolds through our physical body and its
needs are the most urgent when they arise. The element of Earth will
remain at rest unless acted upon by another force or object. Earth
provides the tangible structure for which our life unfolds, but it may
also be the stagnant quality that prevents our life from moving forward.
Earth rules the sense of smell.
Water
shows the flow of our senses into our environment and the deep emotional
connections formed. Water is related to our feelings. Water and Earth
together creates growth, in the form of plants. Plants provide food and
sustenance for all creatures as well as oxygen for us to breathe. Water
gives a connection to love and feelings, which gives rise to a caring
heart and a compassionate life. Water rests upon Earth and nourishes it,
just as the senses feed, and love nourishes, our body. Yet water may make
us cling to fantasies, memories or emotions. Water rules the sense of
taste.
Fire shows
our passions, drives, motivations and digestion of all sorts. As water
feeds the body, fire digests what it is fed. Earth and water creates
plants; fire is hidden in the plants. Not only is food digested, all
information and sensory stimulation must be assimilated and digested. This
process of digestion creates heat, warmth and light that illuminates our
path; or this fire may burn us or others or create smoke that obscures our
path. Fire rules the sense of sight.
Air shows
our thoughts, philosophies and motion of all sorts. Fire disperses into
the air, into the atmosphere. The food we eat, after its digested leads to
movement of all sorts, both in the body and the mind. Air is related to
the breath, the prana, the vitality. The motion of air can have a worthy
goal and bring great understanding or it can be scattered and devoid of
meaning by disturbing our peace of mind and emotions (Think of air
creating waves on water). Air rules the sense of touch.
Space
(ether) is related to pure consciousness, the witnessing self, which is
not identified with the previous four elements. Space is the container of
the other elements; everything exists in space. This is why we are able to
perceive our thoughts, watch them move and witness them. If there were no
space between our thoughts or no space operating behind them, from what
vantage point would we be able to observe them? Space rules the sense of
hearing.
Female
Energy wants
to stabilize, sensitize and nourish us, just like Earth and water.
These qualities of life are fundamental to any actions that come
later. If we're disconnected from our deeper feeling nature and our stable
grounded connection to the Earth, our actions (as shown by the male signs)
will lack sensitivity and meaning.
Male
energy wants
to assert, comprehend and protect, just like fire and Air signs. These
qualities of life are necessary if we are to grow in truthful identity,
strength and understanding. Lacking a clear purpose and consistent
powerful actions, our life will stagnant and lack meaning.
People have all four elements within them, both physically and psychologically. Yet in relationships, women will generally have an affinity with earth and water traits, feeling more comfortable when energy is stabilized, sensitized and nourishing and when they can use their heart to feel into a situation. Men will generally have an affinity with fire and air traits, feeling more comfortable when acting, protecting and using their mind (intellect) to rationally understand the world. This dynamic is also relevant same-sex couples, where the more domestic partner embodies the female Energy, the more career-oriented partner embodies the male energy.
These powerful
gender types come together in a relationship and either support or destroy
the bonding of the couple.
Man
and Woman – The Sun and the Moon
Even though we have evolved culturally, with
equality between the sexes in the workplace, etc., males and females (or
their archetypes for gay couples) still function according to a certain
gender pattern in relationships. First we need to be confident in that
gender identity, only then can we relax into the opposite and learn from
our partners. Of course we all must be happy with ourselves individually
before we are able to have positive experiences in relationships. Before
that time we will project many negative traits of our gender.
The Vedic Sciences, which include Yoga, Ayurveda and Astrology have long
known the relationship to our inner and outer environments and the impact
and interrelatedness of both. Central to this interrelatedness is our
relationship with other people, and primarily our partner. Vedic Astrology
has been helping couples relate in empowering ways for thousands of years.
The Archetypes of Male and female are shown in Astrology as the
relationship between the Sun and the Moon.
CH.3 Brihat Parashara Hora Sastra:
23. Description of Sūrya. (Sun) Sūrya’s eyes are
honey-coloured. He has a square body. He is of clean habits, bilious,
intelligent and has limited hair (on his head).
24. Description of Candr. (Moon) Candr is very windy and phlegmatic. She is learned and has a round body. She has auspicious looks and sweet speech, is fickle-minded and very lustful.
Attribute |
Sun (Man) |
Moon (Woman) |
Body |
Square |
Round |
|
Process |
Intelligence |
Knowing |
|
Looks |
Honey colored eyes |
Auspicious looks |
|
Constitution |
Bilious (fiery) |
Watery and windy |
|
Habits |
Clean |
Lustful |
|
Other |
Limited hair on head |
Sweet speech |
|
Action |
Consistent |
Fickle minded |
|
Direction |
External |
Internal |
These attributeas are very powerful - The Moon is the most changeable of all the planets, different everyday. The round body of the Moon shows the woman's changeability. She is susceptible to rolling here and there, depending on which way the wind is blowing or other environmental conditions. She is fickle minded. The square body of the man reassures her. A square is solid and not so easily moved, thus when she is rolling around she would like to knock into a solid surface. Yet this changeability also makes for her creative and adaptable, which helps the man not stay so fixed so as to become rigid. The woman's auspiscious looks, attracts the man's honey colored eyes. Women want the man's attention and like attract it. Man like to look at women. The woman's sweet speech and knowing attracts and supports the man's intelligence -- (knowing is of the heart - intelligence of the mind)
The
male would
like to follow a consistent and purposeful course through life, one of
clarity, truth and protection. Just think of the Sun rising everyday,
giving life and lighting up the world, feeling responsible for life,
knowing that if he stopped shining all of life would end, seeing all of
the other planets revolving around him wanting his light. As such, men
would like to embody this - power, responsibility, duty, clarity, self-
assuredness, confidence. When he is not able to live in accordance with
these ideals the man will suffer. The Sun shows how men are the most
comfortable with thought and action. Key: When men do good things, they
feel good
The female archetype follows the Moon it is one receptivity,
creativity, flexibility, beauty. It is the Moon, through regulating the
oceans and weather patterns here on Earth that has allowed the light of
the Sun to produce life and creatures to experience the beauty of
creation. The Moon is the most beautiful object and the full Moon sends us
to the brink of love's madness, passion and reflection. Women are most
comfortable with feeling and reflection. As such the woman wants to be
powerful in her receptive feminine nature. When she is not able to live in
accordance with these ideals the woman will suffer. Key: When women
feel good, they do good things.
These are essential truths, stripped of artifice and modern
political correctness. It is from this deep place that true understanding
can support our gender strength. It is only from a position of strength
that a sensitive man can truly be sensitive (not clingy and dependant) and
that a woman can be strong (not covering her fears with aggression).
Each gender ultimately seeks to assimilate attributes of both male
and female; but until our essential nature feels secure and validated in
partnership, we will not be able to relax and evolve toward our opposite.
We all want to merge with that opposite energy, to assimilate the
qualities inspired by our opposite and to inspire assimilation in them. We
all want to be free and unburdened of the responsibilities of the limiting
qualities of our gender, but this unburdening must come from a position of
strength, not confusion.
Positive male
energy leads the man to his positively expressed female side.
Positive male energy is self assured, consistent, protective, clear,
courageous, taking inspired action.
Negative male energy is domineering, self centered, unclear, uninspired,
angry, powerless, over intellectual.
Positive female
energy leads the woman to her positively expressed male side.
Positive female energy is creative, flexible, loving, self
contained, grounded, reflective, receptive, patient.
Negative female energy is clingy, overly emotional, dependant, ungrounded,
impatient, overly sensual.
Positively expressed male and female energy
looks very similar to each other. Yet many problems occur when from a
weakened gender position, we act through it’s confused opposite.
”Sensitive Man” and “Strong Woman” (both in need of an upgrade!)
Sensitive
Man
Positive male energy stays consistent and purposeful in the midst of the
storm of female emotion. The “sensitive” man who gets too involved
with his woman’s short-term problems may create as many problems as he
hopes to solve.
Strong
Woman
Positive female energy stays feeling centered and loving even in the midst
of the man’s temporary self-centeredness. The ‘strong” woman who
tries to compete with the man may create as many problems as she hope to
solve.
When male energy fails
it is reassured by powerful female energy.
Ex: The man has been too busy to pay attention to the woman because of work
etc. Negative female energy will say “You have been spending too much
time working and with your friends, and your not taking care of our
relationship, if you don’t spend more time with me,.. etc” -- The
empowered woman will state “I miss you and I am afraid that we will
drift apart because you are spending so much time working and with your
friends, I love you but this is very painful.”
BY the woman simply stating her feelings and remaining
empowered she not only acts in accordance with her highest self
(flexibility, love) she also gives the man (otherwise known as the big
jerk) the opportunity to do the right thing, and pay proper attention to
her. It is her DEVOTION to love that opens his heart, not her being tough,
holding her ground, etc. Her criticism of him is saying, “your actions
are failing”, since men feel good when they do good, she is hurting him
deeply and offending him deeply and ultimately pushing him away by
challenging his actions. Also, her behavior leaves her filled with doubt
about herself, because they are secondary. In truth, her female side is
hurt and she is compensating for it with negative male behavior. When she
sticks to her innate strength and trusts that remaining truthful to love
will attract the right things in her life, she will not be filled with the
doubt that accompanies being “strong woman”.
When female energy fails
it is reassured by powerful male energy.
Ex: Woman has a bad day at work, she is talking up a storm, all emotional
and starting to blame him for things that are not his fault, looking for
problems etc. Negative male
energy may say “well I don’t think you are right about this, you are
not being sensible,” maybe you should try to just do this, etc. ”
OR he will defend himself against exaggerations that she is directing at
him. In other words he will approach it intellectually or try to do
something about it. Powerful male energy will simply listen, then say
“I am really sorry to hear this is happening and that I may have upset
you too. We all feel a little out of sorts sometime, but you sure are
beautiful and I really just want to hug you.” (or just embrace her / do
something to break up the moment and take her out of her emotions)
The woman does not want the man to “fix her” and get
hooked into her momentary problems, that just makes her feel worse,
because now not only is she upset, but now she has upset him and caused a
fight in the relationship. She wants to FEEL BETTER and not feel like a
basket case. The more the “sensitive man” gets pulled into it, the
worse she will feel. His consistency, clarity, humor is the most sensitive
thing he can do, in other words to be a powerful man, like the Sun. By the
man feeding the emotional imbalance through arguing or advising he is
subtly saying “your feelings are a problem”, which makes her act worse
and effectively makes her withdrawal from him, because she will not trust
that he has the strength to endure her moments without making them worse.
Also, his “sensitive man” / negative female side is filled with doubt
because he is not being truthful to his strength, which is to be
consistent and inspired rather than being knocked off course by being
dragged into emotional dramas. He can trust this powerful action
more than trying to sympathize with the ever-changing emotions of the
woman.
The Moon Signs
Vedic Astrology not only uses the
planets in our solar system when delineating a Birth chart, it also uses
the distant stars, called Nakshatras. Nakshatras means Lunar mansions, but
actually each planet in a Vedic Astrology chart is in a sign, a house and
a Nakshatra, but given the exalted status of the Moon in Vedic Astrology,
for reasons mentioned above, they are called “Lunar Mansions.” There
are 27 Nakshatras, stars that host the Moon every day as it orbits the
earth. It takes the Moon 27 days to do so, thus each day it enters a new
Nakshatra. The deeper psyche of each person is shown more by their
Nakshatra than anything else. Matching the unique qualities of these 27
archetypes are what much of Vedic Astro-Compatibility is about.
Here
is an outline of a few of the techniques and strategies you will learn in
the relationship astrology class.
Nakshatra: Spiritual nature - We will go over each of the
nakshatra's and discuss their spiritual relevance.
Sign: Psychological nature - We will discuss each sign relative to
our emerging psychology.
House: worldly nature expressed - We will discuss each House
relative to how (and who) supports or obstructs our growth.
Moon Yogas | Aspects | Condition | Supporting Planets: We will
discuss the most important Yogas, (planetary alignments), aspects
and other conditions that help and/or hinder our psychology.
It is crucial when assessing the compatibility of a couple to assess the
individual psychology of each person also - other techniques (like the
Kuta System) are also important, but the individual psychology of each
person, and their affinity together based oin it, will ultimately have the
final say in how comfortable they are together.
The Kuta Point System
Vedic Astrology uses a point system that
mathematically calculates the personal traits of each person’s Birth
Nakshatra.
Preliminary factors:
*Vedha - Obstruction - a
terrible blemish -
*Rajju - Rope - binds a couple
to misfortune –
*Strii Deergha –
Shows the distance between the Moons. The Shortest distance should
be from the Man’s to the Woman’s Moon.
*Kuja Dosha – Mars
affliction – Should be matching or the woman with lower Kuja dosha
factors.
The Kutas are:
*Nadi - Dosha - Balance in
emotional element – there is windy, fiery and watery nadi – If a
couple hjave the same nadi there will be an excess of that element.
Air=intellect – Fire =anger – Water=emotion. 8 points
*Bhava - Sign -
Friendliness of Moon Sign Aspect - Whether there is similar / supportive
mental outlook. 7 points
*Gana - Temperament - God,
Devil or Human temperament – Best when the woman has the higher
temperament. 6 points
*Graha Maitram - Friendliness
of Moon sign Lord – Shows a similarity of interests and an ease of
personal styles. 5 points
*Yoni - Sexual and deeper
urge compatibility – Shows the capacity to bond through intense
experiences, like sex or after arguments – or sex After arguments J
4 points
*Tara - Important for the
Woman to feel cherished - 3 points
*Vasya - "Dutiful” -
special inner connection – 2 points
*Varna - Caste - relates to
the station in life – 1 point
*Mahendra - another special
connection – means great lord.
Other Planets and
Considerations:
Other planets are also important when considering
compatibility of a couple. Individual Planets in each person's chart are
very important. For example, if one or both has a combust Venus (too close
to the Sun) they will usually have difficulties feeling cherished and
respected and become angry about it, thus disrespecting the other and in
the process bringing the feared disrespect upon themselves. Combust
Mercury will make the person insecure about asking for what they want in a
healthy way. Of course these things will present problems in
relationships. When combined with other planetary configurations (see the
link below) the results are very accurate.
Here are a few
examples of how other planets show the affinity between couples. Note that
friendly associations, mainly trines (houses 5 and 9 from each other) and
Conjunctions (in the same sign in both charts) are the best aspect. Also
favorable though is 3 / 11 association.
Sexuality:
Mars and Venus - Mars projects - Venus receives. Mars gives the strength,
courage, and power to conquer. Venus gives beauty, charm and
refinement to attract.
Thus,
Venus is (generally) the most important planet for a woman's sexuality
because it is the power to ATTRACT.
Mars is usually the most important for sex appeal for men because it is
the power and force to PROJECT sexuality.
Of course women also project (Mars) and men also receive. (Venus) In
couples where the Sexual vibe is very strong there will be conjunctions of
Mars and Venus or they will be in friendly placements like trines, etc.
Soul
connection:
Sun / Moon conjunction or friendly aspects have to do with deeper soul
connections - So it is possible to see if a relationship is based more on
Sexuality or on a Soul connection by seeing which bond is stronger - Mars
/ Venus or Sun / Moon -
Spirituality:
Jupiter
is important for Spiritual connections - Jupiter / Moon conjunctions or
Jupiter's in aspect to each other or aspecting each other’s Moon or
Spiritual planets. Also the 9th lords in each other's charts in friendly
association will show a Spiritual bond. Especially true in this sense
are Spiritual factors in the Navamsa.
Communication:
Mercury's
should be in friendly positions with each other. Mercury conjunctions or
conjoined or aspecting Jupiter or other Planets show good communication.
The Moon is also important for Communication. Synastry (conjunction over 2
charts) with Mars or Saturn and Mercury can be very harmful.
Fighting
and Problems:
Mars,
Saturn and the Nodes will be the most important planets for fighting. Many
times if there is anger and hostility, Mars will be in an unfriendly
aspect or conjunction to another's Moon, Saturn, Venus or perhaps Mercury
or Jupiter. Also Saturn can make for a feeling of inhibition and feeling
disapproved of. Especially Saturn / Moon conjunctions. Ketu makes a person
feels criticized. Rahu can lead to situation becoming blown out of
proportion. The Sun can make for a Domineering quality.
Here
are a few likely patterns:
Mars
/ Mercury - hostile communication
Saturn
/ Mercury - inhibited communication
Mars
/ Jupiter - Fighting over Spiritual / Ethical
issues, exaggerated problems
Saturn
/ Jupiter - Suppressed Spirituality, dampened
enthusiasm
Rahu / Mercury - inconsistent or exaggerations in Communication
Ketu
/ Mercury - Overly Critical communication
It
is also possible and less desired that malefics influence each other
badly. This can bring out undesirable traits in one or both partners. Such
as:
Mars
/ Saturn - Aggravation, lack of discipline,
cruelty
Mars/
Rahu - hostility, excessive self will,
violence
Saturn
/ Rahu - excessive fear, anxiety and stress
Ketu
/ Mars - explosive anger and criticism
Saturn
/ Ketu - depression, reclusive behavior, fear
But Also important is the Navamsa chart (D-9) and
the AK (Atma Karaka) of each person in the D-9. Planetary dasas for each
person also must be considered. The 7th house, the 7th Lord in the Charts.
Also the disposition of the female planets in each person's chart. Dasa
are periods that show which karmas are the most important to us at any
given time.
A
good Astrologer can also see who is the (likely) dominant by seeing which
male planet (Sun or Mars) is stronger. Who is projecting and who is
receiving. Often times if the female is in the dominant role there will be
problems with arguing as she is feeling neglected because she must
initiate and man is feeling nagged, because she is always asserting. The 'what
do you wanna do tonight" argument, that descends into a spiral of
madness has it's origin in this problem.