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VEDIC PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGY Very Brief Notes for

Robert Williams SUMMARY N.B. This report is essentially a very brief summary of your Vedic predictive astrology. Please listen to the recording for deeper levels of meaning. This report is complex with a lot of valuable detail, but you will probably need to listen to my recording first in order to be able to understand it all and put it all into context. As with all my clients, you are most welcome to email/write to me after you have read the reports in order to have all your queries answered. N.B. The most crucial and important note is about your exceptional Saturn Transit: coupled with your Saturn Dasa or Predictive Period. In summary, Saturn has made the difficult transit through your 12 th House. Next comes the difficult transit of Saturn over your natal Sun (which can offer you great harvest and reaping if you understand its special lessons). Then Saturn transits conjunct Venus in your birth chart and Sade Sate begins is most challenging seven-and-a-half-year period, then comes the essentialisation of your Second Saturn Return. It is most important to understand the nature of this very exceptional experience so that you can maximize the divine gift it is offering you.

Some pointers to your Vedic Prediction

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These notes look at the following predictive details in your current Vedic astrology: Your Vedic Predictive periods (called Dasas) Your Vedic transits (where a planet in the heavens today passes through a sign in your Vedic birth chart or aspects a planet in your Vedic birth chart) The Varshaphal chart (the chart for the exact moment on you current birthday when the Sun returned to the position it occupied at the moment you were born) Eclipses (see western astrology report for the dates of these)

VEDIC ASTROLOGY It takes more than one life time to study Vedic Astrology, and a full Vedic Astrology natal and predictive reading is recommended. This document is just the tiniest taster of what Vedic Astrology has to offer you in terms of understanding the conditions you will encounter in this life in terms of the journey of your soul. The Sidereal Zodiac Please note that Vedic Astrology uses a different 12-sign zodiac from western astrology so your planets will often be described as being in different signs. This is because the sidereal zodiac of Vedic astrology is fixed: it is anchored to a fixed star as a statement of the Eternal, whereas the tropical zodiac of western astrology is moving: it moves a degree every 72 years and its start point is that point in the heavens that the Sun occupies on the first day of Spring, and because it is solar it is ‘ego astrology’ The scope of Vedic Astrology is immensely vaster than egoic western astrology. At the present the two zodiacs are 24 degrees apart. The Lunar Zodiac: Additionally please note that Vedic astrology also employs an even more ancient zodiac: the immeasurably powerful lunar zodiac of 27 signs, that depicts our realities in a magical and dream time way that is pre-solar, pre-logical and pre-linear, and is hugely accurate, powerful and meaningful. These lunar signs are called ‘Nakshatras’. The positions of the lunar signs were more easily visible to ancient astrologers because they are quite simply the position of the Moon in the heavens on each of the 27 days the Moon takes to orbit the Earth. Because the lunar signs are so ancient, they are powerful and magical and pre-rational, and each of them has a power animal that can be used for many purposes of understanding, including the identification of the best marriage partner for you. The Sidereal Symbols: Please also note that Vedic Astrology also uses a system of Sidereal Symbols: Vedic Sages have channelled the meaning of each of the 360 degrees of the Sidereal Zodiac. The roots of this system lie in ancient Babylonian Star Lore, but the system has been modernised in the last century by Malik Jane. Using the symbol for each zodiacal degree, these sidereal symbols can throw vast illumination onto the nature of any of your planets by using the symbol for the degree the planet falls in. On occasion, the illumination thrown onto the nature of the planet is of vast value and can be found from no other source. Very Important Note: The Lunar Sign or Nakshatra that your Moon falls in in your Vedic natal chart is the basis for the ancient and powerfully accurate Vedic Astrology of love and relationships. See the 6 or 7 page special report on your Love Nakshatra attached. Each Nakshatra has a power animal. The power animal of the same species but the opposite gender to your own is your ideal sexual partner, however, taking the wider issues of relationship, overall compatibility is often best with another Lunar Sign. The Vedic Astrology of Love and Relationships gives an exceptionally clear and decisive analysis of a relationship. This is given in a way that is not available from western astrology. It travels the infinite thread between intimacy and vastness. Vedic Love Astrology states simply and powerfully the key issues about relationship, for example it measures the all-important quality of respect, what level of sexual attraction, whether there is friendliness, whether there is the necessary shared sense of purpose, and so forth. It is an invaluable backbone to relationships understanding. You can't actually understand relationships without it.

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CONTRADICTIONS: In Vedic Astrology, when there are contradictory statements, it is not the case that this is dismissed as a contradiction, but that the two will merge like some sort of carefully crafted committee minute. Rather it is the case that BOTH statements will manifest as true in the life. This is because Vedic Astrology is part of the tantric spiritual system of Hinduism, and the nature of tantra is to treat the two contradictory statements like two ends of the same pole and to reconcile apparent opposites in the sense of finding the truth beyond the two ends of the pole, because all phenomena, including apparent opposites are inherently connective to the divine root of all being, and thus not in a real sense opposite.

1. Your Vedic Predictive Periods Vedic Astrology uses predictive life periods called Dasas. The Dasas unfold in set pattern from the moment of our birth. They have sub-periods the Dasas often called Bhuktis or antars. Vims hottar within i Star t Date

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husband. As Jupiter rules children, this is a common time for giving birth. If children are older, they will come more directly into the life, and the eldest child may be affected for better or

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worse, depending on the condition of the planet. As a benefic, Jupiter often gives many different kinds of opportunities, and marriage is therefore common in this period. Also, one's standard of living may improve, and the person will enjoy greater luxuries and comforts. Acquisition of finer cars is possible, as is the opportunity to acquire property. In a spiritual country such as India, this period greatly favors associations with Gurus and religious figures. There would also be bathing in the sacred Ganges River and many holy pilgrimages. Longdistance travel is favored in any case. If Jupiter is afflicted, all kinds of miseries are possible, as one's luck is devastated and nearly all undertakings are subject to failure. There would also be ailments involving allergies and the liver. SATURN DASA The Saturn dasa lasts 19 years and is characterized by sustained hard work in one's career. Unless afflicted, this period may bring honor and advancement based upon one's present and past efforts. It is a time of great discipline and of establishing a solid base for one's career. The person may at this time build whatever tangible form and structure elements are necessary for the years to come. Saturn dasa may also give gains in wealth, authority, and power. There may be money from inheritances or from involvement in real estate. As a malefic, Saturn gives excellent results in the upachaya houses (the 3rd, 6th, 10th & llth), and when well aspected or well placed by sign. If Saturn is afflicted, this dasa will bring restrictions, delays, poverty, hardship, illnesses, and injuries. There may also be professional downfalls, loss of honor, and danger from rheumatism or paralysis.

Jupiter - 16 years. After 18 years of Rahu we get the dasa of the great benefic Jupiter. As guru, Jupiter will always teach us something and give us something. His dasa periods bring children, marriage, wealth as well as titles and honors. Jupiter is the planet of hope, faith and optimism that allows us to keep going because we believe our best days are yet to come. He can make us religious, put us in touch with our Guru, and give the right moral conduct and the awareness to do the good rather than the bad. When Jupiter is weak his dasa may make us unrealistic, overly optimistic or have a sense of self-entitlement or a haughty view. He may bring bad teachers or problems with them. Also when weak, Jupiter will deprive health, wealth, children and many other things, forcing the native to find a deeper fulfillment without them. In a woman’s chart, Jupiter is the signifier for her husband. Note that a weak or problematic Jupiter can behave like a first class malefic!!! However, Jupiter will give usually give knowledge and right understanding of the problem. He has a way of putting us into situations that increase our understanding of life and our problems. Suddenly we will meet a person who introduces us to our Guru, or some random event will change our lives for the better. Jupiter is God's grace, that ineffable force, that good karma that is always leading us higher. Medical indications: As a planet of expansion and a kapha planet, Jupiter can create obesity. Also he has to do with allergies and excess phlegm. As ruling tissue he can be the excess mass that is shown by the body producing cancer cells. Psychologically, Jupiter brings optimism. Saturn - 19 years. The expansive nature of Jupiter gives way to the practical persevering quality of Saturn dasa. Saturn dasa is a time when we will face our limitations. The inescapable truth is that our limited body and mind will perish one day. Saturn makes us aware of this through the aches and pains in our body; the death of our loved ones, chronic illness and the resulting fear of these things getting worse. The more attached we are to worldly gain and pleasures; the more Saturn dasa may hurt us. However great success is also possible, as Saturn is a planet of practical efforts and perseverance leading us toward our goals. He gives a very responsible nature and high

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levels of ambition. However, much of this external focus is an avoidance of the inner work that must be done in order for the mind and heart to settle. In such cases, Saturn may bury us beneath a mountain of responsibility until we relent or break down physically and emotionally. His dasa can place us in hospitals; make us deal with old people, death, legacies and inheritance. Insurance, wills, banks, things attached to legacies and family history are relevant. Saturn is the planet of pressure, internal and external. He is the great karmic taskmaster who rules with an iron grip, bringing suffering commensurate to our avoidance of truth. As such, a Saturn dasa is also a time when enormous spiritual growth and progress is possible through perseverance and facing the truth alone, which is the only possibility. He teaches us to thrive in isolation rather than crave worldly distractions. He teaches us to get by with less and simplify our lives. And, he teaches us humility and sensitivity to others. Because when we suffer we develop compassion for others who suffer. Medical: Saturn is the indicator of chronic illness. He is a vata planet that brings pain to the joints and drying to the body. Arthritis, paralysis, constipation, cancer as well as problems with the knees, teeth and bones are possible in Saturn dasa. Psychologically, he brings depression, anxiety, fear, cynicism, bitterness and depression.

2. The Vedic Transits through the Signs and Houses of your Vedic Birth chart Here is your Vedic natal chart, and below it the chart of the moment so you can see which of the houses in your natal chart the planets are transiting through in the year ahead. Rash i (D-1) G en eral

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From this you can see that in the predictive year ahead: Rahu (the North Node) will be transiting through your 12th House (Rahu and Ketu, the Nodes of the Moon, normally move backwards and take 18 months to move through a sign/house) Ketu (the South Node) will be transiting through the 6th House

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Saturn will now be transiting through the 2nd House Jupiter is transiting through the 10th House What does this mean?

RAHU Transits Rahu in 12th and Ketu in 6th Rahu in the house of loss can make your expenses rocket so keep strict control of the finances. Ketu can bring out enemies or detractors from the past. Deal now with the issues they present rather than ignoring them. Stepfamilies are particularly important during this transit. You may not be totally comfortable with them, but you have to deal with them. Rahu Is TWELFTH from Moon or Lagna Keywords: Foreign Enlightenment Favorable: This is a good time to go on that retreat to India, or perhaps a church outing in the mountains. Spend more time on inner fulfillment. Be generous in charity, but still maintain your financial wits. Unfavorable: Try not to eat late. Sleep could be off during this period. Your libido could be off. You might not feel so grounded; in fact, there is danger to the feet, and perhaps a fall is even possible. Some unusual illnesses could crop up that seem to defy diagnosis. Transits of Rahu and Ketu carry a lot of spiritual connotations; so healing might be aided by a more spiritual approach. Try some yagyas; learn to meditate; be nice to people; give to charity; etc. There is the possibility of spending some time in isolation, so let's be smart and not make it a jail or hospital. Stay on top of your finances or you could build up debts and incur some losses. KETU Transits Ketu Is SIXTH from Moon or Lagna Keywords: Changes Through Service Favorable: Things could change for the better. Use this time to reorganize and improve your life. Focus on self-improvement. Medical and healing procedures and processes usually begin to show more results during this transit. Spiritual remedies are effective as well. The change will do you good. Unfavorable: If things change too rapidly, it could throw you off. Anger and erratic behavior could dominate if you get off your schedule. Try to avoid the "runaway train" syndrome. You are a candidate for an accident or an unexpected operation. You can avoid this by planning ahead and taking care of things when they are small. "A stitch in time saves nine."

SATURN transits Saturn Is SECOND from Moon or Lagna Keywords: Focus on Finances Favorable: Your finances could stabilize if you redirect your attention upon them. Try your hand at learning a foreign language. You'll get the most nutrition from eating simple, fresh foods at regular mealtimes. Think about what you want to say before you speak. Give your family members some more time. Unfavorable: Speak the sweet truth now; thoughtless speech could give you big problems at this time. Stay focused on your studies—don't drop out. Avoid the "near occasions of sin" regarding food, drink, drugs, and alcohol. There is a possibility for problems coming from a bad diet or certain reactions to the wrong foods. A good Ayurvedic panchakarma treatment and a prescription for proper diet will be helpful. Your finances could hit the skids if you don't continue to pay attention. Visit your dentist. General family issues could seem oppressive, so try to keep your sense of humor.

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JUPITER transits Jupiter Is TENTH from Moon or Lagna Keywords: Expansive Career Favorable: Get people to take an interest in you; educate yourself and expand your position; network with successful people at every chance—something is bound to rub off; people might regard your work more highly now; it might be worthwhile to do some teaching or consulting; be generous Unfavorable: Your reputation could take a downturn if you don't keep up with your responsibilities; if you delay, then finance and career opportunities could pass you by; you might have to put in some extra effort to keep things going; keep busy and don't fall prey to boredom.

You are going through an exceptionally long and serious Saturn transit to your natal Houses and planets Note very importantly that you are undergoing an unusually deep and exceptionally prolonged Saturn emphasis in terms of Saturn’s transit through your Vedic birth chart. And moreover you also soon enter a Saturn predictive period (Dasa) in addition. There is deep golden reaping here if you understand and implement Saturn’s lessons, otherwise there is bitter reaping. If you look at your Vedic birth chart above and the chart for Now below it, you can follow the transit of Saturn itemized below: Here is the summary: 1. Saturn transiting your 12th House is tough. Yours occurred once Saturn entered sidereal (or Vedic) sign of Virgo which is your 12th House in about September 2009, and it did not end until Saturn crossed your Ascendant in November 2013. 2. There then follows a series of Saturn transits to you natal Ketu (South Node), Neptune, Mercury, Sun and Venus:

Staurn transiting Ketu often releases past life skills. Staturn tranting Neptune is tough: yearning for the infinite and so aware of life’s limitaitons. Saturn transiting Mercury is depth of thinking etc. or blocks to thinking Saturn transiting the natal Sun is tough. If you are on course spiritually there is golden reaping. If you are off course there is some misfortune, even downfall. Here is a gestalt: Saturn to Sun + Perseverance, powers of concentration, indefatigability, self-assertion, improvement of health, recognition for diligence, support through older persons, simple life.

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reduced mental faculties and physical development, pessimistic attitude, mental suffering, illness, estrangement, separation, grief, family troubles, professional difficulties. Here are the dates of the exact hits, but there are big before and after periods where this is at work and is felt:

Saturn transiting Venus is very important. I spoke about it in the reading: the seven-year squares Saturn makes to natal Venus in its 28yr orbit round the chart, which produce seven-year ‘love crises’ which can of course be very positive for deepening and authenticating love. When Saturn conjuncts Venus, people can feel utterly alone, or conversely that potential produces great commitment in love and they marry. 3. Next, as I said, Sade Sate starts. When Saturn enters sidereal Sagittarius 26.10.17, you start Sade Sate (and just before this: Saturn several times affects Melanie’s Gandanta Sun). Here is the time table of Saturn’s passage through the Vedic signs: 3.11.14 26.10.17

24.1.20 18.1.23

Saturn into Scorpio Saturn into Sagittarius Saturn enters Sagittarius 26.1.17 Saturn turns retrograde at 3 Sagittarius 41 on 6.4.17 Saturn re-enters Scorpio on 21.6.17 Saturn turns Direct at 27 Scorpio 4 on 25.8.17 Saturn re-enters Sagittarius on 26.10.17 Saturn into Capricorn Saturn into Aquarius

And here are Saturn’s exact hits to your natal Moon:

Here is the meaning of Sade Sate, but remember, your Moon is in one of the exception signs, where in addition to the deep learning of Sade Sate, there is also Gain: Sade Sathi is a predictive period that occurs once every twenty eight years. It always lasts some seven-and-a-half years in total. Sade Sathi is always a period of separations, confusion, blocks and problems, separations and deaths. It lasts as Saturn transits through the sign before that occupied by the Moon in the Vedic birth chart, through the sign occupied by the Moon, and through the sign which comes after the one occupied by the moon. Saturn takes two and a half years to transit each of these three signs. Basically Sade Sate is a period the first half of which is like going down into a pit. As we go down, we are cut off from God’s grace, with the divine purpose that we have to stand in the light of our own merits.

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The Divine intention of this is so that we can see how inadequate our own merits are, how much we need the divine in our lives. The ideal response is to shed parts of our sense of self and our life circumstance that separate us from God. This means that there is a big turning point half way. Then we start to arise out of the pit. The suffering or negative circumstances we encounter during Sade Sate have the Divine aim to get you on course: i.e. more closely adhering to your individual dharma. The individual dharma is the path that you incarnated to tread. The Divine purpose is to get you to develop patience, fortitude, diligence, ethics, etc. the aim is to motivate us to connect to God and our True Self and our true purpose, for example through kundalini meditation, to develop inner calm, content, self-control, circumspection, sense of duty, to overcome what at the egoic level are the delusions of inhibitions, fluctuating moods, inferiority complex, melancholy, obstinacy, unstableness of character, illness (due to mental suffering), lack of self-confidence and fear of exposure. Incidentally there are four natal placements of the Moon that deliver good things as well as the hard lessons during Sade Sate. The period of Sade Sate, more especially the first half, is often accompanied by some sort of big separation or a death in the circle, a move of house, a vale of tears, a period of restriction and lack of confidence, feeling a failure or lack of success. There will be unanticipated problems, maybe loss of position, maybe heavy loses, sickness, etc. The second half is more like the ‘hard road up’: the hard road up to better spirituality and success. Please note that the ‘bottom of the pit’ may comprise just one aspectation of the natal Moon by transiting Saturn, or there may be three aspectations: where Saturn goes across the natal Moon, back again and then forward again over it (the whole turning point therefore lasting in this sort of case for about nine months). The last thing to happen on your unusually prolonged period of Saturn learning is when Saturn reaches your natal Saturn at the end of Aquarius in Vedic birth chart, and you experience you second Saturn Return. What does this mean?

What is the Saturn Return?

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In ancient Vedic astrology, it is the time when Saturn calls a person to account: is the person dealing with their karma? If not, Vedic Astrology says, Saturn will punish the person. Saturn does not of course directly punish. How we perceive Saturn or any planet (or indeed all phenomena) depends on our state of consciousness, but Saturn can either be experienced as the Master Teacher of Hard Lessons, depicted in Vedic Astrology as an austere Brahmin on a chariot surrounded by graveyard birds, or he can be experienced as the Grim Reaper and mean and spiteful restriction. The Saturn Return heralds the start of a new life, a time to re-model. Conjunction Saturn: - Saturn conjunction to natal Saturn during transit will be most important in your life. Great changes will take place. Saturn will have a great impact. This conjunction occurs after about every 29 years and second at age of 58 or 60 years approximately. In case you are passing through second conjunction, analyse what happened 29 years ago and be ready for those circumstances. In the first phase of conjunction, you will feel ending or change of relations, residence or job. After 29 years of age and of 58 years or so a substantial portion of life has passed and during this period too you may experience above points you may retire from service, change your residence or end many relations. You may suffer financial loss during the transit, may cause radical changes and after the period you will be better. This is a time of endings and new beginnings. This is one of the most important times in your life. A major cycle of experience is closing, and great changes are about to take place. How great these changes are depends largely on what you have been doing with your life over the past several years. Have you been living as you feel you should or as you think others want you to? If you have been doing the latter, Saturn will have a greater impact. The transit of Saturn conjunct natal Saturn occurs about every twenty-nine years. The first such transit occurs when you are about twenty-nine, and the second between the ages of fifty-eight and sixty. In the year before this transit, many aspects of your life have begun to change Relationships have changed or ended, and you may have changed your residence or your job; you have been dominated by an urgent feeling that if you don't do everything you have always wanted to do or felt that you should, you will never have another chance. Whether you are twenty-nine or fiftyeight, you will feel that substantial portion of your life has passed and that you had better get on with making it all work. If your marriage is unsatisfactory but you have been making the best of: you will examine that relationship even more thoroughly now and may decide to end it. Certainly you will have to change it substantially. The same is true of any other aspect of your life that you have tolerated but not found very rewarding. Consciously or unconsciously, you are pruning your life of everything that is not relevant to what you really are as a human being. If this process is not happening consciously, you may experience a sense of loss for the elements of your life that coming to an end now. However, do not dwell upon these losses, for they are necessary in order to clear the decks for the major period of action in your life. If this is your first return of Saturn, particularly, you should roll with the punch and voluntarily let go of these elements. If you try to hold on, you may be somewhat successful, but twenty -nine years from now the second Saturn return will be much more difficult. Then you will be more firmly established on paths that are inappropriate for you. If this is your second return, you are faced with the need to make radical changes. However difficult this may be, make the changes. Your later years will be much better if you do. This is a time of endings and new beginnings. If you have built your life up to now around activities that are inappropriate for you, it will be a period of crisis. If you have been doing what you should in previous years, this transit will simply mark a time solidification and the beginning

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of new phases of activity. It is this transit that makes people over thirty different from those under thirty because the Saturn return is one of the most maturing of all transits.

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