Hi Ernst,
Just checking to see if I understood this correctly - Whenever maturation ages change, or Dasas/Antardasas change, or when there is a Parivartana or when the semi-fixed cards change, it is actually the energy in the body that is changing and it is reflected in the outside world?
I find it interesting that we start with the Sun card but with Moon maturation, then it changes to the Moon card during Sun maturation. There is a gap of 2 years between when the Sun maturation begins and the Moon card gets activated, so it’s like a Sun card/Sun maturation period where it feels like the Moon gets to take some much needed time off to shed its skin and start levelling up to the Sun.
@ernst Have you covered 'zodiac as chakras' in more detail in one of your courses? I think you touched upon it in one of the beginner courses.
I remember the one in the Five Elements course where Ernst had briefly touched upon it. Is the rasi aspects video the one under the beginner courses? I was wondering if he has covered it in more depth in any of his other courses, before I try to find more information elsewhere and try to put things together. It's always nice to have continuity.
Five elements course is having more depth, after that just find some good books on understanding general chakra function and apply the astrology knowledge of avasthas into it.
There is that rasi aspects video only I believe, just check that.
e.g if Jupiter debilitated in Capricorn, means muladhara has low ability to function in general, so person can feel less grounded and less supported in life. And say if Sun is heavily delighting this Jupiter, then their creative work will make them feel more grounded.
If Sun exalted in Aries, means person's manipura is on fire for action and rajasic passion. If Mercury exalted in throat chakra, the person has high ability to communicate and so on...
I am preparing something on this in depth, but it will take me some more time to complete
@manisha I have it in my medical astrology notes from the Anatomy and Nutrition course but not sure which session it's from
All the chart is not static. WE have 5 avasthas, one of them can change, the other four are static. But if you change one thing, the other 4 avashtas are working on a differnet level. Its like this, say you are travelling through the congo. If you immune system is low, when you get sick you really get sick! BUt if you change to the US and travel the US, if your immune system is low, chances are when you get sick it won't be that bad.
So its same, change the lajjitaadi avastha, and all other avasthas are now working from a higher perspective. The more limited planets in those avasthas will still be the more limited planets, but now its working on a higher level.
same with 5 elements, we have one element to change, the air of course, air is what is changeable. So healing our wounds and our shadow, Saturn, causes all the other elemental planets to do better.
So focus on Saturn and lajjitaadi avasthas if you want your life to change. And yes, that means start wtih the lajjitaadi avastha of saturn, that's why in the Lajjitaadi Avasthas Heart of Parashara Course I covered Saturn first.
@ernst Thanks a lot for sharing this! I have some questions though -
1) Does improving our magnetism through spiritual practices like Kriya Yoga, devotional chanting, prayers limited only to changing the air element i.e. Lajjitaadi Avasthas? Or does it also have some non-zero impact on changing other elements/avasthas as well?
2) In your astrology and free-will video, you talk about how Yogananda explains free-will constituting of 25% self-effort, 25% guru's blessings, 50% grace of God, the latter two in proportion to the amount of self-effort we put in. Is free-will mentioned in this context also limited to changing only our air element/Lajjitaadi Avasthas? There are stories of miracles of saints like Yogananda where they change the external dream easily, which would probably be one of the lower elements compared to air.
I wish those abusive dhainya yogas could start working at a "higher level" as well! Kemadruma too.
I just don't find them amusing anymore. Never did.
But I can now see that a lot of the pain involved is due to the very difficult L.A.s of the planets that form those yogas in my chart. At least with the dhainyas.
Those yogas definitely still work in the vargas!
Also, I am ruled by Jupiter, even in more ways than one. But it is debilitated in the fated D30 as well as in the D16, where it is also involved with an 8th house dhainya with starved Saturn. (In addition to both planets being badly starved in D1).
So being constrained from opportunities to express my own Jupiter and creative purpose, which is largely fated at this point, is like being castrated, lobotomized, having a limb or two cut off, and being put in a straight jacket. Its personal!
My fifth lord (Mars) has a bit more of a fighting chance, but the "prison" you spoke of in the Sa-Ma video, of constraint and karmic circumstances caused by oppressor Saturn when conjunct, has been getting worse for the past 13 years, instead of me being able to grow out of it as a middle-aged adult. It definitely didn't get better after I tried to stand up for myself during Mars maturity 16 years ago! Not only is Mars conjunct Saturn in D1, it is with the D16 dhainya yoga as well.
Maybe some of Mars's current limitations are also due to it being the closest planet (only 2 degrees away!) to Rahu in my D1 and I haven't learned how to use it properly and behave well enough to get out of prison. But the dhainya yoga is like its own prison and won't go away.
all these spiritual practices serve the same thing as does NLP, etc. it frees the subconscious mind of nonsense. That nonsense is what keeps us from accessing the superconscious mind which is deeper in us than is the subconscious mind. That is what we are working on with the Lajjitaadi avasthas. Kriya yoga awakens part of the brain that have been dormant as every cell in the brain has an experience, and a memory. Electrical stimulation awakens that memory and, more importantly, the feeling of that experience. This idea of people getting downloads, it's all nonsense. What it is is that is in their brains, they are somehow able to contemplate with focus and in that focus energy goes to a part of a brain and they remember some truth. All humans brains are full of truth, the problem is, we don't spend time accessing it. So its not download, its simply reading some data by turning on the electricity in that data center. YOga practices, starting with concentration, awaken these data centers. Kriya yoga also restores the tangled and twisted life force in the chakras that causes us a lot of problems. It's really about lighting our brains up with the energies in our chakras. Being torn and tangled up inside, bad lajjitaadi avasthas, prevents the energy from doing this as its going in all kinds of directions instead of up into the brain. So all these things that are helping, are helping the lajjitadi avasthas too. That's why they help.
Of course when a person reaches their superconscious mind and in that they realize the laws of creation, then yes, they can do a miracle. But why don't they spend all their times doing miracles? Because they know that one illusion is as good as another and if you can't find god in this illusion you won't find it in another, because the illusion you are in right now is the illusionary key you need to escape the illusionary prison and be with god. The trick is to understand that this experienc you are having is that key! and its the bad lajjitaadi avasthas that keep us from understanding that. Really, everything in our lives is a key to liberation. Nothing that we think is the end all in this life is the end all, its just another key. Thinking, oh, the day i have this, have a baby, am with my beloved, etc. those are all lies, those are all keys to self-realization, that's why it all has value.
@ernst Thanks for sharing this. Yes, everything in our lives is a key to liberation. I have a Sa-Mo conjunction and I am at a point now where I feel very grateful for it in helping me disappoint, disillusion and eventually detach from many notions and things my ego-mind had believed or attached itself to 🙂