Ernst,
You say you no longer use Lajjitaadi Avashtas in Vargas. In your Ages of the Grahas course, this is the very foundation of your analysis of how the planets are maturing...
The implication here seems to be that you simply don't systematically analyze charts in this fashion anymore. Is this accurate? If so, how would you reteach the course, if you made it again, with respect to analysis??
You can still use them. My saying that I don't use them is that I have been developing a 5 level approach to making predictions with the avasthas. So I am working on streamlining everything to work hand in hand with this in an attempt to simplify and reduce what a person needs to know to read charts well. But yes, everyting in that course is valid, you can do it.