@rhiannon A person with great desire and attachment to the world is gonna feel every pleasure and pain in a huge way. A person with detachment is not ...

I'm reading a book about Ramana Maharishi, The Power of The Presence. In the book Ramana's childhood friend says: "Bhagavan did not seem to have a l...

As a related comment: I'm about to turn 41 pretty soon so Rahu is coming up. I have Rahu in Cancer and my older son has Sun, Moon, Mars and lagna lo...

For example, John Lennon had Mars and Sun with Rahu in 7th house Libra. Mars is also the lagna lord. Two self factors shamed in the 7th. But they are ...

Yes, those natural cruel planets can also be ashamed, like in your example of Sun and Mars in 5th.

@dik it's Ernst.

@ernst what a helpful reframe, thank you. (Wohoo, just got a little reading from The Cat of the 8th bhava ????)

@ernst I've wondered about this because i have Saturn and Moon in Svati. Saturn is in Scorpio and Moon is in Libra, so they don't create an avasta, bu...

@ernst Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm wondering why Jupiter in 3rd leads to overwhelming abundance, seems like the least intuitive of these exces...

Bumping this thread, hoping for Ernst's take.

@brooke Hi Brooke, I'd be very interested in reading what you have found out. I work with university students and so many complain about concentr...

I also thought about the dig bala positions, but maybe that's more just in terms of shad bala. There seems to be some other logic going on here. ...

Thanks Ernst, your misunderstanding of my question brought up a more interesting point about the whole thing 🙂 What i was trying to get at is that ...