Medicine Plants

 

South Africa has over 3oooo species of plants in its biodiversity and about 3ooo of them get used as medicinal plants and about 350 of them get used in daily life of many indigenous people.

Those plants were once a primary source of medicine to provide humanity with remedies and are still used in 50% of all drugs as clinical pharmacy throughout the world.

Well know plants in clinical use are quinine, morphine, codeine, aspirin, atropine, reserpine and cocaine, other plant medicine derive from taxol or vincrine that have been developed.

South Africa’s contributions to the world are famous Cape Aloes, Buchu and Devils claw, which are growing wildly and are used in traditional medicine and often seen on the streets, sold by Rastaman or Sangomas.

The philosophy behind those plants is that they are coming from the future to help today for tomorrow and not from the past.

I would like to introduce the most common once with the benefits and medicinal properties.

 

Deadly Nightshade                                                               

The Healing properties of Deadly Nightshade or Atropa belladonna are to ease abdominal problems and motion sickness. It has been used as a medication since ancient times for heart issues and Parkinson; its extracted alkaloids are used as skin patches. It is highly poisonous and should not be taken eaten.

It is used to relax muscles and can be used to relieve cramps, spasms, and other gastrointestinal issues, including irritable bowel syndrome making it useful in treating conditions like Parkinson's disease.

It is used as an antidote of mushroom or chemical poisoning.Due to its toxicity, belladonna should only be used when one knows exactly what one does or did enough research about it.

In the past, belladonna was also used cosmetically by women to dilate their pupils, which was believed to make them look more attractive.

 

Quinine tree   

The "quinine tree," is known as the Cinchona tree, is a source of quinine, a key ingredient in anti-malarial drugs. 

Quinine, derived from the bark, has been used for centuries to treat malaria and has also shown potential for treating other conditions like muscle cramps and certain heart irregularities and some neurological disorders.

Anti-inflammatory and pain reliever and is known as cardio depressant activity being used for its anti-arrhythmic properties. While the "quinine tree" is often traditional used for treating coughs, diarrhea, it has been used as well to treat malaria and fever. Quinine can cause side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and headache when taken to much, people use cinchona for cancer, hemorrhoids, malaria, muscle cramps, varicose veins, and many other conditions.

Poppy seed        

Opium is the air dried latex obtained by cutting the unripe fruit capsule of the Opium poppy and as alkaloid turned into codeine.

The world consumption of opium for medicinal purpose only, is over 200 tons per year. Morphine treats all pain issues and is been used as cough syrup. Opium has ancient tradition since the Romans and Creeks used to induce sleep and to give relief to pain. Opium was even thought to protect the user from being poisoned. Its pleasurable effects were also noted. Opium tincture is used to treat diarrhea. It belongs to the group of medicines called narcotics. When narcotic’s is used for a long time, it becomes a habit-forming, causing mental or physical dependence. Heroin binds to receptors in the brain and produces feelings of euphoria. Its structure mimics that of a natural neurotransmitter and taps into the brain’s communication system, interfering with the nerve cells that send, receive, and process information.

Yew tree 

Traditional healers use the bark, branch tips, and needles to make medicine. Yew tree is used for treating diphtheria, tapeworms, swollen tonsils, epilepsy, muscle and joint pain or rheumatism, urinary tract conditions, and liver issues. For females it is used for starting menstruation and causing abortions. The berry flesh is used by herbalists to treat a variety of ailments including cystitis, headache and neuralgia. In more recent times scientists have discovered that extracts of yew have anti-cancer properties. Pharmaceutical companies make Taxol, a prescription drug for the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer, from the bark of the yew tree.

Taxol inhibits mitosis in cells, which keeps cancer cells from multiplying. It's now the drug of choice for some breast cancers, ovarian and lung cancer. The Christians called it the tree of life which the Druids held sacred even in pre-Christian times. They no doubt observed the tree’s qualities of longevity and regeneration. Drooping branches of old yew trees can root and form new trunks where they touch the ground. Thus the yew came to symbolizes death and resurrection in Celtic culture and the yew wood is known as the material from which longbows were made, Archers used these hard woods to its devastating effect.

Aloe Vera  

Aloe Vera is a very versatile plant with many uses, including soothing burns and wounds, reducing inflammation, improving skin issues and helps with digestion. It's also used for constipation relief and helps to manage blood sugar levels. Aloe Vera gel is well-known for its ability to soothe burns and wounds, potentially accelerating healing. It helps to relieve itching and inflammation associated with various skin conditions like eczema due to its anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Aloe Vera juice can act as a natural laxative and help relieve constipation and promotes healthy digestion, reduce bloating, improve gut health and helps lower blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.

Aloe Vera is used as beauty product as soap, shampoo and in health drinks that have with antioxidant and antibacterial properties. Aloe Vera benefits can include reducing dental plaque, accelerating wound healing, improving skin barrier function, and managing blood sugar.

 

Bitter Amara

All parts of the plant can be used in combination to restore the appetite, stimulate digestion and combat fevers, including malaria. A tea made from the infused leaves is used to bathe the skin of measles patients. It is also used as a mouthwash after tooth extractions.

The bitter texture of the plant is called Quassimarin. This has a range of medical properties including anti-leukemia, anti-tumor, astringent, digestive, febrifuge and laxative tonic. 

Quassimarin has been shown to stimulate the secretion of gastric juices, increase the appetite and aid digestion. It has been used successfully in the treatment of anorexia nervosa and is also used in the treatment of malaria and various fevers. A decoction of the bark is used as a blood purifier and used in remedies for treating diseases of the spleen, liver (cirrhosis), and urinary tract.  A decoction of the wood is used in lotions as a wash for persistent venereal ulcers and as a wash to rid the skin of external parasites such as agouti lice and as a treatment for measles and smallpox.

In the late middle ages it was used as an easily obtainable home remedy for cramps and inflammations, usually in the form of a tonic. Today the medicinal plant is used as part for symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract: These include not only bloating or abdominal cramps, but also feeling of fullness or nausea.

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Astral energies

 

Vedic Astrology to its core is more concerned about the spiritual or astral body then the gross physical body or the psychology of western astrology.

The astral forms and energies are the eternal manifestations of the karmic flow and how it was influenced through desired attention which will shows its fruits in the present life.

The astral body or body of planets in relation reveal the energy of inherit qualities that manifest when taken the first breath and become the astrology of the individuality. The subtleties of the interplay of planets in its strength or weakness are the astral energies or soul status that protects the physical body and the matrix of the mind.

The micro cosmos within are the mirror image of the energy that are the life patterns of the soul.  With the purpose to refine the qualities of once desires and untangle those karmic knots, which are getting in the way.

One can ponder on the idea that an invisible golden thread goes all the way from the heaven through once body and its energies points that represent the faculties of the life force with its crucial reflections of actions called chakras. Any entanglements in those chakras become the problems that are related to the astral body and its equivalent to the energy field of the planets.

Jyotish or Vedic Astrology has a very unique way to examine the chakras and its possibilities of releasing any entanglement.

Prana the breath of God and life force is the inner Sun that provides the flow of energies that travel up and down the spine and circulates around the energy point of the chakras and subtle body, just as we are traveling through the constellation where planets have their strength and weakness. Like the Moon in its waxing and waning state so have the planets their capacities of energies.

One can say that the spine is like the inner zodiac with seasons, days and nights. The inner solar system manipulates the psyche and mental faculties with physical expressions. Then whatever one does become a reference or confession of once innermost.

The theory of an inner solar system is for many people just a metaphor, but taken the words of the prophet under consideration that the kingdom of God is in the self, makes it very clear for the individual life and world, that the outer solar system is an reflection of the inner world and consciousness.

The inner Sun (ideals or dreams) and its light reflects on the Moon (emotion and psyche) are related to the Ajna Chakra or third eye are associated with Leo and Cancer.

The throat Chakra Visshuddha and exchange of information is related to Mercury and the constellation of Virgo and Gemini.

The heart Chakra Anahata and its sense of compassion are related to Venus (relationships) and its rulership of Taurus and Libra.

The naval Chakra Manipura is significant with Mars and the field of action (desires) and its domain of Aries and Scorpio.

The 5^th Chakra Svadhishthana is associated with Jupiter the planet of expansion (pregnancy) and it’s Lordship over Sagittarius and Pisces.

The root Chakra Muladhara is related to Saturn (eliminations) and its rulership over Capricorn and Aquarius.

The Sun and the Moon are the masculine and feminine qualities or the pure will and pure feelings, which create trust in one self with true intuitions and subtleties, are the reflections of intelligence. 

  Prana the life energy is moving up and down the spine and accumulating issues when the energy flow in the chakras are interrupted with tissues and liquid of the natural body flow.

The chakras and its planetary energy flow will reveal itself in the birth chart and reflecting the detriment of once issues.

The opening and flow of the energy fields need to be exercised with Pranayama, meditation and awareness to the planetary vulnerability.

Jyotish and the art of understanding the light forces is crucial information that not only reads the chart of the astral body, but it will change once future life style when taken under serious considerations.

It is a therapeutic aspect that works with the natural knowledge of Ayurvedic principles. 

The disturbing Moon factor

 

The placement of the Moon in the lunar mansion, the fourth house and its sign and the location of cancer in which house located, are the factors of the emotional equilibrium and once psychological well being.

 Conjunctions of planets with the Moon or being aspected are the detriment of many disturbing factors.

But many other factors playing a role as well in the labyrinth of the mind to disturb the psychological make up of a person, and will interfere with the state of the contented mind.

 Aspects from malefic Planets like Mars, Saturn or Rahu and Ketu will have its nightmares on the Moon from early age and creating issues where the mother should be aware of and act accordingly to ease the psychology and mental state.

The most commonly association of a malefic planet is Mars, which expresses itself with anger, fears or being prone to injuries. 

Saturn is the container and shows issues with inertias, depressions or the incapability to explain the self. Rahu and Ketu will show psychic sensitivities and out of this world intuition and playgrounds.

Many mental capabilities will easily brushed into learning disorder or attention deficiencies, which is just another failure of modern psychology.

 The subconscious and its cosmic-psyche is the real understanding of mental subtleties from the reincarnated soul and its karmic influence it brings into this life. Psyche is the study of the soul, but for psychology it is exclusivity taken as mental problem.

The mind alone cannot think or will, the soul alone is consciousness and knowledge. As long people pay attention to dogmatic patterns, there can be no intelligent healing happening.

  The lessons from the Man in the Moon and its 27 wives in which he bestows the daily feminine deities are the story of ancient wisdom and mythology that are the values, which still sustain the world.

It was the Moon that has been used throughout antiquity for calculating time and to observe the constellation and month of the seasons. Reflecting the natural circle of the feminine menstruation with its culture and intuition, the Moon serves to uphold its many insights and power of interpretation to make sense to the purpose of the soul and her journey in once life.

The critical tendencies of the mind come from the agitation of the psyche and its vulnerabilities, but the keen observation of the astral body to the soul in its journey onwards strikes a plane where it can exclaim the truth and the blessing to find its purpose.

Spiritual attainment is to become conscious of the divine order that is formed in the heart.

The lack of understanding or awareness of one's own mental processes, behaviors, and emotions are self-deception or, in some cases, a lack of critical self-reflection. Individuals overestimate their abilities or knowledge, particularly in areas where they lack expertise or seeking attention with half baked facts.

Being ignorant of one's psychology means not understanding the motivations, underlying patterns, or triggers that lead to specific behaviors and its destructive outcome.

The lack of awareness of one's own emotional states or how emotions influence decision-making and judgment is crucial to establish any relationship. The lack of self-recognition is the unawareness of once own incompetence and struggle to identify where their knowledge or skills fall short.

Difficulties in learning are the ignorance that makes it difficult for individuals to recognize the need for learning or development in areas where they are deficient.

In most cases, people deliberately choose to ignore information that could reveal their own flaws or inadequacies. This can be a form of self-protection or a way to maintain a seeming positive self-image.

Individuals with strong intuitions and emphasis have unconscious biases that influence their perceptions and judgments without their awareness. Social media specializes in selectively focus on information to manipulate and one confirms that in once existing beliefs, ignoring contradictory evidence.

The consequence of ignorance creates a lack of self-awareness leading to poor decisions, both in personal and professional life, establishing difficulties in relationships, as individuals may not be able to understand or respond effectively to the needs and perspectives of others.

Without self-awareness one is simply unable to identify areas for growth and development and acting against once personal and professional development.

Every thought and speech in action that is honest is natural and will have its virtues, that which lacks those qualities is wasted energy.

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Psychological Gunas Constitutions

 

 Indian philosophy and Vedic Astrology classifies human temperaments into three basic qualities, sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic.

 These types have planetary qualities and psychological and ethical disposition with reactions to social, cultural, and physical conditions, as is described in many classical texts of Ayurvedic and Astrological references.

 Sattvic qualities imply essence, reality, consciousness, purity, and clarity of perception. 

Jupiter, the Sun and the Moon have those pure qualities and people with sattvic qualities have loving, compassionate, religious, and pure-minded truthful dispositions. They walk that path of truth and fight for righteousness and the good cause of humanity. They have good manners and positive behavior, and they do not easily become upset or angry. They mentally work hard without getting into emotional fatigue or stress.

They are full of luster and are recognized for their wisdom that wants to maintain happiness, and joy with creative, humble, and respectful manners. They worship God and humanity and are respectful of every life and existence. 

Rajasic individuals are only loving, calm, and patient, so long as their own interests are served as their activities are self-centered and egotistical. Again they are kind, friendly, and faithful only to those who are helpful to them. Mercury and Venus are Rajasic and the planets of bold and deceiving activities which lead to the life of sensual enjoyment, pleasure and pain, effort and restlessness.

People with dominant rajasic qualities are competitive and have a tendency to control others. They like power, prestige, and position and aiming towards perfection. They want to be hard-working but lacking proper planning and direction. Emotionally they are easily jealous what makes them ambitious with the struggle to see their own faults what gets covered with mental over stimulation providing only superficial moments of joy. They suffering from a fear of failure and are subject to stress, and are quickly drained of mental energy. 

Tamas qualities are heavy and attached to materialism and difficulties to let go of thinks.  Individuals dominated by Tamas are acting very impulsive and are moody with inertias that tend toward depression, laziness, escape of confrontation and the excess of being on the coach. Malefic planets like Mars, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu have that quality, which reveals itself with mental work that tires them easily.They like jobs with less responsibility, and they love to eat, drink, sleep, and have sex. They tend to be greedy, possessive, attached, irritable, and uncaring toward others to the point willing to harm others for their own self-satisfaction.   

There is a constant interplay of these three gunas in everyone’s psyche, but the relative predominance of one quality of Sattva, Rajas, or Tamas is responsible for an individual’s psychological constitution.

With the three gunas and the Jyotish insights one establishes a holistic understanding of how these qualities interact that shape the mental, emotional, and physical character of once personality.

The Jyotish counselor provides the empowerment to make holistic lifestyle choices to offer valuable insights into once personality and potential to balances the energies through revaluating the lifestyle and awareness.

In the world of change and circles of seasons, days and age, the goodness of Sattva prevails over passion the desires of Rajas and ignorance of Tamas.  Sometimes passion of Rajas dominating the goodness of Sattva and the ignorance of Tamas, and at other times the ignorance of Tamas overcomes goodness of Sattva and the passion of Rajas.

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True confidence

 

Self-Esteem and feeling confident is at the core of all healing, as it involves the spirit and the connectedness of mind and body as sense of self-esteem to heal.

According to Ayurvedic science, every cell is a center of intelligence and awareness as the sense of self for its own survival.

Self-esteem and self-respect promote cellular intelligence, which is necessary for proper cell function and immunity.

The sense of self and attitudes with the understanding of once true feelings are all psycho-biological events. A lack of self-confidence or pretences self-love is detrimental. When one is in love with the divine spirit one will develop confidence, and that will overcome the struggle with disease and confrontations. That is why cellular immunity, or natural resistance, depends upon self-esteem and the spirit in faith.

The ultimate preventive medicine is of how one lives the daily life and the key factor in determining once health and quality of life experience and the factor over which one has the most control.

What one does on the daily base either builds up once health, vitality, and resistance to disease, or wears it down.

All phobias or not having the courage to face the underlying issues will have its psychological consequence of the incompetent ego, needing immature defense behavior with plenty of excuses.

The ancient methods to live once life in harmony with Mother Nature and the Holy Father are still very valid, to get once survivor mentality and true confidence into the exercise to know.

The great rhythms and forces of nature, day and night, the rhythmic cycle of seasons and stages of human life are all inextricably parts with nature.

Being in tune with nature also means being in tune with once own nature, mentally and emotionally as well as physically.

Living with nature and the natural law means continually balancing once inner ecology by adjusting to the ever-changing environment. 

It indirectly aids in digestion, absorption, and assimilation of food and stimulation of the sense with fresh air, smell, silence and a beautiful view. It generates self-esteem, discipline, peace and happiness where the self-respect does not need the ego anymore.

The human body, mind and spirit are several clockworks, using the astral body and its energy function, the equilibrium of the emotional rhythms and the physical identity to function with a natural flow.

Confidence in psychology refers to the belief in once own abilities and worth, leading to trust in once judgment. It is a state that can fluctuate based on situations and develops through practice and experience where one approaches challenges with optimism and resilience.

True confidence builds and gives strength through experiences, practice, and self-awareness and has an impact on the well-being.

False or low self-confidence leads to anxiety, depression and escapes in procrastinations of the ego to find mental protection. While real self-confidence will face the music within simplicities and is leadership quality, with a willingness to take on challenges.

The focus need to be on what one can control and to concentrate on the effort, decisions and actions rather than the impression and hoped for outcomes of external factors.

Those who constantly need to interfere and telling people what to do are the weakest link to their own constitution and confidence.

In a superficial world and its endless proclaims to have confidence to be able to turn a coin with once seeming well being, it is crucial to find a natural relation, that is based on what things are and what life is as just. All critical tendencies are a lack of keen observations and struggle to pursuit the impossible, which is the ultimate life attitude.

There is as much likeness between pretence and truth as there is between the person and his shadow, the difference is that the person has a life and the shadow has none.

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Pareidolia

 

Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where the brain perceives familiar shapes or ambiguous stimuli, like seeing faces in clouds or a figure in a rock formation. It's a natural tendency to impose meaning and structure on what one sees, even when it's not actually there.

Shift shaping images have always been used in art throughout history to create a deeper meaning to the image and messages from the artist. It's a specific type of apophenia to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated events or objects.

The mind is and its imagination wants to find meaning and patterns, and Pareidolia is a result of this innate ability.

Many plants or trees, even the constellations have their names because of shapes that creating a similar image.

The face of a man in the Moon or observing animals or situations in clouds are all mental-intuitive tendency to fill in missing information and create a coherent picture.

While Pareidolia involves perceiving something that isn't there, it's different from a hallucination what is in the absence of an external stimulus, while Pareidolia involves interpreting a stimulus of creative mental abilities and being aware, that what they are seeing is a creative extension of the mind which can be very useful to create mental bridges for the memory.

Great artists like Dali or Picasso have engaged themselves deeply in Pareidolia to create master pieces that stretches the rational thinking mind beyond the norm to show the world all is possible.

In the endless depth of the cosmos and in the macro world of living creatures are endless possibilities and forms.

The power of believe and its mental significance can take over the creative intuitive ability and one applies supernatural importance to the imagery, for willingly incorporate spiritual beliefs into their Pareidolia experiences to establish some fragile clairvoyant abilities and important messages. 

The sensitive mind instinctively assigns emotions and personalities to these images, and one project of how one feels about the image as well. There is an interrelationship between illusory agency detection and paranormal belief that become easily a psychological dysfunction.

 Pareidolia exists in nature or landscapes or art and can trigger an emotional reaction which is related lifestyles and its pressure affect by the mental state to varying degrees. In fact, everyone will be in different mental states at different times of a normal life.

Most people are in mental distress status while exhausting themselves with media influences to the brain activities, which has negative influence on the psyche and the human spirit.

Negative spiritual influence will increases the possibility of paranoia, and therefore, it is good to go out in nature and play with Pareidolia phenomena with the purpose of enriching the mind with sensitivities and reactions in a peaceful and playful environment.

 

Planetary periods

 

Jyotish the science of light and its planetary periods is one of the clockwork accuracy in Vedic Astrology that has a unique perspective on planetary time influence.

This understanding is a science in itself with many different approaches, but never the less very powerful and provides extraordinary addition to the transits of planets and the annual chart of Sun and Moon ecliptic signification.

Dashas are the planetary period which are calculated from the Moon’s position in the Nakshatra of the Moons position and is the starting point within a circle of planetary years, which follow a periodic frequency in the celestial clockwork.

Every lunar mansion has its planetary rulership and signification that provides already much influence at birth and how childhood will be part of this influence.

 The characteristic of once planetary influence from young age will have profound influence throughout life and determine much of how once psychology will affect circumstance and choices one makes.

People who are born in the lunar mansion of Krittika, Uttara Phalguni or Uttara Ashadha will have strong planetary Sun influence and issues with father, authorities and leadership and are the subtleties of the psyche. Whereas the Moon influenced Nakshatra’s of Rohini, Hasta and Shravana provide a more pleasant emotional equilibrium and home.

Malefic rulership of planets in its Nakshatra’s influence will bring out issues of aggressive behavior or childhood sickness which are depend on the length of the planetary period.

Fixed Nakshatra’s like Rohini, Uttara Phalguni, Uttara Ashadha and Uttarabhadra give strength of character and physics with enduring positive results.

Harsh Nakshatra’s like Ardra, Aslesha, Jyeshtha and Mula are very destructive and bring enmity and are prone to accidents.

Fierce Nakshatra’s like Bharani, Magha, Purva Phalguni and Purvashadha making a person very competitive and granting success with actions. 

The Nakshatra’s are a study field in its self and many books are filled with resources and interpretations.

Planetary periods and its timing with its characteristic influence given from the Nakshatra’s and its house position will influence later life with great signification and the nature of its inheritance.  

The lunar node Rahu and Ketu play especially a powerful role when it comes to spiritual enfoldment and karmic entanglement.

Saturn returns of nearly 30 tears and Saturn dashas length of 19 years can have devastating results, where the discipline and simple lifestyle need to become the way of life.

Jupiter’s dasha length of 16 years can be a lucky break, but it can also provide a lot of spoil with severe consequences, or trying to find depth of life by chasing ones own tail by being constantly on the move.

Venus dasha of 20 years are considered as the lucky time, especially with relationships and marriage, but if Venus is close to Jupiter or signs ruled by Jupiter, there will be too many relationships with superficial qualities and reasons.

Mercury’s dasha of 17 years are the years of writing and studying, or even become published. With poorly placed Mercury one will fail the degrees one has approached, or the mental faculties become distorted.

The Mars period of 7 years can become dangerous and one is often attracts injuries and accidents. On the positive side it is the prime time for athletes and sportsmanship.

The Moon dasha of 10 years has a lot to do with the home and mother, where buying a home becomes easy and once relation with mother has its prime qualities.

The dashas of Rahu, 18 years and Ketu, 7 years have the quality of serious life changes and needs the courage to do so or once karmic knots become more and more tide.

Years of waiting and contemplations or trying can be made easy applicable, with this planetary periods and references from a Jyotish consultant.

The mind and its senses are like the Sun and the Moon on the daily base, whereas the planets are the indicators serve to bring light into the inner world. The perspective intellectual mind is the inner Sun and the emotional mind indicating the inner Moon and its faculties of adaptation to the aging process and emotional evolution.

The birth chart is the cosmic time reference that has ramifications on the individual psychology and reflects how it feels to be alive.

The light that illuminates the dark chambers of the mind is the fire that mingles in the depth of the heart and the inner eyes that has the vision of the soul and power that works behind each action.

In the countenance of eternal love is the image of the divine.

Let the stars of the divine light shine in the depth of the heart to be the thine devotee.  

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Effects of the rising sign

 

 

The 2 hour sign-time signature at birth and turning of the earth establishes a rising sign from the east called ascendant. 

As each sign has a rulership of planet considered as Lord of the constellation and its whereabouts, has a profound signification on the physical body and once appearance.

 Its position is the key to the overall health, attitude and how to deal with the individual world.

If the ascendant Lord is placed well in exaltation or bad in debilitation has its significant attribute to the self and once performing actions.

If the Lord is in conjunction with malefic or beneficial planets or is placed in the 6^th, 8^th or 12^th house will cause significant health and psychological problems.

  If the ascendant Lord is placed in the 12^th house makes one prone to low vitality, weakness and depression and time spend in isolation or foreign countries. On the more researched and positive side, it can make on a healer or doctor with a generous and compassionate nature and a strong spiritual inclination.

The first house and ascendant is the most important place of action, any planet here will creates its energy content, opportunities and direction in life. From here one approaches the horoscope methodically to establish the life-essence in which the spirit or soul begins its journey in this life incarnation.

All capabilities by the soul through many lives and its various incarnations are accumulated and been assigned to the task in this lifetime and made available for that specific sign-hour of birth.

The basic psycho-spiritual house on which the significator or Lord of the first house has influence is the planetary vibrations that all have their negative and positive influence.

In Vedic astrology the ascendant is also called Lagna, meaning being tied up in time to reasons and is already a strong influence without the planets. Aries rising will have trouble in marriage and are accident prone with issues of anger. Taurus rising are stubborn creatures with hedonistic tendencies. Gemini lagna will have a sensitive nervous system with over thinking and being talkative. Cancer ascendant will have difficulties in marriage by being over sensitive and creating fussiness with mental confusions. Leo rising establishes vanity with goals being set too high and creating disappointments. Virgos are of a critical nature and creating anxiety trying to be perfect with very little confidence. Libra rising is in many ways good, but they need to be discriminating about their friends and associates. Scorpio rising are very dominating and have issues with underlying anger that question any authority. Sagittarius lagna are very opinionated and promiscuous with great fear of poverty. Capricorn rising become very pessimistic and feel unappreciated with too much focus on the flaws of others. Aquarius ascendants are of melancholic nature with self esteem issues, but become more successful much later in life. Pisces lagna are overly sensitive to critics and lack confidence because of contradictory goals or ideals and easily attracted to alcohol or drugs.

As to earths rotation and transits from month to month around the Sun those qualities or characteristics become at times very strong and at other times invisible but still having affects on the psyche and its emotional trigger point, especially when the Moon is in transit with the lord of the first house or the Moon is in the same constellation.

To understand astrology is the value to understand the self through the celestial ocean of light and space and become the observer of the divine glorious vision. The blazing soul is guiding the path all the way through the space, where the stars still shine in eons of years.

In the immensity of space the divine order shows the majesty of his eternal presence.

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The 6th/12th axis

 

The sixth house or place of action is the accumulation of karmic impediment, debts, incidents, humiliation and litigation.

The twelfth house is the place of dissolution, discharge of debts and termination of jobs, and the loss of spouse.

The 6^th house is from the medical astrology related to the lower abdomen, the colon and nervous digestive system, whereas the opposition and 12^th house is related to emotional and metabolic balance and as axis very crucial to determine once physical and emotional health. 

Planets naturally asserting the place of opposition and creating acts of omission and commission of ones karma apportioned into this life.

The consideration, that unfortunate occurrences are extremely important as lessons from which one can understand the nature of difficulties and its energy behind the individual.

All karmic forces of whatever one does will come back to be worked out and planets in the 6^th or 12^th house releasing those latent faculties that depend upon the strength of planets in house ownership.

New influences must have the quality of new condition to create new possibilities which must necessarily break down first the old and prevailing condition.

The dismantling of old habits or relationships are the steps one needs to take to overcome the place of once own worst enemy.

Sometimes it takes a rebirth out of a disease to turn to healing.

The Moon in the 6^th causes emotional upsets and digestion issues, while Mercury here, gives sensitivities to the general nervous and digestive system. Venus establishes issues with sexuality and the urinary and genital tracks. Jupiter provides issues with the liver and pancreas struggling to break down sugar, fats and starches.

Malefic planets like Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu or Ketu can be helpful to overcome issue by having a natural strong immune system.

Psychological maturity and self- reliance are acquired to establish empathy within the self.  

The 12^th house of loss indicating weakness, debility or hospitalization, juristically speaking it indicates imprisonment, or once own escape into isolation and solitude.

The silken thread of karma by which we are linked to, has a process and indication of energies that should be discovered.

Spiritual attainment is the fine tuning of the self to a key that has its natural true pitch, the period of one’s spiritual development depends upon the right note in the rhythm of ones life.

The open mind and heart of courage is to know the fruits of ones labor, then what begins in deception will only end in deception.

The relief comes with the rising above once personal complexity and conventionality.

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Saturn transit in Uttara Bhadrapada

The 26^th lunar mansion in Pisces is named Uttara Bhadrapada and consists mainly of two fix stars Pegasus and Andromeda and is known as the square of Pegasus.

Saturn is considered as the ruler of this Nakshatra which provides people with this influence when the Moon, ascendant or Sun is placed here with spiritual discipline and devotion to Yoga or alternative healing and the compassion to protect and care for animals. 

They posses the ability to endure pain, that come with a warrior attitude, who like to roam around, with a charitable and generous disposition. Spiritual growth here is the emphasis to establish vital power that is exercised through the kundalini energy.

They are in great need for seclusion to overcome karmic influences that involves secretive and manipulating tendencies towards over-stimulated mentality with restless irresponsibility’s causing issues with toxic attachments. Patience and thoroughness must be part of their life projects to accomplish some worldly goals.

Saturn has just moved into this lunar mansion and provides those abilities to cultivate visions and responsibility, service, and karmic lessons. 

This transit brings significant transformations, particularly in ones spiritual pursuits and influence of social connections and relationships. People with natural Moon here will undergo a major shift, where past efforts bring rewards or karmic debts resurface. 

Things will fall apart, then Saturn likes to prune once life tree to the bare minimum and deep emotional and spiritual maturity is developed and real confidence become the serenities, that walk over all illusions and emotional escapes.

One needs to be prepared to adapt and change plans or homes if faced with obstacles. Patience and perseverance are the milestones to establish the effort without expecting gratification and trusting the process.

The highest expression of love is respect as it is the precious cornerstone of all relations and foundation where Saturn and its time will tell, to prove its real value.  

The moments of sincerity need to become the values that need to cut though the years of falsehood that has starves virtues to death.

To repress desire is to suppress the divine knowledge.

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Modify the Cause

 

 

One cannot control the weather, but one can dress properly to it and so one can also adapt and modify as well the cause of some illness.

 Potential causes of illness and imbalance are constantly arising, both within us and on the outside. 

Thoughts and feelings are changing, and stressful situations are coming and going and in response to these changes, one has to act skillfully.

The Vedas speak about, that skill in action is called balance or the yoga to be in time with a situation, to be smart enough to know once previous history and the lessons from it.

Taking action to modify the cause has different body’s response and that particular factor will have its positive effect.

This principle applies equally well to psychological factors, like watching exiting or violent movies that upsets the psyche and triggers emotions provoking anxiety or fears, or getting angry with people on social sites. Sure one has observed this happening and the next time one is confronted with visuals like this, one can just say no.  Developing awareness of the potential cause, one can avoid them or deal with them intelligently.

The idea of watching an action movie is already an indication of fiery emotions what needs a change of mind with calm meditations, a walk in the park or exercising some prayers.

Mental provocations are very dangerous then the thought is already damaging and influencing the attitude of how to deal with things.

This principle is a simple example and makes good sense, which is too easy to overlook it, in practical daily life. But it is extremely powerful and effective, and if one applies it, one will find that the effortless balance to the mind and body is a pleasure to observe.

Many underestimate the damage of the cause, not seeing the limitations through which one has to work with, to be in balance of mental liberation and creating strength for other habits.

The imbalances of the psyche are the unrealities of life that pushes the doors with the body to the reality of struggle. 

To be honest to the self takes away the fear of vices, otherwise one is subject to vice. When one acquaints one self in pride to vice one is captive, but those who learn from vice, passes through it and rise above it, is the master and conqueror.

To modify the cause of stress and its physical trigger effect one simple create a sense of compassion to the world with gardening, taking care of animals or making oneself a part of mother natures harmony with allowing ones senses to enjoy the natural landscape.

The mind must be one’s obedient servant, otherwise one is chasing shadows of happiness, and then happiness alone is natural and is attained by living naturally.

Subtlety is the art of intelligence.

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