THE ART OF PREDICTION - THE PLAIN ASTROLOGICAL

APPROACH 1
KN RAO
7 May 2008, 3:01 PM

What we teach in the classes we run

is a plain approach to predictions
first based on the birth horoscope
and mainly springing from the birth
horoscope. The varga charts are
referred to for confirmation not for
the main prediction.
Use only a seven karaka scheme of
Jaimini and use Chara dasha as I
have shown repeatedly.
The chances of astrology getting
perverted in these days of website
astrology, television gibberish which
passes for astrology and the greedy
emphasis on shantis/ upayas or
remedies is great. When I told this
to some people who have not
studied in the BVB they asked me to
illustrate it and that is what I will do in this series.
Vimshottari dasha
Mercury-Jupiter-Rahu from 28 Jan 2008 to 31 May 2008
CHARA DASHA
Vrisha- Dhanu- Makara from 13 April 2008 to 14 May 2008.
It is the horoscope of a woman journalist who have been getting astrological
consultations from me for herself and her husband for some years now. She had
to leave her job for some months to look after her child. She now wanted to get
back to her journalistic life. She asked me sometime in March 2008 about it. In
the Vimshottari dasha it was Mercury-Jupiter-Rahu from 28 Jan 2008 to 31 May
2008.
Mercury is aspecting the second house and the lord of the antardasha, Jupiter is
in the eleventh house from Mercury. The pratyantara dasha lord Rahu is in the
4/10 axis from Jupiter, second from Mercury.
Now see the dashamansha Mercury is in the tenth house while Jupiter is the
tenth lord and Rahu too is in the tenth house. It is a good period for her to come
back into her journalistic life.
In Jaiminis Chara dasha it is Vrisha- Dhanu- Makara from 13 April 2008 to 14

May 2008. Vrisha has the amatyakaraka, Sun, from Dhanu the AMK aspects the
eleventh house but as soon Makar pratyantara dasha would be reached, it would
be aspecting the tenth house.
I asked her to try for a job right now and she should land a job before the end of
May.
She rang me up to tell me that she had got a very good job in a weekly to be
launched soon under the editorship of famous editor who till last month was
editing a daily from Delhi. She was happy as the job would give her ample
opportunity to look after her child and also get back into active journalism.
( 6 May 2008)

THE ART OF PREDICTION - THE PLAIN ASTROLOGICAL

APPROACH 2
KN RAO
13 May 2008, 6:29 PM

She rang me up and asked me for

an urgent consultation. Both in
Shillong and Calcutta and later in
Delhi I got horoscopes of people
who were doubtful about their birth
details, having lost their original
horoscopes during their migration in
1947 from the riot torn areas of
what now are Pakistan and
Bangladesh. It was so in her case
also. But the memory of someone in
the family helped her retrieve her
birth details is what she told me.
In the case of women, most people
in northern India rarely kept correct
birth details those days when she
was born. A woman was a
disposable commodity who would
enter her husbands house and
could be neglected unlike the boy, has been and continues to be the favoured
child of the family. It is the view of many even now.
Was the horoscope correct?

Karakamsha lagna is Simha and Putrakaraka is Mercury with Jupiter

showing pure inclination towards humanities, not science during her

student days.
Before any prediction is given it becomes the primary consideration. In such
cases, just note down the birth details as are passed on and do not indulge in
exercise of correcting it which can be done later.
The birth horoscope and the navamsha showed either a bad marriage or no
marriage. Not married she said.
What had she studied is what I was interested in finding out myself without her
telling me as that is invariably a good starting point of the verification of a
horoscope.
Moon, an artistic planet, unafflicted in the eleventh house aspects the fifth
house. The fifth lord, Mars is with Sun and Venus. Karakamsha lagna is Simha
and Putrakaraka is Mercury with Jupiter showing pure inclination towards
humanity in her studies.
What should the predominant influence of fifth house and its lord with artistic
planets mean? Education in fine arts ? That was the question I asked.
She had done MA (music) she said.
Was it classical I asked because of the influence of Jupiter on the putrakaraka.
Yes, classical Hindustani music she said.
But does she do any business ? Yes she said, in clothes.
The dashamansha will work. I can proceed to give her some predictions on this
horoscope without correcting her birth time.
( 9 May 2008)

THE ART OF PREDICTION - THE PLAIN ASTROLOGICAL

APPROACH 3
KN RAO
20 May 2008, 6:36 AM

She knows some astrology and had some doubt whether hers was Vrischika
lagna or Tula. She was confused about the ayanamsha to be used that was
another question.
When such a case comes up note the prominent features of the horoscope and
the dasha and antardasha of three or four past years, see the dasha antardasha
in Vimshottari and Chara dasha and ask some striking question.
The lagna, Vimshottari dasha and Jaimini karakas of people born at the same
time will remain the same. To distinguish one from the other, divisional
horoscopes need to be prepared. But as far as the person before you is
concerned, first verify whether this horoscope is fitting into his/her pattern of

life.

In 2004, it was dasha of Jupiter

Mercury. In Chara dasha it was the
dasha of Vrisha and Kumbha.
Atmakaraka is in Vrisha. It coincides
with Jupiter-Mercury dasha in the eighth house. The antardasha starting from
Kumbha is significant. Kumbha is eighth from Karakamsha in Karka. Then the
antardasha of Makara and then of Dhanu do not seem to be happy period in her
life.
Remember the warning I have given repeatedly given about the Dhanu dasha.
Dhanu is also sixth from Karakamsha and eighth from Atmakaraka-- dangerous
in three ways. From 2003 Rahu and Saturn were transitting in Vrisha and
Mithuna. All this appeared to be bleak.
Yes. She had a fatal disease in this period.
Medical astrology ? What could this be she asked me ? I said that I cannot say
and do not believe in medical astrology as all the doctor students whom I asked
to work on medical astrology has been hundred percent failures. They only
learnt from me from the period of onset of sickness and its outcome and even
wrote articles or books. Their own contribution to medical astrology is a big zero.
Then there are other non-medical astrologers reeling off wild researches on
various diseases particularly diabetes and heart attack. All these are untested
and unproven mostly wild and boastfully loud pieces paraded as researches.
She told me about the disease and she survived is what she told me. You can
even try Dwisaptati Sama Dasha on which Manoj Pathak has done excellent and
original research. It was Rahu-Mars both in the seventh house with heaviest
affliction with the added aspect of Saturn. Then other events can be verified as
they will fall in a pattern in a sequence.
That is chara dasha and the seven karaka scheme for you.
Ayanamsha lunatics
She had some confusion about ayanamsha.Use only Lahiri ayanamsha and do
not get lost in the lunacy of the claims of others about their ayanamsha which is
unproven, untested and wild.
Remember government of India has settled this in 1956 and another meeting
convened by the Human Resources Ministry had reapproved the Lahiri
ayanamsha in March 1994 attended by Dr. Raman who had the mortification of
seeing his ayanamsha being rejected by the entire gathering of panchanga
makers of India attending that meeting. It was a three day conference which I

had to conduct on the insistence of Dr. Raman and Pandit Sukhdeo Chaturvedi.
Dr Raman never uttered a single word in all those three days in defence of his
ayanamsha.
Then one day came a fellow with the claim that he had discoverd a true
ayanamsha and that Lahiri was wrong. He had looked sane till he started talking
nonsense. I asked him to convince
a) a gathering of astrologers who make panchangas and
b) the Human Resources Ministry which he has failed to do.
Addressing a gathering of students after disturbing their classes is not the right
approach to win a battle.
But how can a lunatic get convinced? But he pours his vituperation and shows
his low upbringing. Like all lunatics he thinks that he is a genius and world is not
listening to him.
A student had asked me once when I told about my encounters with
revolutionary ayanamsha propounders, How many ayanamsha fanatics have
you met ? My answer was at least five. Out of them the only to suffer financial
loss was Dr.Raman but he did not abuse others who rejected his ayanamsha like
the upstarts who keep springing up once in a decade.
Dr. Raman created enormous difficulties for me when he prescribed his books
based on his ayanamsha for the astrology course I had shaped and was running!
This was a tricky and devious way of trying to keep alive his ayanamsha after his
death. This was Ramans fourth attempt in five years between 1989 and 1994.
If you are doing astrology seriously you must be prepared to meet these
ayanamsha lunatics somewhere or the other sometime or the other.
I told this woman that her lagna was Vrischika and that she should use only
Lahiri
ayanamsha. Just hear the rantings of the ayanamsha lunatics if you cannot avoid
them and forget it.
( 8 May 2008)
THE ART OF PREDICTION - THE PLAIN ASTROLOGICAL APPROACH 4
(revised)
KN RAO
1 June 2008, 7:05 PM

She had come with her father to meet me and took some predictions. She was
running the mahadasha of Rahu in the fourth house with the tenth lord Saturn.
The antardasha was of Ketu in the tenth house. Time for career rise. The coming
pratyantara dasha from March would be of Mars in the twelfth house.
In Chara dasha it would be Meena Kumbha Vrisha from February 2008.
Amatyakaraka in the twelfth house like Mars in the twelfth house in Vimshottari
dasha is showing a foreign posting.

Read this letter.

From: Pgi p@gmail.com
To: knrao .com
Subject: Re: P's birth details
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008
20:13:55 IST
Dear Sir,
In the first week of October
2007 I had come to visit you along with my dad. At that time you had told me
that I am likely to be transferred to a country outside India but within the same
firm. The same happened recently. In the last week of March -08 I relocated to
London and am sending this mail to you from London. I wanted to ask you ......

Thanks & kind regards

Ak

AmK

BK

MK

PK

DK

GK

Venus Sun Saturn Jupiter Moon Mercury Mars

Now remember she had come with her father and she is a Hindu girl. She did
not ask what she wanted to and I never told her. She has asked it now.
What is her question ?
Remember, Mars is also the seventh lord. She has someone in her life and she
did not open out in the presence of her father. It is obvious. From Vrisha the
darakaraka, Mars is also aspecting the seventh house.
Postscript: I put the question here about attraction towards someone outside
her country of birth and also the person being outside her caste, a consideration
which becomes important for Indians, particularly Hindus. She answered it thus.
From: P <@gmail.com>
To: knrao l.com>
Subject: Re: P's birth details
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:37:27 IST
I met somebody based out of London through an arranged marriage proposal in
the first week of January '08 while I was in India. This person is outside my
caste. We kept in touch over mail and phone. Though, after I relocated to
London, he has been very confused and we haven't met except two or three
times. Other than that there is nobody else.
regards
P

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:41 AM, knrao

<knrao@.com> wrote:
P,
Are you in love with someone outside
your caste etc ?
K.N.Rao.

THE ART OF PREDICTION - THE PLAIN ASTROLOGICAL APPROACH 5 : IS IT SICKNESS OR

PROMOTION?
KN RAO
23 June 2008, 8:53 PM

All that astrology means for

some people who learn the
subject is their own and the
horoscopes of their family
members. Inspite of my
discouraging it, no one
seems to stop except those
who become professionals
and trade in the misery of
their clients by talking of
Kaal Sarpa Yoga and remedial measures to earn quick money fabulously. Very
few get interested in it and try to do honest research and replicate it as some
student of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan do it.
Lagna Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Rahu
0-53

8-53 19-50 27-07

PK

BK

AMK

5-43

3-08

29-53

10-29

GK

DK

AK

MK

21-04

The difference in the case of this woman is that she learnt astrology to
understand some problem of her life which she discussed with me. For the
purpose of this piece, let it suffice to state here , that she wanted to know
about some health upset because when she came to me it was dasha of RahuJupiter from July 2007. Jupiter dasha worried her. I asked her to examine it
pratyantara by pratyantara.
The pratyantara dasha was of Mercury. In the dashamansha, this pratyantara
dasha lord is in the seventh house of attainment of position which is the seventh
house. In the birth horoscope it is in the second house of some gains
Jaiminis chara dasha should confirm it is my instruction to these people after
examining it in detail through Parashari methods to avoid the confusion that gets
created by Jaiminis Karakas because they will not change for some days and will
be common to many horoscopes of people born around the same time, days etc.
Jaimini dasha is of Dhanu-Vrischika upto 24 June 2008.

Here the Amatyakaraka,Mars is aspecting the tenth house, Simha from

Vrischika.
It is a period of promotion.
All that she had seen in her horoscope was the antardasha of the sixth lord in
the fifth house and her period of some sickness because she had to have a
medical check up after the antardasha of Jupiter started.
When she came to me I told her that it was a time of promotion for her. She is
government servant in an ordinary position and had ruled out her chances of
ever getting even a routine promotion.
But today (20 May 2008) she came to tell me that she had been selected for a
special training after which she would get a promotion.
How had I predicted it she asked.
Simple I said and explained it as given here. Jupiter in the fifth house shows
education, in this case training preceding her promotion. Always examine it first
from Parashari angle in detail and then check through Chara dasha and the
seven karaka scheme. This double check is what I call the composite technique
and it is very simple, with more than eighty percent success except in the case
of politicians who turn our world upside down. There a different approach to
their horoscopes.
When you are obsessessed with your own horoscope, your astrology does not
progress and the danger is that your morbidity will increase.
(20 May 2008)

THE ART OF PREDICTION - THE PLAIN ASTROLOGICAL APPROACH 6 - PRESTIGIOUS

PROMOTION
KN RAO
22 October 2008, 6:20 PM

Two years ago he had asked me whether he would get a very prestigious
promotion for which he was being considered. I told him that he would in spite
of some obstacles and of course other factors like jealousy of his colleagues and
the greed of the top man who mattered in the corrupt India of today.
He retired, joined a private service in the meantime but was still eligible for that
promotion which was denied to him.
He cane again two days before the confidence motion of Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and asked me if he could get it now when he seemed to be on
the top of the panel prepared for this most prestigious promotion which is
equivalent to that of a High Court judge. I said nothing could deprive him of the
post this time.

But there loomed the

uncertainty of the future of
the prime minister
Manmohan Singh himself he
said. I said that since the
ouster of the UPA
government did not take
place before June as the
leftists had a poor sense of
timing, there was no chance
of the fall of the
government. Something like
July 26 1993 could happen
when P.V.Narasimha Rao
managed it through corrupt
methods.
That happened on the
evening of 23 July 2008
when he UPA government
survived through the
staggering defections of
fifteen voters and ten abstentions. Then Manmohan Singh got time and signed
the file at the earliest and this friend of mine got the prestigious promotion and
joined his post as early as Saturday 26th.
Lagna 14-56 ,Sun 05-54, Moon 01-04, Mars(R) 21-05, Mercury 11-44,
Jupiter(R) 04-11, Venus 09-56, Saturn(R) 25-39, Rahu 04-51, Ketu 0451
Karak- AK Saturn, AmK Mars, BK Mercury, MK Venus, PK Sun, GK Jupiter, DK
Moon
He rang me up today and thanked me.
He is running the dasha of Saturn-Venus-Sun in Vimshottari dasha--Saturn is
the tenth lord and Venus and Sun are in the tenth house.
In dashamansha Saturn is in tenth house in his own rashi and Venus is in lagna
in his own rashi while Sun in the eleventh house shows that big elevation which
has created heart burn in the hearts of his colleagues intriguing against him and
the former political boss who wanted to promote his own man of his own region
and caste.
In Chara dasha it is Simha (Leo) from where the atmakaraka and Amatyakaraka
are in the eleventh house aspected by Darakaraka forming two rajayogas.
The Antardasha is Meena (Pisces) from, where all these rajayoga forming
karakas are aspecting the tenth house.
The Pratyantara dasha is of Kumbha (Aquarius) from where these karakas

aspect the eleventh house.

There is no need to beat about the bush and go into all complicated new fangled
untested dashas on doubtful divisional charts.
( 29 July 2008)