Divisions and Strength
How a chart is cut into finer charts and how a planet's strength is measured: the sixteen vargas and how each is built, vargottama, Vimsopaka, the six strengths of shadbala, house strength, and the planetary states. Each with its source and what Nava computes.
The Sixteen Vargas: What Each Divisional Chart Is Read For
Each sign can be cut into smaller parts. Each way of cutting makes a new chart, and each chart answers one kind of question.
Brihat Jataka's Five Vargas: Hora, Drekkana, Navamsa, Dvadasamsa, Trimsamsa
Varahamihira works with the sign and five cuts of it. Together they are the six vargas most teachers still use.
Working Out a Navamsa in Your Head: the Quick Sum
Multiply, add, divide by twelve. The remainder names the navamsa sign.
Nakshatra Padas: How 108 Star Quarters Fit the Twelve Signs
Twenty-seven stars, four quarters each, twelve signs: every sign holds nine quarters.
How Each Varga Is Built: the Counting Rule for All Sixteen
Every divisional chart is one rule: cut the sign, then count the parts on from a starting sign.
Vargottama and the Varga Grades: Parijata, Uttama, Gopura and the Rest
A planet that keeps its sign in the navamsa, and a planet that holds good signs across many vargas, are both counted as strong.
Vimsopaka: the 20-Point Varga Strength, Worked Through
Each varga has a weight. Each planet earns a share of that weight by how it stands with the varga's lord. The shares add up to a score out of 20.
Shadbala: the Six Strengths of a Planet, and the Totals Each Needs
Position, direction, time, motion, natural and aspect: six scores in virupas, added up and set against what each planet needs.
Sthana Bala: the Five Parts of Positional Strength
Exaltation, dignity across seven vargas, odd or even sign, angle, and decanate: five scores for where a planet stands.
Kala Bala: Time Strength, from the Hour of Birth to the Lord of the Year
Day or night, the Moon's phase, the third of the day, the ruling lords, the Sun's declination and planetary war.
Cheshta Bala: Motional Strength and the Eight Motions
Retrograde motion earns a planet the most strength from motion. The book gives eight kinds of motion and a formula, and does not say how the two fit together.
Paksha Bala: the Moon's Phase as Strength
The further the Moon is from the Sun, the stronger the benefics and the Moon; the nearer, the stronger the malefics.
Natural Strengths: Which Planet Is Strong Where, and When
Each planet has a best angle of the chart, a best time of day, and a fixed place in the order of strength.
Bhava Bala: How Strong Is a House?
Five parts: the house's distance from a reference cusp, the aspects on it, the planets in it, the time of birth, and the strength of its lord.
Ishta and Kashta Phala: a Planet's Good and Bad Potential
Parashara splits each planet's capacity into a good side and a bad side, each out of 60.
Rashmi: the Rays of the Planets, Counted from Exaltation
Each planet has a most-rays figure at deep exaltation and none at deep debilitation. Dignity then multiplies the count.
Avasthas: a Planet's Age and Wakefulness (Baladi and Jagradadi)
By its degree a planet is said to be young, grown or waning; by its sign, awake, dreaming or asleep. Each state sets how much of its results it gives.
Deeptadi, Lajjitadi and Shayanadi: a Planet's Mood, Condition and Activity
Three more sets of states from the same chapter: by dignity, by company and house, and by a count from the birth details.
Your City’s Panchangam, Every Day
Many printed calendars are computed for one town. Nava Panchangam computes sunrise, sunset and the windows that depend on them, such as Rahu Kalam, for your city, with a choice of Vakya or Drik; a tithi’s ending instant is the same everywhere.
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