(This article explores the deep roots of various astrological methods being used currently. Our present life is the sum total of the karmas or the unfinished business from past lives, soul’s longing to evolve through challenges of present life and the possibilities of a blissful divine expression in future. This article describes the reasoning behind the various astrological methods related with the past, present and future and how they should be interrelated to understand the human life in totality.)
As we discussed the process of carrying forward of the past lives by our soul through Mind Body, while the evolution process is carried through our Astral Body, previous article “Astrology: Indicator of Soul’s Journey”, this article will discuss the connection of the life we live with all the previous lives and process of evolution experienced by the soul through various challenges.
You may have this question in your mind, that if we choose out own birth time and hence the horoscope, then we should always be choosing a comfortable life to live which is full of luxuries and comforts and not a life which is difficult and full of crisis. However, we need to understand that we oscillate between easy and difficult life times. As we all know that we evolve only through difficulties. If you go deep in the process of cultivation of your special talents and capabilities, you will realize that all that happened when you were going through extremely difficult and confusing times. In fact, your so called good time was the result of your evolution through your so called bad times. Now the question is, why we always get in touch with our special capabilities only during our tough times. The answer lies in the fact that in our good times, we are purely motivated by our ego or the mind body, which is the collection of our past memories and it can not push us forward, as it is limited by the past knowledge and hence can not keep in touch with our evolution. When we are motivated by our ego, we are just being driven by all the knowledge we have accumulated in past. Let us understand the meaning of crisis in this context. Any turn of event, when we are not able to handle any situation with all our past knowledge, can be termed as crisis. While in the clutches of an immense crisis we feel so helpless, and in such moments we realize the futility of our ego or the mind body, as the present situation is unprecedented and hence can not be solved by our past knowledge. In such a state the ego collapses and we get in touch with our astral body, the pathway to our final destination. Hence in such moments the talents surfaces with the divine blessing, which becomes our tool to move forward in life towards accomplishing various feats.
Hence, when the soul longs to evolve, the astral body takes control and takes a challenging birth. This is why, most of the successful people all over the world have difficult horoscopes. (Please refer to the article “Why Successful people often have difficult horoscopes). But sometimes there is too much past karma to be dealt with, which can suppress the soul and it may not want to move forward on its path, until the past baggage is cleared. This is the case with most of the souls, as soul just want to take a back seat and let the mind body takeover to handle it’s own consequences, and this results in easy lives devoid of much challenges.
In our lives, the events are created by way of both the level of existence: The Astral Body and The Mind Body. The events created by Mind Body are purely the consequences of the past karmas, both good and bad. Nakshatras can be understood as the store house of past karma, which keep resurfacing over the period of time. In my understanding Nakshatra based astrology mostly deals with the past karmas, hence it is very important for the masses. The events which are described by way of all the methods related with Nakshatras such as Vimshottary and other Dasha systems and Krishnamurthy Padhdhati etc. are the consequences of our past karma. These methods do not describe the circumstances or the events created by the longing of the soul or the Astral body, for which one needs to use the methods based on Ascendants, such as Parashara system of twelve houses, Ashtakvarga, various methods based on progression as well as the transits.
So until now, we have seen the events created by accumulated memories and the circumstances created by the soul to fulfill it’s longings. Now, the question arises, if the longing of the soul to evolve has been fulfilled and it has taken the leap it desired, then what is the kind of life one will live. In other words, once one is free from the slavery of the past and have learnt to live moment to moment, than what is the kind of life one will be blessed with. Such a life is blissful and is lived in complete harmony with the cosmic forces. In such life, Soul lives mostly through the Ananda Shareer and derive immense bliss out of it. This life can also be understood as the play of divine through the individual soul. In astrology, such a life can be outlined by way of Navamamsha Horoscope. However, you must note that this horoscope is valid only for those who have learnt to live in bliss and gratitude and they act only in tune with the divine play and not by their ambitions, desires and reactions.
Now, you may have noted that there are different methods to deal with the different existance of the soul by way of various level of bodies. Most of the people live by way of mind body, hence the Nakshatra based methods work very well for them. However, one needs to combine the Ascendant based methods. Even though such combinations do exist, but they may be quite insufficient and may not tell the whole truth. Hence new methods are required to understand the life. It is very rare for people to live in bliss; hence Navamamsha may not attain highly important status in terms of predictions. However, people do receive their destiny by way of this horoscope in their moments of bliss. Such moments can turn out to be the defining moments of their lives and hence Navmansha horoscope attains significance. However, for the people of very high awareness, this horoscope may be the main influence in the shaping up of their lives. However, even such people have the longing of the soul as well as unfinished karmas, hence all the three kind of methods must be combined to understand the true picture.
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