Mars transiting in Libra will hit the 8^th amsa around 1330 hrs IST. Saturn also transiting in Libra is already in the 8^th amsa since August 20. Thus, both Saturn and Mars in Navamsa have occupied Taurus, the Lagna or Ascendant of Indian Independence chart.

The 8^th amsa for any planet will always mean termination of some events related to specific bhava and the portfolio of that planet applicable to individual chart. The nature and characteristics of the impact depends on a number of issues like the dasa, bhukti and antra, natal placement of planets etc.

As far as India is concerned, Saturn and Mars have now become very powerful and conjunction of these two planets specifically in Libra, the exalted sign of Saturn is not a welcome sign. More so when even in Navamsa they are conjoined. With this transit, perhaps, the Government is more likely to be under further attack from several corners and a point worth considering is the activism of the judiciary. Probably, many judgments from Courts may go against the Government. Further, there could be escalation of territorial border related tensions apart from chances of internal violence and use of force in the public domain.

As already mentioned several times in the past about transits in Navamsa, in an upbeat mood, specifically about Saturn’s move to 8^th amsa on August 20, 2014, the Government in India has already run into rough weather on a number of issues. A point worth noting is the judicial intervention which I have already covered under the caption “Jupiter will start firing”.

Since August 20, we find several important subjects coming up before the judiciary and many or most of them are likely to have wide spread and deep negative repercussions on the Government.  The current issues are just small samples of many more mega events which are very likely to come up when Jupiter enters Mercury star on September 3, 2014.

It is Astrologically exciting to watch out the performance of the Government in the days to come.

Ironically, it looks that many events planned by a Indian political party, Aam Aadmi Party is like an Astrological missile, at least as far as I am considered. Since my mind is totally on planets transit in Navamsa, invariably, given a chance, it harps right on to Navamsa.

My take on transit of Mars in total isolation of any chart is as follows:

Rasi considerations

• Mars in Libra means, its 8^th sign characteristics are fairly diluted
• Its ownership of Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac is greatly enhanced
• Planets conjunct transit Mars, planets aspecting it get moderated to take on the qualities and impact of Mars
• It has its veto power on Libra and as well the signs its aspect viz., Capricorn, Aries and Taurus apart from the amsa signs, as and when it moves forward or backward if retrograde

Navamsa considerations

The following amsa of Mars, in my opinion is very significant

• First amsa viz., Libra itself
• 4^th amsa viz., Capricorn
• 7^th amsa viz., Aries
• 8^th amsa viz., Taurus

Obviously, this is nothing short of an off shoot of its aspects, 4, 7 and 8.  To keep the write up short and precise for reasons best known to all of us and not to create any panic amongst readers, I have reproduced below the image of Mars move into 4^th amsa on August 2^nd at 2039 hrs IST.

I am compelled to draw your attention to my post on Saturn moving to 8^th amsa on 20^th August. Incidentally, Mars too moves to 7^th amsa on the same day. It is best that we witness events and then check back what Astrology has for us. Let all of us hope and pray God for peace and tranquility while truth and justice has to prevail.

Astrology is best experienced than read.

Saturn now direct in motion since July 21 and which is still slow in its longitudinal speed enters the 8^th amsa of Libra on August 20, 2014. I have been very keenly watching the retrogression of planets and its impact on our life from a very long time. Of course, it is needless to mention that the events in life take place entirely depending upon planets transit in Navamsa.

It is worth recapitulating that impact of any planet getting retrograde is almost like re-doing or revisiting a subject again when it gets direct. To make it amply clear, the following points are critical to judge the impact of retrogression:

• What is the Zodiac sign (both the number of the sign and its characteristics) in which a planet gets retrograde
• What is the Navamsa sign when it gets retrograde
• What is the amsa of the planet in terms of numeral. Example: Saturn when it got retrograde in March 2014 was transiting in its 9^th amsa (future) and it got direct when it had moved back to 7^th amsa (opposite party/general public)
• Which are the planets conjunct/aspecting the planet in question and what is its Navamsa sign and the number (like 7^th amsa, 8^th amsa etc.) of the amsa
• The outer planets viz., Jupiter, Saturn and Mars having special aspects getting retrograde and then direct can never be compared with other planets viz., Venus and Mercury while Rahu/Ketu is ever retrograde.
• The outer planets always creates multiple activation and excites the Zodiac signs and some signs may be bombarded by the influence of more than one planet

With the above briefing let me move directly on to the subject. For those who are familiar with Astrology, to drive home my point and views thereon, I have reproduced the image of the chart when Saturn moves to its 8^th amsa.

From the chart above the following significant points are worth noting:

• Mars in 7^th amsa while transiting in the 7^th sign of the Zodiac
• Saturn in 8^th amsa while transiting in the 7^th sign of the Zodiac
• Jupiter in 5^th amsa from the 4^th sign of the Zodiac, its exalted sign
• Sun in the 1^st amsa when it is transiting in the 5^th sign of the Zodiac which is its own house while in Navamsa it will be in ‘Badhaka amsa’ (obstructions/difficulties)

The following signs will be hyperactive:

• Aries (12^th sign of Indian Independence chart say IIC)
• Taurus (the Lagna or Ascendant of IIC)
• Cancer (the 3^rd sign of IIC – self-strength, courage and confidence) will be under bombardment of Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. I have repeatedly mentioned that IIC has 5 planets in the 3^rd house
• Libra (the 6^th sign of IIC)
• Scorpio (the 7^th sign of IIC) will be under severe pressure because of Jupiter, Saturn and 8^th aspect of Mars from its own powerful house Aries
• Aquarius (the 10^th sign of IIC)

Since it is not wise on my part to come to specific conclusions in terms of effects of transit when Saturn moves to 8^th amsa, I propose to generalize and vaguely find the following points which might be relevant:

• Libra the 7^th sign of the Zodiac stands for democracy, trade and commerce, citizens (when we are on mundane Astrology), entertainment, pleasure and sexual relationship etc. As an evidence of the last item, in India, there is so much of news, day on day, about rapes
• Media, communication, strength and confidence will be under attack. Perhaps the neighbourhood events too can distract attention
• Several critical events that took place after March 2014, across the globe might get reviewed, revised, cancelled or it will go into terrible turbulence
• Jupiter depicting judiciary may deliver verdict against many misdeeds, be it rape cases, trade and commerce matters or democracy related. All the events will come to surface
• It is also a likely that a number of accidents, fire, water flooding etc., may be noticed. Hope God will be kind to save people
• On the whole, there appears to be severe conflict of interest in transit in terms of aspects. For example, in Navamsa Mars transiting in the 7^th sign in Rasi chart aspecting its own house Aries and with the 8^th aspect aspecting Saturn in 8^th amsa while in Rasi chart it is conjunct Mars.

I appeal to the readers not to get scared or take any point wrong. The comments are highly general in nature and the impact on individual charts should not be taken on these lines. May be many good people will stand to gain in a big way while the crooks, dishonest and fraudsters will get completely washed out.

Let us watch out the events carefully instead of coming to conclusions.

I have been continuously keeping abreast of the transit of planets for a number of years. Invariably, I find that it surely impacts our life in a number of ways, sensitively touching upon many areas of our activities. It is quite possible that we would not have paid much attention to minute aspects of our routine from the perspective of planetary movements, specifically retrogression of planets.

Your attention may please be drawn to a couple of earlier postings. To be very specific, as an Astrological estimate, I have dealt with the retrogression of Saturn and Mars during the recent general election in India. Unmindful of whether the Astrological estimate proves right or not and, being absolutely insensitive to anything like personal reputation, I would like to mention that Saturn turning direct past midnight on July 20^th (IST), perhaps there is bound to be a political holocaust. I personally feel the effect of Saturn turning direct will surely have wide spread repercussions in many walks of our life, of course, the honest and cultured human beings will gain a lot and, the crooks are sure to experience huge loss*.

I rely on my liberty in frank and fair expression of astrological views and, never to misguide, mislead or create false hopes on any subject to anyone. I am pretty sure that every time I touched upon critical transits in the recent past, there were significant events that cropped up, out of the blue. Thus, it tempted me to caption one post as “Chicken and Egg” to drive home how the events surface in tune with transit of planets.

After having shared my views on retrogression of planets, generally tracking events in my own life, on a routine basis, I am pretty confident to mention that we can take advantage, practically. First and foremost, it is best not to initiate new actions whenever planets are retrograde. I must add here that, a few days before a planet turns retrograde, the planet will be apparently stationary, normally, for a few days. This phenomenon will hold good for slow moving planets viz., Saturn and Jupiter. However, how long a planet will be apparently stationary depends on several factors and there need be no consistency.

As already stated above, Saturn gets direct on July 20^th past midnight or say early morning July 21^st and by almost 9 AM (IST) on July 21^st, it gains a bit of momentum and moves forward by 0.001 degrees (longitudinal speed). Therefore, Saturn gets active almost immediately. Further, since Mars is conjunct Saturn, I do expect very quick or almost instantaneous impact. Saturn/Mars conjunction is certainly not good, of course, as per the category of people mentioned above with the asterisk* mark above.

Let me make it abundantly clear that, it is quite possible that we may not be the cause of many actions done by others. For example, if someone gets a new job during the time a planet is retrograde, let it not be misconstrued that there is going to be some problem. However, there could be certain areas of review or re-visit to some functional aspects. For those have the prerogative of initiating actions voluntarily, they can always consider the point of retrogression of planets as much as practical. Just for information, I have given below the table of retrogression of planets for the year 2014 and 2015, separately (time mentioned is IST):

Retrogression of Planets: Year 2014

Mars Turns retrograde on March 01, 2014 at 21:54 hrs

Turns direct on May 20, 2014 at 7:2 hrs

Mercury Turns retrograde on February 07, 2014 at 3:14 hrs

Turns direct on February 28, 2014 at 19:31 hrs

Turns retrograde on June 07, 2014 at 17:27 hrs

Turns direct on July 01, 2014 at 18:20 hrs

Turns retrograde on October 04, 2014 at 22:33 hrs

Turns direct on October 26, 2014 at 0:47 hrs

Jupiter Is retrograde on January 01, 2014 at 0:0 hrs

Turns direct on March 06, 2014 at 16:12 hrs

Turns retrograde on December 09, 2014 at 2:11 hrs

Venus Is retrograde on January 01, 2014 at 0:0 hrs

Turns direct on February 01, 2014 at 2:19 hrs

Saturn Turns retrograde on March 02, 2014 at 21:49 hrs

Turns direct on July 21, 2014 at 2:6 hrs

Retrogression of Planets: Year 2015

Mercury Turns retrograde on January 21, 2015 at 21:25 hrs

Turns direct on February 11, 2015 at 20:27 hrs

Turns retrograde on May 19, 2015 at 7:19 hrs

Turns direct on June 12, 2015 at 4:3 hrs

Turns retrograde on September 17, 2015 at 23:40 hrs

Turns direct on October 09, 2015 at 20:28 hrs

Jupiter Is retrograde on January 01, 2015 at 0:0 hrs

Turns direct on April 08, 2015 at 22:27 hrs

Venus Turns retrograde on July 25, 2015 at 14:59 hrs

Turns direct on September 06, 2015 at 14:0 hrs

Saturn Turns retrograde on March 14, 2015 at 20:33 hrs

Turns direct on August 02, 2015 at 11:23 hrs

Inference:

For reasons stated above, I feel that there may be a lot of political turmoil (Saturn depicting democracy) and swift actions (Mars) and since Saturn is shedding its 10^th aspect on exalted Jupiter and, Jupiter squaring Mars, which is termed as ‘hard aspect’, Judiciary may be duty bound to act tough on many current political and politics related issues.

Sun has moved to Cancer today. Though it is 12^th from its own sign Leo, after all it is Sun, the king of the planetary kingdom. King will never sleep nor allow others to sleep!

Sun is now supporting Jupiter and, Jupiter will call the shots, unhesitatingly. The luminaries viz., Sun and Moon are very important in Astrology and they are supposed to fill the sign with power, light and energy and strengthen any other planet there, both, in transit and in Janma Kundli as well.

Simple logic is that Jupiter will become very strong from today. Let me draw a tangent here and deflect your attention to disseminate my personal take by a comparison. This is something unique and is probably the basis of how human beings are born and how the basic Tattvas (five elements) viz., Prithvi (Earth), Jal (Water), Vaayu (Wind), Agni (Fire), Aakash (Space) manifest in us. Prenatal Epoch theory throws a lot of light on many issues in our life and given a chance without offending anyone, I feel that we do not ourselves let alone knowing anyone else. This may sound quite ridiculous and stupid, but it is true. An insight into certain aspects of Prenatal Epoch has the answers to many of our questions from a philosophical perspective. How and why of so many day to day events can be better assimilated thus keeping the mind a bit calm. Further, I prefer to quote an extract from Prenatal Epoch which clearly indicates as to how the Ascendant is so critical while we can never ignore the Moon sign. Here is the quotation; “According to the Ancient Wisdom, “The World-Breath has a definite and periodic pulsation, a systole and diastole action, whereby birth and death are controlled.” This idea of periodicity, well established by modern science, furthers the idea that birth can take place only in respect to any single locality at intervals, that these intervals are in accord with lunar motion, and that only every seventh impulse of the World-Breath permits of human births.”

Now on to my point about Sun, it is Sun when it transits in nine Zodiac signs, it activates different Tattvas  of each Zodiac sign and then embeds them in fetus before it is born. Thus, the gestation period of approximately nine months plus nine days and nine hours figure.

After having side tracked the main subject, selectively, whenever Sun hits any natal planet or a planet in transit, that planet derives extraordinary energy from Sun. However, Astrologers say that, that planet has become ‘Asth’ or inactive. Instead of contesting any school of Astrology or Astrologers, it is best that we experience Astrology rather than believing it.

With the case in hand, transit Sun will cross over transit Jupiter around July 23 and that might be an interesting date to expect some firing from the judiciary. However, a planet in the orbit of another planet can also trigger events depending upon the position of Moon, then. An orbit is nothing but one Amsa of Navamsa meaning 3 degrees and 20 minutes of the Zodiac.

In the Indian Independence chart we have five planets in Cancer wherein Jupiter is transiting and now Sun has just entered Cancer which should logically strengthen Jupiter and at the same time hit the five natal planets including Saturn. All this happens with the active stewardship of Saturn’s 10^th aspect.

My inference after the long write up above is, yes, we are sure to witness a lot of spectacular fireworks in the political arena in India. We have lot of space in other public domain like the print and electronic media and I do not find any need to take your time again in this space. Moreover, I have already dropped quite a few hints which will have to now pass a litmus test.

Hearing is motivation, seeing is believing and experiencing is truth.

Sounds strange at least for the astrologers’ community. How can Saturn be hyperactive is the obvious and logical question? My own take on this can be imaginative, intuitive or can even be wrong. Wait, watch and then infer. After all we have the right to be wrong also, often times, but not quite often!

Oh! Somehow Saturn has been made infamous for wrong reasons and projected as a dreaded planet. Some even project it as a destroyer; like a missile with nuclear warhead! I beg to differ from these opinions and would like to take a call on my own.

I would also like to draw the attention of readers to the article posted long back about ‘Sade Sathi’ involving Saturn.

It is imperative that before saying anything on Saturn, called “Dharmakarmadipathi” in Vedic system, at the outset, I need to do Karma in tune with Dharma. Karma means action and Dharma means, judiciously executing the action required. To abridge the long message, I will narrate a few points about Saturn which matters at this point in time:

• Saturn owns the 10^th and 11^th sign of the Zodiac and its most active or hyperactive sign or exalted sign is Libra (right now it is transiting in Libra)
• 10^th house is called MC, the meridian cusp meaning the highest point in Zodiac
• In Janma Kundli 10^th house stands for profession/career etc., and 11^th for gain
• 10^th house also stands for name and fame
• Saturn is the slowest moving planet and it takes about 30 years to complete one cycle of Zodiac (in our Janma Kundli, whenever transit Saturn comes to the same point as at time of birth, it is called Saturn Return. Usually, Saturn will completely overhaul our life, thought process, attitude, most often physical body too shows considerable symptoms of aging, all that to refine us)
• Saturn is strict disciplinarian and keeper of Dharma – justice and equality, independent of all extraneous conditions, but, strictly as per our Karmas
• Saturn executes justice while Jupiter decides justice
• It is also a planet depicting longevity and hence called ‘Ayushkaraka’
• It is the causative planet for democracy while Sun stands for power

What is special about Mars joining Saturn in Libra?

Basically Mars and Saturn relationship is highly uncomfortable mainly due to the intrinsic qualities of each other. Many of them are diametrically opposite to each other and this is typically termed by Astrologers as  ‘enemies’. I must add here that the vocabulary of Astrologers’ may be in a way deficient or, proper choice of words are not taken into account and, may be the words closest to what has to be conveyed is chosen. Most often, the focus is on prediction and not on writing or speaking, and hence it is obvious that some anomalies creep in. I will take an independent view of the point above for these reasons:

• Please recapitulate special aspects of Saturn, Mars and Jupiter as 3, 4, 5 and 8, 9 and 10 (all planets have 7^th aspect in common)
• This implies that Mars always drives a wedge in between Saturn and Jupiter
• Mars owns 8^th sign of the Zodiac and Jupiter owns 9^th, Saturn owns 10^th on one side and on the other Saturn also owns 11^th (gain), Jupiter owns 12^th (liquidation) and Mars owns 1^st sign (beginning)
• Now straight on to conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Libra;
• * it can be seen that Saturn aspects the 9^th sign with the 3^rd aspect (distancing), Mars aspects its own exalted Rasi Capricorn, the 10^th sign of the Zodiac

* 7^th aspect of both Saturn and Mars on Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac (beginning)

* the 8^th aspect of Mars on Taurus, the Lagna of Indian Independence chart

* the 10^th aspect of Saturn on Cancer, the 3^rd sign of India where Jupiter is transiting.

* Starting from Jupiter in Cancer, the 5^th aspect of it is on the 8^th sign of the Zodiac viz., Scorpio, the lord of which is Mars, the 7^th direct aspect on Capricorn owned by Saturn which is already receiving the 4^th aspect of Mars and the 9^th aspect of Jupiter on Pisces, the 12^th sign of the Zodiac and net to it is Aries receiving the 7^th and direct aspect of Saturn and Mars.

Since the write up may be construed as preparing for a doctorate in Astrology, I will quickly take a break and infer like this:

• Any planet which turns retrograde and then direct, normally it will be apparently stationary for some time. Slower the planet, more the period of being stationary (apparent)
• For the case in hand, though Saturn will be apparently stationary for some time, it is very likely that Mars will trigger it faster than anyone would expect.
• Mars triggering Saturn in a movable sign will set raise to a number of major conflicts and lead to explosive situations starting immediately on July 21
• Incidentally, on the very same day Mars moves from 1^st amsa to 2^nd amsa and thus Taurus sign India’s Ascendant will be under multiple activation. This will aggravate the above point
• On the whole, a major controversy may arise and Judiciary may be hyperactive and no wonder if some heads role

One can round off the date July 21^st in red and, look out for more and more exciting developments. As it is the day Mars entered Libra on July 14^th has indeed been significant as far as news reports on a number of issues. Probably, one can expect to all of them and further complex additions once Saturn gets direct on July 21^st. By November 2^nd when Saturn moves to Scorpio, perhaps, there will be further escalation of what might begin now.

Going a little away from politics, let us see the global impact of Mars/Saturn conjunction and Saturn getting direct. Microsoft is in news announcing terrible job cuts. God knows who will be the next. Thus, there will  a number of concerns globally also. Let me caution that honest people following Dharma need not get tensed up while the dishonest and criminals, are sure to be hauled up, very fast. Why should we blame Saturn? It is ever a friend to good people.