MUNDANE ASTROLOGY - A Few Hints

 mundane astrology

Mundane Astrology is a familiar term in the Circle of Astrologers and among people interested in worldly events, including political and economic changes. Astrology is a science applied, in general, to individuals, and the Latin term 'Mundus,' meaning 'world,' 'Mundane' refers to the collective strength, weakness, and stability of political, economic, and environmental systems of every nation across the Universe.

Exploration of Mundane Astrology tracks to the Great Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, which was basically formulated to examine weather, wars, Changes of Monarchy, eclipses, etc,

In Vedic Astrology, this was titled Desa Gochara, with its roots in texts such as the Brihat Samhita of Varahamihira, which sheds light on the ingress of the Sun into different zodiac signs to forecast rainfall, agricultural produce, Government formulations, and economic conditions.

While more about 'Mundane Astrology' can be learnt by browsing Wikipedia, I am quoting the very basics for Common people who are not used to Astrological terms but are curious about things around them and the world.

My intention in writing this article is just to say what our sages have said about Mundane Astrology by segregating the Countries, Regions, States, Cities, commodities, according to different Signs, Stars, and Planets.

Like a natal chart (Birthchart or Horoscope) of an individual is calculated using the Place of Birth, Date of Birth, and time of Birth, the mundane astrology is also cast in the form of charts for countries, cities, or global events, and in case of this type of charts as the time of Birth will be a big question, the founding dates of the Countries, cities are taken for consideration or in their absence major environmental events like eclipses and planetary conjunctions of yearly planets that occur once in a longest period.

Charts for Nation: Exact time of independence, or the Constitution of the forum, or the signing time of the documents, or the moment a nation was founded officially. For our nation - India - the chart is calculated at midnight of 15 August 1947 as under:

 

		Ascendant Rahu	Mars
	Indian Independence chart 15 August 1947 00.0     Hrs New Delhi		Moon Mercury Saturn Venus Sun
	Ketu	Jupiter

Mundane charts may be calculated based on the Solar and lunar eclipses at their exact times for a particular geographic location, or on the planetary conjunctions of yearly planets over a 20-year cycle, to predict socio-economic and cultural changes.

Method of Preparation of the Ascendant Horoscope of the World

In the new year, when the Sun enters Aries (Aries Ingress), the horoscope prepared based on its time as ascendant is called Universal Horoscope. The good-bad events

of the world are analyzed based on this horoscope.

If in the ascendant of this horoscope, there are benefic planets or the ascendant is aspected

By benefics, then, crops of all things are good.

The twelve houses of the universal horoscope indicate 12

Months of Samvat as depicted in the illustrated horoscope.

The good-bad results are known by the planets situated in

various houses of the horoscope. The house having benefics

is considered lucky.

The malefics indicate unlucky results. The results are

predicted based on good-bad properties of planets.

The presence of malefics-Sun, Mars, Saturn, and Rahu in

The 7th house of the universal horoscope damages the ripe crops.

If there are benefics in the 2nd, 12th, or quadrant houses in own sign or friendly sign, then

good crops are indicated, and prices come down. Otherwise, high prices or drought

are likely.

2. Moon is a water element. The Moon is the significator of common people and their affairs,

females, foods, crops, medicines, and plantations. Moon has a placid nature.

3. Mars belongs to the fire element. It represents generals, army chiefs, armed forces,

arms and ammunition, fires, surgery, accidents, wars, etc.

4. Mercury is of the earth element and represents ambassadors, trade, business,

newspapers, literature, mental work, sports, air pollution, etc.

5. The Jupiter is the planet of ether (airy) element.. The business management, bank

employees, teachers, jurists, lawyers, and religion, etc., are represented by Jupiter.

6. Venus belongs to the water element. It represents females, singers, artists, birthrate,

population, affection, and beauty.

7. Saturn is of the ether element. He represents farmers and workers, producers of

minerals, agriculturists, diseases, and miseries.

8. Rahu represents sudden accidents, loss of cattle, etc., and destructive elements.

9. Ketu gives results like Rahu and fulfills the job of taking a result (incident) to its

completion.

Sahara Portugal Calabria Sicily Malta Cape of Good Hope South of Asia Minor Sri Lanka, Egypt	England Germany Denmark Poland (Part) Syria Lebanon Japan Peru Palestine India (Madras)	Ireland South of Russia Cyprus Persia Switzerland Holland, Poland (Part) Georgia Chili Austria Asia Minor	U.S.A England (West) Belgium Egypt (Lower) Canada North-East Coastal Africa German (Part) France (Part)
Sweden (Part) Poland (Part) Russia Arabia (Part) Abyssinia Arab Countries	World		Holland (Part) Scotland New Zealand Africa (NW) Mauritius Paraguay Russia (Part)
Afghanistan (Part) Mexico Bulgeria Albania Syria (Part) Bangladesh Greece (Part) Bosnia India (Part)			France Italy Sicily Romania (North) Alps Bohemia Tibet
Saudi Arabia Australia Spain France (Part) Hungary Madagascar Italy (Part) Naples Africa	Algeria Norway Morocco Syria (North) Queensland Brazil (Part) Bavaria Sweden Iran	Tibet Myanmar Indo-China Japan (Part) Egypt (North) Austria (Part) Argentina (Part) India (Part) U.S.A. (Part)	Turkey Switzerland (Part) West Indies Greece (Part) Mesopotamia Brazil Babylonia Kurdistan India (Part) China (Part) Canada (Part)

Sahara Portugal Calabria Sicily Malta Cape of Good Hope South of Asia Minor Sri Lanka, Egypt	England Germany Denmark Poland (Part) Syria Lebanon Japan Peru Palestine India (Madras)	Ireland South of Russia Cyprus Persia Switzerland Holland, Poland (Part) Georgia Chili Austria Asia Minor	U.S.A England (West) Belgium Egypt (Lower) Canada North-East Coastal Africa German (Part) France (Part)
Sweden (Part) Poland (Part) Russia Arabia (Part) Abyssinia Arab Countries	WORLD		Holland (Part) Scotland New Zealand Africa (NW) Mauritius Paraguay Russia (Part)
Afghanistan (Part) Mexico Bulgeria Albania Syria (Part) Bangladesh Greece (Part) Bosnia India (Part)			France Italy Sicily Romania (North) Alps Bohemia Tibet
Saudi Arabia Australia Spain France (Part) Hungary Madagascar Italy (Part) Naples Africa	Algeria Norway Morocco Syria (North) Queensland Brazil (Part) Bavaria Sweden Iran	China (North) Tibet Myanmar Indo-China Japan (Part) Egypt (North) Austria (Part) Argentina (Part) India (Part) U.S.A. (Part)	Turkey Switzerland (Part) West Indies Greece (Part) Mesopotamia Brazil Babylonia Kurdistan India (Part) China (Part) Canada (Part)

Lancaster Alexandria Chicago Preston	Chicago Birmingham Florence Damascus Naples Turchak	Dublin St. Louis	London Melbourne San-Francisco Tripoli Nuremburg Plymouth
Hamburg Brighton Salisbury	WORLD CITIES		Stockholm Manchester Algiers Milan New York Amsterdam Venice Geneva Georgia
Brussels Port said Tokyo Oxford Moscow			Philadelphia Damascus Prague Rome Chicago Portsmouth Lancashire California
Toronto Sunderland Nottingham Rotenburg Budapest Peking Brad fort Cologne	Liverpool Baltimore Newcastle Washington Dover	Lisbon Vienna Frankfurt Copenhagen Johannesburg Leeds Middleton	Boston Paris Los-Angeles Jerusalem California Virginia Bagdad

Calcutta	Chennai Vadodara	Delhi Hastinapur Mathura Surat Maharashtra Karnataka Alwar Ujjain Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan	Jaipur Haryana
	INDIA		Rajasthan Gujarat Kathiawar Sindh
Punjab West Bengal Orissa Bihar			Mumbai
Gwalior Indore Hyderabad Maharashtra	Chennai Hyderabad	Kashmir Varanasi North-East & North-West Haridwar Gaya	Pune Nagpur

KURMA CHAKRA AND ITS ASTROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

The Great Astrologer Varahamihira formulated a tortoise-shaped astrological map in his Brihat Samhita, presented as a Chakra, to help astrologers predict natural disasters, political events, the rise or fall of nations, weather changes, earthquakes, crop growth (good or bad), drought, etc., by dividing a country into geographic zones and linking them to the 27 asterisms (stars).

Please find below the Kurma Chakra of Our Country, Bharat (India)

On the Back of the tortoise, i.e., in the middle of the drawing: Krithika, Rohini, Mrigshira.

Towards Mouth (In East): Ardra, Punarvasu, and Pushya.

Front Foot (Right) (South-East): Aashlesha, Magha, Poorvaphalguni.

Right side Stomach (South): Uttaraphalguni, Hast, Chitra.

Back Right Foot (South-West): Swati, Anuradha, Vishakha.

Tail (West): Jyeshtha, Mool, Poorvashadh.

Back Left Foot (North-West): Uttarashadh, Shravan, Dhanishtha.

Left Stomach (North): Shatbhisha, Poorva-bhadrapad, Uttarabhadrapad.

Front Left Foot (North-East): Revati, Ashwini, Bharani.

To determine the good-bad events or results for a piece of land, village, city, district,

province, country, etc., the Tortoise chart is established on it.

Thus, 5 Tortoise charts are made.

1. On the map of the world.

2. On the map of the country.

3. On the map of the province.

4. On the map of the district or city.

5. On the map of the city.

The way you are observing the overlapping Korma Chakra constellations on the map of India can be applied to the map of the world, a province, a city, or a village.

Whenever a constellation has vedha of malefices, or that constellation has malefic or is

Aspected by a malefic, the area represented by that constellation will suffer.

Similarly, the presence, vedha, or aspect of a benefic on the constellation will indicate bliss and prosperity in the area represented by that constellation.

As seen in the image above, the 27 Lunar constellations are subdivided into 9 parts, consisting of 3 stars each in 8 directions, plus 1 Central portion termed Zone.

Each Zone consists of a few states and major cities.

As Our Ancient Bharat stands tall in the segregation and bifurcation of geographical areas and commodities, we have prioritised India for our astrological analysis.

 

S.No	Stars	Zone	States	Cities
1	Krittika, Rohini, Mrigasira	Central India	U.P (South/West) Madhya Pradesh (Part) Rajasthan (Desert) Haryana Gadwal	Ayodhya, Prayag, Hastinapur Mathura, Pandu, Chitahuri Udaipur, Gararmukteswar Alwar, Ujjain, Jaipur Bhagalpur, Kampala, Kurukshetra, Ajmer
2	Ardra, Punarvasu, Pushya	Eastern India	Bihar (South) Orissa (North) Nagaland Uttar Pradesh (East) Bengal (North) Assam (Part)	Puri, Bhubaneshwar, Varanasi, Patna, Malda, Gaya, Cuttack, Kohima
3	Aslesha, Magha, Purva Phalguni	South-East India Delhi	Bihar (Part), Orissa (Part), Vidarbha, Tripura, Andhra (East), Vindhya,  MP (Part) Delhi	Rajgir, Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands, Gwalior, Chhatarpur, Bilaspur
4	Uttara Phalguni, Hasta, Chitra	Southern India	Kerala, Konkan, Maharashtra (South), Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka	Nasik, Kanchi, Danda Karanya, Kolhapur, Chennai, Bijapur, Nilgiris, Thanjavur, Coimbatore, Trivandrum, Rameswaram, Jalgaon, Calicut, Raichur, Mysore, Bangalore, Cochin
5	Swati, Vaisaka, Anuradha	South-West India	Saurashtra, Gujarat, Kathiawar, Maharashtra (Part)	Griner, Nasik, Sabarmati, Surat, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Rajkot
6	Jyeshta, Mula, Purvashada	Western India	Punjab (West), Rajasthan (West), Maharashtra (West), Gujarat (West)	Amritsar, Jaisalmer, Bhuj, Kandla, Ohka, Dwarika, Abu, Jodhpur
7	Uttarashada, Sravana, Dhanishta	North-West India	Kashmir (Part), Kullu Valley, Himalaya Region	Srinagar, Jammu, Manali
8	Shadabhisha, Purva Bhadrapada, Uttara Bhadrapada	Northern India	Kashmir (North), Kailash Parvat, Uttarakhand, Nepal (Part)	Mansarowar, Kailash, Tehri-Garhwal, Nainital, Kedar Nath, Badrinath
9	Revathi, Aswini, Bharani	North-East India	Kashmir (North-East), Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam (Part), Arunachal Pradesh	Rajouri, Kulu, Cher punji

S. No	Planets	Geographical Area	Commodities
1	Sun	Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Kaushambi, Kalinga, Tamil Nadu, Vindhya Forest, Nagadha, Saurashtra, Narmada, Burdwan	Rice, Honey, herbs, copper, gold, germs, oil, silk, grains, cotton, and groundnut
2	Moon	Kerala (Part), Broach	Silver, milk, oil, wines, glass, ghee, food items, rice, wheat, salt, pearl, sugarcane, and Honey
3	Mars	Andhra Pradesh, Konkan, Vindhyachal, Narmada (Part), Chola, Ujjain, Godavari, Kerala (Part)	Gur, gwar, turmeric, gold rice, oil seeds, coffee, tea, metal, iron, hardware, steel, copper, wine, and oil seeds.
4	Mercury	Saurashtra, Himalayan Region, Mathura, North-West India	Wheat, grains, selk, textiles, sugar, cotton, copper, green clothes, arhar, groundnut, and peas
5	Jupiter	Punjab € U>P (W), Kashmir (Part)	Gold, silver, turmeric, rubber, food items, zinc, grams, Jute, tobacco, luxury items, tin, and salt
6	Venus	Malva, Taxsila, Kashmir (Part)	Cotton, sugar, Jute, textiles, wheat, rice, silver, silk, glass, copper, wine, spices, grains, jute products, diamond, ghee, and oil
7	Saturn	Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Punjab (Part), Haryana, Delhi	Metals, steel, coal, lead, cement, copper, oil seeds, mustard, groundnuts, wool, iron, Jute, leather goods, til, urad, and gram
8	Rahu	Hilly Areas	Metal, wireless and electrical goods, iron, gomed, til, urad
9	Ketu	Desert of India	Wireless and electrical goods, and all items of black colour.

 

Gems, pearls, diamonds, ghee, oil, fish, Weapons, water products, fish products, perfumery, medicines	Cotton, Clothes, Wool, Saros, Gold, Wheat, Red sandal, red coral, Copper, Iron, medicines, shares of iron companies, Jute, textiles, rice, sugar	Sugar, Cotton, thread, Wheat, salt, ghee, milk, rice, Jute, textiles, shares	Cotton, Jute, blankets, Kasturi, kesar, bajra, Macca, gwar, ghee, paper
Gems, black urad, til oil, electrical goods, water products, artificial soil, coal, iron, jewels, oil seeds	commodities		Silver, mercury, banana, Kirana items, coconut, tea
Gold, iron, coal, tin, lead, sugarcane, trees, copper, zinc, oil seeds			Gur, grain, leather goods, skin, sugar, gold, rice
Salt, weapons, rubber, printed clothes, sea products, animals, turmeric, arms	Gur, sugar, iron, scents, til, black items, sugar cane, metals, wool, chemicals, leather, oil seeds, fats	Urad, wheat, coconut, arhar, matar, black gram, mustard, cotton, silk, rice	Arhar, matar, moong, moth, wheat, clothes, sugar, gram, gwar, rice, grains, foodstuff

 

 

Sl.No	Star	Commodities
1.	Aswini	Rice, ghee, clothes, minerals
2.	Bharani	Chillies, millets, wheat, rice, jowar
3.	Krittika	Rice, oats, metals, til, gems, diamonds, grams, oils, gold, silver
4.	Rohini	Grains, woollen blankets, metals, liquids
5.	Mrigasira	Yellow grain, resins, animals, gems
6.	Arda	Oils, salt, liquids, sandal, scents
7.	Punarvasu	Cotton, threads, til
8.	Pushya	Silver, gold, ghee, rice, sambhar salt, Hing, saros, oil
9.	Aslesha	Gur, Khand, sonth, masoor, wheat, chillies, rice
10.	Magha	Oil, til, ghee, moong, gram, gur, alsi
11.	Purva Phalguni	Woollen clothes, blankets, wool, til, oil, silver
12.	Uttara Phalguni	Urad, moong, rice, salt
13.	Hasta	Sandal, camphor
14.	Chitra	Gold, gems, gur, urad, moong, animals
15.	Swati	Chillies, oil, Hing
16.	Vishaka	Rice, wheat, moong, masoor, moth
17.	Anuradha	Arhar (toor), pulses, grains, rice, moth, gram
18.	Jyeshta	Gur, clothes, camphor, Hing
19.	Mula	Cotton, liquid things, grains, salt
20.	Purvashada	Grains, ghee, fruits
21.	Uttarashada	Animals, steel, brass, copper
22.	Abhijit	Moong, sonth, betelnuts, dry fruits
23.	Sravana	Sugar, betelnuts, dry fruits
24.	Dhanishta	Gold, silver, gems, pearls, diamonds
25.	Shadabhisha	Oil, wines
26.	Purva Bhadrapada	Metals, grains, medicines
27.	Uttara Bhadrapada	Gur, sugar, khand, til, sarso, oils
28.	Revati	Pearl, gem, betelnuts

Mundane Astrology is a Voluminous subject, as there are more implications of the Veda (afflictions of Planetary positions and aspects when they occupy the stars). All nine planets are involved in afflicting one another and exerting effects that bring radical changes in every sphere of the environment and the primordials.

A few pages are not enough to pen down, as the simple term - Vedha - has so many implications and varies depending on the benefic or malefic combinations and conjunctions of planets, whether one, two, or three.

I have given a brief overview of this vast subject, and if time permits, I will write an exclusive article on Vedha and its impact.

Thanks for now. Readers can comment and express their views to my email ssssethu@gmail.com.

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