Determination of Longevity
Before the period of death is actually determined one should be able to find whether the longevity is long, medium or short, and whether there are Balarishta combinations threatening early death. These details have been fully described in standard astrological books to which the reader may conveniently refer.
We are at present concerned with the planets who are likely to cause death (Maraka) as a result of certain combinations and associations. For the sake of convenience we may classify the planets who cause death as follows:— (a) Primary Determinants of death, (b) Secondary Determinants of death, and (c) Tertiary Determinants of death.
(a) Primary Determinants of Death —The 3rd and 8th are houses of life and the 2nd and 7th are houses of death.
- Lord of the 2nd or 7th is a determinant of death;
- the (malefic) occupants of these two houses, and
- the (malefic) planets in association with the above lords are also determinants of death.
Of these several determinants above mentioned, planets in conjunction with lords of 2nd and 7th are the most powerful in causing death, while the lords themselves are least powerful.
(b) Secondary Determinants of Death — Above we have referred to the malefic associates with lords of 2nd and 7th and malefic occupants. The following may also become Marakas or death-inflicting planets :—
- Benefic planets in association with lords of 2nd and 7th,
- Lords of 3rd and 8th and
- lord of 3rd or 8th associated with 2nd or 7th lord.
(c) Tertiary Determinants of Death.—
- Saturn in conjunction, association or aspect with the Marakas (determinants of death) mentioned above,
- lord of the 6th or 8th whether or not he is associated with a Maraka planet, and
- the least powerful planet in the horoscope.
It is suggested in certain works that the following planets will not cause death,
- The Sun and the Moon and
- the 9th lord.
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In actual practice, however, this is not found to be true. Herewith is given a list of Marakas in reference to different Lagnas :—
- Mesha — Mercury, Saturn
- Vrishabha — Jupiter, Mars
- Mithuna — Mars, Jupiter
- Kataka — Venus, Mercury
- Simha — Mercury, Venus
- Kanya — Mars, Jupiter
- Thula — Jupiter
- Vrischika — Mercury, Venus, Saturn
- Dhanus — Venus, Saturn
- Makara — Mars, Jupiter
- Kumbha — Mars
- Meena — Mercury, Saturn, Venus
Instances are wanting to prove that the above assignment of so-called Marakas always holds good.
In Chart No. 1 Mithuna is Lagna, Marakas are Jupiter and Mars,
- Jupiter as lord of the 7th becomes a primary determinant of death,
- Rahu is a Maraka as he is in the 7th house,
- Mercury is with lord of the 7th and owns the 3rd and 6th from the Moon.
The native died when the sub-period of Mercury was operating in the major period of Jupiter.
Chart No. 2 is an elusive horoscope. The lord of Lagna is exalted in the 5th without any unfavourable aspects, conjunctions or associations. This has conferred Purnayu or full term of life. Planets supposed to be Marakas did not kill the subject; the foundation of the horoscope is strong.
The native died in Guru Dasa, Guru Bhukti. In the Navamsa, Guru gets Maraka power and the Lagna aspected by Mars. Chart No. 2 is complicated and defies the intelligence of the average astrologer.
Of course in the determination of death, the transiting influences have a great bearing. Saturn was transiting the 2nd from the radical Moon when the native of this chart died.
In Chart No. 3 the Ascendant is Gemini and the Marakas are Mars and Jupiter. But Saturn (lord of 8) killed the native at the close of his Dasa. Saturn is in the 6th from Lagna and 7th from the Moon.
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