3.4 Planetary Relationships

3.4.1 Natural Relationships

For each planet, its friends and enemies are found as follows: Take the moolatrikona of the planet. Lord of the rasi where it is exalted is its friend. Lords of 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th and 12th rasis from it are also its natural friends. Lords of other rasis are its natural enemies. If a planet becomes a friend and an enemy on account of owning two rasis, then it is a neutral planet. The list of friends, neutral planets and enemies of all

planets is listed in Table 7.

3.4.2 Temporary Relationships

In addition to the permanent relationship, we have temporary relationships based on the planetary position in a chart. These temporary (tatkaala) relationships are specific to a chart. Planets occupying the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from the rasi occupied by a planet are its temporary friends. Planet occupying other rasis are its temporary enemies.

Example 4: Let us consider Lord Sree Rama’s chart given in Figure 1 and find the temporary friends and temporary enemies of Sun and Moon. Sun: Sun is in Ar. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from Ar are Ta, Ge, Cn, Cp, Aq and Pi. Planets in those rasis are Mercury, Moon, Jupiter, Mars and Venus. They are temporary friends of Sun in this chart. Saturn is the only temporary

enemy. Moon: Moon is in Cn. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from Cn are Le, Vi, Li, Ar, Ta and Ge. Planets in those rasis are Saturn, Sun and Mercury. They are temporary friends of Moon in this chart. Temporary enemies are Mars, Jupiter,

Venus.

Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach Exercise 5: Consider Lord Sree Rama’s chart given in Figure 1 and find the temporary friends and temporary enemies of Jupiter and Venus. Note that Moon and Jupiter have the same temporary friends and temporary enemies. That is because they occupy the same rasi and temporary relationships are based on the rasis occupied by planets.

3.4.3 Compound Relationships

We get the compound relationships between planets by combining permanent and temporary relationships as shown in Table 8.

Table 8: Compound Relationships

Example 5: Let us continue from Example 4 and find the friends and enemies of Sun and Moon in Lord Sree Rama’s chart given in Figure 1. Sun: We found in Example 4 that Sun’s temporary friends are Mercury, Moon, Jupiter, Mars and Venus. Of these, Moon, Mars and Jupiter are natural friends and they become adhimitras (good friends). Mercury is a neutral planet in natural relationship and he becomes a mitra (friend) in compound relationship. Venus is a natural enemy. Being a temporary friend, Venus becomes a sama (neutral) planet in compound relationship. Saturn is the only temporary enemy of Sun. Being a natural enemy too, he becomes

an adhisatru (bad enemy) of Sun.

Moon: We found in Example 4 that Moon’s temporary friends are Sun, Mercury and Saturn. Of these, Sun and Mercury are natural friends and they become adhimitras (good friends). Saturn is a neutral in natural relationship and he becomes a mitra

(friend) in compound relationship.

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Moon’s temporary enemies are Mars, Jupiter and Venus. They are all natural neutrals and they become satru (enemies) in compound relationship.

Exercise 6: Continue from Exercise 5 and find the friends and enemies of Jupiter

and Venus in Lord Sree Rama’s chart given in Figure 1. Whenever we refer to a planet being in a friendly house or an inimical house in the rest of this book, we mean the compound relationships. A planet occupying a rasi owned by a mitra or adhimitra is in a friendly house. A planet occupying a rasi owned by a satru or adhisatru is in an inimical house.

3.5 Answers to Exercises

Exercise 5:

Jupiter: Jupiter is in Cn. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from Cn are

Le, Vi, Li, Ar, Ta and Ge. Planets in those rasis are Saturn, Sun and Mercury. They

are temporary friends of Jupiter in this chart. Temporary enemies are Moon, Mars,

Venus. Venus: Venus is in Pi. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th and 12th rasis counted from Pi are

Ar, Ta, Ge, Sg, Cp and Aq. Planets in those rasis are Sun, Mercury and Mars. They

are temporary friends of Venus in this chart. Temporary enemies are Moon, Jupiter,

Saturn.

Exercise 6:

Jupiter: We found in Exercise 5 that the temporary friends of Jupiter are Sun, Mercury and Saturn. Being a natural friend, Sun becomes an adhimitra (good friend). Being a natural neutral, Saturn becomes a mitra (friend). Being a natural enemy, Mercury becomes a neutral planet in compound relationship. Temporary enemies of Jupiter are Moon, Mars and Venus. Being natural friends of

Jupiter, Moon and Mars become sama (neutral) planets in compound relationship. Being a neutral planet in natural relationship, Venus becomes an enemy in

compound relationship.

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Venus: We found in Exercise 5 that the temporary friends of Venus are Sun, Mars and Mercury. Being a natural friend, Mercury becomes an adhimitra (good friend). Being a neutral planet in natural relationship, Mars becomes a mitra (friend). Being an enemy in natural relationship, Sun becomes a sama (neutral) in compound relationship.

Temporary enemies of Venus are Moon, Jupiter, Saturn. Of these, Saturn is a natural friend and he becomes a sama (neutral) in compound relationship. Jupiter is a natural neutral and he becomes a satru (enemy) of Venus in compound relationship. Moon is a natural enemy of Venus and he becomes an adhisatru (bad enemy) in compound

relationship.