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Jaimini Astrology

Chara karakas, arudha padas, sign aspects and Chara dasha.

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Levels 3–460 available lessons · Units: 12About 5.4 hours

This course begins at Level 3. Review the introductory course in this tradition before starting. Introductory course: Vedic Astrology: Parashari Jyotish

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Level 3Units: 6

Level 3 · Unit 1

Jaimini's building blocks: karakas and karakamsha

The Upadesa Sutras and katapayadi, the seven- and eight-karaka schemes in depth, the Atmakaraka and Darakaraka, and finding the karakamsha.

  1. Jaimini's sutras and their number code
  2. Seven or eight karakas
  3. The Atmakaraka and the Darakaraka
  4. Karakamsha and swamsa
  5. Checkpoint: Karakas and karakamsha

Level 3 · Unit 2

Rashi drishti (sign aspects)

Jaimini's sign aspects: the rules for movable, fixed and dual rashis, counting shortcuts, how grahas share them, and aspects to the lagna and karakamsha.

  1. Rashi drishti: the three rules
  2. Counting rashi aspects
  3. Grahas share their rashi's aspect
  4. Rashi drishti on the lagna and karakamsha
  5. Checkpoint: Rashi drishti

Level 3 · Unit 3

Argala

Argala as planetary intervention: the 2nd, 4th and 11th, the 5th and textual variants, obstruction by the 12th, 10th, 3rd and 9th, and benefic and malefic argala.

  1. Argala: the latch
  2. Virodha argala: the obstruction
  3. The 5th, the 3rd and variants
  4. Benefic and malefic argala
  5. Checkpoint: Argala

Level 3 · Unit 4

Arudha padas

Find the arudha of any house by double counting, apply the 1st and 7th exception, locate the arudha lagna and upapada, and read padas as image.

  1. Finding a pada
  2. The 1st and 7th exception
  3. Arudha lagna and upapada
  4. Image, not substance
  5. Checkpoint: Arudha padas

Level 3 · Unit 5

Karakas in practice

The middle karakas and their themes, ranking a real-sky chart to the minute, and reading the karakas with the karakamsha, rashi drishti and argala.

  1. The middle karakas
  2. Ranking chart P to the minute
  3. Karakas and rashi drishti
  4. Argala on the Atmakaraka
  5. Checkpoint: Karakas in practice

Level 3 · Unit 6

Arudhas in practice

Work the padas of a real-sky chart, handle the exceptions, count from the arudha lagna, and read padas with rashi drishti and argala.

  1. A pada for every house
  2. Exceptions in a real chart
  3. Counting from the arudha lagna
  4. Reading padas together
  5. Checkpoint: Arudhas in practice
Level 4Units: 6

Level 4 · Unit 1

Chara dasha

Work out Jaimini Chara dasha with K. N. Rao's popular convention: the sequence from the lagna, its direction, 1–12 year periods and a timeline.

  1. A dasha of rashis
  2. Which way the sequence runs
  3. How long each period lasts
  4. Building a timeline
  5. Checkpoint: Chara dasha

Level 4 · Unit 2

Jaimini yogas

Karaka-based Jaimini yogas: the Atmakaraka–Amatyakaraka link by conjunction or rashi drishti, seven or eight karakas, and careful timing.

  1. Karakas joining forces
  2. Spotting the yoga in a chart
  3. Seven or eight karakas
  4. Timing and careful reading
  5. Checkpoint: Jaimini yogas

Level 4 · Unit 3

Combining Jaimini and Parashari

Use each system for what it does well: graha and rashi drishti, natural and chara karakas, two dashas, and cross-checks without mixing rules.

  1. Two toolkits
  2. Two kinds of aspect
  3. Karakas and dashas side by side
  4. Cross-checking a theme
  5. Checkpoint: Combining Jaimini and Parashari

Level 4 · Unit 4

Case studies

Two invented charts worked with karakas, karakamsha, arudha lagna, rashi drishti, argala and Chara dasha, read responsibly with no predictions.

  1. Case A: karakas and karakamsha
  2. Case A: arudha, rashi drishti and argala
  3. Case B: karakas and Chara dasha
  4. Case B: reading it responsibly
  5. Checkpoint: Case studies

Level 4 · Unit 5

Reading a Chara dasha period

Read a Chara dasha period: the period rashi as a working lagna, grahas in and aspecting it, the karakas and padas involved, and careful wording.

  1. The period rashi as a lagna
  2. Grahas in and aspecting the period
  3. Karakas and padas in a period
  4. Wording a period reading
  5. Checkpoint: Reading a Chara dasha period

Level 4 · Unit 6

A full Jaimini workup: case C

Take one real-sky chart from start to finish: karakas, karakamsha, padas, the AK–AmK check, a Chara dasha timeline, period readings and a careful write-up.

  1. A workflow for any chart
  2. Case C: karakas and padas
  3. Case C: the Chara dasha timeline
  4. Case C: reading and writing up
  5. Checkpoint: A full Jaimini workup
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