SteveS wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:28 am
I wish we had the complete writings of the ‘Janma-Rasi method of monthly prediction,’ but I am guessing Fagan covered the main predictive points.
BTW, Steve, I meant to tell you... I did some Googling around to try to get the details of this and
maybe figured it out - a very cute marketing trick. I ight have this wrong, but I think I see a very clever marketing trick here.
First, "Janma-Rasi" just means "Moon-sign." So this is just "The Moon-Sign Method of Monthly Prediction." If you look around the Internet you can find several Indian astrology sites giving some variation of "your Moon-sign horoscope for the year." Furthermore, these are usually broken down not by "sign" as we know it, but my Nakshatra (Lunar Mansion), which is about one day's motion of the Moon.
It's India's version of Sun-sign astrology... but, instead, it's based on the Moon asterism.
What this boils down to is: Yearly horoscope predictions written for the masses, based on knowing which 27th of the zodiac your Moon is in. This is cooler than Sun-sign forecasts because (1) the Moon position is known more narrowly than a whole sign, and (2) new "starting point" occur 13 times a year - the day of your SLR each month. (For Marguerite Carter forecasts, we'd do them by decanate o natal Sun placement, so there was a narrower range and more diversity in the outcome.)
I'm quite familiar with writing Sun-sign guides. Remember the Marguerite Carter ads that were in every issue (usually on the back cover) of
American Astrology? (She was an old friend of Joanne Clancy and had a lifetime guarantee of the ad space.) 'In 1974-75, before leaving Indianapolis, I picked up some money as one of the writers for Marguerite Carter. It mostly relied on astrological techniques I think are not valid, though I tried to leak some solid stuff into them here and there. For example, the main way to theme a month is to find what solar house the New Moon falls in, and relate that to other transits of solar houses. One can easily slip in the most important transits to one's Sun-sign from conjunctions, oppositions, and square, but otherwise is hired more as a writer than as an astrologer
There just isn't much that I consider sound astrology in those approaches.
Ah, but if you know the 27th of the zodiac that one's Moon is in! Now we have something to work with! Consider the possibilities if I were writing the "monthly forecast" for everyone the Moon in
your Janma-Rasi, which reaches from 3°20 to 16°40' Scorpio. I'd do it like this:
Pick a convenient time in the middle, say, Moon 10°00' Scorpio. The reading begins, "Your new personal month begins January 12."
Knowing nothing else, I have the following information:
(i) I know your Moon-sign (and Indian's credit other specific traits to the sub-part of the sign), so I know a great deal about your underlying character.
(2) I know that your SLR has a Sun-Venus conjunction square Uranus, plus Mercury conjunct Saturn - all partile.
(3) If I didn't know that, I could fall back to other, lesser aspects that
might be relevant if strongly placed (meaning, I'll be exactly right for about 1/4 of all the people who read it), such as the 3° Mars-Jupiter conjunction.
From these three things, any competent writer with either a few gimmicks or an instinct for human behavior can easily write a paragraph on "your new month beginning January 12" that will be far more accurate than any Sun-sign guide, and have people saying things like, "Y'know, my horoscope isn't always right, but most of the time it sure hits it on the mark! Most months, it really says just exactly what's going on!"
For example, for your current month, I might have said that this is a time to really throw yourself into something brand new - new horizons, new undertakings - involving someone or something that you really love. Splurge a little... because it will be great fun and you can be a center of happiness. Sure, there will be frustrations and practicalities along the way - always a few problems to solve and technicalities to hurdle in something new - probably due to communication or transportation fumbles. Make sure your computer security updates are run, and take extra care of the fine points of things. But then go for it! [
That was less than 60 seconds of work. I'm sure I could do better if I sweated over it. I need to throw in more familiar keywords for Scorpio Moon people so it will feel more personal to you.]
Oh, and i also know your Moon closely enough to know some actual transits during the month. For example, I see that Mars is in the 3°20 to 16°40' Scorpio range beginning January 23, and lasting until the next new "personal" month begins February 8, so I could add, "After January 23, as you move into the last days of your month, [fill in language for Mars transit conjunct natal Moon]."
Now, Indian astrologers are all going to use much different methods, based on Indian astrology's techniques, including their house system measured from the Moon-position, and lots of stuff we wouldn't regard as valid. But the basic idea is sound, as I think I've shown above. One could write about 350 paragraphs and have a complete "personal" astrology guide for everyone in the world for a year.
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, Brady fumbles the ball to the Eagles for par-excellent Moon-Saturn symbolism.