Krishna’s BTR Technique
Applied to Multiple Births

Every time a new Jyotish technique is offered, it is a challenge to show that the same technique works in the case of multiple births as well. If the technique is sound, it should work well for multiple births also. This article demonstrates the same for the BTR technique offered earlier.

In another post, Krishna’s BTR technique has been explained in detail. It might be difficult to follow this article unless the technique is understood first.

Krishna's BTR Technique

(Originally Published in Saptarishis Astro Magazine)

This page will be maintained to reflect the latest approach in this methodology

6. Update on February 8, 2016

Ranking list of planetary placements is slightly modified.

5. Update on July 18, 2013

This methodology may not work when Lagna/LL is influenced by 12L (Unless a strong Vargottama or Exalted planet is there in the chart), like:

- 12L in lagna
- 12L is conjunct LL
- 12L in the nakshatra of LL or vice-versa
- Lagna falls in the nakshatra of 12L

Workarounds for these cases are under study.


4. Update on July 23, 2011

Even if a planet is the strongest in the chart, it should not be picked for rectification if such a planet is placed in the 12th house from lagna. In such cases, next best planet should be picked for rectification. In case of multiple births, this rule is applicable to only the first child. For subsequent children planets in the 12th house can also be considered.

3. Update on February 10, 2010

A note on placement of planets at Rasi sandhi

- When a planet is in Rasi Sandhi, it becomes weak if it is less than 1 degree from the sandhi. However, such a weakness is overcome when the same planet is in vargottama state.

- In case the sandhi is a Gandanta Sandhi, such planets should be considered weak upto 3 degrees from the Gandanta Sandhi. And, even when a planet is vargottama when close to a Gandanta sandhi should be considered weak.

2. Update Aug 25, 2009 (Window for Exaltation/Debilitation reduced to 7deg from 15deg)

1. Update May 17,2009 (Added 'Samagama')

"A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with one's individual karma…"

- Swami Sri Yukteswar, Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda

This is an endeavour to find the mathematical harmony that Swami Yukteswar is talking about, in the above statement. It is widely understood that the individual karmas manifest through the influence of the nine ‘grahas’ on the native. And, in a horoscope, Lagna or Ascendant in a horoscope acts similar to the needle that is pointing to North in a compass. It is very likely that the Lagna in a horoscope also points exactly to a specific ‘graha’ or planet in the chart. If we are able to determine what it is pointing to, it would be possible to accurately align Lagna to that planet and in the process we could rectify the birth time recording errors and arrive at the actual time of birth. This is the philosop hy behind the research undertaken. This author strongly believes that for a human birth to take place there has to be some well defined relationship between the position of Lagna and that of one of the planets in the chart. The search for an answer began with this assumption and the result is presented here.

Srinkhala

Over the years of my Jyotish journey, I have realized that Srinkhala is a very important concept and also one of the least understood and least used concepts in Jyotish analysis. I struggled to find any classical references to it or even a small commentary on it over the internet. However, I was disappointed. Over the Yahoo groups, many people have asked me to explain what ‘Srinkhala’ is whenever they see me using this term in my analysis/comments on a chart. Hence, I decided to put together my understanding of this for the benefit of other students of Jyotish.

Unique features of a twin's chart

(published in Saptarishis astro magazine Aug. 2008 issue)

Charts of twins have challenged astrologers since ages. It has been observed that many twins have lived quite different lives over time. People talk about looking into either varga charts or cuspal links to understand the differences in their charts as well as in their lives. However, the focus of this research is not on that but something even more basic. The purpose was to check if the planets leave any specific foot-prints in the charts of twins. Some basic questions that came up were – what are the special characteristics of a twin’s natal chart? Is it possible to know through astrology whether the twins are identical or fraternal? and what the sex of the babies could be? The search for answers began. What was found may not necessarily be the complete blueprint of a twin’s chart. At the same time, it is believed that some clear watermarks could be found in such charts.

Some Basics of Astrology Revisited - I

After I started learning Astrology, I came across many assumptions like twelve signs and what they represent in our lives and their classification, nine planets, their properties and how they affect our lives etc. But, there was no real reference to explain why 12 houses represent what they represent and why these planets affect us the way they affect us. The general belief is that this is the knowledge handed over to us by our sages and we follow them. And, this knowledge was handed over to our sages by none other than Brahma himself. All that is fine. But, my problem was that I could not find the basis for all these assumptions on the physical plane. As these planets affect us on the physical plane, there should be some way to explain their properties on the physical plane. Because, everything that exists in this universe – stars, planets, us, all objects… are all energy forms and energy forms constantly interact with each other in this universe through radiation. Each and every object in this universe emits radiation. There should be a logical method to explain the effect of planets on us. Only, we don’t know it very well today. It is a humungous task to find plausible explanation of each and every assumption that we make in Astrology. It could consume the time of many over many births to find all answers. Nevertheless, I wanted to make a start and see what is that I can discover during my lifetime.