KP Visuals

If you've ever heard of that old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words", then  you'll understand why I'm going to try and contribute in my own little way and provide this section called "KP Visuals", which will include supplementary charts, tables and whatever else I can think of to make things easier as I go along and hopefully make things clearer to other KP beginners as well.

For those who want to start at the beginning, please refer to my friend and colleague, Sandy Crowther's website, Jupiter's Web (www.jupitersweb.com), who has provided a wealth of excellent KP information based mainly on the teachings of Chandrakant R. Bhatt's books.

Also be sure to join our new Yahoo discussion group called KP Stellar Research, owned by Sandy Crowther and moderated by me, Donna Quinn and Ron Gaunt.

VISUAL ONE

The first visual chart I decided to make was a table of Nakshatra signs, lords and sublords divided accordingly into Fire Signs, Earth Signs, Air Signs and Water Signs. There are three signs for each of these groupings.

FIRE group contains;  Aries - Leo - Sagittarius

EARTH group contains; Taurus - Virgo - Capricorn

AIR group contains;  Gemini - Libra - Aquarius

WATER group contains; Cancer - Scorpio - Pisces

Each one of these groups have been divided into their natural elements or triplicities and have all those signs in common in that they share the same nakshatra lords and sublords for each group.

Click on this link to see the Visual for the KP Stars,Starlords and Sublord Groups

 VISUAL TWO

In this particular chart, I wanted to have a visual of what it would be like for each and every  nakshatra as it was divided among the houses of the Vedic southern chart. Since the vedic Southern chart consists of fixed signs, we know that the nakshatras will always remain in their same positions thru out the 12 houses, no matter what birth chart is being viewed.

Click on this links to see the Visual for Nakshatra Map of the Southern Chart

VISUAL THREE

What are the major differences between KP Stellar and Vedic Astrology?

• KP astrology stresses the importance of the nakshatras, otherwise known as constellations or stars in order to narrow down events to precise moments in time.

• There are 27 nakshatras, every one of them is unequally divided up into 9 subdivisions. (click on  Jupiter's Web - KP Star and Sublords )

• Each sub varies according to the planet ruling it following the laws of the Vimshottari Dasa system.

• KP Stellar uses its own ayanamsa.

• KP Stellar follows the Placidus system of unequal houses, which is popular in Western astrology and also used here.

• The planet in its dasa gives results or the outcome according to its Starlord instead of the planet itself.

• The planet's sub lord becomes the deciding factor as to whether or not the event or the outcome becomes a benefic one or a malefic one.

Below you can see an illustration of each planetary division and its interaction:

 VISUAL FOUR

 How are significators assigned to houses?

There is a definite 'totem pole' effect when it comes to how KP places the strength of its significators in houses. The placement at the bottom of the totem pole is the very weakest in the group and the placement at the very top takes preference over the others as far as priority and strength.

To view this visual, click on this Totem Pole effect and start from the bottom level in order to follow the sequence logically.

VISUAL FIVE

How can we see marriage in this woman's chart?

Although there are many different ways to interpret different events in a natal chart, this is an illustration of how you can link up the particular houses that you're looking for and try to find out what they have in common. You do this by "connecting the dots" and in this case focus on the marriage houses 2-7-11. 

To view this visual, click on Marriage Analysis

VISUAL SIX

How do we analyze the chart of a drowning victim?

Just recently I bought 3 of Chandrakant R. Bhatt's books and decided to illustrate various examples from his books, combining my own formatting style with his analysis examples. 

In this particular chart, the victim, a 19-year old male, had gone to a picnic with his fellow school buddies and set up on this river bank. He wanted to go into the water, but his friends all advised him not to go into the river because it wasn't safe for bathing. He jumped into the river anyway and sadly, lost his life when he drowned. This young man was born during a Venus period and thru the course of his life had yet to run his Sun dasa, his Moon dasa and finally his Mars dasa, which is the planet of accidents and a very strong badhaka house and cuspal lord for his 8th house. It was during the dasa period of Mars -Saturn -Saturn that the accident took place and he lost his life. The transit date was August 2, 1973. On this date the Cancer Sun was 16 degrees 20 min. in the star of Saturn (the sub and antardasa ruler). Transit Saturn was in Gemini at 6 degrees, 37 min and in the star of Mars (the mahadasa ruler). Transit Moon was in Virgo and in the sub of Saturn.

Please note that I have not included any degrees of planets in order to simplify the process and keep the focus on the way Bhatt's thought processes worked as he went thru the analysis of the chart itself, although if you want to follow along using the planetary degrees, you can easily calculate your own chart and do so from the birth data provided here. And for those of  you who might find the arrows too confusing or annoying, you can simply follow the analysis from the very first chart that has the birth data listed in the center. 

I have made my own formatted design in order to make connecting the energy patterns in this analysis a little clearer to understand. Each house that contains a planet is listed in the following format and order:  Planet- Star/Sub (example:  Ve-Me/Sa, meaning that the planet Venus is in the star of Mercury and the sub of Saturn).  Above every house is a white header that contains the House Cusp Owner - House Cusp Star/ House cusp Sub in this format and order. In this way, every significator, house owner, star and sub lord can easily be observed and followed thru out Bhatt's analysis and you will be able to follow the arrows and thus connect the energy patterns easier in order to to see why this young man lost his life at such an early age and in the manner in which he died.

To view Visual Six, please click on Drowning Victim.

VISUAL SEVEN

How do we find the basic significators in a chart ?

In order to judge the affairs or the matters indicated by any house, we first need to find the significators of that house. We do this by looking for the occupant, the owner, a planet in the star of the occupant and finally a planet in the star of the owner of that house. Using the planets Mars and Moon for examples in the following charts, you will see how the idea works in order to link up the different houses with the proper planets.

To view Visual Seven, please click on Significators.

VISUAL EIGHT

Is it possible to get a clear YES or NO answer from a KP Prasna?

In an attempt to experiment with doing a KP prasna chart in order to come up with a simple YES or NO answer, I have created a little Excel worksheet that will allow anyone to enter a series of up to 100 tests in order to complete this experiment. Many times, we want to come up with a clear cut YES or NO answer to a query without having to go thru a whole analysis of a chart and link up the proper significator houses, aspects, retrogrades, etc...  Since the 11th house deals with issues of fullfillment, dreams coming true and so forth, it is the perfect house to go to for a YES answer. So it will be the only house that we deal with for this test. It will involve coin tossing as was suggested on the list by one of our moderators, Ron Gaunt, whose wonderful idea this originally was. He started his own experiment which is similar to mine but has more factors to consider and is a little but more complex. I, on the other hand, wanted to experiment separately and see if I could keep it even simpler and still come up with the correct answer as many times as possible. So for anyone who's interested in trying this experiment as well, let's begin:

1) Concentrate on this question which will be the only question for each one of these 100 tests.  "Will my next coin toss turn up HEADS?"

2) When  you feel you are ready, pick a number from 1-249 and enter it in a KP Horary chart. (You can also try using a random generator to select your number, but please keep these tests separate so as not to confuse yourself). Save your charts in a separate folder.

3) Once you have your chart, go to the 11th house cusp and select the planets for its SIGN LORD, STAR LORD, SUB LORD and SUB SUB Lord. Let's say for example that you find Saturn as the planet ruling the 11th house cusp SIGN LORD. Locate the sign in which Saturn resides in the Prasna chart. This is the sign that you will enter in the worksheet from the drop down list. Do the same procedure for the other 3 planets and enter them into the worksheet as well under their proper headings.

4) You will see that once you enter a sign in the worksheet, the colored column to the right of it will automatically register that sign as  Negative or Positive. Once you're done entering the signs of the ruling planets, count up the negative and positive results from each one of the colored columns in that test line. There are only four for each test. 

5) Select the majority of negative or positive results from those four colored columns and enter it in the drop down list in the MAJORITY RESULT column.

6) Now toss the coin and note whether it is HEADS or TAILS. Enter it in the worksheet.

7) Enter the final results in the last column with either TRUE, FALSE or DO OVER (meaning a tie - 2 negatives, 2 positives). Count the DO OVER as a test! Don't disregard it.

8) You can look at the COMMENTS at the top of the column, indicated by a little RED arrow or triangle at the upper right hand corner of the title column. This will explain things in more detail if you feel you need to read further.

To click on this Excel Worksheet Visual please go to this link:

Donna's Coin Toss Experiment

VISUAL NINE

 What is a PDP and how can it be calculated in charts?

The PDP stands for "Progressed Dasa Point". This is a term coined by Neville Lang on one of the old discussion lists moderated at that time by Andrew Lynn and has now been added to Neville's new program 'Astracadabra' as an extra feature.  Andrew brought up this unique method at that time and shared it with us on his list. The progressed Dasa Point is a way to progress either the Moon, the Ascendant or the Sun according to the Vimshottari dasa from which it is based, to any point in time. It uses the Sub Sub Sub lord tables and therefore can be a very powerful tool to be used in rectification techniques in order to pinpoint the exact minute of birthtime if you choose to do so. It can also be used in synastry where you compare two charts together. Many times, you will find that the position of the PDP will very closely link up with the Ascendant, the angles of the chart or one of the personal planets of a person who has become very close to you or special in some way in your life or someone you will be involved with in some special way. Lastly it can be used to pinpoint important events in a person's life such as marriage or falling in love with someone. As a personal research project, it might be fun to check out your PDP's with those special events and people in your life to see how closely it matches up.

Rangarajan Krishnamoorty, another list member, has also created a software program called KPAstro that gives the PDP's for all the planets, although he doesn't refer to it specifically as PDP's in his program. He calls it rather a 'Progressed Dasa Chart', but it is based on the same principal and is a very excellent program.

The following visual is an Excel Worksheet that has been put together using both Sandy Crowther's KP Star and Sub Lord Tables and Ron Day's SUB SUB SUB lord tables. Thanks guys! I combined the two of them, reformatted Ron's worksheet to make it more user friendly and put in a set of instructions that will enable  you to find your own PDP and experiment for yourself.

To open this Visual, please click on this link:

PDP Worksheet

VISUAL TEN

 An analysis of KPBC-15 (blind chart) of a female using a different approach

Usually we do blind charts on the list and try to arrive at the answer using any or all of the tools in our own particular work boxes. In this blind chart, I wanted to use a process of KP elimination to arrive at my answer and perhaps develop some sort of methodology that can be approached in a similar manner when trying to weed out multiple choice answers. In this case, when I first looked at the chart, I instinctively knew the correct answer, but still wanted to eliminate the other choices first, so this is how I went about it. This method worked for this particular blind chart, but since it is the first time I'm using it, it has yet to be tested in other cases.

To see the analysis of the KPBC-15 case, click here: 

KPBC-15 Analysis

VISUAL ELEVEN

Profections - How to calculate them manually

(Although Profections have nothing at all to do with the KP system, Sandy has introduced them to the world of KP thru her research and studies and has found them to be quite a useful tool to use no matter what system of astrology you prefer. So I will include them here as well, in spite of the fact that  Profections have their origins in Classical and Medieval astrology.)

Annual Profections are a method of progressing the chart at a rate of 30 degrees per year and can be broken down even further into monthly and daily profections , as follows:

30 degrees = 1 year

2 degrees and 30 min = 1 month

1 degree = every 12 days

35 min = 1 week

5 min = 1 day

There are software programs available that can calculate profections, but for those people that don't have access to this option, you can do it  manually to get a pretty close idea of what the annual, monthly and daily profections will be for any year. 

I will use my chart as an example. I was born on March 12, 1949. I've just turned 57 years old. (Annual profections always start on a person's first birthday and change to the next sign on each following birthday.) I want to see what the annual profection will be for my ascendant for the date of April 15, 2006.

1. I will take my age, 57 and divide it by 12. This equals 4.75.

2. I will discard the whole number (4) and keep only the remainder (75), past the decimal point.

3. I will multiply the remainder, .75 by 12. This gives me 9. (Remember to include the decimal point or you will come up with 900 instead of 9).

4. This means that everything in my natal chart has now moved up 9 signs for my 57th year from each and every planet and cusp. Always count the first sign as 0, then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and finally 9, (which is the same thing as counting 10 full houses). Since we're focusing on my natal Aquarius ascendant, this puts my newly profected ascendant on the midheaven of my chart in the sign of Scorpio.

5. To narrow it down even further, I look at the degree of my ascendant which is 5 AQU 57. I figure out how much time has passed so far since my last birthday and the transit date of April 15, 2006. It is one month and 3 days.

6. Therefore I can write it out as follows:

    57 years old = 9 signs = SCORPIO

    Natal Asc =   5 degrees 57 minutes

 + One month =  2 degrees 30 minutes

 + 3 days =         0 degrees 15 minutes

   TOTAL =      7 degrees 102 minutes = 8 degrees 42 minutes

7. My Annual Profected Ascendant is now at 8 degrees SCORPIO 42 minutes, which  should come pretty close to the software calculation. 

8. My Profected Ascendant Lord is now Mars, which will be the most important planet governing my 57th year.

Note: Profections represent the unfolding of issues as they occur during the year in question. Therefore if you're concerned about marriage, then focus on profected Venus for example. Or, if you want to focus on financial or health issues, then profect the Part of Fortune or the ascendant. Whatever planets happen to be in the profected sign in question shows you how the events will play themselves out during that progressed period of time. If there are no planets in the sign of the profection, then look at the lord of the profected sign to see where its placed, as well as transits to that lord. Also check the conditions of these rulers in the Solar Return chart as well as the natal to get an overall picture of how the year will unfold. I prefer to relocate the Solar Return chart. Some astrologers differ on this, but to each his own.

There is also a concept in Profections that although is a medieval one is called "Handings Over", where you look at only the ASC, MC, SUN, MOON and PART OF FORTUNE. (though you can use other points as well). Then you check to see if the newly profected sign has any natal planets in it. For example, say a person has Moon and Jupiter in the midheaven natally in the sign of Libra. Now the profected MC comes along that year and conjuncts it.  So the MC would have "handed over" the Moon and Jupiter, thus highlighting those planets for the year and bringing them out front and center stage, so to speak.

VISUAL TWELVE

Annual Profections - How to view them at a glance

In order to see annual profections at a glance, I've created what I call a Profection Wheel in Flash format. (see link below). This comes in very handy when  you don't have the proper software to calculate the profections properly and want to know where your profected ascendant is located for any specific year.  

Although this technique gives you a simple way of looking at profections, if you decide to use transit dates along with the Profection Circle, always double check manually as well, because the more time that elapses from the birthdate in any year to the transit date later on in that year, could possibly push the profected ascendant or planet into the next sign.

For example, my daughter, Jamie just turned 21 years old on Feb 11, 2006. Her natal ascendant is 27 Taurus 57.  As you can see, it falls very close to the end degrees of this sign. If we just look at the Profection Wheel alone, we would see that by lining up the inner wheel to the Taurus ascendant, her profected ascendant becomes Aquarius, on the 10th cusp of her chart for the exact date of her birthday and about 1 month afterwards, before it enters into the next sign. 

For instance, let's  profect her ascendant to the transit date of April 15, 2006. The difference from her last birthday to this transit date now becomes 2 months and 4 days. Remember that transit months and days always translate into degrees and minutes. The more time goes by, the more degrees and minutes get tacked onto the profected degrees of the ascendant for that year. This may or may not be enough to push the profected ascendant into the next sign.

We do the following calculations:

1. Divide her age, 21 by 12 = 1.75

2. Take the remainder .75 and multiply it by 12 to equal 9 signs

3. Therefore:

    21 years old = 9 signs = AQUARIUS (from her natal Taurus Ascendant starting point)

    Natal Asc = 27 degrees 57 minutes

 + 2 months  =   5 degrees   0 minutes

 + 4 days =        0 degrees 20 minutes

   Subtotal  =   32 degrees 77 minutes 

                                          -60 minutes

                        33 degrees 17 minutes

                       -30 degrees 00 minutes

  TOTAL =       3 degrees 17 minutes  into the next sign of Pisces

Once you see the sub total going over 30 degrees, you know you're already into the next sign past the profected sign of Aquarius for the transit date of April 15th, 2006. If we had wanted the profection sign on Feb 11, 2006, the anniversary of her birthday, then she would've still been at her profected ascendant  of 27 AQU 57, since no time had elapsed at that point.  When you know the ascendant degree and aren't interested in transiting anything forward for that year, the circle works perfectly.

So, if  you have an Aries ascendant, then you're good to go. All you need to do is look up whatever age you are and see where it falls in the circle chart. For instance, if you've just turned 21 years old and have an Aries ascendant, your Annual Profected Ascendant will fall in the 10th house of profession for that year in Capricorn. If you're 66 years old, your Annual Profected ascendant will go to the 7th house of Libra and your focus might be dealing with close personal relationships during that year of your life for instance.

But what happens when  your ascendant is anything other than Aries? Then what do you do?  As an example, I just turned 57 on March 12, 2006. My natal ascendant is AQUARIUS. I rotate the center wheel so that the Aquarius sign matches up to the 0 starting point on the ascendant line. I then look up my age, 57 and note that it lies at the 10th house cusp in Scorpio. Therefore my focus for this year will be on 10th house issues. 

You can now download the new Flash version of my Profection Wheel, in order to make this process quite easy. Please click on this link Profection Wheel and follow these intructions:

1. When you first open up the window, you will see the complete wheel. if you prefer tiny print, then by all means continue to use it in this mode. You will see that your mouse icon is in its usual POINTER mode. When it's in this mode, you will not be able to drag the wheel, but you will be able to rotate the center part. For those who prefer to see it up closer, go to VIEW at the top of the screen and after you click on it, select ZOOM IN.

2. Once you ZOOM IN, you will notice that you can now physically drag the wheel around the screen by holding down your left mouse button and dragging it in any direction to properly position the wheel to your satisfaction. Also notice that the mouse icon on the screen will look like a HAND when it's in the DRAG mode.

3. In the center of the wheel you will notice a light blue area where the SIGNS are located. As you glide your mouse over any SIGN symbol,  you will now notice that the HAND will change to a pointer finger. Once this happens, you can then rotate the light blue wheel around the center and place your ascendant at whatever sign you prefer. It's quite simple to use and you can download it to your desktop as a handy utility feature and click on it whenever you need to check on a profection for a certain age and ascendant, so experiment and have fun with it.