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Shani in Domain-3 and
Shani in 3rd-from-Chandra
Shani in 3rd navamsha
Saturn in the Natal Third House
A:
Managing
negative thought projections - a challenge created by Shani in domain-3.
Most of us are unconscious victims of the tremendous traffic
of thoughts which parades through the human mind minute-by-minute and
hour-by-hour.
The average life is, unfortunately, quite wasted in the
effort to follow one's thoughts -- without ever inquiring into the
suspicious origins of these urgent "mandates" and
"directions". One often hears of bitterness and regret expressed at
the moment of death, "I wish I had spent less time chasing my thoughts, and more
time loving my friends and noticing God."
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Shani in domain-3 gives rigid thinking. Shani insinuates qualities of ignorance,
resistance & resentment into the character of the sibling relationships,
the work-group process, and the cycle of repeating daily thoughts. Shani in
domain-3 provides a general karma of not being heard, included, or
recognized by the group.
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Shani limits the communicative range and constrains one's
effort to write and gesture. Growing up, one's sibling environment is
somewhat harsh & defined by scarce resources - often the result of
brutal competition for the parents' attention. If there are no siblings
(common also with Shani/3), the native is raised in isolation and
interactive communication with peers is strictly limited.
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In adulthood, the native expects isolation and
oppression in the work-group. Often works alone. No matter how hard one
"tries" to be recognized and fully included in the communicative
circle, one's contribution seems less important than others'. Sincerely
friendly team relationships are difficult to maintain. The native works
diligently at communications, and may become highly expert, but one's
persistent background negativity emphasizes craft over inspiration. The
writings are overly formal and perceptions are dull.
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Shani delays access to important meetings, short
journeys, brief vacations & "business trips", and team
conferences where shared-value conversations, scheduling, and
strategic planning is being developed. One is often "out of the
loop" in communications; passed over for promotions; and considered
unproductive, dull, or "dead wood" in communications-intensive
environments. Not a "team player"
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Further, Shani creates psychic resistance to
starting one's own family. This pessimism about recreating a family may
well be overcome by other positive influences, but the residual effect of
negative expectations regarding the group communications that are the
essence of family life, will persist.
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Resistance also to building "self-made
wealth" through starting one's own business.
(The above situation can be alleviated somewhat for
lagnas friendly to Shani, such as Thula
lagna and Vrishabha lagna, Kanya
lagna and possibly Mithuna lagna
too.)
Matters
of upachaya Domain-3 improve with time and maturity
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Mitigants: Shani is happier in the natural houses of
Shani's friends, Budha and Shukra.
Therefore Shani's negative expectations are slightly easier to handle in
domains 2, 3, 6, and 7.
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In addition, domain-3 is an upachaya dushthamsha: matters of
domain-3 typically improve, a good deal, with maturity and time. Early
results are delayed, but later results are favored.
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Tasks such as disciplined writing and hand-craft of all
kinds will improve with practice. In a favorable rashi, Shani-drive repetition
and practice will produce excellent results in domain-3. (E.g., manual practice
of musical instrument, writing or painting utensil, body massage, etc.)
Domain-3 is a relatively neutral location for
Shani. Everyone expects the work-group to produce "work". Shani is
ready for that reality, with His characteristic hard-working & practical
attitude toward life.
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However many people also expect the work-group to
replicate the shared-culture, socially validating, friendly-competition
pleasures of their childhood sibling group.
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Most societies support
sibling-style, lifetime bonding in the adult work-group, as
"2nd-from-2nd" becomes a natural extension of family-based value
traditions and virtual kin.
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When Shani occupies domain-3, there is little room for
fond sentiment. The native has a very pragmatic and often humorless
approach toward getting the job done. It is not easy to share one's thoughts
with others.
As a result one is seen as lacking enthusiasm for
team-work. Native with Shani-3 is typically passed over for promotions, works
twice as hard as everyone else yet receives less recognition, and finds oneself
feeling cramped by rules for "correct" communication which non-Shani
people seem to willfully ignore. Resentment and frustration in the team
environment.
Excellent for bureaucrats, computer programming, very
small families (usually without children, or only one highly structured child),
technical writing, government or industrial inspectors, documentation of
rules & regulations, military communications, computational (not
philosophical) mathematics, other highly formalized, and rule-driven,
mentalized work-group environments.
Shani's job is to inculcate personal responsibility
(without guilt) and neutral acceptance of the karmic process.
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Domains occupied or aspected by Shani become the primary
agents of of taskmaster Shani's mission: to convert ignorant error
into calm wisdom.
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Shani will do "whatever it takes" to command
the native's attention. Shani will recall the native over and over to a
central difficulty, a repeating failure, or an insurmountable obstacle.
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Matters of the houses owned or aspected by Shani will mechanically - from the
unconscious mind - produce , unfair, disappointing, and deprived
results.
Shani's impact on life experience is painful and
frustrating but, in the end, extremely beneficial. The pain can be reduced
dramatically through neutral awareness and acceptance of the role one
plays in creating one's own destiny.
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The conscious human has less control over the flow of
events, and more control over how one reacts to those events.
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Once the native
has established a pattern of calm and non-judgmental reaction to
the flow of events, Shani's job is done - and the pain stops! (The
events continue but they just roll past...)
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The faster one can achieve neutral awareness of one's
own negative expectations, the faster one can eliminate the pain.
Unfortunately for the slow learner, Shani will give all
the "time" necessary to repeat the lesson. For those of us who
live a bit behind the curve of total wisdom, it is valuable to be aware of the
most acute effects of Shani.
With forewarning, one can address these
"scheduled" negativities, as they arise, with consciousness. One can
meet each well-timed disappointment with a deeper commitment to forgiveness,
acknowledgement and release.
Impact of
Parashari dristhi
Shani's negative, pessimistic, fearful,
scarcity-oriented, survival-driven, and faith-lacking impact from domain-3
gives Parashari drishti upon houses 5, 9, and 12. This
drishti pattern gives negative expectations which produce restriction,
interruption, and delay in matters of:
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domain-3 = ability to use the verbally
competitive, immature, open-minded, conversational skills which are
first developed in the sibling/cousin/playmate group
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domain-5 = ability to have children &
romance,
express intelligence, be recognized for genius, to win contests, claim
authorship or special expertise, feel "lucky".
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domain-9 = ability to have grandchildren and
students, carry out priestly duties, conduct ceremonies, receive wisdom
teachings, travel to religious destinations, have gainful and beneficial
friends
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domain-12 = ability to use the power of the
imagination to access deep knowledge, to cross easily over the boundaries
between attachment and detachment to fleshly life, psychic perception,
instructional dreams, and access to sanctuary space
To increase the chances of happiness in this life, one
born with Shani in domain-3 must remain particularly *vigilant* against the onslaught of Shani's
legacy of negative expectations upon these
realms of perception.
Strong, favorable graha in these domains will significantly
override the prognosis for frustration and interruption in domains 3, 5, 9 and
12. Yet the presence of Shani's drishti will be subtly noticeable. E.g.,
total blockage may turn to delay, or material handicap may manifest as
psychological resistance - but Shani's karmic drishti will never be completely
erased.
Conforming
to the lowest common denominator: Oppression in the Sibling group
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domain-3 = "siblings" which includes
cousins, neighbor playmates, early schoolmates, etc. The keynote of
domain-3 is "competition".
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Shani forces interactions within the sibling/cousin
group to be orderly and to conform to the lowest common
denominator. Variation from the set "law and order" norm is
discouraged.
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In childhood, the sibling group imposes survival
pressure to conform to parental expectations. Their conservative,
self-protective values emphasize scarcity of parental attention,
formal rules for communicative interaction, & pressure to cooperate
with other siblings in a specified, orderly, formal fashion.
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Parents may impose a tightly rule-drive, controlled
communication style on their children, and withhold their affection unless
the children conform to standards that emphasize order, quiet and
self-restraint.
Self-made wealth, one's own family, formalization
and conformity to rigorous conventional standards
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Shani limits access to self-made wealth in preference
to conformity with the wage-earning classes. If the native has his own
business or independent means of wealth (not means given by the family) then
one's income by this method is meager, and one lives "close to the
bone", although this situation can improve with time.
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Denied or delayed permission to establish one's own
family, usually due to a perceived "need to wait" for material
accumulations. (Upachaya - improves with time.)
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Native experiences discipline of strict
formalization upon the mentality. Writing, conversation, and
small-group interaction, particularly conversation, are shaped and molded
into conventional containers. Repeating the childhood training, adventure
from the rigid, sanctioned form may be punished.
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Domain-3 being 7th-from-9th, relationships with
professors, priests, gurus, moral and ceremonial authorities, are highly
formalized. For this reason the native, while often highly skilled in
formal academic and literary expressions, may not be invited into the
academy.
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Limited opportunity for individualization in
relationship to religion; conforms to the status quo.
When Shani occupies domain-3, the native must be
alert to the relationship between the domains aspected by Shani and the
domains which give their "results" in domains 3, 5, 9, and 12.
Fruits of domain-5 = domain-3:
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Children and recognition for creative genius (5) are
delayed. (Brihaspati drishti to domain-5 shortens the delay.) Domain-5 projects its wishes and goals (11th-from) upon
domain-3. The fruits of creativity and pro-creativity are delayed
by rigid, materialistic mentality = negative expectations =
depression.
Fruits of domain-7 = domain-5:
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contracts and agreements (7). Domain-7 projects its wishes and goals (11th-from) upon
domain-5. A central goal of marriage is typically to have children.
Domain-5
contains many oppressive experiences for the native due to the
existing Shani drishti. Jaya bhava's program to marry, to form fruitful
and balanced partnerships, will show the effect of reduced expectations.
The native often marries a partner who also has minimal expectations for
success of speculative ventures.
Fruits of domain-11 = domain-9:
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networks of friendship and marketplace profits
(11). Domain-11 projects its wishes & goals (11th-from) upon domain-9.
Domain-9 is blocked by Shani drishti. Therefore the native expects the
fruits of domain-11 to be barren, "not possible" or "going
nowhere". Desires to play a priestly role (such as professor or
religious figure), to have grandchildren and students, to receive higher
knowledge will receive a cool reception in the early years.
Shani's drishti directly on to domain-9 restricts
access to the temples of knowledge (universities, academies, spiritual
centers) which offer higher philosophical education -- beyond the basic
socialization levels of education provided in domain-4. Access to
university graduate studies for example may be delayed until middle age.
Shani delays access to religious wisdom-teachings due to the
native's rigid and materialistic mentality. This limitation wizens with
age however!
Shani in domain-3 contains the seed of belief that
the "fruits" of privilege of the sangha or cognoscenti not viable;
therefore in one's total thinking about networks of association, these negative
expectations will limit one's faith in setting higher goals.
As usual a strong graha occupying domain-9 can
mitigate Shani's drishti, perhaps reducing the strength of the limitations
from blockage to resistance, or changing severe handicap to mere
inconvenience.
In any case, Shani's 7th
drishti onto domain-9 is not so strong as Shani's 3rd drishti onto
domain-5.
Domain-3 is an upachaya dushthamsha. Matters of domain-3 improve
with maturity and self-knowledge.
War on *Doubt*!
According to Sogyal Rinpoche, the single greatest
threat to human peace of mind is -- not hatred, anger, or
guilt -- but rather **doubt**.
You have the intelligence and the
self-discipline to make a practice of becoming aware of the
presence of doubt and negative
expectations in the three areas which Shani
influences most strongly:
Note that Shani's scarcity projections upon the intelligence
(5) can make the Shani-in-domain-3 native chronically dissatisfied with
their creative output and general "luck" in life. hani's sense of duty will
make the best of limited resources. Yet, a cramped view of the future based on
"good behavior" restrictions of the childhood past makes an unpleasant
creative collaborator in adulthood.
Shani's drishti upon domain-12 frustrates the meditative
and imaginative process. Indeed, the native suffers from rigid and past-time-oriented
thinking throughout life. It will be difficult to accept religious wisdom
unless it is highly formalized and ritualized. It will be a challenge be
"in the moment" of time-space free meditation, because the mentality
is enslaved to repeating memories of the past.
However everything about domain-3 improves with time.
The depression associated with rigid thinking in youth will mature into
mental discipline.
The excess formalism and "outsider"
mentality of youth will mature into wise appreciation of the structure of
social signaling and the mind itself.
With age, this native may develop a superior
meditation practice based on rigorous routine and seasoned awareness of the
structure of Mind.
Catching
subconscious negative projections of doubt and pessimism "in the act"
It is strongly recommended to try to "catch"
negative thoughts "in the act". If habitual, fear-driven thoughts of
failure, ignominy, and zero-option despair (Shani's specialties!) are caught
and identified at the mental level, then they can be dealt with quickly. They
might not be able to be completely extinguished because they are the result of
past-life karma. They will have to be understood and accepted before they can
be eradicated.
Nevertheless if the native is able to capture and work
on negative thoughts at the level of direct mental perception, one will be
spared much unhappiness.
If the negative thoughts are not recognized at the
mental level, then the information will try to gain the native's attention at
the next grosser particulate level of the astral plane.
The astral plane contains a huge "ocean of
emotion".
One the astral plane, the negative thoughts will
manifest in a roller-coaster of that surges from wild fantasies of total
redemptive love to blackest despair of abandonment and total rejection unto
death.
The astral plane is not governed by time, so one might
experience violent fluctuations of feelings - from bright to black and pure
merging love to total isolated death - in a matter of minutes.
Avoid
emotional suffering by capturing the originating thoughts
To avoid this type of violent emotional fluctuation one
need only approach the task directly on the mental plane.
In the worst case, the negative thought projections
would not be recognized on either the mental or the emotional planes.
Then, the information must migrate down to the physical
level. This is a painful option of physical brutality and disease.
The native may get into a shocking "accident"
or develop a serious disease.
Perhaps only then will the native recognize how one
became trapped in a web of tightly interwoven thoughts and expectations, which
proceeded without interruption, to their logical and "destined"
conclusion.
Burning
the Seeds of Karmic Fruit (Shani)
"Karma" = "action" - the seeds
of the action are sown on the causal plane. Those seeds give fruit on
the mental, emotional, and physical levels. Mental, emotional, and physical
sorrow can be avoided by addressing the karma on the higher levels of
awareness. This requires examining one's beliefs and expectations. As one
believes, so one will manifest.
Of course, the whole process of seed-eradicating
can be eliminated in one fell swoop by simply projecting the full
consciousness upon the spiritual plane - and keeping it there!
One who has the blessed privilege to gaze directly on
the level of pure truth, and the intent to remain engaged there without ever
getting "sucked down" into lower levels of painful intrigue, is
spared of karmic "trickle-down" forever!
However for you and I, attacking the root cause on the
mental plane seems a much more feasible strategy.
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"The light of the body is the eye:
therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light;
but
when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
Take heed therefore
that the light which is in thee be not darkness."
~~ Luke 11:34-35
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