Navamsha D-9 Ninth 9th Divisional Harmonic Chart Marriage Psychic Spiritual Character - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha Vedic Astrology

Attributed to Sahibdin, India, Mewar Krishna as the ideal hero and lover, leaf from the Rasikapriya of Keshava Dasa, c. 1630-1635

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I am getting confused about whether to expect navamsha results to demonstrate my wife's behavior or my own.

Some astrologers say that the navamsha graha in D-9 can correct problems with the root graha in D-1. Other astrologers say that the navamsha is a spiritual chart with no material meaning. Others say that the navamsha is only useful to predict the actions of the marriage partner. Which of these is true?

How should I read the navamsha? My navamsha does have a few similar items to my wife's D-1, but many (most) of the graha are placed differently, so if I try to read my navamsha as the "map"to my wife it contradicts the "map"from her own kundali. ??

Maybe I am making problems by seeing too many equal possibilities? Some possibilities are factored out in some contexts?

You are right about all of the options for interpreting the navamsha; and there are additional meanings too.

D-9 = a rich treasury of information.

The process of interpreting D-9 patterns versus D-1 patterns can seem contradictory, tautological, or re-iterative, as in "which comes first the chicken or the egg?"

It is a bit complex. "Navamsha studies"can be approached from several different angles. Let's approach the "past-life, future-life"angle first.

Immediate Future Life

In terms of lifetimes, D-9 indicates the 'default' attributes of one's next life, in detail. The D-9 shows the direction in which one's thoughts and emotions are already flowing, toward that next life.
As you know, we are all working on building our next life even now, during our current life. The next life is composed of the "closing set"of thoughts and emotions which one has been developing during the present lifetime. To ensure a pleasant rebirth, it is important to be in the clearest, most neutral state of mind at the time of flesh-body death.
How can the D-9 show both the spouse's current patterns and the native's future patterns?
- First the navamsha manifests in the spousal behavior and then in the next life it will manifest in the native's material behavior. Thus it is said that one will become one's spouse in the next life. It's true.

Seeds

Yes the direction and content can be altered. However it is not common for people to adjust the seed-qualities of one's navamsha. It's not that hard with sufficient consciousness. The main tool for release of negative seeds (expectations) is forgiveness, which is a super-powerful karma cleaner that can set in motion a nice clean program for liberation in the next life. Sadly, however, most people are sleepwalking and they just go with the flow of blaming others for one's own mistakes and feeling upset with the conditions of one's own life.
Thus the starting point for the next life is not much different than the starting point for the current life. It might be infinitesimally advanced by a brief awakening, but the awakening should be intact atthe time of death to establish an awakened foundation for the next life. The starting point for the next life, presuming that it won't be altered via exceptional consciousness of the present life, is the present-life navamsha. It is quite a reliable next-life blueprintfor the sleepwalkers, and a powerful to-do work program for anyone who is trying to wake up.

Marriage and emotionally privileged relationships

The main setting for education and skills practice in the present life is of course the constant ego-pounding interaction of human-to-human relationships. Our most powerful thoughts and emotions arise in connection withemotionally privileged, psychically interactive relationships.

Marriage-unions are first and foremost signification of the D-9, but also other privileged relationships are encompassed in the 'field of expectations for relationships' including employee-boss (check also D-10), sibling-sibling (check also D-3), parent-child (check also D-12) student-teacher (check also D-20 and D-24).

Future life conditions are based significantly upon present-life experience. Future happiness depends on whether one can accept the reality of the Other, inclusive of its many attributes, as sacred (if mysterious) expressions of the Divine will. Or whether one remains stuck in the karmic punishment cycle, emotionally reactive from ignorance, judging and rejecting the Other's attributes as unacceptable, wrong, inferior, immoral etc.
One's psycho-mental response to the behavior of others as indicated in navamsha will to a large extent determine one's limits and opportunities in the next life.

Present Life behavior of the Partner

The D-9 script projects the (largely subconscious) expectation of Other, that which is "not me".Thus the D-9 defines the way in which one encounters the spouse, the way in which one apprehends the spouse's material personality.
Other people might encounter one's spouse-partner quite differently. I'm sure you've heard divorcing couples complain about some atrocious behavior of their Other which no one else has even remotely noticed.
- A client not too long ago mentioned that during her divorce, she claimed that her ex-husband had said and done some truly criminal things to her and her children. Because of the criminal accusations, the ex-husband's divorce attorney solicited "character reference"depositions from the ex-husband's parents (who thought him a living angel), his previous bosses (who described a respectful, reliable, productive, a model employee) and even old friends and neighbors (who found him to be a great guy, handy with the barbeque, liked to fish, shared his tools etc - the ideal neighbor). Even old professors said this man was a good student, honest and disciplined, a pleasure to teach.
- Good lord, what happened? Was this woman insane? No, she was telling the truth. Her navamsha shows a damaged programming for marriage, based partly on her damaged relationship with her father. The D-9 seed-pattern was surging with negative expectations of oppression and, ultimately, attack. A psychiatrist and several police reports were able to confirm that her description of her husband's violence (in the deteriorating days of their long marriage) was accurate.
- It was the unique matching of their nativities which allowed her to evoke this particular drama in him. Socially she was criticized for instigating his bad behavior. However according to Jyotisha she was simply acting out a historic programme, and this man had the perfect set of triggers that allowed her to "push his buttons".
The partner enacts one's own subconscious unrecognized programming. The the extent that one is aware of one's own expectations - perhaps as a result of meditation, psychological inquiry, prayerful reflection, or Jyotisha study - one will not be entirely surprised when a new drama emerges in the intimate relationship. Perhaps no one else even sees it. Yet the experience of the seeds of expectation rather suddenly sprouting into drama is quite authentic within one's own reality.
Emotionally privileged partners serve as the material mirror of one's own beliefs and expectations.

Present life conditions of the native

Navamsha shows the native's astral personality, which could be called the 'field of psycho-emotional expectation'.
Previous to material manifestation of any event, there is a very long chain of build-up. Signals originate on the spiritual plane. If not directly apprehended in their spiritual nature (which is rare; few people are skilled enough to see things "as they are")
D-1 shows the main patterns of materialization in one's own life. D-1 is the result of past-life karma which has already passed the gateway from the astral particle shape into the material particle shape. D-1 patterns are destined to manifest in the sense-data world of physical and social reality. The D-1 reality is a tangible world of experiences that can be described by a vocabulary that most people would recognize as the shared human frame of reference.It is rarely so vague and psychologically intuitive rather than rational as the D-9 can be.
The D-1 describes ideas and expectations which have not been halted at higher levels of consciousness. D-1 patterns are barreling down the path of materialization and are difficult to retract. (Not impossible, but difficult. ) It is generally recommended to adopt an attitude of neutrality toward the characteristics of the D-1, since they are controlled by physical-plane and social-plane laws (Shani) which operate in a very slow, rigid, regulated, time-enslaved fashion. Matters of the D-9 are more ephemeral. Although matters of the D-9 are harder to detect because of their subtle particulate constitution, D-9 patterns are also easier to change if one is able to grasp these ghostly seeds before they blossom.
The D-9 has a significant role in determining the outcome of the present-time manifestation pattern for the native,via one's reaction to the behavior of others. The vast majority of our creative life force is engaged in reacting to other people.

Present life psycho-spiritual agenda

Things only develop on a material level if there is either (1)significant ignorance of the astral and causal seeds so that one is unable to control the unfoldment of experience (2) the astral-causal motive is strong and purposefully focused on a specific materialization for the benefit of others.
Generally it is less beneficial for astral imagery to materialize because material experiences are so gross and cumbersome and hard to change once the pattern reaches the material plane. It's so much easier to work in the magic (imagery) realms where ideas and emotions are fluid and fast-changing.
The navamsha is a good place to look to see what is getting ready to blossom on the astral plane. What are one's (usually unconscious) beliefs and expectations? The first level of materialization, before one's script manifests in the material world, is that it will dramatize in the spouse. One will be tightly matched with a partner who has the central characteristics of D-9's seventh rashi and in addition all of the other characteristics of the D-9 will eventually manifest -- e.g., partner's profession, partner's family, partner's mental health.

Psychic Projection creates the Other

Try to remember that the partner is a projection of one's own unacknowledged interior field of expectations. At the root of truth, the partner is not really a separate person. You two share a level of delusion, that's all.
When there is a need for adjustment in the marriage, one rarely (without meditative awareness) says 'I want to be the origin of this marriage adjustment'. More normally, one says, 'I want my spouse to change their behavior'. Many men in cultures around the world rely on women to act out their emotions; many women similarly rely on men to make their social, professional, and financial decisions. Rather than say, 'I want to feel differently in this partnership', the typical man will say, 'I want my partner to treat me better'. And the typical female will say, 'I want my male partner to be more financially powerful or more professionally ambitious'.
Of course the lines of division of responsibility by gender are changing in modern societies but the projection syndrome remains the same. Partnerships are without exception the result of matching energy. The partner can only do what one expects the partner to do. Albeit that awareness of the expectations maybe deeply buried under generations of heavy karma of blaming and victim-mind. The D-9 will reveal it.

Spiritual practice points:

The partner is not ultimately to blame for whatever happens in the marriage. If the partner does socially criminal actions, then social law will punish the criminal. Within an intimate relationship however there is much more involved than simple actions. Actions on the material plane are always the result of higher-up patterns; the material plane is never the cause of anything. Material level is the "last stop"on the route, the dumping grounds for unacknowledged karma. ("The buck stops here, on the material plane!")
Of course, if marriage or other privileged relationship (even with one's government) has become violent or terribly unsatisfying or oppressive in some unbearable way, it can be highly desirable to end an extremely negative mirroring relationship. One may be completely unable to handle the violence or abusiveness of one's own projections.
In that case: take a break, and do some spiritual strengthening, before heading back into intensive-projection interactions again! However it is critically important to remember that the evil-doer, no matter how vile, is mirroring back one's own unacknowledged script for privileged relationship.
Negative experience in privileged emotional relationship should appear as a fairly obviousfeature of the D-9. If one is able to detect the negative expectations (and positive ones too!) in D-9 one can gain a tremendous advantage in understanding and predicting the course of life.

One's own past-life and early childhood of the present life

Most of the karma-reinforcing (not karma-releasing) relationship reactivity of the present lifetime is attributable to the way in which one was raised by the parents. One's adult marriage assumptions, principles, reactions, and other behaviors by default repeat the assumptions, reactions, etc. behaviors of one's parents or primary adult role models from childhood.
Modern psychology asserts that the deep wheel-ruts of the largely unconscious relationship patterns of one's parents (and other adult pairings such as grandparent sets, close aunt-uncles) will have an over-determining influence upon one's own marriage choices and expectations.
As the student of Jyotisha becomes more skillful in comparing various nativities, it becomes increasingly obvious how much matching there is between the nativities of one's parents and oneself.

D-9 and Family Patterns

Within afamily there is always a predominant pattern. Once the pattern-recognition skills are sharpened, one can detect the path along which the parents' unrecognized blaming karma has simply transmitted to the next generation.
So in a sense one's partner (husband, wife, S.O.) has nothing at all to do with one's experience of the privileged union. One is simply carrying forward an ancient family lineage, reacting to a partner in the prescribed fashion which is the family custom. The carry-forward of family relationship patterns into marriage is one of the reasons that arranged marriages within a uniform cultural group are often easier. Not perhaps as fertile with potential for enlightenment as a truly incompatible cross-cultural marriage, but indeed easier...
BTW it matters naught whether the native was bio-born or adopted or anything in between. We are taken into the fold of those who have matching psychic expectation patterns, so that we can materialize the karma of expectation manifesting into tangible material reality. One could be raised by wolves so long as the wolves had the proper karmic signature (just joking, animals are not complex enough to parent humans).

Things don't just manifest once in life and then we're done with that experience. There is a constant recycling of particulate matter from it's highest most subtle spiritual state, percolating down into its slightly less subtle slightly more gross mental-causal state, then further percolating down to its slighter less subtle than mental but more gross that physical "astral"state, then finally if nothing is done about it on those higher planes, the sense data will materialize on the physical and social share-human-experience planes.

It's much smarter to make changes in one's expectations and assumptions while those seeds are in their astral state. Examine the D-9 to see the reactive patterns vis-a-vis other humans, and make changes as desired.

Because marriage and human relationship behavioris considered to be the most prominent result of religious development in past lives.

The spouse(s) we marry in the current life have been our spiritual partners in past lives. If we developed compassion and understanding for others in past lives, all should go well indeed. If not...

(Not what one wishes or hopes or calculates, but subconsciously deeply expects.)

Particularly we live vicariously through the life of the Spouse. Predictions for Marriage, development of psycho-spiritual awareness, developments in intentional religious education, moral consciousness, and (following from spiritual intentionality) happiness in general are read through the navamsha.

The joy and also the unresolved conflict of one's marriage situation is founded upon the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual consciousness which obtained in past life (and which usually continues unconsciously into the present life).

A smooth and prosperous navamsha indicates committed spiritual work in previous lives. If you have reflected the divine in others so will others reflect the divine in you.

Radix shows reality but navamsha shows the meaning of those events. For humans, events have value only when they have meaning! Psycho-emotionally charged events such as major public validation through marriage, childbirth, professional awards, (or invalidation through divorce, death, firings etc.) are only importance because of the emotional meanings invested in those events.

Navamsha shows the psycho-emotional experiences in a person's life, initiated through relationships, which interpenetrate and color events on the material plane. The psycho-emotional qualities of a Vimshottari can be extremely vivid and even cause material decisions, especially if navamsha lords of the bhukti-pat are stronger than its radix lords. Therefore we always consider navamsha effects.

All of life's truly meaningful events (for good or ill) are trauma-triggered through the navamsha.

Here is an example of navamsha role in interpreting material effects. The actress Elizabeth Taylor is famed inter alia for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her eight marriages.

Ms. Taylor's tremendously empowered uchcha navamsha lagnesha = radix L-1 Shukra + Rahu . Shukra is extremely strong, with Rahu, and in 6 this pair = extremely hostile to the dull work of negotiating long-term marriage agreements.

Rahu wants a quick ascent into the ranks of spectacular physical beauty and luxury. Rahu often uses marriage as His vehicle for speedy "leapfrog"ascent into privileged ranks without earning the step-wise knowledge necessary to hold the position. Rahu will certainly use marriage for purpose of gaining elite status due to His entwinement with uchcha Shukra, the karaka for very luxurious, sensual marriage.