puzzle of twins Mysteries of Twin-Birth Life > Patterns ee By Dr. Andrew Dutta In thisresearch study, we will look at the astrological mechanism to make sense of twin births, whose life- patterns are different, through the means of KP technique and Vedic astrology. These days, thas become common misunderstanding that Krishnamurthy Paddhati (KP) technique alone can solvesuch mysteries. ‘The factis that, not only KP technique, but also the eon-old Vedic astrology is capable of offering precise prediction, However, in Vedic astrology, we will require to look into higher order Divisional charts to decipher the life-meaning of twins and not the Rasi chart alone. f astrologers and common people, because it is late R. Gopalakrishna Row, popularly known as has been empirically observed thateven though | ‘Meena I’, who wrote three volumes of ‘Nadi the children are born with afew minutes of difference, | Jyotisha’ published from erstwhile Madras in 1954. the life-patterns have been radically quite different. | Almost after another decade, the world received Examples galore, where one of the children has | another path-breaking set of two books by late K.S. become a doctor and another a high school drop-out_| Krishnamurthy on an inventive method called as or one has become a businessman and another could | Krishnamurthy Paddhati (KP). The last-path breaking not manage a job for him. Traditional Rasi chart will | books appeared in 1969 from Madras by late HR. never reflect any difference in the planetary pattems | Sheshadri Iyer, having the title of his book as ‘New including the Lagna, which will also remain same, Techniques of Prediction. Row’s and Iyer’s original excepting a few minutes of arc difference. As aresult, | books are now available, only with very senior it is next to impossible for anyone to decipher the astrologers and collectors of books. It is in Iyer’s charts of twins, triplets, or even quadruplets with high | book where entirely novel approaches to judge degree of accuracy, until one goes into deeper realms | Divisional charts were provided with respect to Vedic of astrological analysis. astrology. In Krishnamurthy’s books, the very system KP in brief was radically a new one. Contrary to popular belief, both the KP technique and | For those readers, who are not much acquainted with ‘Yedic astrology have quite well established methods, | the KP technique, let me explain here briefly. In KP, to analyze birth charts of twins. For KP technique, | the only system of house-division followed is the the method is self-sustaining, wherein the technique | Placidus (also called as the Semi-Arc) System of is so fine-tuned that even a few minutes of birth time | house-division. In this system of house-division, the difference can pinpoint different results. Whereas for | birth or the horary chart is casted according to the Vedic astrology, the Rasi chart also known as the D- | Precise fami a Joe ie Ze mae e i 1 chart, is just a primary representation of planetary | P/ace where the astrologer is sitting for analysis (if it configuration. inDa, a ea vemaine ine Resi fo. | i®4 horary chart). Inthe Placidus system of house roughly 120 minutes, which means fortwins, thetwo | “ivision. all the 12 houses may not be of equal length horoscopes caret tHe/saine (longitude). Itmay so happen that some houses may be more than 30° in length, whereas some houses are less than 30° in length. Moreover, it may also happen that there are two houses or bhavas in one T: births have always attracted the fancy | breaking research in astrology. The first among them o Since the Indian Independence, very few path- breaking researches have happened in the realm of Indian astrology. Even though there are only very | zodiac sign and a sign which does not hold any house litle original researches coming from different regions | cysp, KP astrology interprets ‘bhava’ or house results of India, itis only three individuals who have made | primarily on the basis of the house cuspal sublords an impact pan India, when it comes to original path- | and the sublord’s stellar or constellational 8 EXPRESS STAR TELLER CQ) JANUARY 2011 =. 1mm significations. And the planetary effects are determined by the planets’ occupancy in a particular star and a sub division within that star. K. S. Krishnamurthy divided each Nakshatra or star of 13, degree 20 minutes into further 9 sub-divisions based ‘on unequal proportion of the Vimshottari Dasa system. This sub-division of a star is popularly called as ‘SUB’ in KP system. So, Sri K.S. Krishnamurti’s sub-division of a star into 9 smaller parts was made on the basis of the above unequal proportions of the Vimshottari ‘Mahadasa. Thus, a star of 800 minutes (alternatively 13 deg 20 mins) was sub-divided into 9 unequal parts in the following manner: ‘One can easily note that Sun has the smallest arc sub- division. As we all know that the Lagna is the fastest moving parameter in the horoscope covering 30 degrees in 120 minutes. Therefore, to cross the smallest sub 40 minutes of arc of Sun, the Lagna will take approximately 2 minutes 36 seconds. This means, KP technique is capable of highlighting different birth life patterns of twins born in a time interval of 2 minutes 36 seconds. So, accuracy of birth time holds immense importance in KP. | The age old Magnum Opus ‘Brihat Parasara Hora Shastra’ (BPHS) of Maharshi Parasara is undoubtedly the magnum opus of Vedic astrology, along with Jaimini Maharshi’s “Upadesha Sutram’. Now it is beyond anyone’s doubt that these two were not ordinary mortals, but highly evolved Sages. Can these two sages ignore twin-births? Definitely they cannot, because the phenomenon of twin-birth is as old as human existence. Therefore, itis but natural that they might have devised some scheme, through which twin-births can be analyzed. The scheme advocated by the Sages and commentators of Vedic astrology to look into finer details of horoscopy is known as the ‘Varga’ Maharshi Parasara advocated the 16-Divisional horoscope scheme, derived from the Rasi chart called as the ‘Shodasa Vargas’, which is most commonly used for predictive astrology. Similarly, there are other Varga schemes known as ‘Shad Vargas’ (6 divisional chart scheme), ‘Sapta Varga’ (7 divisional chart scheme) and the ‘Dasa Varga’ (10 divisional chart scheme), which have been advocated by many others such as Kalyana Varma of Saravali, Mantreshwar of Phaladeepika, among others. These Divisional charts are 60 in number, categorized in 5 levels of consciousness or human existence. There are also Divisional charts that deal with higher realms of spiritual and esoteric factors of ‘human life which run from the 72nd divisional chart to the 300th. However, not all numbers of these Divisional charts are used. For those readers, who do not understand the concept, of Divisional charts, let me enumerate it briefly here. A Rasi chart (D-1 or Divisional Chart 1) maps out the 9 planets in 30 degree span of each Rasi. But the exact degree occupied by a planet in a particular type of Rasi in D-1 gives rise to its mapping in other Divisional charts. So, D-2 or Hora chart is based on 15 degree mapping scheme, Navamsa (D-9) is based. on 3 degree 20 minutes (30 degree of a Rasi divided by 9) mapping scheme, Siddhamsa (D-24) is based on dividing the Rasi of 30 degrees by 24. Thus, ona practical predictive level, the most granular divisional chart in the Varga scheme is the ‘Shashtyamsa (D-60), where the Divisional chart is mapped according to 30 minutes of Rasi chart. ‘This means that the Rasi chart of 30 degrees is made into 60 parts of 30 minutes each. The method to EXPRESS STAR TELLER Q) JANUARY 2011 79 etcalculate Shashtyamsa is to multiply the degree of the planet in the Rasi chart with 2 and divide it by 12 and add 1 with the remainder. (Readers who use astrology software will find this D-60 coming asa standard output). ‘This D-60 is thus capable of capturing life-patterns twins, who are born at a time interval of 2 minutes. This is because the lagna takes 2 minutes to travel an arc of 30 minutes in the Zodiac. Therefore, ACCURACY OF BIRTH TIME IS AS EQUALLY IMPORTANT IN VEDIC ASTROLOGY, AS IT IS IN KP. ‘Understanding the astrological cues In KP, the rules of analysis of a horoscope are uniform and standard. They apply to individual horoscope in the same manner as they apply to twins, triplets or ‘quadruplets. KP technique starts its analysis of a birth horoscope, by looking at the concemed house cuspal sublord. For example, if the first marriage of a person is analyzed, then in KP, one looks at the cuspal sublord of the 7th house cusp and the starlord and sublord occupied by this cuspal sub lord. These 3 planets will show their significations, which is then synthesized along with the Dasa-Bhukti-Antara to give the final prediction. It is therefore, very much likely that twins will have different ccuspal sublords in majority oftheir house cuspal positions, thereby explaining the different life-patterns of twins. ‘To analyze twin horoscopes in KP technique, I have devised a common-sense method: 1, First, cast the two horoscopes with Placidus house division and KP Old Ayanamsa 2. Look at the house cuspal sublords of the two horoscopes and find out those cuspal sublords, which are different. The houses, for which the cuspal sublords will be different, show the primary matters of which the life-pattems will be different. 3. Analyze each of the house cuspal sublords for the two horoscopes and check their significations. If significations vary between the two horoscopes, then there will be qualitative differences in the life-pattemns pertaining to that house. In Vedic astrology, the interpretation mechanism of Divisional charts has however remained a secret with ‘many famous astrologers of India. It is only authors like H.R. Sheshadri Iyer who not only bared it all, but also ‘gave out practical secrets of interpreting Divisional charts. Various ‘Gharanas' (traditional astrology families) of India have also guarded this beautiful and highly effective technique from becoming pul knowledge. In this article, I will share with the readers cone such rule, which has remained as an ‘open secret’ to many practicing astrologers of India and abroad. To analyze twin horoscopes with Vedic astrology, itis ‘an open secret that: 1. One should cast the Shashtyamsa (D-60) chart and obtain the planetary configuration in that. The logic behind taking D-60 Varga chart is that this shows the cause of re-birth in this life. That is, this chart carries the potential to make sense of Karmic happenings in this life. 2. Interpret this chart with respect to a particular aspect of life in the normal manner, as one does in a Rasi chart. 3. On very rare occasion, super-imposition of the D-60 chart can be made upon the Rasi chart, when life events seem to elude explanation. Astounding results can be found in this modified approach (Not discussed in this article) Case Studies ‘We will now look at some case studies and interpret the twin horoscopes based on KP as well as the D-60 chart. For brevity of space, we will have the two D-60 charts of the twins and the two house cuspal tables according to KP technique for each pair of twins, along with the birth data. Readers interested for further studies can cast the full horoscopes and analyze various types of astrological facets. For all the twin data, the author wishes to thank Sri N.N. Sharma for his book Interpreting Divisional Charts: An Innovative approach through the destinies of twins published by ‘Vani Publications, Delhi edited by Sri Deepak Bisaria and guided by Sri K.N. Rao. 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