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Ch. 52. Lost Horoscopy

1. THE NATAL AYANA. If the Ascendant at the time of query (related to tracing
the lost birth data) be within the first 15 of a Sign, the birth was in Uttarayana and
beyond these degrees Dakshinayana.

2-3. BIRTH RITU ETC. The strongest of the planets in the Prashna Lagna indicates
the Ritu (season) at birth. Should there be none in the Ascendant, the Lord of the
ascendental decanate is the ruler of Ritu at birth. Should there be a clash in the
Ayana and Ritu arrived at, the Ritu Lords arrived should be interchanged thus: the
Moon for Venus, Mercury for Mars and Jupiter for Saturn. The respective month of
the Ritu is decided depending on the first, or second half of the decanate being
Ascendant. The degrees elapsed in the decanate will be to the knowledge of the
natal Tithi. Some say, that this will lead to locating the natal Sun.

4-9. OTHER NATAL FACTORS. The query Ascendant be multiplied by 2 and

divided by 5 to get the natal Jupiter's placement. This should be adjusted to actual
placement guessing the native's age approximately, by increasing, or decreasing
multiples of 12. If the query Ascendant is in a day Sign, declare birth during night.
Otherwise, the contrary prevails. The degree elapsed in the query Ascendant will
lead to the knowledge of elapsed portion of night, or day, as the case may be. Out of
the query Ascendant, the 5th and the 9th therefrom will indicate the natal Rasi
(Moon Sign), the strongest of the three prevailing. The parts of the body, viz. head
etc. touched by the querist at the time of query will also indicate the Moon Sign at
birth. Alternatively the distance between the query Ascendant and the query Moon
may be added to the query Moon to get the position of the natal Moon. This does
not apply to the Moon in Pisces at the time of query, (i. e. the natal Moon is in
Pisces itself). The Navansa Lagna at the time of query may also be the natal
Ascendant. The number of decanates between the query Ascendant and query Sun,
when added to the query Sun, will yield the natal Ascendant. The longitude of the
planet in the query Ascendant should be multiplied by the figure indicated by
Chayangula (length of shadow) at that time. This should be divided by 12, the
remainder of which will indicate natal Ascendant.

10-11. POSITION OF THE QUERIST. The following positions of the querist will
indicate the natal Ascendant. Standing, lying on the bed, sitting, or getting up will,
respectively, denote the first, 4th, 7th, or 10th from query Ascendant becoming
natal Ascendant.

12. PERSONAL NAME. The name formally given by parents to the native will
indicate the natal star. Multiply the Matras (units) of the given name by 2 and add to
it the Chayangula length. Divide this by 27 and the remainder, when counted from
Dhanishta will lead to the knowledge of birth star.

13-15. ANOTHER METHOD. Note the longitude of the query Ascendant. It should
be multiplied by 10, if the Ascendant is Leo, or Taurus, by 8 in case of Gemini, or
Scorpio by 7 in case, or Aries, or Libra, by 5 in case of Virgo and Capricorn, while
for the rest of the Signs by the number denoted, when counted from Aries. (That is
4 for Cancer, 9 for Sagittarius, 11 for Aquarius and 12 for Pisces). If the Ascendant

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is occupied by Jupiter, the Ascendant converted into minutes of arc be multiplied by

10, if occupied by Mars by 8, if by Venus by 7 and, if by others by 5. Both the
products so multiplied be added together. This product by multiplied again by 10 to
know the year, Ritu and month; by 7 to know the Tithi and by 5 to arrive at Navansa
Lagna and Ishta Ghati (birth time) and be, respectively, divided by their individual
dividers (i.e. 120 for year, 2 for Ritu, 15 for Tithi and the like). Addition, or
reduction of 9 may be made in case of anomalistic answers.

16. I have explained lost horoscopic rules, as expounded by Yavana, Bhadasana etc.
But some of their rules are ambiguous. The student better understand using his
judgement.

17-21. LOST HOROSCOPY BASED ON MOON. Just as the ascending degree

helps trace back the lost details, the Moon Sign may also be used. If the Moon Sign
at the time of query be a night Sign, natal Moon was in a day Sign and vice versa.
Note in what quarter of the Sign is the Moon at the time of query. Proportionately
understand the natal Moon during day, or night, as the case may be. Multiply the
query Moon by the same Rasi multiplication factor, as explained supra and, if
necessary by planetary multipliers, as applicable. Multiply the resultant product
(arrived by adding the two) by 7 and divide by 27. The remainder will represent the
birth star counted from Aswini. In case of rectification by adding 9 the counting is
from Moola and, if subtraction of 9 is done count from Makha. The pre-division
product (i.e. the product before dividing by 27, as above) should be processed
variously, as suggested earlier to know the Ritu, month, Tithi etc. at birth.

Thus ends the 52nd Ch. entitled “LOST HOROSCOPY” in Kalyana Varma's
Saravali.

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