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Annual Solar Keturn

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located at the time of birth is important. On the day of
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the same month, zx; per the western calendar, every year
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the Sun generally comes back to that polnt. Note exactly

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the time when the Sun reaches that poinh and cast a chart for
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that time on that day. This chart gives an insight into the nature
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of the effects that are likely to happen during that year. But
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this chart operates only within the framework of the birth

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chart.
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To flnd the exact time of the Sun's return to the position

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at birth, some authorities have given tables; and people follow

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them. Let us consider some of the tables.

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A person was born on 1920.1.22 at 11.6.24 A.M. tle has

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completed seventy five. We have to take the elapsed years.

The week day was Thursday, the fifth from Sunday. The
sunrise is at 6.55.48 (LMT).
Mr. V.S. Sastri's translation of Uttara lfalamrth gives on
page 2OO the following:
for 7O years 4 (weekday) 2h.,42m., Os.
for 5 years 6 17. 37. 50
Add the day and 5 ll. 6.24
tlme of Birth
Total I (day) 7h. 25m. 54s.
The annual return was to be cast for Sunday at 7.25.54 A.YI.
On Sunday January 22, 1995 at 5.5O A.M. the Sun was in
Makara at70. 4l'.51.. At the time of birth the Sun was on

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8o.lO'.4".The time arrived at is far behind the required posi-

tion.
In the 1986 edition of his llindu Predictive Astrologlr
Dr. B. V. Ramanrejected the table he gave earlier in the book.
In his Varsha Phala he gave two tables and held that the
second is accurate.
Weekday tfourc Minutes Seconds
7O years 5 22 4r 24
5 years 6 6 45 48
Birth 5 I I 6 24
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This is Sunday and the time is 4.33.36 ?.Y1.

Lahiri's Ephemeris for 1995 counts Sunday as zero. We

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This agrees with the one given by Dr. B.V. Raman.

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At 5.5O A.M. on January22 the Sun was at 9s.7o.41'.5"and

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on the next day at 5.5O A.M. the Sun was on 8o.42'.33".

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Calculating by the rule of three we get the time on January

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22, 1995 at tI 4.43.41 P.M. (lST). There is a difference of

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ten minutes, and it is not a small one. At this time we get the
chart thus:
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16.15
Shani

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lavi8.10.r KujaR
Uran2.57
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29.35 19.57 16.1
Shukra
lllep Rahu Chandra
Guru
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Dr. B.V. Raman's Varshaphalafollows the Tajika system

as developed by Nilakanthaand Kesava.This is evidently an
import from Tazhakistan. The yogas have Arabic names and
the aspects are those accepted by western astrology.
The Tajika method prescribes the calculation of the
strength by five vargas and also by twelve vargas' The ruler
of the year is selected from (l) lord of the sign occupied by
the Sun (day) or by the Moon (night); (2) lord of the lagna in
the natal chart; (5) lord of lagna in the annual chart; (4) lord of
Muntha; and (5) lord of Trirasis.The calculation of the dasas
is complex. A fuller account of thls method is neither neces-
sary nor possible in this work. One may consult a standard
work on Varshaphala, and D. Bradley's Soli-Lunar Beturns.We
shall explain here a simpler method outlined in Uftara

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After calculating the lagna and tenth house, note the
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positions of the planetsat the time of the solar return. Next we

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have to calculate the seven vargas-Rasi, Hora, Drekkana,

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Saptamsa, Navamsa, Dvadasamsa, and Trimsamsa for the

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lagna and the Planets.

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Then count from the birth nakshatra to the nakshatra in

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which the Moon is located on the day of the return' Divide

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this by nine. The remainder is to be counted from the Sun

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onwards in the following sequence-Sun (llO), Chandra

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(60), Kuja (52), Budha (4o), Quru (48). Shukra (56). Shani
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(4), Rahu (5), and Lagna (lO). The figures in the brackets
are the dasa periods for the Year'
The birth star was Sravana; and on this day it was Hasta.
It is the nineteenth. Dividing it by nine, we get one as the
remainder. Then the first dasa is that of the Sun' For 8OO
minutes the Sun has I lO days. The Moon has yet to traverse
43g'.2O' in l-lasta. By rule of three we get the balance of
Sun's dasa as sixty days at the commencement of the year.
The other dasas follow in the order given above.
The benefic or malefic results of any dasa are to be
interpreted with reference to the strength of the planet
concerned, the strength of the lagna for the year, the
strength of the bhava having the planet, and the aspects on
and association with the planet and the house concerned.

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The Sapta Varga strength of the planets for the above

chart are: Guru 172.5, Shani I44.SZS, Shukra I12.5, Sun
and Moon A6.25, Budha a2.b and Kuja Sg.l2s
Shashtyamsas. The weakest is Kuja. The strongest ls Guru
followed by Shani. The lagna has two vargas of its own lord,
two of his friends, and three of his enemies. The lagna is
mildly strong. Rahu has five friendly vargas.
The lagna is to be calculated only for the origlnal place
of birth.
The principles of interpretation are the same as those
for the natal charts. We have to note also the transits of
planets during the year. By blending the results of the solar
retum chart with those of the Moon from the original lagna,

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less accurately. Transits have always to be related to the
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ashtakavarga of the birth chart and to that of the solar
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return. Ashtakavarga modifies the results of the transits.

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Now we outline broadly the results of the various dasas

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during the year.

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Sun: lf strong-acquisition of money, omaments and

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clothes; if weah-increase of foes, sinful deeds.

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Chandra: If strong-royal favour, increasing wealth and

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honour; if weak-increase of foes, suffers from diseases,

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unhappy, wandering, changes the place, quarrels with rela-

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Kuja: lf strong-favours from the ruler, successful,

happy; if weak-fears from the ruler, quarrels with sons and
wife, loss of wealth.
Budha: If strong-valorous, benefic results, extremely
happy, many gains and profits; if weak-misunderstandings
or enmity with brothers and sisters, follows evil or sinful
ways, treacherous to the wise elders.
Quru: If strong-conveyances, wealth; if weak-wanders
from place to place, loss of money, evil ways, bad associa-
tions.
Shukra: If strong-amasses wealth and fame, refined
clothes, happiness from wife; if weak-loss of wealth, fear
from foes, bad name, diseases of the generative organs.

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Shani: If strong-house, happiness, ruler; if weak-loss of

wealth, anaemia or neuritis or wasting fever, bad name.
Rahu: If strong-performs virtuous deeds and good acts,
has gains, rise in profession; if weak and malefic-inauspi-
cious results, death of father, associates with foes and the
wicked.
I-agna: The results are good, average, or bad according
to the rising drekkana, association and placement of the
lord of lagna and of the drekkana, and the yoga formed by
the lord of lagna.

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