Planetary Occupations in Vedic Astrology
The rules for finding planetary occupation is given below:
- Count always from Aries to the lagna – (1)
- Count again from lagna to the planet whose occupation is wanted – (2)
- Add figure (1) and (2)
- Multiply the answer by 2
- Now, Multiply the answer by the number of years of the planetary dasha (period) as per Vimishottari dasha. Sun – 6, Moon – 10, Mars – 7, Rahu – 18, Jupiter – 16, Saturn – 19, Mercury – 17, Ketu – 7, Venus – 20.
- Then, divide the result by 27.
- The remainder expresses the state in which a planet is for the time being.
The planetary occupations with their influence are:
| Occupation No. | Name | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bathing | prosperity, good family and children, respectable life, successful career |
| 2 | Dressing | Political influence, gems, wealth, clothes, fine taste, luxurious life |
| 3 | Sweet scents | Popularity, success in foreign countries, industrious and respectable |
| 4 | Preparation for Worship | Gain from lands, good conveyances and horses, enjoyment |
| 5 | Praying | fond of land property, political troubles, loss of money, serious charges |
| 6 | Worship | intimacy (friendship) with tyrants (dictator) and thereby large gains, popularity, wealth |
| 7 | Sacrificial preparation | distress (extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain), biliousness (bad digestion), high education |
| 8 | Meditation | rich relations, wealth, loss to foes, gains from lands |
| 9 | Kneeling | sweet speech, good conveyances and horses |
| 10 | Going around the alter | live complaint, dysentry, criminal prosecutions |
| 11 | Contemplation | Magesterial powers, aggreable family and children, successful life |
| 12 | Reception of Guests | Conceited (proud), love for magical art, finding hidden treasures |
| 13 | Dinner | sickly, cheating habits, excommunication from caste (boycott), religious persecutions (harassment) |
| 14 | Drinking water | miserable food, contemptible (lowly) haibts, hating all that is good |
| 15 | Anger | hating manking, egoistic |
| 16 | Cheweing betel leaves | service in high places, sound education, great wealth and fame |
| 17 | Entering the court | regular, pious, innocent, respectable |
| 18 | Assumption of the crown | glorious military life, wealth and great learning |
| 19 | Private consultation | laziness, sweet words, double hearted |
| 20 | Delay | learned, dull, inactive and careless |
| 21 | Sleeping | a hanger on, brutal treatment towards wife and children, passionate, sickly |
| 22 | Drinking | reckless (careless), doing evil to friends, despising (neglecting) worthy people, courting (inviting) ruin |
| 23 | Sweet Drinks | healthy life, good children, luxurious food, handsome wife, respect among classmen |
| 24 | Acquisition of wealth | courteous and obliging, gains from different sources, success in business |
| 25 | Taking off the crown | loss of appointment, unhappy, deserted by friends and relations, unsuccessful in money transactions |
| 26 | Profound sleep | Suffering from chronic disease, persecution from ruling authorities, constantly tipsy (intoxicating) |
| 27 | Sexual intercourse | constant intercourse with women of disrepute, harbouring evil thoughts, melancholy designing, suspicious and revengeful |