BPHSTwelve Weeks

At the chart

The Chart Reader's Field Manual

The practical residue of the course — tables, thresholds and rules you want in front of you when you sit down with a chart, separated from the teaching that justified them.

Where it stands

4 entries, from 1 of 13 weeks.Each entry is added by the unit that earned it, so nothing appears here that you have not already been taught.

Week 1

From Why a Planet Can Mean Anything

  • A doctrinal classification is not a technical strength rule. Check whether the source actually makes the bridge before carrying an idea from one domain into another.

From The Nine Grahas

  • Natural benefic: full Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus. Natural malefic: Sun, Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu, waning Moon. (BPHS 3.11)
  • Mercury is benefic alone, malefic in a malefic's company. Check its co-tenants before classifying it.
  • Malefic describes how a graha acts, not whether the result is welcome.