GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING AND

JUDGING A HOHARY CHART

AS PER K.P. SYSTEM OR K.P.
PRINCIPLES
By: K.P.KUPPU GANAPATHI, TFAS,
ASTROLOGER (K.P)
G/12, SECOND FLOOR, DDA SFS FLATS, POCKET-2,
NILGIRI APARTMENTS,
(BEHIND SARASWATHI BAL MANDIR)
NARAINA VIHAR,
NEW DELHI - 110028.
PHONE: 011-2579 4140. MO: 98102 47160
Email ID: kpk3010@yahoo.com
RADHE KRISHNA
One of the most potent tools in the hands of
any Astrologer is HORARY OR PRASNA. In THIS
branch of Astrology OUR GREAT GURUJI,
JYOTISH MARTHAND, JYOTISH MANNAN LATE
SRI K.S.KRISHNAMURTHIJI, the inventor of the
ADVANCED SYSTEM OF STELLAR ASTROLOGY
CALLED K.P. has CREATED a new method to attain
perfection in predicting events through HIS
System. I am one of HIS fortunate students who
had heard him in person teaching HIS System. He
also occupied the Chair in Astrology in
BARATHIYA VIDYA BHAVAN. For the benefit of
all Astrologers in general and Astrologers
practicing KP in particular, I venture to write about
THIS unique system of HIS with HIS blessings from
above.
1. CASTING A HORARY CHART:- For casting a
Horary Chart take the commencing position of the
Sub of the Horary number as the NIRAYANA
ASCENDANT. This Cuspal position of the Ascendant
remains the same irrespective of the year or the
locality where the CHART is cast.
2. For ascertaining the Cusps of other houses,
take the LATITUDE where the Astrologer judges
the chart irrespective of the place from which the
Query has been raised, either by phone, letter,
Email, telegram etc., and the Chart is to be
prepared as per THE PLACIDIUS SYSTEM OF
HOUSE DIVISION as advised by our GURUJI LATE
SRI K.S.KRISHNAMURTHIJI with the help of
UNIVERSAL TABLE OF HOUSES OR K.P.TABLE
OF HOUSES AND MAHABALA EPHEMERIS and
other Tables required for erecting the Chart
correctly as advised by him. This is for those who
prepare the Chart manually. Those who have
computers can prepare the Chart with the help of
Software prepared by Sri A.R.Raichur of Bombay or
Sri Rangarajan of Man Machine Systems, Chennai.
3. If the HORARY CHAT is likely to be judged
immediately after casting then the position of
Planets is to be worked out for the time when the
Chart is taken for casting, In all other cases the
position of Planets should be worked out only for
the time when the Astrologer commences analyzing
the chart. I would like to make one point clear in
respect of those Astrologers who have KP Charts
computer package. In their cases they should
remember that unless they are in a position to
analyze the Chart immediately after getting a print
out of the Chart with all details of the
Significators, Aspects, Dasas etc., they should
not cast the Chart and keep it and attend to some
other job thinking that the Chart has been prepared
for the correct time as desired by them and
therefore they can take time to leisurely judge
them. In their case also the same rule that applies
to others who cast Charts manually applies i.e.,
unless they are in a position to analyze the chart
immediately don't feed the data in the computer
and get the print out of the Chart with other data
mentioned above.
4. The query may be for the Querist himself or
for some relative or friend. If the query is for
himself make all calculations from Lagna. If it is for
younger Brother or Sister, take the 3rd house
counted from the Lagna in the Horary Chart as
Ascendant and work out. If it relates to Mother,
take the 4th as Ascendant. For the Sons and
Daughters of the Querist take 5th' for Wife or
Partner in business take 7th, for Father take 9th,
for elder Brother or Sister, for Friend etc., take
11th and for any unknown persons take 9th as
Ascendant and work out.
5. After the chart is cast, the first job is
to check whether the chart reflects the mind of
the Querist. For this check what MOON the Planet
that controls the thought process and mind,
represents by virtue of houses owned and occupied by
it, whether its star and Sub Lords are connected
with the houses relevant to the query raised.
Experience confirms that a connection by Sub Lordship
is very important.
6. ASCENDANT also reflects the Mind of the
Querist, since it stands for both the Querist
himself and also the query put by him. Whatever
matters the Ascendant Sub Lord signifies, that is
what the Querist would like to know. So ascertain
which houses are signified by the Ascendant Sub
lord and what relevancy they have to the question
raised.
7. WHETHER THE MATTER IS PROMISSED:-
The main purpose of HORARY is to get a direct
answer to the query raised and therefore unless the
matter is promised there is no point in proceeding
further. Therefore only when the query is properly
reflected by the disposition of MOON and/or
ASCENDANT SUB-LORD, the case is to be
examined whether the matter is promised or not. In
this connection I would like the readers to keep in mind
PUNARPOO DOSHA before coming to any conclusion
on this matter. While examining a Horary Chart
this will be discussed in detail, if necessary.
8. For finding out whether the matter
queried will materialize or not, consider the 11th Cusp
and find out whether the 11th Cusp Sub Lord is
either RETROGRADE or deposited in the
Constellation whose Lord is RETROGRADE. If the Sub
Lord himself is retrograde then the event will
materialize with delay. But if it is posited in the
Constellation of a Planet that is retrograde then the
event will not materialize at all. On the other
hand if the Sub-Lord and Lord of the Constellation
in which this Sub Lord is posited are in direct motion
and if the same Sub Lord is also a significator of
either 11th or at least any one of the concerned
houses relevant to the query in question then the
event is promised. FULFILMENT OF ALL THESE
THREE CONDITIONS i.e., i) Sub Lord should not be
retrograde ii) Sub Lord should not be in the
Constellation of a Planet in retrograde and iii) the
Sub-Lord should signify 1Ith or any one of the
houses relevant to the Query, IS A MUST to give
an affirmative answer to the query raised. If ANY
ONE Of THEM IS NOT FULFILLED, THEN THE
EVENT WILL NOT HAPPEN.
9. Another method to ascertain whether an
event will materialize or not is to check whether the
CUSPAL SUB LORD of the main house is the
significator of the main or any of the Subsidiary
house(s) or the 11th house. For example for
foreign travel Sub Lord of the 12th Cusp (Main
house) must be a significator of either 9 (long
journey) or III (Change or movement from
residence) or 12th - change of environment itself.
For marriage the 7th Cusp Sub Lord should signify
either 2, 7 or 11 etc.,
10.WHETHER CHANGE IS BENEFICIAL OR
NOT? Very often the consultants ask whether the
change is going to be beneficial or not. For this
ascertain whether the 11th Cusp Sub Lord signifies
the concerned houses. For example, if the XI Cusp
Sub Lord signifies 2nd house (finance) the change will
be good financially (increase in family members i.e.,
birth of children, beneficial to all the other relatives
of the Querist since 2nd indicates all relatives
irrespective of any particular relationship such as,
Wife, Children, Father, Mother, Sisters etc., etc.,
But if it signifies 12th to 2nd i.e. Ascendant or 1st
house, it will indicate negation or worsening of the
financial position, negating birth of children etc., if
other considerations also agree i.e., if 5th or 11th
Cusp Sub Lord gives similar indications. Some K.P.
Astrologers have opined that the Ascendant will not
negate financial matters. But from my personal
opinion and experience I have found that the
Ascendant does affect the financial matters. The rest
I leave it to the readers.
11.The Sub Lord of a Planet denotes whether
that Planet is auspicious for the progress of the
Bhava or inauspicious for the Bhava signified by the
Planet. If the Sub Lord is not in a favourable
position then the Querist meets with obstacles, faces
disappointment or negation of the matter.
12. For ascertaining the Bhadhakasthana
while judging Longevity or health remember that if
the Ascendant is in a movable Sign, (MESHA,
KATAKA, THULAM AND MAKARA) the 11th house is
the Bhadakasthan, if it (Ascendant) is in a
FIXED SIGN (RISHABHA, SIMHA, VRISCHIKA
AND KUMBA) 9th house is the Bhadakasthan and
finally if the Ascendant is in a COMMON SIGN
(MITHUNA, KANYA, DHANUS AND MEENA)
7th house is the Bhadhakasthana.
13. HOW TO JUDGE A CHART? The first
step in this direction is to identify correctly the
houses which have a bearing on the fructification of
a query, e.g., MARRIAGE 2,7,11- BUILDING A
HOUSE 4, 11, 12 - EMPLOYMENT 2, 6, 10 and 11
etc., etc., and the Significators of these houses. The
Significators are to be graded as 1st. 2nd, 3rd, 4th
and 5th strictly according to K.P. Method. How this
grading is done will be explained when I take up a
Chart for analyzation.
14. RAHU AND KETHU should be included
as Significators if they are conjoined
with/aspected by the Significators or tenanted in the
house of Significators.
15. For identifying the Lordship of a house, it
should be remembered that OWNER Of A HOUSE
IS THE OWNER OF THE SIGN WHERE THE
CUSP FALLS. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO
UNDERSTAND IN K.P.
16. SELECTION OF FRUITFUL
SIGNIFICATORS:
The accuracy of prediction depends entirely on
the CORRECT selection of the Significators for the
event. Therefore we should find out which of the
Significators of the relevant houses as selected
under K.P. are really beneficial and which of them
are only tempters. Many a time many Planets and
even all the 9 Planets become the Significators and
in such cases the beneficial Significators amongst
them are to he found out after weeding out others.
THIS is really a very difficult task even for a very
seasoned and experienced K.P. Astrologer and all
failures in prediction result only on account of wrong
selection of FRUITFUL Significators. The various
methods of selecting fruitful or beneficial
Significators are explained below.
17. The MOST reliable and easy method is to
select the fruitful Significators with the help of the
wonderful RULING PLANETS invented by our GREAT
GURUJI JYOTISH MARTHAND, JYOTISH MANNAN,
PROF: LATE SHRI K.S.KRISHNAMURTHIJI. At
this stage the GOLDEN WORDS of our GREAT
GURUJI SHOULD ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED - I
quote- " THE RULING PLANETS AT THE TIME
OF QUERY WOULD BE THE RULING PLANETS
AT THE TIME OF FRUCTIFICATION OF THE
EVENT EXPECTED" unquote. Therefore,
Significators which are in common with the Ruling
Planets and the FRUITFUL Significators for the
event in question are to be selected under this
method if one is to get the correct result.
18. In order of MERIT AND STRENGTH, in the
descending order, the following Planets are regarded
as the RULING PLANETS.
1. ASCENDANT OR LAGNA
STAR LORDS.
2. ASCENDANT SIGN LORD
3. MOOR STAR LORD
4. MOON SIGN LORD
5. DAY LORD
The above are only treated as Ruling Planets by
GURUJI. Later on many researchers have revealed
that ASCNDANT SUB LORD AND MOON SUB LORD
should also be included as Ruling Planets. THIS is
quite in consonance with the Sub Theory of our
GREAT GURUJI and thousands of Astrologers and
Great Scholars in K.P. by taking these Sub Lords
also as Ruling Planets have given innumerable accurate
predictions. Therefore when we include these two Sub
Lords i.e., Ascendant Sub Lord and Moon Sub Lords
they take precedence over the Ascendant Star Lord
and Moon Star Lord in the meriting. If need be
Sub-Sub Lords also can be taken as RPs. This is left
to individual Astrologers based on their experience.
Apart from the above any Planet Aspected by the
above selected Ruling Planets and are in the Sign,
Star or Sub of any of the Ruling Planets can be
included as Ruling Planets - BOTH THE CONDITIONS
BEING SATISFIED SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Here I would like to make the following
comments with regard to RULING PLANETS.
There is a practice to work out the Ruling Planets
at the time of commencement of reading the Chart or
even when the chart is prepared. THIS is quite
contrary to what GURUJI was insisting in HIS
lectures/writings. I quote HIS words - ' RULING
PLANETS ARE THE DIVINE GUIDE TO AN
ASTROLOGER AND THEIR HELP SHOULD BE
SOUGHT ONLY WHEN THERE IS AN URGE TO
DECIDE THE SIGNIFICATORS WHO CAN BRING
OUT THE EVENT QUERIED AND NOT FOR THE
MOMENT AT WHICH THE WORKING OF THE
HORARY CHART IS TAKEN IN HAND OR WHEN
JUDGING THE CHART FOR THE EVENT AFTER THE
CHART HAS BEEN WORKED OUT COMPLETELY
WITH ALL SIGNIFICATORS ETC., ' unquote. This
condition applies equally to all those Astrologers
who use Computer package for preparing the Chart.
19. One should not accept these RULING
PLANETS as it is. Check whether any of them is
posited either in the Constellation or Sub of a
Retrograde Planet. If there is any reject them and
accept the remaining.
20.SUN AND MOON never retrograde.
Similarly RAHU AND KETU never retrograde even
though their normal movement itself is in opposite
direction. Thus only MARS, JUPITER, VENUS AND
SATURN will retrograde.
21.The SECOND METHOD for selecting fruitful
Significators is to take the CUSP SUB LORD of the
concerned houses and see which of the
Significators are posited in their Constellation.
Those Significators who are in the stars of such Cusp
Sub Lords can be taken straightaway as fruitful one.
The rest can be dropped or eliminated by further
process.
22. The THIRD METHOD of selecting fruitful
Significators is to find out whether its Sub Lord is
one of the Significators. If yes it can be included or
else dropped.
23. As a GENERAL RULE all those Significators
which signify 12th to the relevant houses under
scrutiny should be rejected. Similarly Planets which
are in 6, 8, 12 to the concerned houses also do not
contribute to the matters signified by such houses.
Similarly any house which are in 6, 8 and 12 to any
house are considered to negate the affairs
influenced by the house concerned.
24. A Planet which appears a larger number of
times amongst the Significators/RULINGPLANETS
or who is connected with various Significators as
their Constellation or Sign or as a Sub-Lord should
be taken as THE STRONGEST. Conversely a Planet
which is not in the Sub of Lords of the concerned
houses should be treated as WEAKEST in producing
the result though may qualify itself as a significator
after passing through all the elimination processes.
25. Significators that are in the Sub of
Planets occupying houses negating the Houses
concerned i.e. in the 12th to the houses concerned
should be rejected as unfruitful Significators.
26. RAHU AND KETU that are NODES give
results as follows:
i) First give results of Planets with which
they are conjoined, ii) Second as Planets Aspecting
them, iii) Third as Planets in whose star they are
deposited, iv) Fourth as Planets in whose signs they
are tenanted.
NOTE: - 1. Some prefer to take the Node
as representing the Planet in whose Sign they are
tenanted, under the third step indicated above.
THIS has been given in KP readers in both the
ways and therefore I leave it to the readers to
decide this themselves based on their experience in
handling Horary Charts where Rahu and Kethu play a
decisive role in giving results.
2.Nodes do not Aspect any Planet or any
house since they are only the sensitive and powerful
intersecting points in the pathway of Sun and Moon
and they are not having any physical body which can
be seen through a telescope as we can see all the
other Planets. THIS is the reason why they are called
SHADOWY PLANETS.
27. When the Nodes appear as a
RULING PLANTS/SIGNIFICATORS its Sign Lord
is replaced by it AND IN CASE THE SIGN LORD
ITSELF DOES NOT QUALIFY TO BECOME
SIGNIFICATORS THEN THE NODES HAVE ALSO TO
BE DROPPED AS SIGNIFICATORS. I WOULD LIKE
THE READERS TO UNDERSTAND THIS VERY
CLEARLY AND IF AND WHEN I DISCUSS A
HORARY CHART later on, THIS POINT, IF
APPLICABLE WILL BE EXPLAINED CLEARLY. I would
like to make it clear here that in case the Sign Lord
is also a powerful significator there is no need to
replace it but it can be taken along with the Node.
28. It should be remembered that the
RULING PLANTS have a definite bearing over the
EVENT. If the SIGN LORD AND STAR LORD OF
SUN ARE ALSO COMMON AMONGST THE ALREADY
SELECTED FRUITFUL SIGNIFICATORS AND THE
RULING PLANETS, then Sun's Star and Sign Lords
become STRONGEST to offer result according to
their disposition.
29. TIMING OF EVENT:
THIS is the greatest hurdle that even the
advanced practitioners in K.P. could not come to
grips, at times. Therefore the technique for this can
be mastered only by experience over a long period of
time. However a few useful tips are given below.
30.An event will materialise during the
conjoined period of the selected Significators
especially when the Luminaries (SUN AND MOON)
transit through their ZONES indicated by these
Planets.
31.When the event is expected in:
a) Few hours from the time of judgement
of the Horary Chart, move the
Ascendant i.e., Lagna to the sensitive
Zone of the Significators.
b) In a few days time move Moon to the
sensitive zone of the Significators.
c) In a few months time, move Sun to
the sensitive ZONES of the
Significators
d) If after a year or more then move
JUPITER to the sensitive ZONE of the
Significators.
In case the event is likely to happen within a few
hours from the time of judgement of the Horary
Chart, find the Lagna i.e., Ascendant that is rising
at the time of judgement. Then which is next to rise
and so on. Then that wing of ZONE that is governed
by one of the selected Significators should have the
Star governed by another strong significator. In
that one has to find out when the third significator
becomes the Sub-Lord. When this position in that
Sign would rise in the East or transited by Moon or
Sun, as the case may be, the event will materialize.
32. But in case the event is expected to
materialize in Days, Months or after a Year, then
that date and time should be taken when the Moon,
Sun or Jupiter as the case may be transits in that
Sign, Star and Sub.
33. IN HORARY CHARTS, Planets in retrograde
motion can't give results as long as they are
retrograde. However, if a retrograde Planet is
deposited in the Constellation of a Planet that is in
direct motion, then this indicates that the matter will
materialize with some delay and obstacles. The
matter will materialize when the Planet assumes
direct motion and passes beyond the longitude
wherefrom retrograde motion started. Some KP
Scholars and Astrologers have been writing that
retrogression of Planets in Horary Charts have no
effect and they have found to give results even when
they are in the Star and Sub of retrograde Planets.
But our GREAT GURUJI has categorically stated in
HIS lectures and writings that retrograde Planets do
not give results if they come as Star/Sub Lords to
the Significators. But in my opinion the LAST
WORD on this point is yet to be said and
therefore this will require constant and continuous
research for a number of years to come to any
Definite conclusion on this ticklish issue. Till that
time, in my humble opinion, we should follow our
GURUJI'S principles only in this regard.
34. If Planets 'A' and 'B' in their periods give
a result, then the Planet in 6 or 8 or 12 to 'A'
and 'B' will give the diametrically opposite results.
For example if one joins service during 'A' Dasa
'B' Bukthi, then he will lose the job or leave it
during 'C Bukthi, if '€' is in 6, 8 or 12 to 'A' and
'B' and forms evil aspect with 'A' and 'B'. The
Dasa, Bukthi and Anther mentioned here are the
one running in the Horary Chart under examination.
35. Whenever one wants to find out the day of
an event in any Bukthi and Anthra, one is to note
whether the Lord of the Bukthi and Anthra are
strong or the Lord of the Constellation. The Lord of
the Constellation, if stronger, will give the result
only on its day.
36. For finding out a particular date, the
transit of the selected fruitful Significators should
also he scrutinized. They should be transiting in the
Constellation and Sub of the Significators.
37. If the XI Sub Lord happens to be one of
the strong Significators, then an event can
materialize in its Sub-period.
38. If the XI house is occupied by fast moving
Planets such as Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus or
if the Lord of the XI, (if there is no occupant in it)
are the above Planets then the event queried will
materialize within a short period. If on the other
hand either the occupant of XI or Lord of XI is a
slow moving Planet such as Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu
and Kethu, then the event will not materialize in
short time but will take a long time. (However in
practice it is seen that this rule is not always correct)
39.GENERAL
In case the Sub Lord of the Horary Number
happens to rule the Constellation in which Moon is
posited at the time of query the answer will he
affirmative to the question. (However in experience
it is seen that this rule also never operates always)
40. It is often useful to scrutinise what the
RULING PLANETS signify, their aspects with the Cusp
Cusp Lords and other Planets. How far they promise
good result for some Bhava or affect the result of
other Bhavas.
41. THE NATURE OF PLANETS SHOULD
INVARIABLY BE KEPT IN VIEW, For
example. Sun stands for Govt., Ketu/Mars for
quick grasping, Jupiter for law and judgement.
Moon for Liquids, Mars for Engineering and Saturn
for metal
42.A Planet in whose star there is no other
Planet is the strongest to give the result of the
house of whose significator it is. THIS APPLIES VERY
STRONGLY TO CUSP SUB LORDS.
43.The above are only general guidelines. In
practice it is found that Planets behave very
peculiarly - they give result even when in
retrograde/in the Constellation or Sub of retrograde
Planets. Only if we have some in-sight knowledge
about the Astronomical aspect of Astrology we can
understand more fully such phenomen
44. ASTROLOGY is a continuing science. THIS is
the reason why GURUJI himself has invited Scholars
of Astrology to study HIS System well and after
thorough research, further advance HIS System.
Thus the K.P. System is NOT A STATIC ONE
where the FINAL CHAPTER has been written. It is
left to the K.P. Scholars and Astrologers to dive
further deep into this K.P. SYSTEM invented by OUR
GREATGURUJIJYOTISHMARTHAND,JYOTISHMANN
AN,PROF:LATESRIK.S.KRISHNAMURTHIJI, of
course, WITHOUT LOOSING GRIP ON THE
FUNDAMENTALS OF SUB LORD AND RULING
PLANET THEORY and bring out gems so that posterity
may be benefited.
45. Apart from what I have given above as
guidelines there are many hurdles that are to be
crossed before one can come into grips of
handling a Horary Chart. These can be understood
only by handling a Horary Chart, examine it
thoroughly, give the prediction and find out
whether the prediction given has come true at
least upto the date, if not check where a
mistake has been committed or which principles
have not been followed resulting in the wrong
prediction, gain experience and finally apply this
GREAT THEORY for the benefit of mankind.
WITH PRANAMS TO GURUJI, JYOTISH
MARTHAND, JYOTISH MANNAN,PROF:
LATE SHRI K. S. KRISHNAMURTHIJI
OM UCHCHISTA
MAHAGANAPATHYE NAMAH
GOOD LUCK
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