Parivartana Yoga by Supriya
Parivartana Yoga occurs when there is a mutual exchange of sign lords. This creates a strong link between the two houses involved. Parivartana comes from the Sanskrit words pari and vrt meaning 'to turn around, to exchange.' If the houses involved are benefic the yoga is benefic.
The involvement of an adverse house will likewise result in adverse effects.
The author of Phaladeepika, Mantreshwara, gives three kinds of Parivartana yogas:
Maha Yogas: These yogas indicate the interchange between lords of Kendra, Kona, 2nd and 11th houses. These can have 28 possible combinations.
Dainya Yogas: Interchange between a lord of a dusthana bhava (6, 8, 12) and the lord of a kendra, kona, 2nd or 11th house. There can be 30 possible combinations of this type of yoga.
Kahala Yogas: The lord of the 3rd house exchanges places with house lords other than those of the Trik houses (6, 8 and 12). There can be 8 possible combinations of this type.
Another form of Dainya Yoga is when the lords of the dusthana bhavas (6, 8, 12) exchange houses with each other. It is referred to as Viparita Rajayoga. It gives rise in status and financial prosperity after failure or through the misfortune of another. For example, you get a job after someone loses that job. There may be health problems, however.
When two planets have a mutual exchange of houses, it has the effect that they lose the ownership of their other houses, with the exception, of course, of the Sun and Moon who own only one house each.
Let us see a few examples of each of these three main types of Parivartanas.
Maha Parivartana
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 23 Example Chart 1: Rabindranath Tagore
This is a remarkable chart with two Maha Parivartana Yogas. Mystical Pisces is rising with exalted Lagna lord Jupiter placed in the 5th house in exchange with the 5th lord Moon. Jupiter aspects the Lagna and the Moon. 2nd lord Mars interchanges with 4th lord Mercury. These planets form a Saraswati Yoga which gives eloquence, wisdom, and learning. The 5th lord Moon in Lagna gave him great beauty, with impressive eyes, knowledge, happiness, and recognition. Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 with his profoundly beautiful book of verse Gitanjali. Mercury and Mars enabled him to establish the experimental school Santiniketan, meaning abode of peace. In 1921 it expanded and became a university.
Professor P. S. Sastri in his article Exchange of Houses in The Astrological Magazine notes that the 7th house has the aspect of the waning Moon; and it is not the lord of the 7th in the 2nd, but the Moon in exchange that made him a widower. Tagore had five children, two of whom died in childhood. The 5th house has Mars and Saturn in the 12th and 2nd giving malefic kartari.
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 24 Example Chart 2: Swami Vivekananda
The 2L, Saturn and the 10L, Mercury exchange houses. Swami Vivekananda, through his eloquence, brilliant intellect and spiritual presence, brought Hinduism to the West. Mercury is badhaka lord of the 7th which is also aspected by Jupiter. Instead of marriage Vivekananda directed all of his energy to the welfare of mankind, so Mercury did not act as 7th lord. Saturn's aspect on the 12th gave him very little rest as he travelled tirelessly throughout India and the world preaching and serving.
However, it appears that the 3rd house was still very strong despite Saturn, its lord, being in parivartana as the lord of the 2nd house. Vivekananda was very courageous, brave, athletic, and musical and had younger siblings. After his father's death his family was plunged into poverty. He searched for work to support them and on many days went without eating so that his mother and his brothers and sisters would have something to eat. He then worked as a teacher to support them. The 6th lord Moon is with Saturn in the 10th house.
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 25 Example Chart 3: Male
The 5th lord Sun and 9th lord Jupiter exchange houses. Jupiter is conjunct Lagna lord Mars and the 4th lord Moon is conjunct the Sun in the 9th house. Moreover, there are benefic planets in the 2nd and 12th houses from the Sun forming Ubhayachari Yoga, thereby adding strength to the 9th house. The native is a talented artist and musician who is a friend to all. He refuses to hear anything negative spoken about others and has a very forgiving and generous nature with a tendency to sacrifice himself and overwork, sometimes to the detriment of his health. His father is a very accomplished artist.
Dainya Parivarthana Yoga
The person with Dainya Yoga at birth will be a fool, will revile others and indulge in sinful deeds. He is always in trouble from his enemies. He will speak harshly and will not have a stable mind. He will encounter obstacles in all his ventures. - Mantreshwara
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 26 Example Chart 4: Father Damien
Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, was born Jozef De Veuster on January 3, 1840 in Belgium. He was a Roman Catholic priest and won recognition for his ministry to people with leprosy who had been placed under a government-sanctioned medical quarantine on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. After sixteen years caring for the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of those in the leper colony he eventually contracted and died of the disease. He was canonized a saint by the Catholic Church.
In Father Damien's chart the 8th lord Mars is exalted in Capricorn, the 10th house, in exchange wtih Saturn who is placed in the 8th house in Scorpio. The 1st and 11th houses are not involved in the exchange. Saturn is the lord of the 10th, karmasthana, which signifies profession, fame, honors, and activities that bring benefit to society. The 8th house is called Ayursthana and represents life force, longevity and chronic disease. His major life's work was to serve those suffering from the chronic disease of leprosy. The exchange of these two natural malefics, Mars and Saturn, enabled the dignified expression of their energies to be fully expressed. Saturn gave him the desire to serve, but also separated him from the rest of society. Mars channeled his energies in accomplishing monumental work, caring for the needs of the leper colony, building homes, schools, and organizing farms on Molokai. However, the Dainya Yoga brought disease and death to him at the age of 49. Saturn is conjunct 2nd and 7th maraka lord Venus. Fame and honor was bestowed on Fr. Damiaen after his death when he was canonized as a saint.
There are similarities between this chart and the previous one, Chart 3. Both have Aries Lagna with the Sun and Moon in the 9th and Mercury in the 8th house. In Fr. Damien's chart the
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 27 emphasis is placed on the 8th and 10th houses, while in Chart 3 the focus is on the 5th and 9th houses.
Example Chart 5: Bob Dylan
The 6th lord Mars is placed in the 4th house in Aquarius in exchange with 4th lord Saturn who is debilitated in the 6th house, forming Dainya Parivartana Yoga. This exchange of two malefics involving these houses is a factor in vehicle accidents. Dylan was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in 1966 and did not tour again for 8 years. He is famous as a singer-songwriter and a musician, incorporating political, cultural and literary influences.
Venus in the 7th in Taurus creates a Malavaya Mahapurusha Yoga; it is conjunct 5th lord Jupiter and 10th lord Sun which is a Raja Yoga, adding strength to the Malavaya Yoga. With Mars involved in the 6th house parivartana with the 4th house, the Lagna would have been made weak. However, the planets in the 7th aspecting the Lagna give considerable strength. He still tours around the world giving performances.
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 28 Example Chart 6: Jiddu Krishnamurti
In Krishnamurti's chart there is an exchange between the 5th lord Venus and the 6th lord Mercury. Mercury's loss of influence over the 9th house, and the aspect of the badhaka Mars from the 6th on the 9th, separated him from his father at an early age.
Lagna lord retrograde Saturn is exalted in the 10th house in Libra, aspected by exalted Sun.
Venus has its focus on the exchange involving its lordship of the 5th house so has little influence on the 10th house. Jupiter, the 3L and 12L, aspects the 10H.
On 8/02/1929, Krishnamurti rebelled, breaking with the Theosophical Society and publicly renouncing all claims about his quasi-divinity. In front of an audience of 3,000, he announced his belief that "truth is a pathless land," and rejected study of the occult, acceptance of authority and religious ceremony as ways to spiritual growth. Annie was by now aged and senile and never realized that her dream of cultivating the Matreya had been denied. - Wikipedia
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 29 Example Chart 7: Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan has Aries Lagna with an exchange between the 4th lord Moon and the 8th lord Mars. Both are debilitated but the exchange of houses gives Neecha Bhanga, cancelling the debilitation of both. It brings an element of humility to the Mars nature. Saturn aspects Mars from its own 10th house giving discipline and focus.
His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.
Phaladeepika (VII-31):
Even a single planet, though in depression, is capable of making the native a king’s equal, provided he be with brilliant rays, retrograde in motion and occupy an auspicious house (other than a Dustana). Two or more such planets make the native a king.
Kahala Parivartana
The native with Kahala Yoga will occasionally be haughty and sometimes sweet in his speech. There will be occasions when he will be very prosperous and then will be driven to poverty, unhappiness and misery.
- Mantreshwara
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 30 Example Chart 8: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The 3rd lord Moon is in Kahala Parivartana with the 8th lord retrograde exalted Jupiter.
Moreover, the Moon and Jupiter are in a 3/8 house relationship forming Shakata Yoga. 5 planets in the 8th house form Sanyasa Yoga. The focus on the 8th house highlights the intrigue, deviation from social norms, unexpected fall and chronic illness that were features of his life. In his later life he called himself Osho.
Hugh B. Urban noted that Osho appeared to fit with Max Weber’s classical image of the charismatic figure, being held to possess "an extraordinary supernatural power or 'grace', which was essentially irrational and affective". Osho corresponded to Weber's pure charismatic type in rejecting all rational laws and institutions and claiming to subvert all hierarchical authority, though Urban notes that the promise of absolute freedom inherent in this resulted in bureaucratic organisation and institutional control within larger communes.- Urban, Hugh B. (1996), "Zorba The Buddha: Capitalism, Charisma and the Cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh", Religion 26 (2): Pages 161–182. - Wikipedia
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 31 Example Chart 9: Mia Farrow
In Mia Farrow's chart the 3rd lord Mercury is in Kahala Parivartana with the 10th lord Saturn.
Exalted Lagna lord Mars and 5th lord Sun join Mercury in the 10th house. Mercury and Saturn are in 6/ 8 relationship. Though Mercury is not present as lord of the 6th house, Virgo, the 12th lord is located there.
Venus is exalted in the 12th House (2L and 7L). Mia was afflicted with polio at the age of 9 in Venus dasa. She was confined to an isolation ward in the hospital. She recovered and went on to be a famous actress, model, and is known for her extensive humanitarian work. She was named one of Time Magazine's most influential people in the world in 2008.
©Ancient Indian Astrology Classes Page 32 Example Chart 10: Oprah Winfrey
The 3rd lord Venus is in Kahala Parivartana with the 6th lord Saturn who is exalted in the 3rd house. Saturn and Venus are in 4/10 relationship. Venus is combust Lagna lord Sun. She overcame many obstacles and painful experiences in her childhood. The 6th house lord being exalted shows its growing influence as an upachaya house enabling her to have amazing success. Saturn represents the masses and those who suffer. She is known for her compassionate way of communicating in her role as talk show host.
She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. – Wikipedia
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