Ayurvedic Astrology

I was once told by Hart that there is no publicly known reasoning behind the order of the planets in the widely used and accurate Vimshottari dasha system.

That order is

Sun/Moon/Mars/Rahu/Jupiter/Saturn/Mercury/Ketu/Venus.

But why?

Well, I foolhardily have attempted to figure it out.

Here it is. Even if it isn’t true, it’s a good mnemonic.

1. Sun and Moon the original eternal pair of Agni and Soma are naturally arranged together. So we have:

Sun/Moon

2. The outer planet on the other side of the solar system is Saturn, the eternal overseer, so we have:

Sun/Moon

Saturn

3. The benefics, the good in life, Jupiter and Venus reasonably come next, and are placed before the stern rulers Sun and Saturn.

Jupiter is placed before Saturn, as in the solar system, leaving Venus to be placed before Sun.

Venus/Sun/Moon

Jupiter/Saturn

4. The fruits of the benefics are to be realized in this Yuga only after the dizzying seizures of Rahu and Ketu.

So place Rahu, the point of striving, reasonably before the kind generosity of Jupiter. Correspondingly, Ketu, the point of loss goes before the laid back Venus.

Ketu/Venus/Sun/Moon

Rahu/Jupiter/ Saturn

5. What is left is Mercury which is in the solar system before Venus, and hence before the important shadowy relationship of Ketu and Venus. Mars in the solar system goes before Jupiter and correspondingly, before Rahu and Jupiter.

Mercury/Ketu/Venus/Sun/Moon

Mars/Rahu/Jupiter/Saturn

This step is also important because it is the division between the inner and outer parts of the solar system, as seen from the Earth.

Rahu might also be in the outside part because in this Yuga we try to go outside of ourselves.

6. To complete the two halves and form a complete list, place the inner list before the outer list, and you get

Mercury/Ketu/Venus/Sun/Moon/Mars/Rahu/Jupiter/Saturn

This is a reasoning, but not the rhyme.

The music is there, in the chart.

As to why the number of years are there for each dasha, maybe that’s a future post.

Renay