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B orn 1955 in Lappenranta, Finland. Studyand practice of Sanatana Dharma Meditationsince 1998. Teacher of Ishayas’ Ascension Meditation since 2013. Study, practice andresearch of Jyotish Vedic Astrology since 2011– first TM Maharishi Jyotish, then expanded toother sources through Saptarishi Astrology,lately to teachings of Ernst Wilhelm.Developing own research along the way.

Jyotish website:http://www.vedajyotish.com/index.html

Tertiary ProgressionsTrigger Transits in

Vedic AstrologyBy

Heikki Malaska, Finland

Index

1. Tertiary Progressions – P32. Preparation of P3 Data

Image 1: Listing of lunar cyclesImage 2: Listing of planetary stations

3. Example – Event: Job Reprimand4. Example – Calculations and Charts

Image 3: P3 DataImage 4: Main charts:

D1 Rasi, P3, Daily Transits5. Broad Activation

Image 5: Relevant Vargas D60, D2, D96. Conclusion of Broad Activations7. Trigger Transits

Image 6: P3 triggers to D1Image 7: Daily transit triggers to D1

8. Sextile Trigger Transits9. Example – Sextile Daily Triggers

Image 8: Sextile daily trigger transits9.1 Mercury Sextile Jupiter9.2 Mars Sextile Moon

10. Vimsottari Dasa11. Freedom of Choice12. Ayanamsa and

Chart Calculation Specifics13. Prayer

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1. TERTIARY PROGRESSIONS P3

ertiary progressions are a western astrology technique, which was written about in1952 by German astrologer E.H.Troinski, in his book “Lehrbuch der Tertiärdirektionen,eine Methode.” In a more recent work, Richard Houck describes the use of tertiary

progressions in his book “ The Astrology of Death” (1994). Houck uses tertiary progressionswith Vedic Astrology, along with Dasas and Kakshyas. I shall refer to tertiary progressionby term “P3”.

The concept of P3 can be explained simply thus: each 24-hour day from birth, corresponds toonelunar month in the life of the individual (27.321582 days). By the time you live to be around 84

years of age, you have progressed through about 1100 lines of ephemeris days since yourbirth, which is about 3 years. According to traditional European psychology of the earlydevelopment stages of children, a child’s capacity to consciously remember life eventsmatures around 3 years of age, when their nervous system undergoes specific developmentalchanges.

Consider this: the 3 first years of life, is a time when most deeply embedded subconsciousconditioning occurs in child’s early development. During this time we go through a “fast -rewin d preview” of potential upcoming occurrences of our Life Script. After this initial “pre -

flight checkup of basic settings”, all the potential is left in a dormant state, with contents ofeach P3-day ready to project onto the corresponding lunar month later in life. Each sensitizedpotential is waiting for the arrival of suitable transiting planetary influence onto that point,to manifest as a concrete event.

Planetary station is a point where planet stops while changing direction, either from direct-to-retrograde or from retrograde-to-direct motion. For example: in the example I show youlater, Venus remained stationary in place before changing from direct-to-retrograde, on thedate 8.1.1958. This is an astronomical event you can see in ephemeris. Within the P3-count of

my own birthchart, this projects onto a strongly sensitized potential “ready and waiting tomanifest”, in my life, during the lunar month which occurred in early summer of 2014. Aplanetary station from P3-daychart will project a strongly magnetized point into a futuredate, and transiting planets making contact with that point will have trigger concrete events.

Houck writes: “There will often be appropriate correlation between current Bhukti (or Dasa)planet and corresponding progressed planetary station, particularly at death.” Houck’s bookuses numerous example charts to illustrate this. Houck also writes: “ At major life events you can routinely expect tertiary angles and planets to be in perfect 4th harmonic aspect(conjunction, square and opposition) to relevant natal factors.”

I will demonstrate with example how I use P3 to locate Broad Activation based on Jaimini’s2nd Source of Strength. Broad Activation prepares chart areas for upcoming trigger transits.

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At the end of this article you find short chapter where I discuss the specifics of ayanamsaand chart calculation.

2. PREPARATION OF P3 DATA

To get P3, you need following listings from your astrology software.Examples are for my own chart; date format is European (dd.mm.yyyy) and time format is24-hour clock.

Image 1: Lunar cycles from birth(my birth was 16.11.1955 time 15:15)

Image 2 : Planetary stations from birth(for 3,5 years to be sure; include 3 outer planets )

Each lunar cycle will correspond to a day in ephemeris: 1 st lunar cycle of 16.11.1955/15:15– 13.12.1955/21:40 corresponds to 1st P3-day of 16.11.1955/15:15– 17.11.1955/15:15. I calculate my

correspondences on an Excel spreadsheet. Once I determine what is the corresponding P3-day and time, I check second listing see if the date includes a planetary station, then calculatea transit chart for the P3-date and time - which is called the “P3 chart”.

3. EXAMPLE EVENT: JOB REPRIMAND ON 24.6.2014

First example is an event from my own recent life. Here is a short description of the eventand its context.

Financial problems make ends meet. Found a temporary job (6 hours per day) which did noteven pay the rent. I signed up for working 12 hour shifts and ended up working with adifferent boss. Had never met him before, but from first encounter something about meaggravated him. Unexplainable tension, his eye was constantly upon me, I barely got repliesif I tried to converse with him, he reprimanded me for not saying good morning in the“proper” way, seemed to expect I should know matters I was not informed about, kept mestanding outside in the rain for 3-4 minutes before buzzing me into the workplace onemorning.

I recognized the situation as projection and karmic resolution. I was being “lured” intosituation by believing I had no choice, because of financial crisis. I felt confused and focus


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distracted, could not avoid making stupid little “slips of concentration” in my work oftelephone interviews.

On the morning of June 24 th I got reprimanded by that boss, for having made mistake ofsaying “10 minutes” instead of “15 minutes” to a client who asked how long the interviewwould last. In front of everyone else, boss started directly shouting at me an official warning:mistake like that again I would be out of job immediately. That would have meantimmediate financial crisis for us. His aggression threw me into state of shock, while it wasgoing on I found myself intensely observing my internal reactions. Instead of letting my“Mars” energy come forward and counterattack, this time I consciously chose NOT to reactto him in any way, not even attempt any kind of excuse for my actions, just let him have hisway however it went.

After the incident I made a sadhana routine of bringing attention onto immediate jobperformance of any given moment, several times every day. The effort also exhausted mybodily state so my whole spine cramped very seriously in the night, made it hard for me tosit down or get up or even turn or bend. Once I got into sitting position I could becomfortable enough, so I was determined to crawl back to work day after day as long itwould be offered.

4. EXAMPLE CALCULATIONS AND CHARTS

My birth data is: 16.11.1955, time 15:15, place Lappeenranta Finland.

Image 3 : P3 Data

The date of the event was 24.6.2014. This occurs in the middleof lunar cycle which starts 12.6 and ends 10.7, and countedfrom birth this is my 784 th lunar cycle. It corresponds to the784th ephemeris day counted from my birth, which becomes

the P3-day.

The 784th day in my life starts on 7.1.1958/15:15 and ends 8.1.1958/15:15. The lifedate of 24.6falls around the middle of that lunarcycle, so my P3-value for that lifedate calculates as8.1.1958/09:34– that will be the date/time of my P3 -chart.

On 8.1.1958 a planetary station did occur: Venus was stationary for several hours, beforeturning retrograde.

In examination of the event I use 3 chart types:- Natal positions: basic D1-Rasi birthchart- Transit positions:

24.6.2014 LIFE DATE12.6.2014 LUNAR CYCLE START

10.7.2014 LUNAR CYCLE END

784 MO Cycle = EFEMDAY8.1.1958 P3 DATE STATION

9:34 P3 TIME


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o P3-chart which shows potentially “sensitizing” transits or planetary stations (here 8.1.1958/9:34 )

o Transit chart for the day/time in question ( here 24.6.2014/10:30 )- Relevant Varga charts, for the issue under examination.

I compare all of the above at least to Vimsottari Dasa periods for the event date (here24.6.2014 ). I examine Bhava Chalita House cusps in D1 chart (Campanus house system). Ialso observe outer planets (Uranus, Neptunus, Pluto) for potentially sensitized points. I userulers of relevant karakas from D60 Shastiamsa to confirm, and from relevant Varga: in thisexample D2 Hora for Moon/2 nd bhava involvement, and D9 Navamsa for emphasis given byVenus as P3 station and Lagnalord of D1 Rasi chart.

Image 4 the main charts: D1 Rasi (middle), P3 chart (left) and Daily Transits (right)

Situation is about menial employment, telephone interview job, and financial trouble withpaying the house rent. Karakas for work are Saturn for employment and Mercury for

telecommunications (both in Sco), and 6th

bhavacusp (at 22:37 Can). Karakas for finances tomake ends meet are 2 nd bhavacusp (at 01:52 Can) also Jupiter (in Leo). Moon is ruler of bothbhava karakas.

Do any of these receive Broad Activation?

5. BROAD ACTIVATION

Broad Activation prepares a chart-point to be manifested by trigger transit that comes alongat some point. Broad Activation occurs through rasi aspect of 2 nd Source of Strength, basedon Jaimini Sutra 2.3.14: “The second is the lord, Jupiter, or Mercury aspecting, joining.” (transl. byErnst Wilhelm.)

The lords of the karaka points that can give Broad Activation in this example are:- Lord of both work/employment karakas (Sa & Me) is Mars- In D1: lord of job/6 th is Moon, lord of money/2 nd is Moon- In D60: lord of job/6 th is Mars, lord of money/2 nd is Venus-

In D2: lord of job/6th

is Saturn, lord of money/2nd

is Moon- In D9: lord of job/6 th is Saturn, lord of money/2 nd is Moon- If necessary, I might consider the dispositors of the previous lords.


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Image 5 : Relevant Vargas D60, D2, D9

At quick glance we can see that no rashi gets double strength Broad Activation by both Jupiter and Mercury, because Jupiter and Mercury do not rasi aspect same rashis – so theeffect could be somewhat less. Where do we get activation by Jupiter or Mercury AND atleast one of the lords?

Transiting Jupiter at 25:09/Can gains power of influence by rasi aspecting the P3 sensitizedpoint of Uranus at 4:33/Sco. Scorpio in D1 Rasi gets several counts of Broad Activation:

- from transiting Jupiter as Jaimini source of strength AND as money karaka- from transiting Saturn as karaka of employment/servitude

- from transiting Saturn as ruler of job/6th

bhava lord & money/2nd

bhava lord MoonSince Scorpio also includes 7 th bhava, I make note that strongly boosted transiting Jupiteralso gives Broad Activation to opposite Lagna/1 st bhava cusp in Taurus. This becomesimportant if 1/7 polarity gets hit by trigger transit.

Sagittarius gets Broad Activation by both P3 and Daily Transit charts. Mercury gives effectas both Jaimini source of strength and as karaka for communication aspect of the telephoneinterview job. Sagittarius receives Broad Activation also from P3 Saturn.

Strongest Broad Activation occurs in Cancer, on several counts by daily transiting planets:- transiting Jupiter as Jaimini strength AND as money karaka- transiting Moon as lord of job/6 th and money/2 nd bhava cusps- transiting Saturn as karaka of employment AND as ruler of Moon.

Cancer is also Broad Activated by the highly sensitized P3-point of Venus standing still inAquarius in the P3 chart. More accurately, P3 Venus from 16:17/Aqu rasi aspects 5 th bhavacusp at 14:24/Can.

6. CONCLUSION OF BROAD ACTIVATIONS


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Whatever hits will be triggered by daily transits within Cancer, Sagittarius and Scorpio, inthe grahas and bhava cusps therein, will be important within the “window of opportunity”opened up by this Broad Activation.

7. TRIGGER TRANSITS

The factors that can trigger transit events are first of all the Self factors: Sun (Atma) and Jupiter (AK in my chart). Moon does not apply because on the 24.6.2014 it was not full, not agiver. Possible triggers are also:

- Mars as ruler of work karaka Saturn in D1- Venus as both D1 Lagna lord AND ruler of work karaka Saturn in D2 and in D60- Mercury as Lagna lord of D60.

Image 6 : P3 triggers (middle) to D1 Rasi chart

P3 Venus station triggers 5 th bhava cusp by rasiaspecting. Daily transits bring out this potentialfor developing intelligence and creativity as “5 th is 8th from the 10th”, an experience of “fall fromposition”, being threatened with disgracefulloss of the job. That will be a lifepath issueduring this time.

P3 Mars conjuncts natal lagna lord Venus ANDtrines 4 th bhava cusp, within the same navamsa

orb. Solving a situation that involves “rulership of work”, is “brought home to my person”and made into a lifepath issue during this time.

Moon, which is ruler of both previous bhavas, is past its full prime in P3 chart. Awareness ofwhat would be appropriate needs has started to “darken”. This is further complicated by P3Rahu trine-aspecting 3 rd bhava cusp, causing unrealistic expectations about what should be

the proper effort on my part.

All the previously prepared P3 –influence wasdeeply embedded in my subconscious, waitingfor the appropriate daily trigger transits to comealong, later in life.

Image 7 : Daily transit triggers (middle) to D1Rasi chart

Saturn transiting Scorpio 17:12 conjuncts 7 th bhava cusp (18:49) within same navamsa orb, andgraha aspects opposing Lagna point at in Taurus.


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Trying to create balance between individual needs and social cooperation, as it is ruled byemployment at menial job, gets activated. On the psychological level the message of Saturnis always “let go what no longer serves your growth”.

This brought to surface what was prepared by P3 Mars conjuncting Rasi Lagna lord Venus.

Jupiter (my Atmakaraka) transiting Cancer creates a loose trine, within the same navamsaorb, to natal Sun (Self factor) and Saturn. Jupiter wants to expand awareness of “how youalready have, more”; Saturn wants to contract and restrict awareness to “that which you canrealistically hold”; Sun wants to sacrifice into the cosmic flames “everything which is lessthan the Truth that shines from within.” No wonder the experience of that momentimpacted me so strongly even of physical body level, leaving me confused for days.

Self-factor Sun transiting Cancer hits 2 nd bhava cusp within the same navamsa orb.Simultaneously it also triggers graha aspect to opposing 8

th bhava cusp. This connects to the

“8th from the 10th” situation I described previously with P3 chart (image 6). Polarity of 2/8 isabout creating balance between external/materialistic and internal/emotional needs andexpectations. This made me ask myself: with how much personal effort do I wish tomaintain the belief that “in order to be happy, I must build external material security” – ORwhat if I surrender to the emotional peace within and let that radiate outward intomanifestation of life in abundance and serenity?”

One more thing to consider is transiting Mercury (26:13/Gem) which trines transiting Rahu

(26:18/Lib) to the degree. The unrealistic expectations about my own effort, which weresensitized by P3 Rahu trine-aspecting 3 rd bhava cusp, are triggered here as illusion of how“easy play” it would be to succeed in the communication -aspect of this job doing telephoneinterviews; although I had been successful in similar work years in the past, now I just couldnot maintain enough concentration, kept making stupid slip-ups and mistakes in my speechroutine, and interpreted what the client was saying instead of actually listening to it. I haddifficulty staying focused at present moment.

8. SEXTILE TRIGGER TRANSITS

Brihat Parashara Hora Sastra gives instructions on how to calculate aspects based on thelongitude of the grahas:

“On the third and tenth, on the trines, on the fourth and eighth and on the seventh aquarter increase on the aspect, so also increase the effects.”

Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra: Narration of Graha Sphuta Drishti, 3;Transl. by Ernst Wilhelm


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Sextile (60 degree) graha aspect corresponds to the “third”, which calc ulates to 15 virupaswith quarter increase of strength. Usually the “third” is only considered for Saturn, whoreceives full strength of 60 virupas for this aspect.

“All full with the seventh. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, however, are special with the thirdand tenth, the trines and the fourth and eight respectively.”

Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra: Narration of Graha Sphuta Drishti, 4;Transl. by Ernst Wilhelm

The type of Jyotish I practice with my clients and meditation students, is consulting innerdevelopment and self exploration and expansion of awareness. In this context I have learnedto examine sextile aspects for trigger transits, because they keep showing up frequently.

To understand the sextile aspect, you need to consider how it points to a larger context. Thesextile is part of an inner development process. When transiting planet conjuncts a natalplanet or bhavacusp, they initiate a process which culminates in the next similarconjunction. This process has points of reward (trine), points of review (sextile) and pointsof testing for reality-check (square). If the process is found unfeasible or unfavorable, it canbe aborted at the opposition and replaced by another pursuit. if that happens, the aspect thatwould be second trine (240 degrees) in the process, becomes the first sextile for the newissue.

Combination of trine and square/Kendra is also involved in Dharma. When a Trine lordand a Kendra lord form a sustainable yoga in birth chart, the person is engaged in actions(Kendra) to promote his Dharma (Trine).

9. EXAMPLE SEXTILE DAILY TRIGGERS

Image 8 : Sextile daily trigger transits

9.1 MERCURY SEXTILE JUPITER

Mercury is the Lagna lord of D60 Shastiamsa. Jupiter is AK, the karaka of money, and theruler of Moon who is lord of 2 nd (money), 4 th (home) and 6 th (job) bhava cusps.

Transiting Mercury at 26:13/Gem has just

finished sextile-aspecting Jupiter at 29:56/Leo,within the same navamsa orb.


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Retrograding Mercury transited this navamsa orb during 18.6-23.6; I examine trigger transitswith marginal of +/- one day.

Short-term immediate daily concerns (Mercury) do not feel significant when they fall uponthe desire for holistic long view perception of life’s meaning and purpose (Jupiter). Attentionseeks greater understanding and turns toward larger issues of life. The current employmentfelt unsatisfactory in the long run, given the fact they would provide work on week-at-a-timebasis at the most. On 18.6 I started looking for further job opportunities, came across suchalmost immediately and sent in my application; nothing ever came out of it. At the sametime I came to understand how I could write my Jyotish reports literally in the form of a“life story script”, developed the basis for this method and wrote my first reading in su chformat. These things receded more into background by the event of reprimand I got on 24.6,and the stress that grabbed most of my attention for some time after that.

The function of this sextile was to provide energy and inspiration to prepare for theupcoming conjunction of Mercury and Jupiter, which would close the process that hadstarted on the previous such conjunction on 24.8.2013. At that time, after our MeditationTeacher Training, I had began to study Jyotish from a different perspective, looking for myown angle. Much of it was tedious trial and error stuff; I was first of all going through lot ofmaterial to see what I needed to learn, then investing time into learning it. My plans ofmaking Jyotish into a realistic livelihood, on practical level, seemed to fade further away.Part of my attention distracted into figuring out how to have financial support while I did

my R&D work. Eventually that got me into this job, rather desperate temporary solutionsince it did not even pay the rent.

This process culminated when transiting Mercury conjuncted Jupiter on 15.8.2014. We hadapplied to government services to get partly support for paying our rent, and on this date wereceived official approval for our application.

9.2 MARS SEXTILE MOON

Mars is ruler of Saturn (employment), ruler of Sun (authorities), and ruler of 6th

bhava cusp(job) in D60. Moon is ruler of 6 th (job) and 2 nd (money to support yourself) bhava cusps.

Moon is seeing life through “colored lenses” of personal needs; Mars is stron gly opinionateddesire to defend own logic. Mars on Moon could give quite emotionally biased fervor fordefending own stand, BUT:

- the “vriddha” (old) Mars does not have strength to stress the “yuva” (adult) Moon - Mars and Moon are not enemies- contact occurs through sextile aspect.

Sextile-phase of the process means temporary ease and balance, opportunity to review recentevents and take initiative action for whatever needs changing. Moon also represents thedesire and ability to adapt. The last sextile before the final 360-degree conjunction helps


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projection/interaction with other). 7 th gives 1 by bhavat bhavam, so Mars activates agendasof 1, 6 and 7– these three bhavas get activated clear through all five Vimsottari levels.

At the Pranadasa level, Mars is also the nature of the energy that manifests as the concreteevent. Mars pranadasa started on 24.6.2014 at 10:45– the reprimand took place sometime after11:00. Pranadasa level changed into Rahu at 22:29 that evening – my massive back/spinecramp occurred between 21:00-22:00. Few days later, in the early morning hours of 26.6around 5:00, I woke up from a lucid lifelike dream: I was inside a raging volcano crater, lyingon a ledge that was rolling from side to side. It was difficult to hang on, so I let myself fallinto the burning lava. Sinking in, I observed mental images of my mother and fatherseparate from me and burn into ashes right in front of my eyes. I woke up, realizing I wassleeping on the hard wooden floor in order to ease my backpains. Pranadasa level hadchanged into Jupiter at 4:38 on 26.6.2014.

11. FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Consider what kind of role polarity plays in the whole process. Polarity shows up intransiting Sun triggering both 2 nd and 8th bhava cusps. These opposing positions provide achoice-point: attachment to material or attachment to emotional security – or maintain calmin the worldly game of loss and gain, by consciously choosing your internal state of beingregardless of material or emotional circumstance. This choice determines how the potential

of P3-sensitised 5th

bhava cusp comes out in the event.

12. AYANAMSA AND CHART CALCULATION SPECIFICS

Richard Houck did P3-analysis with sidereal Jyotish charts. Based on his experience, heended up using his own Ayanamsa by subtracting 5 minutes 10 seconds from Lahiri. In pages40-41 of his book “The Astrology of Death” Houck gives full listing of the Ayanamsa he used.

In my own work and my chart examples, I use tropical rashis with sidereal nakshatrapositions, as taught by Ernst Wilhelm. He calls this Ayanamsa “Dhruva Galactic Center,Middle of Mula” with additional setting of “Dhruva Equatorial Longitude for Nakshatraposition”. For Moon dasas I use length of Nakshatra day.

Ernst Wilhelm has given following instructions about calculating this ayanamsa:

“Nakshatra positions are based on the galactic center for calculating nakshatra dasas

using the Moon's position. Calculate the galactic center in equatorial coordinates, thenmake that point the middle of Mula and find the equatorial positions of the planets andmeasure them from the middle of Mula. When the Sun enters Ardra the earth is closest


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to the galactic center at the middle of Mula, as the beginning of Ardra is exactlyopposite the middle of Mula.”

13. PRAYER

This article, which was several months in the making, finally came together on the 15.10.2014,when I was running Ra/Ju/Su/Ra/Ve Vimsottari dasa. Rahu and Jupiter activate quite afew bhava cusps, but the mutual agendas that flow clear through all 5 levels of Vimsottaridasa are the 1st and 4th. Venus who is Lagnalord and Pranadasa lord, rules the lord of 7 th bhavacusp (Mars) and 7 th gives 4 by bhavat bhavam.

For me this process is very much about two things. First, the inner heart (4), the bearingfoundation of happiness: being happy because I choose to, regardless of circumstance. Andsecond, how I commit to walking my lifepath (1), by what vocation I choose to seek myplace in life.

Brahmarpanam brahma havirThe act of offering is Brahman, the oblation is Brahman

Brahmagnau brahmana hutamInto the Brahman fire, offered by Brahman

Brahmaiva tena gantavyamIt will reach Brahman alone

Brahma karma samadhinaThrough the harmony of actions, which is Brahman

Bhagavad Gita IV:24 / Engl.tranls. Savitr Ishaya

Jai sham shvaram

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