Predicting longevity accurately is a tough task. All the chapters of Astrology like Marriage and relationships, child birth, litigation, health, career, property and vehicle purchase, education, travels have positive and negative houses. Similarly longevity also contains positive and negative houses.
Houses which increase the life of a native are :
1,5,9,10 & 11
Death inflicting houses are :
6,8,12, Badhak & Marak Houses.
Badhak Houses
Badhak houses are as follows :
1) If the Ascendant is movable i.e. any of the 1,4,7,10 sign is in the Ascendant then the badhak house is the 11th house.
2) If the Ascendant is fixed i.e. any of the 2,5,8,11 sign is in the Ascendant then the badhak house is the 9th house.
3) However, if the Ascendant is common i.e. any of the 3,6,9,12 sign is in the Ascendant then the badhak house is the 7th house.
Badhak houses as they are classified by their name appear to give obstacles in the life time of the native. On the contrary they act as death inflicting planets at the time of death only.
Marak Houses
Marak houses are the 2nd & 7th houses in all horoscopes. They act as death inflicting houses at the time of death only.
4th house
4th house in addition to other significances also signify “end of everything”. Hence it is relevant to consider this house here. At the time of death this house also promotes death & transits of the planets in this house are very significant.
Planet
Saturn is the natural significator of death. Saturn plays a major role at the time of death. It is either DBA lord or is conjunct with any of the DBA lord. In transits also it plays major role. It transits in the 6,8,12 or Marak or Badhak houses of the native at the time of death. Pluto also plays similar role more profoundly in unnatural deaths.
Calculation of Longevity
Longevity of a native can be calculated by adding the sum total of life increasing houses (1,5,9,10,11) “A” of seven planets excluding Rahu & Ketu with their Nakshatra & Sub Lords. For Rahu & Ketu only the planet has to be considered. Similarly the sum total of death inflicting houses ( 6,8,12,badhak) “B” is to be arrived in the seven planets & Rahu & Ketu. Formula of the Longevity is as follows :
Longevity( in years) = A / A + B X 120 ( of Vimsottari Dasa )
where A is sum total of life increasing houses as calculated above. & B is the sum total of death inflicting houses as calculated above. The exception to the rule of longevity is the house of badhak. The badhak houses are to be added to death inflicting houses. The Marak houses do not come into play in the calculation of longevity in the formula.
As stated it is difficult to calculate longevity due to a number of factors like progress of medical science and also what I feel it is nearly impossible to find birth as well as death. However I, myself and my students are working on longevity on the basis of Prasna Jyotish and have found in Prasna results are accurate.
Following are the two examples on which Ravinder Kondadhasula have worked on and got accurate results.
- In Astrology forum there was a query about whether the boy who went missing is alive or dead?
Querry: Is he dead?
I know the title is pretty morbid, but horary is all about clear questions right? So I saw on the local news page I follow on Facebook that a teenage boy went missing yesterday (Wednesday) after he failed to show up for cross country practice at his high school. His lunchbox was found on nearby running/hiking/walking trails this morning (Thursday), but there was no sign of him.
they have already made chart according to western system and discussions were there in the forum. I asked the person who has raised the issue to provide a random number and he told 7. I made chart using this number : The periods were Sun-Sat-Rah.
Sun 5 Sat 7, 11 Rah 3,4, 6
2, 4.7 7,11 5
1,4,8 7,11 3,4,5,6,9,10,12.
I predicted that this boy is alive and he must have gone outside the city in the direction of South-west. Two days latter he wrote back that there was news that this boy found in the nearby town which was south west from the place he lost.
- This is regarding the news whether the cat was killed by wild dogs or not.
The query in the forum: hey guys I have an urgent question. My friend is away in Belgium and her Cat run out of window, we cant find her and some women told that wild dogs ate her near the building. I don’t think that it happened, but I was wondering do you guys think the same? Many thanks in advance!
I asked for seed and it was given 15. As the DBA planets were signifying 3, 6, 10, 11, I predicted that the news is correct.
Ravinder Kondadhasula – the chart shows its Saturn dasa, antar dasa of Rahu and sub–period of mon. all these are signifying houses which say the news is correct. ie the combinations of 3, 6, 10, 11.
Lidija Tancic – Thank you. she was found dead and the neighbours called the service to pick up the dead cats body. She was dead according to them even at that day when I asked the question. Dogs did attacked her and ate her frown emotion.
However I would also like to share a youtube video of one of my follower, Krishnan from Sweden.
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