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The Malefics (Saturn, Rahu, Mars, Ketu)

If benefics add sweetness, then malefics add bitterness to the rasa of life

Even when the four cornerstones are aligned, certain issues that the couple will have to resolve may remain outstanding.  Alternatively, it may happen that the couple generate by their interactions an imbalance that they must address. We can identify the life area in which such dinasour will occur by evaluating the influence of malefics in the one horoscope on the cornerstone of the other.

Each Malefic can create tension according to its personal nature. 

• Mars - When well posiitoned can indicate strength, courage, passion and the indomitable sprit and vigor needed to identify and pursue a desired goal
• marital pressure often goad Mars into irritability and inconsistency, however, when impatiene to achieve his goals leads to an äll  or nothing attitude towards the partner
• Saturn - When positively placed, be the model of deciplined responsibility, practical realism, and dependability.
• Too often falls into anxious rigidity, inhibited resignation, isolated meloncholy, depression and suspecion when he feels somehow threatned.
• Rahu - The same rahu can be insightful, imaginative, inspired, original thinker
• can wilt under stress into a jumble of illusion, delusion and confusion, escaping perhaps into self deception and neoroses or addiction
• Ketu - With his intution, compassion, sprituality and self sacrifice, 
• can give way to explosive violence, iconoclastic, eccenticity, fanatical unconventionlity and emotional impulsivenss when he is strained

The most omnious placement for the major malefics

• are those in which the malefics and one of four cornerstones become associates, conjoined in the same rashi.
• occupy the 7th bhava from one of the cornerstone making the malefic and cornerstone opposites
• Then comes the special aspect that Mars, saturn and Rahu throw (5th and 9th aspect)
• we will only consider Rahu's aspect, not Ketu's as only the head of the serpent can see
• A malefics influnce is strongly intensified when it conjoins or aspect within an orb of 71/2 degrees.

We search particularly for the grahs that mutually influence the same cornerstone in both the charts.

• For example when a couple's Suns oppose each other to create a 7/7 relationship and the saturn of one chart occupies the same Rashi as the Sun in that chart, that saturn will clearly influence the other sun as well. When a malefic's influnce acts solely from one chart to another, the unilateral dynamic is not likely to be too bad.
• When the malefics affect the same cornerstone across from both charts, however the situation becomes exponentially worse
• When Saturn interfere with a pair of cornerstones, one or both the partners may perceive the other as being suffocatingly constructive, distant, incommunicative, secrect, manipulating or acting in some other saturian manner
• Those perceptions will focus primarily on the matters rules by the affected cornerstones
• Ordinaliy it will be the person on whose horoscope the influencing malefic sits, who will be perceived by his partner as behaving unproductively or harmful.
• If the malefic contact is mutual one, the corresponding problematic theme will transfer on both direction.

Exception to the Influnce of Malefics on the four cornerstones:

Two condiitons under which Mars and saturn will not disturb the foundation of building relationship

• When one of them rules the ascendant
• Lord of the first bhava by definition is always a good graha
• its influnce on the four cornerstones supersede its influnce as a natual malefic
• When the grah is a yoga karaka of the horoscope
• When Mars or saturn acts as a Yoga karaka the contribution of these two grahas to the relationship will provide more benefit then damage with just a few overtone of their natually malefic persona

Dosa Assessment:

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From Lagna, Moon and Venus is the same

1. 1st - nothing
2. 2nd - nothing
3. 4th - Ketu
4. 7th - nothing
5. 8th - nothing
6. 12th - nothing

From Lagna

1. 1st nothing
2. 2nd - Sun
3. 4th - nothing
4. 12th - Saturn

From Moon

1. 1st nothing
2. 2nd Saturn
3. 4th Sun
4. 7th nothing
5. 12th nothing

From Venus

1. 1st Mars
2. 2nd nothing
3. 4th Rahu
4. 7th nothing
5. 12 Sun