Chapter 17
Rasisiladhyaya (lunar effects in the various signs)

Sloka 1: Moon in Aries - Round and red eyes, eating hot and light food, fond of grains, easily calmed, traveler, passionate, fleshless knees, changeable wealth, courageous, liked by females, good servant, bad nails, cut or scar in the head, proud, chief among brothers, has Saktirekha (line) in the palm, capricious and dreading water. Another version is Ati Bhiru-one who is afraid very much. The Sloka says Thoyecha Bhiru.
(Many lines on the palm of the hand are given different names in the science of palmistry. Readers may refer to ‘Hasta Samudrika’ and the articles appearing in THE ASTROLOGICAL MAGAZINE.)

Sloka 2: Moon in Taurus - Handsome, playful walk, long thighs and face, back sides and face contain some marks, liberal, bearing fatigue, possessing paraphernalia, begetting girls-phlegmatic, separated from elders, relations, family, wealth and children; popular, patient, strong digestion, loved by females, firm friendship and happy in the middle and end of his life.

Sloka 3: Moon in Gemini - Fond of women, skilled in sexual science, red eyes, scientist, ambassador, curled hairs, clever knowledge in wit and human nature and gambling, handsome organs, sweet speech, good eater, fond of music, skilled in dancing, playing with impotents, high nose.

Sloka 4: Moon in Cancer - Walking incurves quickly, high buttocks, submissive to women, good friends, astrologer, many houses, waxing and waning wealth like the Moon, short, stout neck, amenable to kind words, fond of friends, water and gardens

Sloka 5: Moon in Leo - Angry, high or broad cheeks, coloured eyes, few children, hater of women, fond of flesh, wilderness and mountains, long displeasure, suffering from complaints arising out of hunger, thirst, stomach, teeth and mind; liberal, courageous fixed, proud mind and obedient to mother.

Sloka 6: Moon in Virgo - Walt and sight will be characterized by modesty, bent shoulders and hands, happy, sweet speaker, truthful, charitable, skilled in arts, learned in sastras, intelligent, passionate, possessed of other’s wealth and houses, foreign residence, calm speech, female children and few issues.

 Sloka 7: Moon in Libra - Fond of worship ping Gods, Brahmins, pious people, intelligent, clean, submissive to women, tall, long nose, weak and disjointed organs, traveller, rich, ill-developed organs, clever in merchandise, having the second name pertaining to God (meaning that he will not have the names of Gods as Rama, Krishna but that which denotes the names of Gods, as Shanmuga-six faced-Gangadhara, etc.), sickly, helping relations, and coerced and rejected by relations. (Another version is Penangaha having well-developed organs, but this will be inconsistent with what has already been stated).

Sloka 8: Moon in Scorpio - Broad eyes and chest, round knees, buttocks and thighs, separated from parents and Guru, sickly in infancy, respected by royal members, honey-color, cruel, has marks of fish, vajrayudha, and bird, secret sinner.

 Sloka 9: Moon in Sagittarius - Long face and neck, paternal wealth, liberal, poet, strong, clever speaker, thick teeth, ears, tips and nose; active worker, fine arts, bent shoulders bad nails, strong arms, highly intelligent, skilled in righteous knowledge, hater of relations and won over by fair means and kind words.

Sloka 10: Moon in Capricorn - Pleaser of wife and children, pretending charity, lean in the lower half, good eyes, lean buttocks, grasping intelligence, popular, idle, not able to bear cold, traveller, strong liberal, poet, learned, miserly, incestuous and low intercourse, shameless and merciless.

Sloka 11: Moon in Aquarius – Long neck like a camel, bulging veins and arteries, rough and closely haired, and long body, big legs, thighs, buttocks, back, waist, face, stubborn, fond of other’s wealth and women, and sinful, changeable fortune, surrounded by good flowers, scents and friends, bearing fatigue on the way.

Sloka 12: Moon in Pisces – Enjoying other’s wealth and aquatic articles, fond of wife and clothes, well proportioned and handsome body, prominent nose, big head, conquering enemies, submissive to women, charming eyes, enjoying treasure trove, lustrous articles, wealthy and learned.

Sloka 13: When the Moon, the sign in which he is, and its lord are powerful, the results indicated above will be fully verified. The other planetary results must be similarly suggested.

Index      Book Index