day on its axis the sun will be seen daily at a distance of one degree as
compared to the first day in the house of Cancer till after one month it will
be seen vertical to the first degree of the house of Leo. After one year, by
changing the celestial houses month by month it will reach the tenth degree of
the house of Cancer. It shows that the daily movement of the earth causes the
celestial houses to rise within one day and night from the horizon. Astrologers
call it fortunate movement or lagan or ascendant.
Forward and Backward
Movement of Celestial Houses: In the description of lagan
and entrance to the celestial houses the reference to the houses in the context
of auspicious movement pertains to eliciting the lagan meaning thereby that
which degree of which house is rising in and beginning from the eastern
horizon. It means that the celestial houses entering the eastern horizon will
the mentioned in the first cell while the second invisible celestial house on
the first is mentioned at its left in the second cell. Thus the first invisible
celestial houses are mentioned in an orderly manner in the hours cope or Lagan
kundli. Then the house in the west at the particular time will he mentioned in
the seventh cell. All the remaining celestial houses will be mentioned in their
actual order namely from the west to the east. Whichever star is in particular
celestial house will be mentioned accordingly. The Lagan kundli or horoscope
has a map of the sky pertaining to a particular time.
Study of the Celestial
Houses: The heaven also known as the
heaven of fixed stars or the heaven of celestial houses is illumined by
countless stars. Only almighty God knows its secret. The ancient sages have
established 360 degrees of heaven and divided it into 12 parts and each part
has been named after the shape formed by the congregation of stars. A celestial house is neither an
apartment nor a dome or a hillock. It is
twelfth part of the heaven by visual measurement. The ancient sages have
divided it through their own calculation into 108 degrees or charnas. Four
charnas together make one nakshatra or lunar mansion. The nakshatras are 27 in
number. Same as four charnas make one nakshatra, nine charnas together make one
celestial house. Since 108 charnas divided by 9 will give 12 parts. Modern
astrologers divided the entire heaven into twelve parts in which all stars move
in a fixed order. They do not stagger to the right or to the left.
Theoretically established heavenly parts are 12 in terms of celestial houses.
Each celestial houses has 2.25 nakshatras while every nakshatra consists of
four charnas. Out of a total 27 nakshatras the first one is Ashni and the 27th
or the last one is Revti. Among them, the first celestial house which begins
from Ashni nakshtra is named Aries Known to the Indins as Mesh Raashi. The
second celestial house is Taurus or Vrshya Raashi. The third is Gemini or
Mithun Raashi; the fourth is Cancer or
Kark Raashi; the fifth is the house of Leo or the Singh Raashi; the sixth is the house of Virgo or Kanya Raashi; the seventh is the house of Libra or the Tula
Raashi; the eighth is the house of Scorpio or Vrikshchak Raashi; the ninth is the house of Sagittarius or the Dhanu
Raashi; the tenth is the house of Copricorn or Makar Raashi; the eleventh is
the house of Aquarius or Kumbh Raashi, and the twelfth is the house of Pisces
or Meen Rashi which ends at Revti
nakshatra. These stages are described as the stages or flights of the sun and
one stage covers from one celestial house to another. The sun always performs
its annual movement thorough these stages.
Dr. A. Shanker
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