Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்):Saturn (சனி)

Saturn (In Sanskrit - Shani) is darkness, the enemy of light. name of Shani (Saturn) brings a deep sense of fear and apprehension. But wisdom consists in learning through all the difficulties in life, and rising above it as a more enlightened human being. This is the basic philosophy that Saturn conveys. When it is well placed in the seventh house, or well aspected, it gives its natives integrity, wisdom, spirituality, fame, patience, ability to lead, authority, long life, organizational abilities, sincerity, honesty, love of justice, awareness of right and wrong (because it rules the inner conscience), nonattachment, and asceticism. When it is ill-posited or ill-aspected it brings miseries, sorrow, delay, obstruction, disappointment, disharmony, disputes, dejection, difficulties, despondency, and destruction (death). It makes its natives undisciplined, irresponsible, dishonest, dull, and addicted to drugs, sadistic, greedy, lonely and afraid. Accidents, humiliation, prison, lawsuits, suicidal tendencies, fear of theft, thefts, blame, enmity, pessimism, and premature aging are also attributed to an ill-aspected or ill-posited Saturn. In the body, Saturn rules the nails, hair, teeth, bones, and nervous system .Diseases of the ears, jaundice, gout, deafness, depression, anxiety, insanity, and asthma are also connected with a Saturn that is ill-aspected or badly placed in the birth chart.

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்):Mars (செவ்வாய்)

Mars is a masculine, dry, and fiery planet. It is said to be the commander-in-chief of the assembly of the nine planets. It is also personified as the god of war. Mars provides a person with independent individuality and idealism. This planet rules the signs of Aries and Scorpio. While mars is known to give open aggressiveness to Arians, the aggressiveness is much secretive in Scorpio. Martians are also known for strong passionate and sexual affiliations. Mars is a warrior by nature-bile-dominated in temperament – and it rules over courage, bravery, patience, self-confidence, leadership abilities, physical strength, forcefulness, violence, animal nature, cattle, land as property, earth, fire, saffron, musk, mercury (the metal), cuts, burns, bruises, anger, hatred, impulsive nature, and insensitivity. Mars makes its natives short-tempered, argumentative; lovers of weapons, guns, and explosives; commanders; generals; soldiers; and policeman. It also gives them great technical and mechanical abilities and makes them builders, designers, engineers, and good surgeons. Mars is fond of law and order – and arrangement. It gives energy, determination, great administrative ability, and independent spirit.

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்):Venus (சுக்ரன்)

Venus is benefic, feminine and gentle. The quality it attributes are romance, love for fine things in life, luxuries, wealth, food, costumes, jewellery, sensual pleasures, inclination towards arts, music, beauty and tasteful living. An embodiment of love, he is a benefic planet and governs the refined attributes, romance, beauty, sensuality, passion, sexual pleasure, marriage, love matters, comforts, luxuries, jewelry, wealth, prosperity, art, music, dance, theater, actors, poets, musicians, the season of spring, rains and aquatic creatures. In the body he rules over the reproductive system, eyes, throat, chin, cheeks, and kidneys. Mercury and Saturn are its friends and the Sun and Moon are its enemies. Mars and Guru are neutral in friendship to Venus even though Venus considers Guru its enemy. Taurus and Libra are the zodiacal signs whom Venus rules, and Venus gives good results when placed in theses signs. When rightly aspected Venus is strong, and it brings wealth, comfort, attraction to the opposite sex in the early part of life, a well-proportioned body, and the attractive features necessary for a sensuous nature. It makes its natives tender, gentle, and considerate; lovers of jewelry, sour (pungent) taste, white dress, decoration, perfume, tasty food, and the fine arts. It inspires them to be poets, musicians, and seekers of truth and knowledge (secret sciences). The native loves the company of the members of the opposite sex, artists, and musicians.

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்):Guru (குரு)

Known as the planet of luck, Guru is responsible for all the success, fortune, intellect and religious aspects of our lives. guru signifies high ambitions, knowledge and accomplishments. Consequently, it is a prominent planet in charts of successful priests, religious leaders, politicians, and people pursuing deep knowledge. Guru is the teacher of the science of light, that is, astrology and astronomy. He is the ruler of the Sun and the Moon and controls the movement of the planets. Guru is a benefic planet, signifier of luck and fortune, and he rules religion, philosophy, spirituality, wealth, and progeny. He is noble, buoyant, dignified, fruitful, optimistic, jovial, and masculine. If favorable, this planet gives name, fame, success, honor, wealth, progeny and good relationship with progeny, and it brings benefits to whatever planets or house it is associated with. The color of Guru is yellow. Thursday is his day, and north-east is his direction. He is big, old looking, and has a pot belly. He is self-illuminating (this is said also in Western astronomy). One of his names is Guru, which means “heavy’ (in weight) and also “teacher”.

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்):Ketu (கேது)

Ketu, like Rahu, is a shadow planet. It is not a physical or celestial entity, but the south node of the two nodes formed when earth`s trajectory around Sun intersects moon`s trajectory around earth. It is a malefic planet, and is always 180 degrees apart from that of Rahu. Ketu is the rest of the body of Rahu; it bestows spiritual tendencies, asceticism, and nonattachment to worldly desires and ambitions. Ketu is also a half-planet that bestows wisdom, powers of discrimination, and gyana-spiritual knowledge, and the knowledge of the self. It gives psychic abilities to its natives and makes them masters of the healing arts, natural healing, healing herbs, spices, foods, tantric healing, healing persons affected by evil spirits and ghosts. Ketu’s sign is Pisces – as Rahu’s is Virgo. The sign Pisces belongs to guru Guru, and Ketu also has dominion over it. Ketu’s body is supposed to be composed of a man’s torso in its upper half and a fish body as its lower half.

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்): Rahu (ராகு)

Rahu is not an actual planet. In reality, it is an intelligent concept unique to Indian astrology. The two nodes where Earth`s trajectory round the Sun, and Moon`s trajectory around the earth intersects are named as Rahu and Ketu. Consideration of these two Lunar nodes /imaginary planets lends more precision to analysis in astrology. Rahu is regarded as similar to Saturn in its effect. Smoky blue is its color, instinctual and animalistic its nature. Rahu is interested only in achieving all that gives pleasure, and even if it achieves all it wants, it is never satisfied (which is true of our animalistic nature). Although Rahu rules no sign of the zodiac, the zodiacal sign Virgo is its sign. Virgo is in fact assigned to Mercury, but Rahu being akin to Saturn and Mercury being a friend of Saturn, Rahu thus has authority over Virgo. Friendly signs are Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Cancer and Leo are its enemy signs. Mercury, Venus, and Saturn are friendly planets. Rahu is an enemy of Sun, Moon, and Mars. Rahu gives auspicious results in Taurus and Libra. Rahu is capable of giving power when rightly posited or exalted, and it gives fame, success in politics, money, and physical beauty (i.e., attraction).

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்):Moon (சந்திரன்)

Moon is the presiding deity of the element water, and rules over the tides of the sea. The sphere of the Moon is the reservoir of rainwater and thus Moon is the ruler of plants and the vegetable kingdom. The color of Moon is white. Its nature is wise, and learned. It rules peace of mind, comfort, general well-being, and also the fortune of a person. It shows its influence around twenty-four to twenty-five years of age. The Moon gives illumination, intuitive nature, sensuality, taste, youth, and love of poetry, fine arts and music, love of jewelry, attractive appearance, wealth and good fortune. It makes us moody, emotional, and sensitive. Moon is responsible for our fertility, growth, long distance travel, mental peace, memory, relation with our mother and childbirth. A good and powerful moon provides us with good emotional strength and harmonious life. A weak moon can cause mental anxiety, emotional disturbance, and tough relations with our mother and people around us. It rules milk, grains, liquids, growth, fertility, impregnation, and conception. It influences the infant stage of an individual, which guides his behavior in the later in the later part of his life. It is cold and moist. It also influence childbirth and rules the left nostril, eyesight, the breasts, and the brain (memory). Moon influences travelers, human, fisherman, prostitutes, cooks, nurses, and caterers.

Sun, Mars, and Guru are Moon’s natural friends, and Mercury, Venus, and Saturn are its natural enemies. In Rohini, Hast, Shravan, Punarvasu, Vishaka, and Purva Bhadrapad nakshatras it gives good and beneficial effect. It also gives favorable effects if it is in Kritika, Uttra Phalguni, Ashlekha, Jyestha, Uttra Khad, and Revati nakshatras.

Nature of Planets (கிரகங்களின் குணங்கள்): Sun (சூரியன்)

The Sun, according to the Vedas, is the parent of all existing phenomena in the solar system. He is the ruler of all the planets that rotate around him. Sun bestows willpower, energy and fortune to each and every individual, enabling them to live life to its grandest. Right from the looks of a being, to his personality, wisdom and achievements, Sun has the dominant role to play. Sun provides with the physical, as well as psychological makeup of a person. Its benevolence is received by kings, leaders, politicians, artists, jewelers, gemologists, actors etc.  The Sun is considered to be the soul of Kala Purusha (Kala = time, Purusha = being; combined, it means the being that binds himself to Time). Its colored is blood red, its nature is bile-dominated, and it is the lord of the direction east. It is the ruler of the zodiacal sign, Leo, and is exalted in the sign Aries, debilitated in Libra, and exiled in Aquarius. The Moon, Mars, and Guru are its natural friends, and Venus, Saturn, Rahu (dragon’s head, or the north node of the Moon), and Ketu (dragon’s tail, the south node of the Moon) are its natural enemies. Nakshatras Kritika, Uttra Phalguni, and Uttra Khad are ruled by the Sun.

What your Birth Month means- May

* Stubborn and hard-hearted

* Strong-willed and highly motivated

* Sharp thoughts

* Easily angered

* Attracts others and loves attention

* Deep feelings

* Beautiful physically and mentally

* Firm standpoint

* Easily influenced

* Needs no motivation

* Easily consoled

* Systematic (left brain)

* Loves to dream

* Strong clairvoyance

* Understanding

* Sickness usually in the ear and neck

* Good imagination

* Good debating skills

* Good physical

* Weak breathing

* Loves literature and the arts

* Loves travelling

* Dislike being at home

* Restless

* Hardworking

* High spirited

* Spendthrift

What your Birth Month means- April

* Active and dynamic

* Decisive and hasteful but tends to regret

* Attractive and affectionate to oneself

* Strong mentality

* Loves attention

* Diplomatic* Consoling

* Friendly and solves people's problems

* Brave and fearless

* Adventurous

* Loving and caring

* Suave and generous

* Emotional

* Revengeful

* Aggressive

* Hasty

* Good memory

* Moving

* Motivate oneself and the others

* Sickness usually of the head and chest

* Easily get too jealous