Re: What if you don't know your time of birth?
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Yes, there are several techniques. Within 1 hr of one's birth much can happen.
First the aspirant needs to find out if the lagna ( ascendant) changes within that 11 to 12 time period.
Note that there are 12 signs, 30º each , so in a 24 hr. period the lagna will change every two hours ( 12 X 2 = 24 hours = 1 day).
Then one can see by behavior if one takes on the characteristics of one sign (rāśi¹ verses another and make the right choice of which sign one was born.
Then one's sign is a least known; This assists by seeing all the grāhaka ¹ (planet's) locations in general will be ~fixed~. Yet the moon can move from one rāśi and/or nakṣatra ¹ ( or even pada; 4 pada's to 1 nakṣatra) to another. So more refinement is needed, hence:
- A competent jyotiṣa will look at the various daśa periods to ascertain events in one's life: marriage, school, etc. and this will help refine the time.
- A competent jyotiṣa will look to the technique of vigati to better define the minute of birth as this will tell him/her of a male or female birth.
- Vigati is vi + gati
- vi = is interesting as it means the following: Most likely from an original dvi , meaning 'in two parts' Hence your 'departing from mother' is the application here. It also means apart , asunder. Again leaving mother, so the key here is to express 'division' & 'distinction' i.e. mother and child.
- gati = state , condition , situation , proportion , mode of existence
Hence vi + gati is the time, state or condition of division or distinction. Hence , applied to one's birth time i.e. male or female. If a time is generally calculated, and it does not meet the
vigati result, then one adjusts the birth time to get the proper gender.
Please note that I have no desire to do these calculations, but offer the concepts to the reader for their consideration.
praṇām
words
- rāśi राशि- is a heap, a mass, a pile, a group; in joytiṣ it is the name given to sign, as a collection point.
- grāhaka - one who siezes or takes captivegraha ग्रह- seizing , laying hold of , holding i.e. a graha ~seizes~ or influences the circumstances of the native.
- nakṣatra's - an asterism or constellation through which the moon passes some call lunar mansion ; 27 , later 28 , i.e. śraviṣṭhā or dhaniṣṭhā , śata-bhiṣaj , pūrva-bhadrapadā , uttara-bhadrapadā , revatī , aśvinī , bharaṇī , kṛttikā , rohiṇī or brāhmī , mṛga-śiras or āgrahāyaṇī , ārdrā , punarvasū or yāmakau , puṣya or sidhya , āśleṣā , maghā , pūrva-phalgunī , uttara-phalgunī , hasta , citrā , svātī , viśākhā or rādhā , anurādhā , jyeṣṭha , mūla , pūrvāṣāḍhā , uttarāṣāḍhā , śravaṇa ; abhijit ( is the 28th and has special qualities)
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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