The Five Sounds of Astrology

Taurus: 9 Leo: 9 Ketu: 36

The following verses provide the numerical values (years) associated with the signs for the purpose of calculating a person's life expectancy.

The Calculation of Longevity

Taurus [is assigned] twenty-seven, Aries sixteen, and likewise Aries original: miṃḍhe; a vernacular or regional variant for Meṣa (Aries), Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Cancer. || 17 || In Capricorn, Sagittarius, and Virgo; in Pisces, Aries, and Scorpio; in Pisces, Cancer, and the Wolf original: vṛke; likely a variant or error for Leo or Scorpio, though literally "Wolf"; Aries, Virgo, and Sagittarius. || 18 || In Taurus, Aries, and Aquarius; and in Scorpio is proclaimed—

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—in Libra and Capricorn, the longevity Āyurdāya: a branch of Indian astrology focused on calculating the life span or "gift of years" provided by the planets and signs is determined in its proper order. || 19 ||

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Nineteen [years] in Cancer, and seventeen in Aries. Thirty-six [years] in Sagittarius, Taurus, and Virgo; and in Libra, thirty-six likewise. || 20 ||

Sagittarius: 26 Taurus: 27 Sagittarius: 28

In Scorpio, it should be known; eighteen original: nava-yugma, literally "a pair of nines" always in Sagittarius. In Libra, the years are the same as they are in Capricorn. || 21 ||

As in Aquarius and Taurus, so in Aries; as in Pisces, so in Sagittarius. Sixteen years in Aries, [and كذلك] with Gemini...

The text continues to list the specific year-values assigned to the remaining zodiac combinations.

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The diagram on this page is a North Indian style horoscope (Kundali). It serves as a visual calculator where the practitioner would place the planets to see which sign-based year-values apply to the birth chart being analyzed.