The Celestial Tree of Astrology (1922) - Page 4

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original: "Slokas"


71	Planetary combinations original: "Yogas" leading to the ritual touching of clarified butter original: "Ajyasparsa"; traditionally a ritual act, but here linked to physical risks, risk of fire or small-pox.
72	Combinations making a person foul-mouthed, fretful and wicked.
73	Combinations producing gracious looks.
74	Combinations leading to tooth and tongue diseases.
75	Combinations leading to (1) a throat-disease (2) poverty and (3) every kind of disease.
76	Combinations leading to dumbness.
77	Planetary conditions making a person literate or otherwise.
78	The combination leading to the risk of death in a duel.
	The combination leading to wind disease likely referring to "Vata" disorders in Ayurvedic medicine, such as joint pain or digestive gas.
78½	Another combination producing dumbness.
79-80	Combinations producing eloquence.
81-82	The combinations under which a person becomes a mathematician.
83	The combinations under which a person becomes a dialectician a scholar of logic and reasoned argument.
84	The combinations under which a person becomes a grammarian a specialist in the complex rules of language, highly regarded in Vedic tradition.
85	The combinations under which a person becomes an ontologist one who studies the nature of being and existence.
86	The combinations under which a person becomes proficient in several sciences.
87	The combinations under which a person becomes beneficent and protects a large number of people.
89	✓ Combinations leading to the loss of one or more wives.
	✓ Combinations under which one will be a monogamist.
90	The several combinations under which a person may have eating plates of gold, silver or other metal.
	The combination under which it is the lot of a person to eat unwholesome food.
91	The combination leading to gluttony.
92	The combination under which one gets agreeable meals.
93	The combination under which a person has to be a parasite one who lives or eats at the expense of others.
94	The combination under which one always gets timely meals.
95	The combination under which a person becomes an epicure someone with a refined and luxurious taste in food and drink.
96	The combinations under which a person has to be continuously eating in ancestral rites original: "Sraddhas"; religious ceremonies where food is offered to deceased ancestors and then consumed by participants.
97	The combinations under which a person patronises a great many people.

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