Vishdhar Kaal Sarp dosha forms when Rahu sits in the 11th house, Ketu in the 5th, and all seven planets lie on one side of them. Why its name misleads and many astrologers count it among the milder types, what Rahu in the 11th does to gains and networks, what Ketu in the 5th does to romance, speculation and children, why the 11th house matters in every KP promise, where the lagna falls, timing, and two charts from practice.
Sheshnag Kaal Sarp dosha forms when Rahu sits in the 12th house, Ketu in the 6th, and all seven planets lie on one side of them. What Rahu in the 12th does to foreign settlement, spending, sleep and inner life, why Ketu in the 6th is counted a good placement, why nearly every ascending Sheshnag chart is a night birth, how it compares with Mahapadma, the KP checks for residence abroad and expenditure, timing, and two charts from practice.
The avasthas table on your chart gives every planet an age, from Bala the infant to Mrita, and a share of its results. How the five Baladi states are worked out, why the order reverses in even signs, what the strength percentages mean, why eight Atmakarakas in ten are Bala or Mrita, why every gandanta planet is Bala, why an exalted planet can be Mrita, the other avastha systems, timing, and two charts from practice.
Every planet has one house where it is directionally strongest and one where it has no directional strength at all. Where each planet gains digbala and why, how often it happens, what full strength and no strength mean in practice, why a digbala planet always sits in a kendra and often forms a Mahapurusha yoga, the Sun at noon and birth time, how digbala feeds into Shadbala, timing, and two charts from practice.
Shadbala adds six kinds of strength into one figure for each planet: position, direction, time, motion, natural rank and aspect. What each strength measures, how rupas and virupas work, the minimum each planet needs, why retrograde planets score high, why two programs can give different totals for the same chart, how to read the numbers without over-reading them, and two charts where Shadbala and dignity pointed in different directions.
Ashtakavarga scores every sign of the chart with bindus, benefic points contributed by the seven planets and the lagna, and it is the most practical tool in Parashari astrology for judging transits. How the bindus are counted, each planet’s fixed total, what a good Sarvashtakavarga score is, why the 11th house usually scores highest and the 7th and 12th lowest, how to read a transit by its bindus, kakshya timing within a sign, and two charts where the bindus explained a transit.
About four charts in ten have at least one planet within a pada of a gandanta junction, the point where a water sign hands over to a fire sign and a Mercury nakshatra to a Ketu nakshatra. What gandanta means, where the three knots sit and when the Sun crosses them, how common it is, the Moon and the lagna in gandanta, the water side and the fire side, how it differs from Gand Mool, timing, the traditional shanti, and two charts from practice.
The Sun becomes the Atmakaraka in about one chart in six, almost always in the last ten days of a solar month, and it is then both the natural and the chosen significator of the soul. What that doubling means, why seven-karaka and eight-karaka charts can disagree, the soul lesson of authority without ego, the Sun in each sign and in the key houses, the Karakamsha, the Amatyakaraka and Darakaraka beside it, timing, and two charts from practice.
The Moon becomes the Atmakaraka in about one chart in seven, for a few hours before most of its changes of sign, which makes it the most time-sensitive Atmakaraka of all. What it means when the mind is the soul’s teacher, why a one-hour error can change it, the eight-karaka alternative, the lesson of feeling without being ruled by it, waxing and waning Moons, the Moon in each house, its dignity, the Karakamsha and the karakas beside it, timing and Sade Sati, and two charts from practice.
Mars becomes the Atmakaraka in about one chart in seven, and then the soul’s lesson is about force: courage, conflict, protection and the discipline of anger. How often Mars leads and how steady its place is, the lesson itself, siblings and land, why an Atmakaraka Mars in Capricorn or Cancer sits close to its exact exaltation or fall, the six possible Amatyakarakas beside it, retrograde and combust cases, the houses, the Karakamsha and spouse, timing, and two charts from practice.