What does Exaltation or Debilitation means?

What does Exaltation or Debilitation means?

Hello Every one, in continuation with my previous posts here's another one.

There are several indicators "given" in KP, and must not only be considered, but must also be both integrated and synthesized into your analysis before a final determination is made. But according to sizing up an event, only the house results are offered - so where does that leave the sign effects that the planet is placed in - such as the planet's exalted or debilitated status? Here is where much confusion seems prevalent in KP assessments- especially when a planet is badly placed in the 8th or 12th house, but simultaneously exalted in status. Or when a planet is in a debilitated state, but posited in the benefic 11th house? How do we assess these results?

Exaltation and Debilitation are "strength" and "weakness" indicators respectively, and therefore their specific job is to give us an idea of how much "muscle" (strength or weakness) the planet carries - within its environment - to carry out its function determined by its house placement. So if a planet is strong due to exaltation, but badly placed in the 12th, the planet does not change its role and become good for the 12th house, but rather the effects are that the planet will not hasten to quickly carry out the functions for his position in any given house, and will therefore quickly bring about loss (or other 12th house function) in a very timely manner. Why? Because he has the strength to act quickly and with no delay, and he is very comfortable where he is positioned in his exalted status. He works fast because he is in a happy and exalted state - caring not that he is working quickly to bring about less than fortunate events. He's just doing his job with the muscle provided to do it with. When the planet has established a set of results that need to be carried out due to his star level placement, exaltation does not absolve him of the adverse results that need to be carried out, and subsequently make the results pleasant. This is simply not the way exaltation and debilitation work, nor is it part of their role as "strength indicators" for a planet. The planets do not give contrary results due to their strength status.

So, also, do we judge the effects of a planet posited in a good house but in the state of debilitation. This debilitated planet will still carry out the positive acts for the house in which he is posited, but his strength factor will not allow him to do so quickly or in a timely manner. So the result is that he will eventually bring the good effects about, but not in a timely manner or with speed under his wings. He only carries enough strength to respond to his mission in a slow and delayed manner because he is not happy being posited where he is and at the degree at which he is debilitated, but he has a job to do and will carry it out and do his job, but NOT in a manner contrary to what his position indicates - it will just be carried out at a snails pace.

Hope this post helped you learn something. . . Until next one God Speed :)

Exaltation and Debilitation in KP Astrology

Exaltation and Debilitation in KP Astrology

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Today I will talk about various doubts over 2 very important aspect in KP Astrology i.e. Exaltation and Debilitation of planets.There appears to be some prevailing confusion about exactly what Exaltation and Debilitation actually mean in evaluation of a KP chart. So below is a brief overview of the planetary interactions, followed by my attempts at explaining the effects of exaltation and debilitation, and their usage in KP, according to my understanding of the basic and primary teachings of the KP system.

We already know that a planet moving under the influence of his star lord, will act according to the dictates of that star lord. With that in mind, we are also well aware that the planet will predominately offer the results of the house in which the star lord is posited, in addition to the house(s) owned by the star lord. Then, the planet itself, offers the results of the house it occupies and the house(s) it owns. So basically each planet has a role to play, and both the star lord and the planet combine their influence to determine whether the event will be favorable or not.

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General Strength of a Planet

Hello Everyone, Today I will put across the basic 4 ways to calculate the strength of a planet. These are

Strength by House:

1. A planet gives first and foremost the results of the strength of the house occupied by the planet, and secondly by the owner of the house.

2. When determining the house strengths, the angles or angular houses are first in strength (1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th), followed by the succedent houses (2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th), and lastly the cadent houses (3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th).

3. The owners of houses 6, 8, or 12 (and these are counted from ANY particular house to be judged) becomes weak, evil, or malefic in effects.

Strength by Sign:

1. A planet is strong when it is in its own or exalted sign. A planet is weak when it is afflicted, and/or in its detriment or fall (debilitated) sign.

2. The nature of the sign - for example - cardinal, fixed, or moveable, fire, earth, air or water sign, fruitful or barren sign, human or bestial sign, mute or voice sign, masculine or feminine sign, on the cusp of the planet posited there, influences the affairs of the house and the planet.

Strength by Aspect:

1. A planet on conjunction or associated with or aspected by a malefic (for example - the owners of the 6th, 8th, or 12th), becomes weak and afflicted.

2. An aspecting planet modifies the results of the house matters according to its natural benefic or malefic, friendly or inimical state.

Nakshatra System:

1. A planet becomes strong if its star lord is strong by house, sign, and aspect; and it will be in a position to give the results indicated by its star lord to the desired extent.

2. A planet becomes weak if its star lord is weak by house, sign, and aspect, and it will not be in a position to give the results indicated by its star lord to the desired extent.

I hope you find this article nice. . . Until next one. . . God Speed :)

KP Star and Sub lord Table

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Thanks a Lot for those wonderful e-mail's with your valuable comments and suggestions.
One of my dear reader Abhijeet has asked me to post the Nakshatra table and the KP Star Lord and Sub Lord Table.

Please click on the images below to open them in a new window and then you can either save them on your local hard drive or you can take a printout of the same which would come as a handy tool for all of you. But I'll suggest you to keep this blog in bookmark as there are lots of things to come by. Until then. . . God Speed :)


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KP Star Lord and Sub Lord Table