Birth details born on 8^th November 1470 ( o.s ) at midnight ( l.m.t ) latitude 31 39 N , longitude 74 47 E .

Planetary degrees  The sun 220 30 , moon 38 18 , mars 211  24 , mercury 232  24 , jupiter 164 30 , venus 186 , saturn 39  6 , rahu 263 48 , lagna 136 28 , ayanamsa 15  

1 ) Simha or leo rises unaspected by orunassociated with any malefics or benefics. The lagna is vargottama and even in the navamsa, the lagna is unafflicted. This gives an exalted nature and a strong will, and renders the horoscope fortified.

2 ) The sun, lord of lagna, is in the 4th in association with mercury and mars and aspected by the moon and saturn. The sun’s position in a kendra, in the sign of yoga-karaka mars, is highly favourable as it confers a frank and noble spirit and diverse capabilities.

3) The moon-saturn association gives mental conflicts and a spirit of inquiry. Born in a kshatriya family to kalu and tripta , nanak appears to have been even in his childhood a mystic disposition and given much to contemplation—blessings mainly due to the moon’s disposition with saturn and the sun’s occupation of the secret sign of scorpio .

4 ) Lord of the 2nd mercury, the planet of intelligence, is involved in mercury aditya yoga with the lord of lagna in the 4th house, while the 2nd or house of speech is occupied by jupiter, lord of the 5th. These explain nanak’s deep and versatile learning and persuasive eloquence.

5 ) It will be seen that the 4th and 10th houses two important kendras are largely influenced by five planets all natural malefics, except the full moon. Out of these five, the sun happening to be lagna lord , saturn happening to be a kendradhipati and mars , a yogakaraka have become benefics by ownership.

6 ) The martial planet mars , the intellectual and emotional planet mercury, the royal planet the sun ( also atma-karaka) and the mental and the philosophical planets the moon and saturn all involved in influencing two of the most important houses of the horoscope , viz., the 4th indicating happiness and achievement and the 10th (Karma) or the house of action, filled the guru with those great spiritual ideas and intuitions which led him to found a great sect.

7 ) Rahu’s position in the 5th does not favour happiness from children, but it does confer a certain spiritual outlook and the spirit of renunciation and detachment.

8 ) The Moon happens to be mokshasthanadhipati and he occupies the 10th with saturn, the planet of renunciation.

9 ) In the navamsa, again, the divine planet jupiter with mokshakaraka ketu is in the 10th ( karmasthana) aspected by saturn. These are formidable combinations capable of conferring real spiritual attainments after intense mental struggle, a conviction that he was born for achieving something unique in the world by spreading the gospel of the fatherhood of god and the brotherhood of man and sweet resignation to the will of God.

10 ) Mark the fact that saturn is also lord of the 6th. His association with the moon indicates that nanak had to overcome considerable opposition from hostile relatives and co-religionists.

11 ) Nanak was put to school in his 7th or 8th yearwhen he was undergoing the moon’s dasa . The moon has favourable aspects from planets situated in the 4th house. Consistent with the lordship of the moon ( he owns the 12th or mokshasthana ) nanak often surprised his schoolmaster and parents by his queer acts and utterances, and occasional sallies of free thought.

12 ) His spiritual prepossessions and mystic brooding spirit became clearly visible in the course of the moon’s dasa. It was in the moon’s dasa, that he was put to various secular tasks by his parents, but he began to get more and more absorbed in religious practices.

13 ) Guru nanak’s marriage took place in mars dasa . Mark the fact that mars is aspected by saturn, lord of the 7th and is in the 2nd from kalatrakaraka venus . Under the same directional influences nanak was appointed in the service of daulat khan.

14 ) However, as rahu dasa advanced, he abandoned his service and became an ascetic for all practical purposes. Note the fact that rahu is in the constellation of venus lord of the 10^th . Throughout jupiter dasa he wandered all over the country preaching his gospel of love and faith in god .

15 ) It will be seen that saturn, as lord of the 8th in the 10th, is aspected by jupiter, as lord of the 8th ( we shall here, for the moment, ignore that other benefic ownership of these two planets ) .

16) Consequently, during saturn’s dasa , nanak and his favourite disciple mardana were imprisoned by babar’s men. Subsequently, under the same dasa influences , nanak came in personal contact with babar and exercised considerable influence on the life and conduct of this emperor.

17 ) Towards the close of his life, the jupiter laying aside the garb of fakir settled down with his family at kharatpur and continued to teach the new faith to the large number of his followers.

18 ) In saturn’s dasa jupiter’s bhukti, he appointed one of his most sincere disciples as his spiritual heir ignoring his own son whom he thought unfit for the task and died at the fag end of jupiter bhukti. The major lord saturn owns the 7th, a maraka place, while the sub-lord jupiter as owning the 8th is in the 2nd another maraka place.

19 ) The horoscope is significant in as much as’ thepowerful rajayogas caused in the 4th house involving the 4th, 10th, 1st and 2nd houses found expression in spiritual channels, conferring on the native fame, influence and extraordinary greatness.

20 ) Owing to the glorified position of lagna and the sobering influence of saturn on lagna lord, in spite of all his greatness, he was simple and unassuming.

21 ) Five planets involved in mutual aspects and associations may be construed as some sort of a parivraja yoga .

22 ) Nanak’s faith was monotheistic. His life and doctrines did not expose him to persecution for he declared that all men had a right to search for knowledge of god.

23 ) The Sun is free from the effects of rahu and ketu . Hence the guru played a patriotic part by ably influencing babar and turning him into a kind ruler .

Birth details date of birth – 19 th July 3228 BC  , at about midnight , place Of birth – mathura , new delhi , latitude – 27 25 N , 77 41 E

Planetary degrees Sun 139  48 , moon 47 42 , mars 91  6 , mercury 152  48 , jupiter 148  54 , venus 102  54 , saturn 224  42 , rahu 106 24 , lagna 50 ayanamsa 50 40 

Lagna taurus , lagna lord venus  , lagna star mrighashira ( ma ) , moon – rohini 2 pada , moon star – moon

1 ) Combinations made lord krishna famous belong to kings family sun , venus & jupiter are in proximity 5^th house is occupied by jupiter and mercury .

2 ) Mars & Jupiter have linked to 10 through ketu .

3 ) Sun is in 4^th house indicates straight forwardness and open chested walking style .

4 ) Mars is in 3^rd house indicates courage .

5 ) Ketu is giving result of mars ( in jupiter star ) . But ketu is signifying 09 ( federal ) and 10 ( profession ) should have eluded kingly power but remained as prince .

6 ) Saturn 05 , 07 and 09 which can cause multiple romances and marriages flouting conventional rules .

7 ) The lagna is taurus or vrishabha, asign of venus, and it is occupied by the moon and aspected by saturn making sri Krishna extremely handsome.

8 ) The dominance of the influences of the moon and venus, with saturn and mars, made the lord’s appearance, wonderfully graceful .

9 ) Lagna lord venus is in his own navamsa .

10) His invincible prowess in the field of battle is brought out by the neecha-bhanga of the martial planet mars in the 3rd or house of courage. It must be noted that he defeated mighty sisupala and other kings and formidable foes by dint of courage, tact and resourcefulness.

11 ) The moon, the planet of emotion, is exalted in lagna, and unafflicted by rahu conferring great serenity of mind, while mercury the planet of intellect who owns the 2nd or house of speech is exalted in the 5th or house of intelligence. This is a unique combination denoting wonderful intelligence and extraordinary conversational ability. His was a giant intellect unequalled in analytic understanding. He passed through the virtues and deceptions of the thoughts of his day. He was superior to any thinker of his times.

12 ) Krishna possessed an uncanny diplomacy and unbounded vision and this should be attributed to the ideal disposition of Mercury.

13 ) Jupiter is in the 4th. Sri krishna was a man of rich and responsive human sympathy but the sun’s association in his own place rendered krishna a terror to the wicked and a friend to the wise .

14 ) The 10th lord aspects the lagna, the atmakaraka sun and the planet of dharma jupiter, in their turn aspect the 10th. Consequently He possessed a passionate zeal to safeguard Dharma.

15 )Krishna’s birth in prison is justified by the association ofthe lords of lagna ( venus ) and the 12th ( mars ) with rahu .

16 ) Jupiter, lord of the 11th (elder brothers and sisters), has gained 8 navamsas and is in the 9th. He is aspected by saturn in rasi and has joined rahu in navamsa . It must be noted that krishna was the 8th issue, all the eider ones having been put to death by Kamsa .

17 ) Due to the exaltation of matrukaraka moon and the situation of pitrukaraka sun in his own house with jupiter, his parents were long-lived .

18 ) Both kalatrakaraka venus and the 7th lord mars together, with rahu, explain the fact that krishna had a number of wives. But as venus is near rahu and away from the sensual planet mars , his love for his wives had no taint of carnality as he was free from attachment of any kind . Though “associated with prakriti, He was never affected by its qualities”.

19 ) Birth in a sign of venus no doubt endowed him with a vital nature but it was under conscious control.

20 ) Mercury, exalted in the 5th or house of children, occupies the constellation of the sun while jupiter putrakaraka is in association with the sun, with the result he had innumerable children born to him.

21 ) The 4th or house of education is considerably fortified due to the presence of jupiter and the sun-jupiter occupying the constellation of venus. It is said that Krishna became an expert in “siksha, kalpas, vedangas and all the vedas, and also in archery mimamsa, logical and six expedients of politics” and that “within 64 days and nights” He became “an expert in sixty-four forms of learning”.

22 ) The Moon, though excellently placed,owns the 3rd while mars, as ruling the 7th, is a definite maraka. Consequently practically throughout the dasas of the moon and mars, which extended till the native was aged about 11 years, krishna suffered from severe strokes of balarishta in the sense that he faced many a crisis in His life, especially from those deputed by kamsa to slay him.

23 ) Probably at the fag end of kuja Dasa , krishna put to death his maternal uncle and tyrant kamsa- as we have already said. Mars as lord of the 7th in association with venus, lord of the 6th (enemies), in the 3rd (an upachaya) enabled krishna to achieve victory over His greatest enemy and thus tide over the maraka period.

24 ) His subsequent exploits in disposing off innumerable wicked kings, in saving the pious and the god-fearing from death and in trying to prevent the fatricidal war between the kauravas and the pandavas are a legion and students of astrology can study them in the light of the lord’s horoscope.

25 ) The most important event is his part in the mahabharata war, which took place about 3138 B.C. when ketu dasa was in progress in the Lord’s horoscope. Ketu is in the 9th, the house of saturn, whose results ketu should give.

26 ) Saturn is yogakaraka and occupies the 7th having gained digbala or directional strength . Krishna’s part in the mahabharata war is well known. As charioteer to arjuna, He remained a silent observer of the war, but directed “the movements to accomplish His final object of destroying the wicked and protecting the innocent”.

27 ) Ketu is mokshakaraka and he is in the 9th in the constellation of the moon aspected by the martial planet mars . And saturn, as we have already seen, is immensely fortified. It was at the fag end of ketu Dasa, that the immortal bhagavadgita was taught by the lord to arjuna, on the battle-field, before the war commenced, when arjuna, overcome by emotional weakness, shirked from his duty as a kshatriya to fight for a just cause.

28 ) In the remaining dasas of venus, the sun and the moon, krishna passed a peaceful and happy life. With the dawn of kuja dasa again dissensions amongst yadavas broke out. Finally krishna shuffled off his mortal coil under the same directional influences. It will be seen that mars as lord of the 7th is a definite maraka and he occupies the 3rd, a house of longevity, with rahu.

29 ) In the navamsa again mars is in the 2nd, a house of maraka. Consistent with the nature of mars , krishna departed by being hit by an arrow. When krishna was sitting under an aswatha tree in a forest, a fowler named jara, thinking the foot of krishna to be like the face of a deer, mistakenly shot his arrow. According to bhagavata, the lord departed to his own abode vaikunta “in person”.

30 ) It is impossible for ordinary mortals to evaluate thepersonality of sri krishna— the lord incarnate, statesman, counsellor, diplomat, philosopher, yogeeswara, the expounder of the immortal bhagavadgita, the destroyer of the wicked and the protector of the pious . All the three important factors in His horoscope, viz., the lagna, the sun and the moon have been rendered strong. atmakaraka sun with the gnanakaraka jupiter aspecting the 10th or karmasthana reveals an integrated and balanced personality.

31 ) Yogakaraka saturn is vargottama and has digbala. His aspecting the sun and jupiter and his being placed in his own constellation are favourable factors rendering the nativity strong and sound. Since saturn happens to be ayush-karaka also, his strong disposition conferred a long life of 125 years.

32 ) Mercury’s exaltation in a trikona—as lord of the 2nd ( speech) in the 5th (intelligence) denotes wonderful and extraordinary intellect. It will be seen that lagna lord venus is with two malefics. This combination plus the kendra position of jupiter and the sun indicates perfection of all aspects of His personality. He was an ideal father and an ideal son, an ideal king, an ideal husband, an ideal statesman and an ideal teacher. He showed the way to do things, to do one’s duty, by being non-attached and he illustrated this in his own life.

Nadi Astrology is over 2000 years old . The sapta rishis (or the famous seven sages) of the hindu tradition had written about the life and destiny of persons to be born in this world . In a typical nadi leaves reading, there will be 16 khandams ( chapters ) . Out of this, the first twelve will be an interpretation of the first twelve houses in a person’s horoscope. The four additional “ khandams” are

a) Santhi Khandam: This deals with the sins committed in earlier births and the respective remedies. This is similar to the remedies that we suggest in reading of charts. It may involve visits to certain specific temples and performance of havans.

b) Deksha Khandam: Here the deity favouring the seeker, and the mantra is indicated. It may also involve wearing of a particular lucky charm , which would favour the seeker.

c) Aushada Khandam: This deals with the seeker’s chronic diseases, and what medicines are to be taken to cure them.

d) Dasa Bukthi Khandam: This deals with the native’s current dasa and bukthi and its implications.