Do not get carried away by fancy names in astrology

There are two types of errors, one, known and the other, unknown. People have some set ideas about an ideal-good astrologer. He should wear dhothi, keep idols or pictures of the Gods, try to call him from parmapara and also if he is Kerelaite and the name ends with Panicker, he must be an excellent astrologer.

Before I go into this story, let me make it clear that I'am not blaming the Panickers some of them can be really good.

A big politician's son, a heavy weight in the present Manmohan Singh cabinet, wanted to fix the delivery date for his wife. It was given for 30 days. I had to fix three good lagans for each day and then out of those 90 lagnas, the top three had to be chosen. This was checked by his mother-in-law who herself knew some astrology. Then the date was frozen.

The doctor refused, as it was a Sunday. She was one of the leading doctors in Chennai. The case was shifted to Apollo hospital. Finally the delivery was done at 2.32 pm. The horoscope is as follows.

He really appreciated the calculations. The grandfather who is an extremely powerful politician today, was then nowhere in state politics, forget central politics. Within a year he was back in favour and became the main player in the present Manmohan cabinet. He was also the junior minister to Manmohan Singh when he was the finance minister.

He has a cousin whose wife conceived after many years and she had twins. This person's father-in-law had consulted Panicker in Kerala who had fixed the lagna as simha and the baby was born on June 5 at 10 .45 a.m and the other child at 10.50 a.m.

See the position of planets, Mars and Rahu in the 8 th house. Venus, Mercury and Saturn in the 12 th house. Moon in the 11 th house. Sun is the with moon. Ketu in the second house. When Panicker was confronted, he said, with many planets in 12 th house the person would sleep well. For mars nakshatra, the simha lagna is good because it is raja yoga.

What that man failed to understand is that mars is in the 8 th house and from Chandra it is the sixth lord. So where is raja yoga? With this, one child would have major health problems. When mercury and venus is in the graham yuda all raja yoga gets destroyed.

Maybe it is someone's destiny to suffer.

Then please truly understand and do not get carried away by names. I have seen some quacks posing as astrologers, when they don't know anything about astrology. I have also known some astrologers who keep a low profile in Kerela. In one of the test administered by a website for selection of astrologers, one astrologer of Kerela who has a big name and reputation failed the test which was elementary.

Remember whatever shloka anyone mugs or says is to justify the statement. It is the functional benefic and malefic of planets that take its course. Any planet in the 8 th house is bad whether simha lagna or not.