Foreign Travel – A Close Study by Iranganti Rangacharya

Article by Iranganti Rangacharya

In modern times, foreign travel is considered as a class of Rajayoga. Some leave their land and become permanent residents of foreign country. Some go abroad in quest of job, business or education and return to the native land. In either case, they would be sure off better prospects in life. Apropos, one goes abroad is deemed to have been enjoying Bhagya, Rajayogas, etc. either in the foreign country or in native land. Many in our country feel that foreign travel has become a major qualification for budding bridegrooms. And “Pravesha Bharateeya” has become a respectable term. Hence, the inquiries of the yogas leading to foreign travel are commonly asked of astrologers.

But if we peep into the ancient times, the picture looks quite different. Foreign travel was considered as heinous and wearisome. It was perforce due to a wretched background of life. The return of anybody to the native land who had been abroad was rarely hoped. Even if one were to return by chance, disdain and disrespect from society were the consequential returns to such a one.

Hence, people were not inclined to go abroad of their own accord. It would be due to banishment or excommunication. It could be due to one’s own poverty, dejection, despair, or due to an inability to bear with the insult and humiliation from the society or one’s own kith and kin. One who sojourned in the foreign country was called a pravasee used in the sense of contempt and humiliation, since the pravasee was thought to be the cause of grief, distress, disrespect of his kith and kin, while in the present times he is the source of good fortune and prosperity to his family. Yogas for videsa yana are termed as Pravesa Yogas also and these are dealt in our classical texts of Astrology keeping in view the prevailing background of predicament then without any reference or connection of any class of Rajayoga. Hence, it is for us now to prudently alienate those rules for foreign travel preferably in the presence of Rajayoga in the horoscope.

Rules for Foreign Travel:

1. Lagna lord in the 12th house while Mars, Moon and a malefic are in the 10th house – the native is distressed, unhappy and poverty-stricken and goes to a foreign country.
2. The 10th lord in the 6th, 8th or 12th causes Duryoga and makes the native insignificant, selfish and compels him to go abroad.
3. The Sun, Moon and Saturn in one sign – the native is roguish and deceitful and goes to a foreign country to apply his cheating tricks for his subsistence.
4. Saturn, Mars and Venus in one sign – the native will be driven out by his bad sons to seek refuge in a foreign country.
5. Venus, Moon, Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn in a sign – the native becomes a lunatic and lives in solitude in a foreign country.
6. If the 12th lord from the sign occupied by lagna lord is inimical to Lagna lord or in debilitation, the person lives in a foreign country.
7. If the Moon is in the 12th house, the native goes abroad.
8. If the 4th lord is in the 12th house the person lives in a foreign land.
9. If the native’s birth star is the 27th, 11th, 12th or 13th counted from the birth star of his father, the native causes distress and grief to his father by going abroad.
10. Ketu in the 4th house makes the native lose his lands, vehicles, mother and happiness and go abroad.
11. If the Sun is exalted or closely associated with an exalted planet, the native will have enmity with his relatives and friends and leaves his native land for a foreign country out of anger, distress or displeasure.
12. Mars, Mercury and Saturn in one sign – unable to keep the pot boiling in the native land, the native goes abroad.
13. Sun and Mars in the 7th house unhappy marital life and hence leaves his native land for a foreign country to live alone.
14. Jupiter in the 9th house aspected by the Moon and Saturn – the person lives in a foreign country.
15. Jupiter in the 9th house aspected by Mars and Saturn – the person goes abroad.
16. Mars and Venus in the 9th house – the person goes abroad.
17. The Sun, Mercury and Mars in the 9th house – the person goes abroad.
18. The Sun, Mercury and Saturn in the 9th house – the person goes abroad.
19. Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn in the 9th house – the native earns a lot of money in the foreign country.
20. Mars and Venus in the 10th house from the Moon – For business the native goes abroad and earns money. He may earn money through women in the foreign country.
21. The Sun, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn in the 10th of the Moon – the person goes abroad.
22. Both Lagna and Lagna lord are in a moveable sign and either is aspected by a planet from a moveable sign – the native makes a fortune in the foreign country.
23. The Lagna is moveable sign and Lagna lord is in a moveable sign and moveable Navamsha – the native becomes prosperous in the foreign country.
24. Rajju yoga which means the placement of the 7 planets in moveable signs – in my opinion, excluding the luminaries, the five planets in the moveable (chara) signs can contribute for the yoga of foreign travel. 5 planets are in moveable signs in Morarji’s horoscope.
25. Jupiter in the 7th may also help foreign travel. So also, the Moon similarly placed.

N.B. Any two or three of these rules in a horoscope indicate videsayana, preferably in the presence of any class of Rajayoga.

Probable Periods of foreign Travel:

(1) Sun’s Dasa if the Sun is exalted or associated with an exalted planet.

(2) Dasa of the exalted Moon.

(3) Dasa of exalted Mars.

(4) Dasa of Mars strongly posited in Lagna.

(5) Dasa of Mars if Mars is associated with the Sun.

(6) Dasa of debilitated Mercury.

(7) Dasa of exalted Jupiter.

(8) Dasa of Jupiter if in 7th house, preferably as lord of Lagna also.

(9) Dasa of Jupiter who is in the 12th house of Janma Lagna.

(10) Dasa of Venus if Venus is connected with a malefic.

(11) Dasa of Venus in the 7th house.

(12) Dasa of Saturn in the 12th house.

(13) Dasa of Saturn exalted in Navamsa.

(14) Dasa of Rahu in the 3rd, 7th, 9th or 10th houses.

Probable Dasa-Bhukti for foreign Travel

1. Ketu Bhukti of the Dasa of the Sun.
2. Sun’s Bhukti of the Moon’s Dasa when the Sun is in the 6th, 8th or 12th from the Moon.
3. Rahu’s Antardasa in Mars Dasa if Rahu is exalted, or in Mooltrikona, or Kendra (Quadrant) or Kona (Trine) or in 11th or aspected by or associated with natural benefics.
4. Saturn Bhukti in Mars Dasa if Saturn is in Kendra or 11th or in trikona from Mars.
5. Mercury Bhukti in Mars Dasa if Mercury and Mars are conjunct.
6. Sun Bhukti in Rahu Dasa if the Sun is in Kendra or Kona or 3rd or 11th from Rahu.
7. Mercury Bhukti in Jupiter Dasa if Mercury is in the 6th, 8th or 12th from Jupiter.
8. Ketu Bhukti in Saturn Dasa if Ketu is conjunct Lagna lord.
9. Mars Bhukti in Saturn Dasa if Mars is debilitated or combust or in the 6th, 8th, 12th from Saturn.
10. Jupiter Bhukti in Saturn Dasa if Jupiter is in the 2nd, 11th or a Kendra or Kona from Saturn.
11. Saturn Bhukti in mercury Dasa if Saturn is in 6th, 8th or 12th from Mercury.
12. Sun Bhukti in Ketu Dasa if the Sun is in the 6th, 8th or 12th from Ketu.
13. Moon Bhukti in Ketu Dasa if the Moon is in a Kendra or Kona or 11th from Ketu.
14. Jupiter Bhukti in Venus Dasa.

Now let us just verify the presence of these rules of foreign travel in the following charts:

Chart 1: Mahatma Gandhi

Rasi: Libra – Ascendant, Mars, Mercury and Venus; Scorpio – Saturn; Capricorn – Ketu; Aries – Jupiter; Cancer – Rahu; Leo – Moon; and Virgo – Sun.

1. Janma Lagna is Libra, which is a moveable sign. Lagna lord Venus is in Libra, a moveable sign. Both are aspected by Jupiter from a moveable sign, Aries.
2. Ketu is in 4th house;
3. Jupiter is in the 7th house. See rules 10, 22, and 25. Gandhiji earned wide reputation in foreign countries also.

Chart 2: Indira Gandhi

Rasi:  Cancer – Ascendant and Saturn; Leo – Mars; Scorpio – Sun and Mercury; Sagittarius – Venus and Rahu; Capricorn – Moon; Taurus – Jupiter; and Gemini – Ketu.

1. The Lagna is a moveable sign. Lagna lord, Moon, is in Capricorn, a moveable sign. Lagna is aspected by the Moon from a moveable sign. Lagna occupant Saturn is also aspected by the Moon from a moveable sign.
2. The Moon is in the 7th house. See rules 22, 25. The native was abroad several times.

Chart 3:

Rasi: Pisces – Ascendant; Gemini – Jupiter and Mercury; Cancer – Sun; Leo – Venus, Mars and Ketu; Virgo – Moon; and Libra – Saturn.

1. The Lagna is Pisces and its ruler Jupiter is in Gemini. Venus is the 12th lord from Gemini. Venus is the enemy of Jupiter (rule 6).
2. The Moon is in the 7th house (rule 25). The native obtained his Diploma in education in Edinburgh fifty years ago.

Chart 4:

Rasi: Gemini – Ascendant; Cancer – Sun and Venus; Leo – Moon, Saturn and Mercury; Virgo – Ketu; Libra – Mars; Aquarius – Jupiter; and Pisces – Rahu.

1. Janma Lagna is Gemini. Mercury, the lord of Lagna, is in Leo. The Moon is the 12th lord from Leo. The Moon is an enemy of Mercury (rule 6).
2. Ketu is in Virgo, the 4th from Gemini (rule 10).
3. Jupiter is in Aquarius, the 9th house is aspected by the Moon and Saturn (rule 14).

The native left and joined her husband in Australia in 1982.

Chart 5:

Rasi: Taurus – Ascendant; Cancer – Sun, Moon and Venus; Leo – Rahu; Scorpio – Jupiter; Sagittarius – Saturn; Aquarius – Ketu; Aries – Mars; and Gemini – Mercury.

1. Janma Lagna is Taurus. The 10th lord Saturn is in the 8th house, Sagittarius (rule 2).
2. Jupiter is in the 7th house (Scorpio) (rule 25).

The native left for the United States recently for taking up a job there.

Chart 6:

Rasi: Virgo – Ascendant, Rahu, Saturn and Jupiter; Sagittarius – Mars; Pisces – Ketu; Aries – Sun and Mercury; and Taurus – Venus and the Moon.

1. The Lagna is Virgo. Mercury, the lord of the 10th and Lagna is in the 8th house, causing Duryoga (rule 2).
2. The Sun is exalted in Aries (rule 11). The native, hard-pressed by low financial conditions, ran away from the house and joined military service, 35 years ago. He made a sea voyage to foreign countries. But he made his fortune by the time he retired from the military. Note the 9th house connected with Venus, the Moon and Jupiter for his good financial position.

Chart 7:

Rasi: Capricorn – Ascendant and Rahu; Pisces – Moon; Taurus – Jupiter; Cancer – Ketu; Libra –Saturn and Mars; and Scorpio – Sun, Mercury and Venus.

The Lagna Capricorn is a moveable sign. Saturn, the lord of Lagna, is in Libra, a moveable sign. Lagna is aspected by Mars from a moveable sign (rule 22). Rule 23 also is applicable because Saturn is in Capricorn Navamsa. The native is scheduled to go to Spain on behalf of the Department of Atomic Energy.

Chart 8:

Rasi: Aquarius – Ascendant; Pisces – Rahu; Taurus – Moon and Saturn; Cancer – Sun; Leo – Mars, Mercury and Venus; Virgo – Ketu; and Scorpio – Jupiter.

1. Janma Lagna is Aquarius and Saturn, lord of Lagna, is in Taurus. Mars is the ruler of the 12th house from Taurus. Mars is the enemy of Saturn (rule 6).
2. The 10th of Lagna is connected with Jupiter, the Moon and Saturn instead of the 9th vide rule 14.

Dr. B.V.RAMAN has been abroad several times not for making a fortune of himself, but for propagating the science of Hindu Astrology. He has won world recognition. The 10th Bhava, which is the keerthistana, is connected here with factors for foreign travel. The esteemed readers cannot only verify the rules of foreign travel, but also the probable period of travel given in this article on charts of their choice.

About Author: Iranganti Rangacharya is one of the oldest authorities on Jaimini alive today, born in 1927, he started astrology at the age of 25 in 1952. Later in 1960 he started meticulous study of Jaimini astrology & thus has 48 rich years of experience in Jaimini at this age of 81. Author of numerous articles since 4 decades, 9 books & an extremely humble soul who inspite of weak health contributes to the cause of Jaimini. His work Jaimini Sutramritam published by Sagar Publications, New Delhi is considered a classic by the serious student of Jaimini Astrology.