Karva chauth 2009

Karva chauth 2009

Karva chauth this year is falling on 7th October 2009. karva chauth celebrated especially in north India by married women. It happens on the 4th day of the dark moon of kartik (oct-nov) . there are a lots of stories related to actually why this day is celebrate and its significance like the story of Queen Veeravati , the legend of mahabharta, the story of the Satyavan and Savitri, The Legend of Karva.
As the name signifies, Karva meaning a clay pot and chauth corresponding to the fourth, this festival is commemorated on the the fourth day after the Full Moon in Kartik month of Hindu calendar. On this day , women keeps fast for the long life of their husbands. The festival of Karva Chauth is symbolic of the unflagging loyalty of a wife towards her husband. It is the celebration of the cherish able moments of the relationship which is the notion of sacredness, chastity and demureness, swabbing the lives of both husband and wife with the colors of love and devotion. The wife observes fast signifying that she can take hardships for her husband and husband reciprocates it with appreciation. Henna or Mehndi is considered to be auspicious for married women, and is a necessary part of the Karva Chauth ritual. On this fast , women don’t eat or drink whole day till they see moon. Some of them (women) eat food and drink water before the sunrise ( around 4:00am ) till the star in the sky and then that is sargi which is given by mother-in-law . they don’t eat till they see the moon.
(moon is visible on this year around 8:30pm)
In the night women see the moon by carrying a plate in which they carry a earthern lamp and a glass of water , rice and sindhur and net .
They see the moon through net and then pray for their husband’s longlife like moon . they give the following things to the moon( water , sindhur , mithai , rice and dup) and drink water and eat something from husband’s hand , this way u break the fast with blessings.
Now astrological part is that mars is entering in cancer sign (deblated) and sun is also entering in libra sign . so both of them are entering in deblated sign . so those who has a malefic effects of mars and sun in their horoscope , they shoud also do some kind of astrological remedies to get rid of malefic effects of these two planets sun and mars . so on this day it is a good idea if they can also donate things related to mars and sun , so they can nullify the malefic result of sun and moon and later on do pooja for them .

FOR SUN : Keep a fast on Sunday for sun or donate gur , feed the cow with jaggery on Sunday
FOR MARS: Donate red gram dal on Tuesday and recite hanuman chalisa

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Maa durga navratra 2009

First we will see the meaning of navratra . nav means nine and ratra means night.
In Hinduism, Durga (Sanskrit: "the inaccessible" or "the invincible") or Maa Durga (Mother Durga) is a form of Devi, the supreme goddess. Goddess Durga is the mother of Ganesha, Kartikeya. She is thus considered the fiercer, demon-fighting form of Shiva's wife, goddess Parvati.
Nine also a divine number ,nine is a divine shakti. In these nine days we do a puja of nine devis and get blessed by them. Maa durga is a maha shakti who is a goddess of gods. Worshiping of this divine helps us to overcome from our sins. Like in astrology if your rahu period is running, sub period of rahu,or having kaal sarp dosha and you are facing lots of problems like distraction, dipression, not getting favours after doing a lot, changing of place, losses in business, debt etc then you should do or perform puja in these nine days and read durga saptshati and see the result.
This path is too good to get a results in your favour. Young people who perform this Pooja will excel in studies while the unmarried will be able to find a good life partner, married ladies will have a happy married life and their families will prosper, the childless will have children and have a happy and prosperous life.
These navratra usually comes in (sep-oct) but this year it is starting from (19sep 2009-27sep2009)
These navratra known as sharda navratra and mahanavratra. Why these navratra called as Sharad navratra because it comes in sharad ritu.
These navratra are celebrated because maa durga killed demon mahishasur . this festival is celebrated in most part of India specially east. Maa durga took nine roops to kill demon mahishasur, after nine consequent days and nights it was on tenth day when the demon was killed by maa durga.
The devis roops are :
1 maa shailputri
2 maa brahmachaarini
3 maa chandrakanta
4 maa kushmaanda
5 skand maa
6 maa kaatyani
7 maa kaalratri
8 maa chamunda
9 maa mahagauri
10 maa sidhiratri
These nine days are the longest festival celebrated in India. People celebrates these nine days with full of joy and happiness. In these specific nine days in the year dandiya nights are organized in which most of the people wear tradition gujrati outfit and they dance on the tunes of dandiya mix.
These nine days also bring more love and attraction between two people in a relationship. so we can also say that these nine days are blessed days for lovers to propose each other.

With warm regards astrosapna
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sadesatti as per vedicastrologysigns

Vedic astrology is a vast topic and followed all over the world . astrology as we know makes a person see ups and downs in our life. To know how Saturn as per vedic astrology is going to effect our life in the near future. Transiting Saturn is changing its sign from 9th of September 2009, which shows that so many of jatka(individual) will get relief from sade satti and so many of jataks(individuals) sade satti will get started . Sade satti starts when Saturn is in 12th from natal moon and continues when its over natal moon and when its in the next house to the moon as per your natal horoscope
As per transit Saturn stays in each house(rashi) for 2 ½ years so as three houses are affected leading to the term sade satti litereally meaning 7 ½ . This time sade satti is starting for those whose natal moon is in libra sign and ending for those whose moon is the cancer sign, Sade sattis results depends on the placement of Saturn and moon in your horoscope or which houses is getting involve in the period of sade satti. Its not that sade satti will give everybody a disasterous result. So don’t fall into this trap as people make you believe that’s its always going to be negative only as if you see in history lots of famous people have risen in life achived international fame or high positions during their time of sade satti only.
Some jatak(individual) gets benefit also from sade satti. When transiting Saturn transit over natal moon that’s a time when jatak(individual) gets problem related to mind. Some time it cause dipression also. Jatak experience sade satti three times in their life span . Every body gets scared of the name of sade satti because its there for seven and a half years and people as well as some intimidator make use of this weakness of the already sacred person just to make money and fleece them as it is a long period and our shastra also says that sade satti is not good for jatak(individual) it means that jatak seven and a half year can’t be all along be good. Jatak(individual) will always experience bad time inbetween it could be health related , finance related ,carrier related ,or family related before jumping into any conclusion you should consult to a good astrologer to know about your sade satti.
Now we will see which part of the sade satti will be bad for a individual ,so jatak can be aware of when to do what . Now when I am talking about lagna means moon placement in a natal horoscope. This shows you which part of your sade satti will be troublesome for you if you break it up in to 2 ½ yr period
Moon in Aries middle part ( middle 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Taurus first part (first 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Gemini ending part (last 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Cancer middle part and ending part (first & last 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Leo first part and middle part (first & 2nd 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Virgo first part (first 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Libra ending part (last 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Scorpio middle and ending part both (second & third 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Sagittarius starting and ending part both (first & last 2 1/2 years)
Moon in Capricorn all parts are good
Moon in Aquarius all parts are very good
Moon in Pisces ending part is good

So now we know that for whom what sade satti will do. so you can do remedies accordingly. And consulting a good astrologer is a good option.
REMEDIES : you can do prayers ,havan, donations, mantras to help ward off malefic effects of a sadesatti
You can do
Mantra Japa for Shani Sade Sati
Aum prām prīm praum śanaiścārāya namah

Ekadashakshari Hanuman Mantra
Aum ham rudrāya hanumate namah

Beeja Mantra of Saturn
Aum śam śanaiścārāya namah

With warm regards astrosapna(jyotish acharya sapnaji)