Remedies work or not?

What is a remedy: A measure to ease out or eliminate an upcoming bad event(s).

There is a debate in the astrological community and people are in two groups, one says yes, it works, and the other group say, no we must face the events based on past life Karma.

Our birth chart reflects past life deeds and fruits of it, but life is not static so present life karma can’t be just dependent on past life karma’s fruits. If past life karma is everything and everything, we do is fixed then GOD is playing with us as we can’t get Moksha but rather be in this circle of birth & rebirth forever. Also, if remedies don’t work then Astrology is good for nothing, what will you do with the predictions if you can’t change it through your karma or remedy?

There is another debate on free will vs no free will and once we understand this then we can understand that if we have free will in our chart then we can make changes through our karma and if not then remedies are required.

To understand free will, one should read Bramha Yoga given by Maharishi Parashar which helps us understand that individuals can have a max of 33% free will (not necessarily everyone).

The problem with remedies (Vedic) is that it’s a complex subject and most of us don’t focus on it. There can’t be generalized remedies which can work for everyone. Every chart is different so it should be highly personalized remedies for every individual.

Before I explain it through an example, a few more points.

1. There are different types of Vedic remedies based on signs and houses – Mantras, Homas, Stones, Donations and Fasting.

2. For example, if we believe in Vedas then remember all the mantras are given in Rigveda and it works beautifully.

3. While using mantras we must be mindful of using them as is rather than adding Beeja to them. If initiated (Deeksha) with Beeja Mantra then it should be chanted.

4. Even a mantra should be personalized based on your chart as well as based on your name.

5. In general, one should avoid Om in the daytime as Om was meant for Sadhus which activates 12H (house of Moksha) and I am sure you don’t wanna activate it as other things (expenditure, hospitalization, the longevity of progeny, etc) will get activated. If initiated, then no problem.

6. Wrong remedies backfire and people suffer a lot and then complain about remedies not working.

7. Based on signs and houses many a time it is required to worship the deveta of a graha rather than the graha itself.

8. Just to highlight fasting on a specific day based on your chart is THE BEST REMEDY for a relationship – to continue the good relationship, to repair the bad one or even fasting has the power to bring your partner in front of you and accept all his/her mistakes (cheating) that he/she would have done in relationship.

For what all remedies should be done

1. Planet’s bad placement - impacting relationships, career, wealth, health, property related matter, etc

2. Bad Mahadasha and Antardasha

3. For Badhkesh

4. To not face Apamrityu (Premature demise) – yes you can know it from Dasha reading (Reference – Maharishi Parashar & Jatak Parijata – Longevity chapter, where both talk about Apamrityu is because of your bad lifestyle and can be handled with remedies (mantra chanting))

Note: Prarabdha shows certain events can’t be avoided or eased out even with remedies, like retro planet having pap kartari – whatever bad event this planet shows will happen for sure and can’t be modified.

Trying to explain the complexity of remedial astrology and then one can understand that we all astrologers need to spend more time on it.

Let’s take Mars, a malefic planet in 8H for Libra Jatak, so it’s in the Taurus sign. This Mars is not good for this Jatak as it is in a Trik house and not in a friendly sign too. Its 4th aspect is on 11H so it gives issues in matters of gains. Placed in Mangalya Sthana aspecting 2H (house of longevity of spouse) impacting spouses health and longevity. In 8H, aspecting 3H so impacting native longevity (3H is 8th from 8th).

Now we need to handle this Mars to help this Jatak to overcome all or a few said challenges (other planets might be taking care of a few things out of all above said). In general, people will say that chant the Mars mantra or go for Munga (Red coral) or donate red clothes or lentil pulse.

But here we don’t want Mars to become stronger by doing the above remedies rather we should take this Mars out of 8H to save the Jataka. And for that, we should do remedies related to the planet responsible for Mars's exaltation (uchhanath) or Mar’s Dispositor.

But we can’t do much with Uchanath as Saturn is not a good planet when it comes to Mars so now we are left with its dispositor Venus.

What kind of remedy (Mantra, Homa, Donation, Fasting or Stone) will work best related to Venus will be decided based on Venus’s placement (House & Sign).

Same chart another use case: if spouse’s longevity is not a concern and concerns are all about career and gains because SUN is in 11H with Moon, being badhkesh. Then, in this case, we need to check Mar’s position in D10 and its D10’s dispositor for a personalized remedy to help in these matters. Remember badhkesh will try to deviate the Astrologer’s mind and you would have seen such cases where the astrologer suggested one remedy but then changed it to another in just a few minutes (It’s all because badhkesh doesn’t want things to be in place).

In this case to handle badhkesh, first we need to identify the type of Badhkesh (Deva Badhaka, Pitr Badhaka, Preta Badhaka, Sarpa badhaka, Dhrishti Badhaka or Abhichara – reference Prashna Marga) and then accordingly remedies can be provided.

What happens when we do proper remedy, how much time does it take to show the effect?

The answer is simple – it’s based on the amount of affliction in your chart. Remedies for MD/AD even work in 13 Days, 21 Days and 43 Days. Sometimes it might take 3 years.

Note: When remedy works it decreases the timeframe and for e.g. event which was supposed to happen after 6 months, happens in 1-4 weeks but with low intensity.

In my experience remedies work and it works beautifully.