By Barry Rosen / ASTRO BLOG
Eye on Astrology: Multi-Dimensions in Vedic Astrology
I find that people identify too much with their natal chart, as if their personality were carved in stone. If they’re Scorpio rising in their birth chart, they talk about themselves only in that way. But in reality, we are multi-dimensional holograms, and there are many charts we need to examine at different times to get a complete picture of who we are. The rising sign of the Navamsha, the moon’s ascendant, the complex web of nadi nakshatra relationships, the karakamsha charts that Jaimini teaches us, and the rotated dasha lord chart—all of these are critically important to understanding the whole person.
Think of yourself as a multi-dimensional house across the street. From the front door, it may have a beautiful garden and appear well-kept, but when you walk to the back, you might see piles of garbage and a back porch falling apart. Step inside, and the kitchen may be beautifully finished while the bedroom is torn apart and under construction. You might assume the occupant is a wealthy, wonderful person—but when you meet him, he shares his emotional fragility, his mental anguish, and stories of an abusive childhood.
Over the years as you get to know your neighbor, he remodels the house. The backyard gets landscaped and renovated. He finally finishes the bedroom, but the kitchen falls into disrepair. After years of spiritual practice and therapy, he seems like a different person. Then suddenly, he gets the idea to physically move his house across the country because he wants a new life. In his new location, he repaints everything, adds water features and new landscaping, and feels like a totally different person. His life works very differently on the West Coast—his relationships suddenly flourish, but his career and health suddenly fall apart.
From this example of the house, we can see how many dimensions exist in our life, all visible through our multiple charts and timings. Our natal chart is what we came in with when we were born, but it is constantly shifting. It’s not a static imprint—it’s a living, breathing, multifaceted reflection of our ever-evolving existence.
A good astrologer must blend the complex and multiple layers of one’s life to get a complete picture of what’s happening. These layers include different planetary periods or dashas, moving away from one’s birthplace, perceptions of how others see us versus how we see ourselves, our mental and emotional states, our physical material existence, the planets ruling our soul and our soul chart, and the rulers of our fields of life—including career, spirituality, and so much more.
This is our overview article. At a later date, we’ll go into more detail on each of these dimensions.
The Many Rooms of Your Astrological Chart
Physical Body and Personality: Natal Chart (Rashi Chart)
Based on the constellation and rising sign coming up on the Eastern horizon when we emerge from the birth channel, this snapshot imprints all of our karma and creates our personality, physical world, and sets up all our multiple perspectives on life. It reveals the self or ego—the outer expression and body of a person—and shows different temperaments from Aries to Pisces. Our lagna (ascendant) and the rashis or signs of the zodiac are much more about our physical world and how it manifests.
This is the front door of the house—the first thing anyone sees, the initial impression. But as we know from our neighbor’s house, the front door doesn’t tell the whole story.
Emotional Body: The Moon Chart
The Moon Chart is based on what sign your moon falls in and the moon’s nakshatra (lunar mansion). This chart reveals more of our emotional nature and how our emotional body reacts to the world. The house location of the moon, aspects to it, the waxing and waning nature of the moon, and what lunar day you were born on—all are determining factors that reveal your emotional nature. A weak moon will make one vulnerable to emotional disturbances and affect how you react to the world.
The Vedic culture pays enormous attention to the moon chart. All the basic elements from the Panchanga—including tithi (lunar day), karana, nakshatra, and nithya yoga—influence your emotional makeup.
Think of this as one of the interior rooms of the house—perhaps the living room where emotions are felt and expressed, sometimes beautifully decorated, sometimes in chaos.
Mental Body: Nadi Nakshatra Chart
The Impact of the Fixed Stars: The 27 nakshatras (lunar constellations) of the zodiac impact the mental body and the higher and lower energies that it struggles with daily. They also indicate the emotional chaos, unhappiness, and sorrow we grapple with on a daily basis. The nakshatras deal with karma stored in the mind, which is continually changing as the moon transits through the 27 constellations every month.
What constellation your rising sign falls in impacts your emotional and mental body. From this perspective, we see the mental body and how the mind works either with the soul or against it—revealing intuitions and blocks. What planets are in which constellations, their owners and personalities, reveal a whole hidden matrix and complex interactive personality that can be diagnosed. This is sometimes called Nadi Nakshatra. I refer to it as the Matrix of our hidden personality or mental makeup.
While something may have the potential to manifest well in the physical chart, if the mental chart has blocks, then our beliefs about its manifestation may obstruct it. Just as our neighbor’s beautiful kitchen might fall into disrepair despite his best intentions, mental blocks can prevent physical manifestation.
Hidden Talents: Navamsha Chart (D-9)
The Navamsha Chart, or 1/9 divisional chart, reveals the workings of our soul and the past life talents we’ve carried over, as well as the nature of our spouse. It tells us if our soul’s quest is devata (having a quest for knowledge), manush (human, with an orientation toward wealth), or rakshasa (demon, with a quest for power and domination).
The rising navamsha sign may reveal hidden qualities of the personality. It also reveals so much about our life path in terms of dharma (duty), artha (wealth), kama (desire), and moksha (liberation)—whether we have an orientation toward being a protector, achieving solid economic footing, pursuing relationships and communication, or teaching wisdom and finding liberation in this world.
This is like discovering a hidden room in the house—talents and qualities not visible from the outside, but absolutely essential to understanding who the person truly is.
Soul Chart: Karakamsha Navamsha Chart
This is a more specialized soul chart that places the Atmakaraka (the planet representing the soul) in the 1st house of the D-9. (See article on this: https://www.appliedvedicastrology.com/planet-soul-atmakaraka/)
This chart reveals the journey of the soul and how the ruler of the soul expresses itself. How this chart relates to the natal chart, which planets it conjuncts, how it connects to the Sun and the Moon—all indicate how the soul expresses itself. This chart reveals our godliness, whether the soul’s desires are fulfilled or unfulfilled in this life. Inherited talents are shown here. The 12th house ruler and planets in this chart indicate the Ishtadevata, or the planet that governs our moksha (spiritual liberation).
Life Purpose Chart: Karakamsha Lagna in Rashi Chart
This chart reveals the soul’s purpose and how it manifests in material existence, along with the difficulties it faces in its journey. I find this chart the most revealing for a soul’s purpose and what it is meant to do in this life.
For example, even though I am Scorpio rising in my natal chart, my Karakamsha Rashi chart is Gemini rising with a stationary Jupiter and Ketu placed there. Hence, my truest soul’s purpose is teaching spiritual knowledge and jyotish (Vedic astrology)—being a jyotish educator. This chart, in comparison to others, can reveal whether the soul will achieve its desires.
Remember our neighbor who moved across the country seeking a new life? His soul’s purpose may have been calling him to that new location all along, even when the physical circumstances seemed to fall apart.
Dasha Period Chart: The Rotating Perspective
The major dasha or planetary period that we run also provides a very revealing look at the chart if we rotate the chart around the period lord to the 1st house and read the chart from that perspective. Even if our natal chart shows something wonderful from our natal rising sign, in our rotated dasha chart it may be very different. This is a key example of how our charts are not static imprints but living, shifting perspectives.
I have Venus in the 3rd house in Capricorn exchanging signs with Saturn in the 9th house. During the Venus period of my life, everything was about the arts—I worked on a PhD in comparative literature and film studies and had a very rich life teaching meditation and studying Vedic wisdom. My first astrologer started reading the chart from a natal point of view as Scorpio rising, and it didn’t make sense. But when I said something and he switched to reading the chart from Venus as the center, my whole chart made sense.
Hence, the cycle we are running changes the perspective on everything in the chart. I find that 60% of a good reading should be done from a rotated chart to the dasha lord for accurate predicting. Just as our neighbor’s house looked completely different during different phases of renovation and relocation, our lives look completely different during different planetary periods.
Rashi Dasha Rotations: The Wheel Keeps Turning
From Jaimini astrology and the 32 alternative dashas ruled by the signs of the zodiac, we find that our material existence rotates through the zodiac either clockwise or counter-clockwise from the rising sign of our birth. Different areas of our life progress in multi-year sequences that can be anywhere from 1 year to 12 years.
I am Scorpio rising. Hence, my Taurus period in Jaimini Chara Dasha was a 7th house period—a time of social relationships, material prosperity, and when I got married. When I rotated next into an Aries period, the issues of my life were 6th house matters: problems with co-workers, health issues, and fighting off enemies. Now I have rotated into a Pisces period, which is 5th house connected to a stationary Jupiter in my chart, and my life is about teaching astrology and studying Vedic knowledge.
I think many people are unaware of the way our chart wheels rotate and how to time them. It’s not a static blueprint—it’s a constantly turning kaleidoscope of possibilities.
Reputation Chart: Arudha Lagna
The arudha lagna chart shows the way we are viewed in this world due to our overall personality and resources. The moon is the significator of the arudha, and planets connected to it enhance or spoil our reputation. A person with Moon, Jupiter, Venus, or Mercury conjunct the Arudha protects their reputation, while Saturn or Rahu conjunct the arudha will spoil it.
This chart helps explain why we sometimes feel we’re doing a great job at work, but our boss or supervisor sees something else. How we appear to others is so connected to outward success in our lives, and this chart is very revealing, creating a whole different perspective on our life.
It’s like how our neighbor sees the front of the house with the beautiful garden, but when we meet the person inside and know him well, we learn about his emotional fragility. The outside view and the inside reality are two different dimensions of the same existence.
Astro-Locality Chart: The Geography of the Soul
If we move far enough from our birthplace, our chart rotates with us, and we become a very different person many times—sometimes better, sometimes worse. I learned this the hard way.
I was born in Chicago and lived much of my life in the Midwest. When I moved 1,800 miles to the Southwest, to Sedona, Arizona, my life became very different as it transposed my Scorpio rising chart to Libra rising and put an exalted Saturn in my first house. I became a workaholic, had health and relationship problems, and was obsessed with remodeling and redecorating my house all the time.
When I discovered how this worked, I moved back to the Midwest, closer to my Sun line. Health returned to normal, I was no longer obsessed with working constantly, and my relationship returned to normal. Moves impact us and new locations impact us, but our chart also rotates. This also requires a complex, longer article.
Remember our neighbor who moved his house across the country? His relationships flourished but his career fell apart? That’s astro-locality in action—the same person, the same soul, but a completely different manifestation based on geography.
Conclusion: You Are Not One Chart—You Are a Living Hologram
The natal chart is important, but it’s only one dimension of who you are. You are not a static birth imprint carved in stone. You are a multi-dimensional being whose charts shift with time, location, planetary periods, and spiritual evolution.
Just as our neighbor’s house had a beautiful front garden, a messy backyard, a finished kitchen, an unfinished bedroom, and completely transformed when moved to a new location, you have multiple charts revealing multiple dimensions of your existence.
To truly know yourself—or to receive an accurate astrological reading—you must look at all these dimensions together. The physical body chart, the emotional moon chart, the mental nakshatra matrix, the soul charts, the period you’re running, the sign rotation you’re in, how others perceive you, and where you’re located on Earth.
This is the art and science of Vedic astrology—not reading one static chart, but understanding the living, breathing, constantly evolving multi-dimensional hologram that is you.
Barry Rosen is a seasoned market timer and financial astrologer with over 30 years of experience. Since founding Fortucast Commodity Market Timers in 1987, he has published market forecasts across 20+ futures markets. His method blends Gann analysis, Elliott Wave, proprietary cycles, and financial astrology.
He’s contributed to Traders World, the NCGR Journal, and presented at the United Astrology Conference, BAAVA, and London School of Philosophy and Economics. His accurate 2008 crisis forecast was featured on CNBC blog.
A long-time student of Vedic philosophy, Barry has studied yoga and meditation since 1973 and traveled to India four times. His dual expertise in markets and Vedic astrology makes his work uniquely multidimensional.
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