Jupiter to put dharma into action. Rahu rules the Southwest worshipping the Rakshasi (demoness) Niritti, to get al the negative, destructive things he wants in life. Mercury can tends to be too detail oriented and have exaggerated virtuousness, Rahu removes this. Mecury can also tend to be too superficial with book knowledge and Rahu leads one into deeper questioning, research, and experience to can first hand knowledge. Saturn sits in the West worshipping lord Varuna, the keeper of Rtu, the cosmic law and order. It is Saturn that can control the overuse of Venus energies. The Moon sits in the North West worshipping Vayu, the god of the wind and the life breathe. It is the Moon that gives us life, prana, nourishes, and heals. Vayu is the foundational lord of the prana in and outside the body. The Moon overcomes the negative aspects of Saturn, softens the hardness, nourishes the depleted, heals the sick, and makes the prana flow where Saturn blocks it. Mercury sits in the North Worshipping Kubera, the lord of wealth. Mercury is a businessman and the lord wealth is the success of most businessmen. Mercury uses logic and removes the emotional aspect of the mind. The Moon is balanced by Logic as it can become trapped in the cycle of emotions. These are all just very simple explanations of how the planets in the digchakra balance the planets in the kalachakra and how the two relate. It can be gone into with much greater depth with your own meditation on how the planets relate. Note that this is talking about energies of the planets and not conjunctions of those planets.
The Digchakra shows the planetary energy that can get over the Kalachakra planet's negativity. Puja is done to get over the negative things in life. So the base concept is that if we need to get over the negativity of a planet, we use the time when the planetary energies can balance it. For example if you want to get over some Mars issues you would do it when the energies of Venus were active, as it is the directional lord that can remove the negativity of Mars. So understanding how the planets get activated during the hours of the day relative to doing Upaya is necessary.
The Sun had two children that are connected to time. Yama, the Dharmaraj, from his wife Sunya. As Yama upholds Dharma his time is calculated from Sunrise. The other Sun was Kaala born from Chaya, the shadow of his wife. Kaala was not interested in following his father and so does not depend on Sunrise. A kaala starts at 6 in the morning no matter when the sun rises. The day is split into 16 kalas, 8 during the day and 8 at night. The kaalas last 1½ hours, which makes exactly 12 hours in each part of the day and night all year round and in every place. The first kaala starts with the day lord and continues around the kalachakra in a clockwise manner. So if the day is Monday, the first kaala is ruled by Moon (6 to 7:30). The next kaala would be of Rahu from 7:30 to 9:00. I have made a chart to simplify this, but it can easily be calculated by remembering the order of the planets on the kalachakra.
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