A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet
Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible
against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. This
means, from Earth, Venus, Sun and Earth are on the same plane.
During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk
moving across the face of the Sun. A transit is thus identical to a
solar eclipse by the Moon. The most recent transit of Venus
While the diameter of Venus is almost four times that of the Moon, that was last observed from
Venus appears smaller, and travels more slowly across the face of Earth took place on June 8, 2004.
the Sun, because it is much farther away from Earth. The event received significant
attention, since it was the first
Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical Venus transit after the invention
phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, of broadcast media. No human
with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of alive at the time had witnessed a
121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the previous Venus transit since that
fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 transit occurred on December 6,
and 243:395 commensurabilities. 1882.
The next transit of Venus will occur on 5 and 6 June 2012, and will
be the last Venus transit this century; the prior transit took place
on 8 June 2004. The previous pair of transits was in December 1874 and December 1882. After 2012, the next
transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125.
Maharaja Ballal Sen was the son of Vijay Sen. Vijay Sen founded the Sena Dynasty in Bengal. In the year 1169,
Maharaja Ballal Sen wrote a very cryptic jyotish text called Adbhuta Sagara. This text is amazing because it has
secrets which even though encrypted holds the key to interpretation of many celestial events which does not
find mention in other classical works.
Adbhuta Sagara also has references of lost jyotish works by Garga, Kashyap, Parasara and Bhrigu. I personally
consider this book a treasure to interpret matters related to mundane events.
In one such reference to Venus in astrology, Maharaha Ballal Sen quotes a very interesting phrase from jyotish
works of Vriddha Garga Hora. The phrase in Sanskrit is Shyamavarnaoabhighataya. This is can translated
as When Venus appears dark in the sky, it would indicate death and destruction.
As I have mentioned numerous times earlier to my students in jyotish, every text should be studied with
reference to Sthana, Kala and Patra. This was 12th century CE Bengal, text written by a King who was always
worried about attacks on his kingdom and the sustenance of his rule. The context is another important factor
to be considered. Before the above citation, Ballal Sen was referring to the various colors of Venus as it
appears in the sky being a factor that would indicate the kind of events to foresee.
In summary, after citing various ancient works, he tries to stress on a simple rule Brighter the Venus, the
better for humanity, darker its shade, the worse the news for mankind.
The next several quotes in the book deal with specific nakshtras Venus transits to predict finer results of its
outcome. I will go to this area in a bit but before that let me revisit a very fundamental concept on its transit
that I have already highlighted in the introduction.
If I have to quote one favorite pastime of an ancient jyotishas, it would surely be encryption. Making very
simple concepts difficult to decipher was almost a habit for the ancients and I am sure they must have had
their reasons to do so. Nevertheless, leaving all jyotish jargons and complicated terms and terminology aside,
let us just visit a very simple astronomical concept called Solar Eclipse.
When the Moon, the Sun and the Earth align in such a way on the ecliptic such that the Moon comes between
the Earth and the Sun, a solar eclipse happens. Jyotish links the Moon to the mind, Sun to the soul and thus
the Solar Eclipse happens on a New Moon [Amavasya] that causing the eclipse of the Sun. Eclipse of the Sun
is related to Death and thus this time is very sensitive to all beings on the planets. The Graha that causes this
eclipse is the Moon and thus the mind makes mistakes that cause serious damage to the soul.
In the Transit of Venus, the Eclipse of the Sun appears to happen by Venus. In such a transit Venus appears
black and doesnt cover the Sun completely. Thus, this event can be interpreted as Venus [lust, desire, love]
making a mistake and the soul suffering the consequences.
The place where the eclipse occurs is of amazing importance. On June 5, 6 2012, the eclipse of the Sun
happens on Rohini [about 21 degrees Taurus].
This zone is a very sensitive zone of the Zodiac and deals with sustenance of the human race. I have given
detailed talks on the nakshatras and interested readers can contact me on that issue.
My prediction is that the next 6 months after the Eclipse the world will see draughts, fire disasters and natural
calamities of a great extent. Particularly in South East Asia and the West Coast of the United States will need
to alert and ready for such events. Deaths of people are possible in these disasters.
In politics, sexual scandals will rise and prominent leaders will face such charges which could ruin their political
career.
Celebrities will go through a time period and the film industries across the globe will suffer due some
defamation and criticism.
Signs of economic revival will be extremely slow and stagnant for the next 6 months.
Lack of rain this year and extreme heat is very probable and thus people should take adequate provisions to
sail through this period.
Guru, AIAC
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