4/3/2023 0 Comments Degrees in astrology chart![]() The text Brihat Prajapatyam states the following: “The Mrityu bhagas for the Lagna (Ascendant degree) are are the 1st degree in Aries, the 9th degree of Taurus, the 21st degree of Gemini … the 10th degree of Pisces.” This text is using an ordinal numbering of the degrees (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) and the 1st degree spans the region from 0 to 1 degrees of a sign. ![]() According to one site, “mrityu” or “death” has several shades and thus “ Mrityu” can refer to agony, distress, hurt, fear, pain, shame, illness, confinement, restriction and insult as well as actual death. Because “Mrityu” literally means “death,” these are sometimes called “fatal” degrees (“bhaga” means a portion but can also refer to the female sexual organ) even though the degrees can simply refer to troubles, setbacks, misfortune and other obstacles that fall short of one’s demise. It turns out that Vedic astrology has a similar, though not identical list of troublesome degrees, which fall under the umbrella of the term Mrityu Bhaga. Falling into this pit would probably be fatal. NASA image of the Berkeley Pit of Butte, Montana (public domain).
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