Cricket mania had returned after 28 years! After the 1983 world cup, the era of Sunny’s charm and magic of Kapil paaji, the excitement bounced back and the sensational match induced tachycardia into every Indian heart! Especially into the heart of every Mumbaikar!! Nobody was interested in anything but CRICKET. Most of the offices / organisations pulled their shutters down for the day, people were waiting to get home, when they were forced to work for half a day.
We were eagerly watching the match, and when the Sri Lankan score crossed beyond 250 in spite of superb fielding by our team we were a bit concerned. I quickly thought of checking the position of our team astrologically. But to do so one should be an expert in “Medini Astrology” (a special branch of predictive astrology which deals with places / nations) which I am not and one needs to have the birth details of the captain and his team mates, which of course I did not have. Then suddenly a flash occurred, why not use Krishnamurthy Paddhati, popularly known as K P Paddhati?
Then I cast a KP style of horoscope at 5-39 pm on 2nd April 2011 at Mumbai. Considered Ascendant as an Indian team and 7th house as the opponent as a Srilankan team. Sub Lord of 1st house was Jupiter who was a significator of houses, 1, 4, 7 and 10. Sub Lord of 7th house was Rahu who was also a significator of 1,4,7 and 10. This gave a clear indication that victory is not going to be easy for either teams, as both the teams are equally strong which indicated the match might end up in draw, with both the teams showing equal strength. Then using the same simple principle of Ascendant and opponent I decided to review the traditional Vedic point of view ( Paramparik Astrology):
Virgo ( Kanya) ascendant with Saturn (R) in it and the 7th house Pisces with Sun, Jupiter, Moon, Mars and Uranus. 1st and 10th lord Mercury in 8th house (Aries) . At a glance 7th house is very powerful with Sun who denotes strength and Mars who indicates Valour with benefics like moon and Jupiter. But all of them are aspected by Saturn + association with Uranus made the opponent’s position un predictable! Mercury as an owner of two kendras + benefic by nature becomes Yogakarak for the Indian team in this case.
1st house has 7th aspect i.e. sampoorna dristi of Jupiter, moon ( 11th lord), Mars ( 3rd lord), Sun-all this conferred blessings on 1st house that represented Indian team 7th aspect of Uranus would give twists and turns in performances of Indian team, it would create tension till the last minute( un predictable situation). In Navamansha kundali ascendant was Capricorn and 7th house was Cancer whose lord moon is in 8th house with association of mars (11th lord)and Pluto which spoiled the prospects of opponents. Also Uranus in 9th house ( 3rd of opponents) added fuel to the fire.
Then I sent a mail to my son, stating there is a chance of Match ending up in Draw, as position of both the teams are equally strong but still if one team has to win it would be Indian and not Sri Lankan (I did not CC it to anybody, with the fear that if the predictions failed and I would become a laughing stock...)
Thankfully we won against all the odds. The idea of sharing this with all the readers is certainly not to blow my own trumpet as, a know all astrologer, but simply it is to share my sense of achievement, a good feeling when my prediction has come true. I never make a statement that I am an expert, the science of astrology is like a deep ocean, as you dive deeper and deeper, you start realising your limitations of your knowledge, it surely requires a lifelong commitment, consistent effort and a regular study of the subject. But I am very passionate about this science. I have been studying Astrology for the past 16 years, I‘ll continue to be the student of Astrology for all my life.
