The 6 Biggest Mistakes about Benefics and Malefics in Astrology

[@RaghavendraBoralli]

This is exactly what I would expect from a Vedic Astrologer teaching basics of astrology! I remember Einstein's quote, Make things as simple as possible but not simpler! You are a top quality Vedic teacher for us . Great quality content as always. Thank you a lot. Keeping coming these types of video format. They are coming in excellent and clears all our confusions. Thanks once again.

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

thank you so much

[@lavane6943]

Thanks to western people for getting interested in vedic knowledge and share it with everyone otherwise, I could have never discover it. Thanks for sharing openly your wisdom and knowlegde.

[@dp055]

7:38 Very good explanation 🙏🏼

[@EL14411]

Thank you Vic for clarifying this! I am really tired of many astrologers talking about big bad Mars and scary backwards Saturn like they are some sort of antagonists in a fairy tail.

[@jar6595]

This is such a perfect video on an incredibly misunderstood concept. You even successfully answered a long-held question I’ve had about “functionality” (that is, functional benefics and malefics). Thanks, Vic!!

[@MakingSpiritualityReal]

Such a Needed Video!

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

thank you

[@gajakesaridas5431]

Very amazing.thank you so much.

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Thank you too!

[@thedrunkentarot5839]

When I first was learning and heard these referred to good/bad by astrologers regarding my chart HOWEVER, life experience obviously was not the reality so ya knew there was much more to it - love this thank you! as my Venus is challenged and my Rahu is my best!

[@smaira2024]

If I had a thousand likes they would go to this video. This along with your emphasis on establishing context needs to be part of every modern beginner jyotish learning resource. You are blessed with a magnificent flair for language and I'm grateful to have access to your commentary. May I request you to also make videos about the nature of influence of planets through aspect/conjunction and also your method to interpret good and bad results from a planet. Thank you in advance.

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

thank you. yes i will try to do the videos you requested.

[@reversefulfillment9189]

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[@melinavdw342]

Amazing video, simple and great explanation!

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Thank you!

[@sabrinalameriendaastral1252]

Vic you continue to upgrade my understanding of astrology to such depths. Thank you

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

You are so welcome

[@zelenicaljubljanica5410]

great explanation

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Badtothebonez]

In fewer words, Sun is a mild malefic, Mercury claps his hands to any planet, it sits with or is aspected by, and Moon completely loses its identity, and becomes like the planet it is conjunct. The nodes are neutral.

[@avantisiram1915]

Ty for summarizing!!

[@xyz-jv9df]

Ummm. . . This is not what he explained. He said dat sun d isn't a malefic, d sun can be weak or strong but not malefic . D moon isn't a benefic. And Mercury doesn't clap it's hands wid planets influencing it, mercury is neither malefic or benefic, though it can be influenced by d nature of d planet influencing it.

[@Badtothebonez]

Yes, I know. Moon and Mercury become like the planet, they are with, or like the planet, that is influencing them, that's why they are sometimes benefic and sometimes malefic. They are easily influenced. Sun is a very hot and dry planet, it shames, starves and combusts planets, it takes the juice and sweetness out from planets. Sun is also the reason behind planets becoming vakri, means behaving in an unusual way. That's why most astrologers refer to it as a mild malefic.

[@adi9hx]

thankyou for clarifying this concept, video quality is awesome!

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@horyukinen]

Great video Vic! both the content and presentation are top notch. Congrats on the changes, I really like them. This is probably one of your most important videos because it is so fundamental. I stopped using the terms malefic and benefic with my students and use "gentle and rough" or similar words. It makes more complex things in astrology easier to understand once you change the words.

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Much appreciated!

[@kristibelly]

Brilliant ❤

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

ty

[@IAm2024-os9wl]

So appreciative of your teaching. Thank you.

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

So nice of you

[@abhishekbharti2812]

Top quality video. Sound, visuals and explanation all top tier

[@Lisa-bo8jl]

Great descriptions. Very well explained. Thank you for sharing this information.

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sanndystar5101]

Oh I get it. You are explaining the circumstantial stuff rather than the big picture philosophical stuff. Like the nuanced affects of beneficial or detrimental planetary aspects. I will have to watch this multiple times...the information for reading astrology is so rich and helpful. Thanks! 🥰

[@user-nv4ru5em4j]

Nice clarification. Thanks

[@shooz4unme]

SPOT ON!! Very insightful n logical n reasonable!!

[@anupamgarg3590]

This is an amazing video Vic. Thank you so much If you ever created a playlist named 'best of Vic', this one should be part of it. The details on sun, moon and nodes are also insightful May I request a follow-up video on functional malefics / benefics, perhaps taking Capricorn, Gemini & other interesting ascendants as examples

[@lunaserpent443]

Thank you for this recontextualization! I have been wrestling with the meaning of strongly placed Mars/Saturn, mid Venus, and weak Jupiter in the good/bad binary while studying traditional astrology for the past several months, felt a llot of dissonance that something wasn't right with that framing but couldn't quite put my finger on it. The context you give made everything in the chart click together, thank you again.

[@usersn300]

Thanks for explaining very clearly.

[@user-dy5oq9kd2q]

Thank you, lovely eye opener for me. Especially when you mentioned Mercury and moon

[@jfro_]

The best explanation I have heard. thank you

[@aprilrose2389]

❤❤❤ The new format of your videos is so impressive!! Thank you for the hard work and generous content. Much appreciated.

[@MarM-]

good one!

[@moonflower3934]

Great content that everybody needs to hear. Its so easy to get spooked by astroly (esp. Vedic one) without a more nuanced understanding of it. Well done and good looking beard by the way 👏🏻

[@angelinapetrovic8811]

Just moment ago had a feeling to check for a video!🥰 Thamk you very much!!

[@aequ-anim]

Same

[@alf4006]

as always…good “stuff.”

[@CatladyActionFigure]

Such a excellent teacher you are Vic. One of the very best. Gratifying to see the growth in your subs. You will not remain a hidden gem for much longer. 🙂👍♥️🍀

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

I appreciate that!

[@sal4988]

What an amazing teaching style! God bless you!

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

Thank you so much!

[@murakamifung]

Wow, very insightful

[@uxiaamber1292]

❤ thank you

[@aequ-anim]

Love it! Thank you for doing this 🙏 …Assuming dignities would be next?

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

interesting. i will put dignities on my todo list.

[@aequ-anim]

@@VicDiCaraAstrology thank YOU!

[@monakelly1720]

Brilliant as usual! Thanks!

[@cassandrawilkinson7352]

Some deep insights there Vic. I like this approach.. much more nuanced. The idea of a shifting intensity depending on the amount of light present with the luminaries is a great interpretative principle. And instead of good/bad, the gentle/soft/indulgent vs harsh/cold/spartan. But I'm not sure about the nodes.. will have to spend more time contemplating.

[@jenniferdurocher548]

Have my south node on my Saturn in 9th house Aqu. So node keeps Saturn from getting to excessive in its unconventionalism, idealism?

[@Baldevi]

This is a great video, and a great series, I look forward to more of these, I love learning through these simple but profound explanations!

[@s-u-m-a-i-r]

imagine astrology in future with data science and machine learning that could analyze, pattern, detect and shed new perspective blending traditional with modern. it would require whole lot of data to actually for consistency and interpretations..

[@petereglington931]

Excellent..Thanks so much Vic.....Namaskar

[@RippleDrop.]

Mind blown. THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@parimal7528]

Explained in such a good way, thanks for this video. Namaste.

[@Jupiter_is_Safe]

I like they way you present and teach these essentials in astrology, thank you ! Awesome, now I get it with the Sun. Sometimes I absorb information unconsciously and in the back of my head I have this different perspective about the malefics/benefics - one is able to sustain life and the other harming life, not sure from where I got this. Anyway, thanks for clarifying Vic 👍 Just one funfact about the terms malefic/benefic, in south Italy was a town called Maleventum (bad event) which has been renamed in 268 BC in the name Beneventum ( good event ) 😁

[@kristibelly]

❤

[@LianaBuzea]

Much appreciated. 🙏🏻✨

[@kirtanplanet]

Jaya Sri Radhe!

[@Lunarlindy]

Thanks!

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

thank you so much lindy!

[@ancientwisdom108]

Very well said, Vic. Can you expand on this same subject with regard to the dashas and how they behave? Blessings from Florida... 🙏🌍🕊🕊

[@lauraa6521]

❤ Brilliant ❤

[@alf4006]

🙏🏾❤️‍🔥

[@bitarot]

Very nice channel 🎉ıts for me most like masculine or feminine or both🎉

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

i completely agree

[@Embracedivine]

❤superb, you gave me so much clarity. I have Jupiter with venus, mercury with ketu, moon with rahu 😅

[@lf217]

My question is this: When malefics are strong, like in their domicile for exemple, do you have a more malefic/hard or more benefic/soft experience?

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

good dignity always makes better results. it does not alter the personality ("hard or soft") it alters what they DO with the personality (cause problems or cause benefits)

[@AstroLearnerd]

What about the yogas that group Mercury as a benefic? (E.g. Sarasvatī/GoddessOfLearning, Cāmara/RoyalFan and Dhana/Prosperity)? Should we "drop" these yogas or modify them, or, could we just consider that they really should have always been described as "benefics and/or Mercury" or "Jupiter, Venus and/or Mercury"? (E.g. because all three are relevant to the theme of the particular yoga, e.g. learning/creativity/friendliness/wealth?)

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

can you give an example of a definition? for example, sarasvati does not class mercury as a benefic. rather mercury is intelligent, as is venus and jupiter. (I think this is what you said in your last parenthetic)

[@AstroLearnerd]

​@@VicDiCaraAstrology Your "Guided Tour of your Birthchart" report does (at least the version I have): Goddess of Learning (sarasvatī yoga) This yoga forms when... 1. All the benefics (Venus, Jupiter and Mercury) are in angles or trines (houses 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 or 10) OR ..." Your report does the same (defines the yoga based on (only) "benefics", yet includes Mercury) for Cāmara/RoyalFan and Dhana/Prosperity. The (free) astrology software Jagannatha Hora simply lists "Mercury, Jupiter and Venus" for Saraswati, but for Chaamara it states "Two benefics in 7th, 9th and 10th" (and includes Mercury as an option in its computation). (Perhaps you will only accept a classical text's definition of a yoga, but I cheaped out on that because I was basing my post/comment on your report!)

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

yes, we can reword that! =)

[@aaronmartin6754]

Would it be fair to say that the nature of each uncategorized planet is more dependent on house/sign placement(dignity) along with rulership per Lagna?

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

no. they are equally dependent

[@maksymkrammer]

Does malefic in detriment lose its power or it still has all the power, but uses it wrong?

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

power and dignity are different things. so detriment does not have a direct impact on power.

[@maksymkrammer]

@@VicDiCaraAstrology What is the difference between malefic with dignity and malefic without dignity? Lack of dignity is a dissonance between nature of planet and nature of zodiac sign. Is then a powerful malefic without dignity a kind of attitude that makes person to choose difficult environment over harmonious environment? Saturn is an expert at ugly job. Is then Saturn without dignity an expert at the ugliest job, but still has something valuable to do? Or it is just a weird person who wants to sing lullabies but has a very heavy metal voice?

[@VicDiCaraAstrology]

think of people who are dignified, vs people who are undignified. dignified planets are always preferred

[@marcie7960]

Wonderful information!! A must watch again! Very thankful 🥹

[@Uxia-2]

❤ thank you