I have wondered for some years now what makes a person gay or rather more inclined to same-sex relationships. Searching the web has made me realize that there are not many reliable sources of how to really pinpoint what makes an individual gay or straight through the tool of either western nor vedic astrology.
Recently, though, I have come across som information that was published in the “studying kala”- yahoo group that I have incorporated into my own research.
I now copy and print what astrology teacher Ernst Wilhelm himself answered as one of his students asked the question on how to see homosexuality through vedic astrology:
“I have had luck with:
Male Homosexual: neuter or female planets influencing the lagna, male planets influencing the 7th especially when Saturn is afflicting Sun and/or 10th.. Female Homosexual: neuter or male planets influencing the lagna, female planets influencing the 7thespecially when Saturn is afflicting Moon and/or 4th.”
With this I want to adress that neuters are Mercury, Saturn and Ketu, the female planets are Rahu, Venus and Moon and the male planets are Mars, Sun and Jupiter.
With influencing he means conjunction or aspecting (in this case I don´t specifically know if he means Graha aspects or Jaimini aspects). But at the following question on which chart to look at for this he answers:
“Just rasi.”
Though I researched some more and soon after I found another post with the same question, and to this student he answers:
“Start with Rasi(D1), look at D7 for the sexuality, so study 7th house there. Trimsamsa study the first house, as you do in Rasi, to look for neuter planets, Saturn, Ketu and Mercury, which make it easier for a person to be gay if the 7th supports that.”
Even though I think this is the most interesting and probably the most accurate idea of searching for the gay/third gender/homosexual indications I want to add my own research on this, of course using these principles that he shares to his students.
My own studies
As I am very fond of the Shastiamsha chart I wanted to check these techniques in the shastiamsha due to differentiation ability due to it´s time sensitivity.
What I did was to first look at 1st and 7th house from the lagna of the shastiamsha. When I was not happy with the result of this I suddenly remembered something I had heard in an interview with Ernst on youtube that you could use the 12 pada (arudha of 12 cusp) in shastiamsha as an “alternative” lagna for the shastiamsha.
And so I did and what I found was that those openly homosexual celebrities that i studied had, either from the lagna of shastiamsha or from the 12 pada in the shastiamsha rahu and ketu in either 1st or 7th house –> homosexual males had rahu in first and ketu in the seventh and for homosexual women they had rahu in the seventh house and ketu in the first. Rahu is a feminine “planet” and ketu is a masculine/neutral “planet”.
I only checked shastiamsha though there are probably other ways this is happening also through the other divisional charts( D1, D30 and D7 according to Ernst).
How you calculate the 12 pada
You look at the chart and find out where the 12 cusp happens to be. Count from that sign to where its lord is( i.e. if Aries holds the 12 cusp, then you are looking for Mars since it is the lord of Aries) and then count from the lord the same amount of places away from it. There is the 12 pada.
But if the lord happens to be in the fourth or tenth from the 12 cusp, the 12 pada will be in the fourth from 12 cusp. If the lord happens to be in the first or seventh from the 12 cusp, then the 12 pada will be in the tenth from the 12 cusp.
Examples
sarah
Sarah Paulson
17 December 1974
23:05 Tampa, FL USA
Explanation: 12 cusp is in Sagittarius and Jupiter in Capricorn, 12 pada is then Aquarius. As we see Ketu is sitting in Aquarius and the seventh from Aquarius is Leo with Rahu. Thus Ketu is in 1st and Rahu in the 7th giving a neuter/masculine identity and a female partner. What is more interesting is also that Sarah has Saturn in the fourth from the ascendant in Shastiamsha that Ernst was talking about.