Tarabala is an amazing astrological technique that is entirely native to nakshatras and completely independent of zodiac signs and houses.

If you haven’t already seen the first episode in this series, please do that.

In this video I will show you how to tally all the tarabala that are at work in your chart. If you find it an overwhelming amount of work, you can always just skip this step and order my Tarabala Report, Star Strength, and have me do all this for you.

The first thing we need to do is make a nakshatra-only birth chart. We can use a square or circular style, it makes no difference. I prefer circles.

Make a ring. 

You should probably use a compass to make it an actual circle. But you can also be sloppy if you want.

Mark 27 equal zones in that ring.

You should probably use a protractor to make sure each zone is 13.3° But again, you can be sloppy and approximate too, its fine.

Now just write the nakshatra names into those zones, in the correct order. It doesn’t matter where you start, just be sure you have them in the right order and dont forget any.

Now you have a nakshatra chart. If you took your time it make it look nice, I would probably make a copy of it, and set the original aside, so you can skip all these steps the next time you want to do this.

The final thing to do is write the planets into the chart. You don’t have to know their exact position, just which nakshatra they are in. 

If you don’t know your nakshatras, its pretty easy to get that info for free from online vedic astrology sites, or you can translate from tropical signs using this table.

Now you have your nakshatra chart. 

Make 10 copies of it, and set the original aside so you can use it again later if you want. We will need 10, because we will make a tarabala chart for each of the 10 points in your chart.

Lets start with the ascendant. We will be finding out how each of the nine planets strengthens or weakens your ascendant through tārābala.

I will start with my ascendant and count forward in natural order through the nakshatras, until I get to a planet. The first one I get to is Rahu, at 4 nakshatras from my ascendant.

I’ll make a note of that, and keep counting.

When I get to 9, the next nakshatra restarts at 1.

I have Saturn in the 1^st Tarabla,

Moon in the 2^nd 

Sun and Mars in the 6^th

Mercury and Ketu in the 8^th 

Venus in the 9^th 

And Jupiter in the 3^rd tarabala to my ascendant.

Now I can translate those to the names of the tarabala, if I find that easier.

The interpretations almost make themselves for us, “Rahu is parental to the ascendant. Saturn is inseparable from it. The Moon is its friend.” and so on. But definitely watch the previous video I made and the upcoming videos I will make, to learn how to really explore these things.

Now lets find the tarabala affecting Rahu. and the Other planets 

I’m just going in the order of the planets in my chart, but you can go in whatever order you like. It’s not important.

Just repeat what we did just now, but instead of starting your counting from the ascendant, start it from the planet you are figuring out the tārābalas for.

Saturn gives the 7^th Tārābala to Rahu, because it is 7 nakshatra from Rahu. Its really easy. Just go through the steps for each and every planet

Now we have a tally of every tārābala in the chart, and we can start to interpret them!

Watch the previous video to get a headstart on tārābala interpretations. The next videos will also go into much more depth about interpretations, but the nice thing about tārābala is that most of the time the interpretations are very easy and almost make themselves for you.

You can just replace the name of the tārābala with the type of relationship it symbolizes. So instead of “Rahu is Kshema to the Ascendant.” You can say, “Rahu is a parent to the ascendant.” “Saturn is a sibling.” “Moon is a friend.” And so on.

What we did in this video is exactly what I do for you on pages 5 through 14 of the Star Strength Report.  Please go to vicdicara.com and order one today.

Tarabala Star Strength Report