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Graha Kutami (Multiple Planet Combination) - Introduction

Graha in Sanskrit means Planet and Kutami means Combination or co-joined. True Node (Rahu) and Mean Node (Ketu) are considered as shadow planets in Vedic/Hindu Astrology. While calculating the Sidereal Ephemeris, using NC Lahiri System, only Rahu's inclination are calculated as Ketu will have the same inclination and will reside in the 7th house from Rahu's residence.

When more than Five planets (inclusive of Rahu or Ketu) are cojoined in one single house on the Zodaic, then it is considered as a rare phenomenon.

Contents

1. Nine Planets in Astrology 2. Types of Kutami 3. Data extraction from Swiss Ephemeris 4. See Also 5. References

1. Nine Planets in Astrology

In Hindu/Vedic astrology, the nine planets are: 1. Surya: Sun 2. Chandra: Moon 3. Mangala: Mars 4. Budha: Mercury 5. Bṛhaspati or Guru : Jupiter 6. Shukra: Venus 7. Shani: Saturn 8. Rahu: Shadow body associated with the ascending (or north) lunar node 9. Ketu: Shadow body associated with the descending (or south) lunar node

2. Types of Kutami

There are three types of major combinations that are considered to be a rare phenomnomn.

a)  When Six planets are cojoined in a single house, it is termed as SHASTA GRAHA Kutami (Shasta in Sanskrit means Six).

b)  When Seven planets are cojoined in a single house, it is termed as SAPTA GRAHA Kutami (Saptha in Sanskrit means Seven).

c)   When Eight planets are cojoined in a single house, it is termed as ASHTA GRAHA Kutami (Ashta in Sanskrit means Eight).

Mathematically speaking, out of 9 planets for six planets to be in a house will be 9C6 combinations, means 9!/(6! * 3!) aka. Factorial 9 divided by product of Factorial 6 and Factorial 3. The result is 84. That means, out of 9 planets, for 6 planets to be in one house, there are 84 possible combinations. When all 12 houses are considered, it will be 1008 combinations. These combinations are hypothetical as we didnot considered the speed of the planet's rotation and the initial position of each planet.

3. Data extraction from Swiss Ephemeris

The SWISS EPHEMERIS is the high precision ephemeris developed by Astrodienst (Authors being Dieter Koch and Alois Treindl), largely based upon the DExxx ephemerides from NASA's JPL.

In this website, users can download swetest.exe, which is a command line Windows program that computes planetary positions.

With the help of my Colleague (at Verizon Wireless, Warren NJ USA) and her husband, I used Java programming langauge to gather the planetary position of all nine planets between 12999BC and 16699AD. Using NC Lahiri system, I generated Sidereal Ephemeris at 5:30AM on each day and New Delhi, INDIA being the geographical location.

Using Data Analytics techniques, and Python programming language, I identified these possible rare phenomenons.

4. See Also Ashta Graha Kutami - Between 12999BC and 16699AD Saptha Graha Kutami - Between 12999BC and 16699AD Shasta Graha Kutami - Between 12999BC and 16699AD Graha Kutami - Importance in our lives

5. References

1. Swiss Ephemeris - (Link: https://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephinfo_e.htm)