Marc Boney - Predicting Major Life Events: A Composite Approach

In December of 1995 I organized a seminar for my jyotia-guru, K.N. Rao, in the San Diego area of California where I live. Subsequently, he spent a few days giving consultations which he allowed me to observe and it was truly an awe-inspiring experience. His method was to first trace some events in a persons past before giving predictions and his ability to do this with a great degree of specificity was astonishing. For example, with one woman he pin-pointed a period in her life when she was in a relationship with a drug dealer who was jailed for his illegal activities. She confirmed it, while marveling at the accuracy of this. With a male friend of mine he started off the consultation by saying You have come to askme about a legal matter where you are being sued for professional malpractice. My friend was dumbfounded, as this was exactly the case. Another was surprised when she was told that she owned a large property on which there were fruit trees. She acknowledged that there was an orange grove next to her home.

Many people, including myself, have left a consultation with K.N. Rao thinking that he must be psychic, something that I know he finds amusing since there is always an astrological basis for his statements. Yet I suspect highly developed intuitive powers born of spiritual practice are also a part of what enables him to interpret astrological factors with this degree of clarity and specificity. See his exalted Mercury, the 9th and 12th lord, with Ketu in the 12th house.

It was in his Mercury major period, with him teaching and consulting in a foreign country, that I was witnessing this and getting a demonstration of what was possible with this divine science.

Fast forward to November of the following year. Shri Rao had announced that he would no longer be coming to the U.S, and so with his permission I arranged to come to Delhi and to be with him for a period of six weeks in the same housing complex in which he lived. Again, I sat with him while people dropped by seeking astrological input or sometimes to thank him for successful predictions.

Towards the end of my stay with him he took me to visit various sacred sites near Delhi, including Vrindavan, the birth place of Lord Krishna. This trip was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. One evening over dinner I expressed my desire to become a good predictive astrologer like him and sought his advice this way. First, he expressed the view that astrologers who could actually predict well were rather rare, one in 20,000 was his estimate, which surprised me. He went on to say that even if a person is well versed in all aspects of natal astrology, this did not mean they could predict. He cited the example of a student in his school who had been the gold medalist for his class and who was now teaching there and who had even authored books. This person had accompanied him on one of his tours in the U.S. but declined to consult because he was not confident in his abilities this way, at least at that time. His advice to me was to work on a thousand charts over a period of ten years, after having thoroughly studied the main Sanskrit classics, noting the correlation between the birth chart of a person and their life experience, along with the timing of major life events.

Well, I have done that now for a period of 23 years and I still cannot predict like he does! In fact, after immersing myself in Jyotia for 10 years I got rather discouraged this way and gave it up for long period of time. I choose instead to study the scriptures of Yoga, such as the Bhagavad-Gt and Yoga Stras and to teach these, as well as Ayurveda. But after retiring from corporate life in 2012 I came back to it. Today I can state with some modesty that I am able to consistently predict many major life events. Rarely does a month go by now without my getting good feedback this way, even though I am no longer consulting for the general public in order to focus on teaching and authoring.

This predictive success is not the result of any special abilities on my part, but can be attributed mostly to the methodology that I learned from K.N. Rao and also to my own experience. It is a rather complex and sophisticated methodology that includes:

simultaneous use of both the Parshari and Jaimini systems

use of alternative lagnas when considering both the static potentials of a birth chart and the dynamic potentials of a particular period/sub-period

extensive use of divisional charts application of multiple das when timing an event

application of transits and the qualification of these using aakavarga.

It is this methodology that I will be teaching and illustrating in this book, and I believe it is an approach that most can learn with effort and practice. That said, it is complicated and may take some time to master. Accurate prediction is no easy matter, and it is worth examining some of the reasons that make it so difficult.

One of the chief culprits is inaccurate birth times. These are the bane of an astrologers existence. Successful prediction using many of the techniques given in this book require an accurate birth chart, and by this, I mean an accurate degree of the birth lagna that then gives a correct set of divisional charts. Even recorded birth times from a birth certificate can be off anywhere between five and twenty minutes in my experience. As I once heard Shri Rao say, every birth time must prove itself in the light of the timing of life events and most require some rectification this way.