Natal Horoscope

Natal Horoscope (tshe rabs las rtsis)

• Whether following the fixed system of natal horoscope (mtha' rtsis) in which 136 divinatory pebbles are utilised, or one of the alternative modes of calculation outlined in Part IV, pp. 000-000, divinations may be made concerning the propsects for a newly born chiild. Such prognoses include those pertaining to the specific natal year, month, day, hour, trigram or numeric square, and more complicated calculations concerning: the child's prospects for divine glory (lha dpal), long-life (tshe), and demonic influence (bdud); the weight of the child's past actions (rgya ma); potential prosperity and misfortune (dpal byur gnyis); the impact of the father's trigram and coincidental actions on childbirth (spar brgyad rgya ma); the impact of the mother's planetary luck aspects on childbirth (gza' bzhi ma klungs); the significance of planetary conjunctions (gza' sum 'dom), the times of childbirth which are inauspicious to parents or relatives, the five approaches of bad luck (ngan klungs kyi sgo lnga), the greater, middling and lesser degrees of ill-omen (ltas ngan che 'bring chung gsum), the results of childbirth coinciding with the various sectors of growth and decline (dar gud kyi 'bras bu), the birth of children (bus pa btsas rtsis) based on the coincidence of the parents' destiny elements, the five coincidences of a son or daughter ending the family line, and the diverse types of superior, average and inferior children. GD (from the Glossary to Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings)