Questions on life threatening issues: the insight of the Prashna astrologer
The questions on life threatening issues are dealt with a separate branch of astrology, Prashna astrology, practiced by astrologers in remote parts of south India. The astrologer needs to have a deeper insight and knowledge of misery causing agents like anger of Benevolent supernatural beings, fury of serpents, curses of parents, elders, preceptors & Brahmins (custodians of Dharma through self-abnegation, priests of fire), Troubles from ghosts or Preta badha (spirit of dead, departed person) and Abhichara (invocation of negative energies, acts of enemies by employing charm or spell for malevolent purposes). The astrologer should be able to translate of assumed forms of planets and satellites that are reflected through the recorded position at the time of Prashna (question).