Insomnia
is sleeplessness which affects the human mind and body and causes anxiety to
the extent that the person fails to perform his normal duties. In today’s
world, most of the people have been leading a stressful life. This strain may
be caused by factors like domestic problems, non-employment, losses in
business, inability to face financial challenges and so on. Insomnia can be caused by physical factors as well as
psychological factors. There is often an underlying medical condition that
causes chronic insomnia, while transient insomnia may be due to a recent event
or occurrence. Besides signs like difficulty falling asleep at night or
awakening during the night, sleep deprivation can cause other symptoms like
poor concentration & focus, being uncoordinated, irritability, depression
and difficulty socializing.
However,
in astrology, the classical texts refer to insomnia
as pertaining to affliction of the 12th house, Sun, Mars and the
Moon. Some of the astrological combinations causing insomnia are given
hereunder:
·
Mars and Venus in the 12th
house upset sleep.
·
12th lord in the ascendant,
while Moon is afflicted, causes insomnia.
·
Moon in the 12th conjunct
with Ketu causes insomnia.
·
Moon in the 12th house
associated with malefic cause sleeplessness.
·
The Sun and Mars in ascendant and
aspected by malefic cause insomnia.
·
The house of Pisces represents sleep.
So, if 12th lord and the house of Pisces are afflicted, one suffers
from sleeplessness.
·
The Sun, Mars and the Moon in the 8th
house, aspected by malefics cause insomnia.
·
The
12th lord in the 5th house, conjunct with malefics causes
sleeplessness.
The problem of insomnia may be overcome
by
propitiating the malefic planets with the recitation of mantras as prescribed
by our shastras and giving in charity the items related to those planets. This
problem may also be conquered by wearing Emerald, Moon Stone and Yellow Sapphire
in appropriate fingers.
© Gulab Jain
29th
March, 2015
Posted
from Bangalore (Karnataka) India
