Pitru Dosha can be understood as the “Ancestor’s Fault,” and their grandchildren have to suffer the effects. That will surely affect the grandchildren’s life and their children. I list a few “symptoms” below so that we can see that maybe half of the world population has this Dosha in their horoscopes.

A few symptoms in the chart:

• Sun, Moon, or 9th Lord conjunct malefic Rahu, and/or Saturn in D1 and/or D9
• Rahu in the 9th House
• Sun and Moon in Bhadaksthana
• Yogakaraka Mars in Bhadaksthana
• 5th Lord conjunct malefic and in the 6th, 8th, or 12th House
• Sun, or Moon with Rahu in the 7th house
• Saturn and/or Venus with Rahu in the 5th house
• Ketu in the 4th House
• Sun, or Moon with Mars in the 10th, 11th House
• …
• The list goes on and on, and any house can be hit.

Some effects of the Pitru/Pitra Dosha:

• Unstable career, finance
• Delay in marriage
• Disturbed marital life
• Difficulties regarding childbirth, raising children
• Suffering from disputes and conflicts one after another
• Seeing snakes in dreams quite often
• etc.

The effects are there. It’s undeniable. I am not saying this is not worth looking at. But logically thinking, can you name one person on earth, from the richest to the poorest, who does not struggle in their career? Who does not have issues in their life? And those effects do not show up in rich people’s lives?

Of course, the effects are heavy, especially when the 5th and 9th are afflicted. The result varies depending on how severe the affliction is.

I acknowledge the results of the Dosha and the hard work of our ancestors and gurus who made this research. It’s fascinating to see the link between generations. It’s usable and understandable. If we see the link, we can also break the link so that our grandchildren don’t have to suffer the results of our deeds.

We learn to know ourselves and to behave now, instead of relying on useless remedies. Sometimes I do wish that those remedies worked, that people could do anything without thinking about the effects of their actions. Unfortunately, it’s not the case.

If you have this Dosa in the chart, what you can do is:

• Ask your family, your grandparents, if they did a certain thing (please Google this thing!). It’s not to blame them, but to see the effect with your own eyes, hear it with your own ears, instead of taking the information from somebody or the internet, and worrying.
• Only then, you might want to take action to stop the effect from carrying over to your grandchildren. The children are fine. I pick us as the “1st generation”. Often seen is that the 3rd generation will take the effect, not the 2nd generation. The 2nd has the effect of one before the 1st. If there’s no sign of this Dosha in our children’s chart but only in our chart, it means our grandparents have taken action to stop it. Go and hug them!
• There’s nothing to be scared of the Dosha. Sri Ravi Shankar has a talk on this Dosha on YouTube. You might want to watch it, follow his instructions, and save a lot of money.
• Just a question to think, don’t take it seriously: If this Dosha appears in your chart, don’t you think that you might be the reincarnation of your great-grandparent back to the same family to pay the debt of your own action? There’s no need to blame anyone else, right?
• Just learn, understand, take responsibility to correct things, and move on! Life goes on.