Opposition of two retrograde planets

[gansub]

If I have retrograde saturn for Taurus ascendant and retrograde Mercury in 1st and 7th house can this person be susceptible to religious conversion ?

[gansub]

Sorry for not sharing full details. Time of birth is not known. Generally in the evening. But birth day is 18th Dec 1971. Place of birth Kanchipuram. Is there anything in the chart that makes it a case for change of religion ? The change as a 12 year old.

[astrostar]

Retrograde Saturn and retrograde Mercury or their opposition can not cause change in religion.
Rahu link to 9th house and/or Jupiter can give change in religion.

[gansub]

Very interesting. So that means I can narrow down the ascendant to a Taurus ascendant then.

So assuming Taurus ascendant this person has a Rahu and Venus in 9th house. Venus is the ascendant lord and in conjunction with Rahu can cause change of religion ?

[astrostar]

set the time of birth to 4.12 PM
Can use this time.

If any other past results do not match, then we shall see later.

[gansub]

If we assume Taurus ascendant - 9th and 10th house lord Saturn is retrograde. 5th house lord Mercury is also retrograde. 9th house lord and 5th house lord both represent dharma trikona houses if I am not mistaken ? 5th house is past lives and 9th house I presume is future. Specifically 9th house is law, religion (dharma). 9th house lord aspects 5th house lord. But you are saying all of this has no impact on change of religion ? Only the presence of Rahu in 9th house is the sole cause.

Also if you notice Venus is in the first degree in the bala avastha. The ascendant lord is very weak and is involved in a parivartan with Saturn the 9th house lord. The person's entire life is centered around her faith and keeps on talking about religion all the time. Her husband is a agnostic.

[astrostar]

Any connection between 5th and 9th houses strengthens one's dharma.
5th house is passion and interest. 9th house is dharma.
The link causes much passion/interest on their dharma.
This doesn't cause change of religion.

There are some other factors which cause passion on dharma -
Sun in Sagittarius creates more interest on dharma and religion.
Moon is also in Sagittarius.
Jupiter is in combustion, as distance from Sun is only 7°
Parivarthan between 1st and 9th lords - Venus and Saturn also creates interest.

[gansub]

I agree that 5th and 9th house lord relation is to strengthen one's dharma. But in this case both are retrograde. Does that not have an impact at all ?

By the way change of religion she claims has happened through dream not through human to human conversion. So in this case she claims she is not a convert.Can one believe her ?

[astrostar]

can also add -

9th lord Saturn aspects 2nd lord Mercury - talking about dharma
9th lord Saturn aspects 8th lord Jupiter - studying about dharma

Jupiter, Mercury conjoined with Neptune
Neptune aspects Saturn...