What are the indicators of bad past life karma in astrology?

First of all I want to clear that Nothing is Good Karma and Nothing is Bad Karma.

It is the purity(God/Universe/Nothingness/supersoul) who is taking birth that you see in form of life everywhere.

This purity which act as a soul (forgets oneself in body and fascinated by material world) is in learning stage.

A Soul journey is divided into 3 categories-

1. Tamasik Journey
2. Rajasik Journey
3. Satvik Journey

1-Tamsik People are those people who have just started their journey. They have newly acquired bodies. They have been reborn only few times. They are full of desires(Rahu). They don’t have wisdom.They are completely apathetic. They are like birds, fishes and animals whose mind have been completely captured by their senses. They can do anything to fulfill their needs like a fish eat her own children to survive. It’s not their bad karma but they are not able to realize themselves and that’s why they are doing mistakes which can be considered as bigger mistakes by the society.

In birth chart of Tamasik people, you can see their Rahu is in conjunction or aspecting most of the planets. Rahu is desire, obsession and attachment. Rahu is physical form of anything. More the planets are aspected or sitting with rahu (without the aspect of Jupiter on either rahu or other planets), the lesser number of birth the soul has taken.

Due to facing repercussions of doing these bigger mistakes, they jumped into Rajasik journey in their next birth.

2-Rajsik People are those people who follows the social norms to prevent itself from repercussions/wrath from Society in general. Thats why they do fewer mistakes. But they don’t have empathy for anyone but they know very well to act like wise. They too have so many desires but they have learned to fulfill them by maintaining social discipline. These people don’t hurt physically directly but indirectly or mentally they hurt by playing politics.

In birth chart of Rajsik people, Rahu could aspect or sits with few or many planets but these planets too have some aspects of Jupiter.

But because of repercussions faced by playing smart politics to hurt someone to fulfill their needs, they jumped into Satvik Journey in their next birth.

3-Satvik people are those people who no longer feel attached to material things. They believe in embracing the universe rather than conquering the universe. They don’t do mistakes intentionally. They think a lot before taking any decision that whether it is good for the society or not. They are very empathetic.

In birth chart of Satvik people, Ketu aspects or sits with some or many planets. Ketu is experience. Ketu is detachment and moksha. More the planets are sitting or aspected by ketu,(with jupiter aspect either on planets, ketu or ascendant) more the journey of soul is older.

These people feel themselves everywhere and realize themselves as one and no longer feel fascinated to take birth and jumped to moksha after their death(back to their original nature which is purity/nothingness).

Remember, Atmakarka(reason to take birth by improving the qualities of that planet), D9 ascendant sign(desire of soul to take birth), retrograde planets(unfinished work)and combust planets(planets that will do transformation)also have roles related to past karma.

Past mistakes and mistakes that a person will do in this life can be observed by looking the position of Rahu, it’s conjunctions with the planets and aspects on planets in a birth chart-

1. Rahu sits with or aspect Mars– Hurt people by doing physical violence.
2. Rahu sits with or aspect Sun- Hurt people on their Self-respect.
3. Rahu sits with or aspect Moon– Hurt people due to Obsession.
4. Rahu sits with or aspect Mercury– Hurt people by their back biting.
5. Rahu sits with or aspect Venus– Hurt people ditching in love or Marriage relationships.
6. Rahu sits with or aspect Jupiter– Hurt people who are wise and pure.
7. Rahu sits with or aspect Saturn– Hurt people by over controlling behavior.

Note-This does not mean that they take only three births. It happens slowly in many births. And the journey of a soul can be looked more elaborated from the chart.