The following articles describes:

Houses and Lordships

Meaning of Planets

Nine Planets

12 Rashis (signs)

This document is intended for those who understands what Kundali is and are interested in Hindu

Astrology. I personal feel Astrology from South East Asia is the best.

The placement of the Rashis and Grahas is determined by the birth date, birth time, and birthplace. Because this is different for everyone, each persons’s horoscope must be

interpreted individually.

The influence of the Grahas (planets) on the individual is a very important feature of life, which has an impact on health, prosperity relationships and other areas of life. The negative

influences of the Grallias (planets) can be neutralized and the positive influences of the Grahas can be enhanced through proper Vedic performances.

HOUSE DIVISION AND LORDSHIP

The houses (Bhavas) indicate the different life areas in the chart. The significations of the

12 houses are listed in Uttara Kalamrita as follows:

1st HOUSE: Body, limbs, happiness, unhappiness, old age, knowledge, birth place, fame,

reams, strength, dignity, political life, longevity, peace, age, hair, appearance, self-respect, livelihood, gambling for others, stigma, honour, skin, sleep, wisdom, wealth, nature to insult

and to avenge, freedom from ill health, nature to renounce, ability to do work, endeavouring to preserve live-stock, loss of decency, and defamation from one’s own

kinsmen or persons of the same caste.

2nd HOUSE: speech, wealth, faith in the sacred texts, maintaining others, nails, enjoyment of pleasures, truth and falsehood, tongue, eyes, clothes, diamond, copper and precious

stones, pearl, determination or control, artificial products, family, sale and purchase, soft speech, generous or charitable nature, efforts to acquire money, helping others, friends,

splendour or grace, miserliness in giving money, great eloquence, learning, gold, fine silver,

corn, humility, nose, firmness or steadiness of mind, close follower or neighbour, following the rules of going and arriving, and powerful or prosperous living.

3rd HOUSE: courage, brothers, war, ears, feet, road, land or place, mental instability,

ability or fitness, abode of gods, causing sorrow, dream, soldier, valour, one’s near relations, friends, wandering, throat, taking clean food and the like, power, partitioning of

inheritance, ornaments, god qualities, education, pastime or hobby, strength, profits, physical growth or development, descent from a good family, servants, the part of the hand

between the thumb and the index finger (which is sacred to the dead ancestors), maid-servants, small good vehicles or short good journeys, pilgrimages, great undertakings, and

performing personal religious duties.

4th HOUSE: Education, national or governmental work, house, travels, vehicles drawn by

men, boats and similar conveyances, oil-bath, mother, relatives, friends, caste, clothes, small well, drink, milk, spices or perfumes, one having happiness, a good name,

miraculously efficient medicine, faith or trust, false allegations, Mandapa or auspicious pavilion, victory, works that give sorrow or suffering, agriculture, land, garden or

pleasurable place, digging tanks and wells, the several sacred installations, relatives on mother’s side, pure or steady intellect, father, wife, securing and keeping safe one’s

earnings, palace, sculpture, entering into one’s own new house, character, loss of one’s house, paternal property, food like that of the gods, art of giving mentally clues to the

places where stolen property is hidden. Anthill, developing or contributing to the expansive

spread of the Vedic texts and Shastras, buffaloes, cows, bulls, horses and elephants in an intoxicated state, abundance of crops from wet lands, and wealth.

5th HOUSE: Children, virtuous deeds of the father, king, minister, good character,

sculpture, mind, education, pregnancy, discretion, umbrella, listening to or spreading good stories, auspicious documents or parchments, clothes, employing great prayogas or mantras

for achieving varied desired ends, paternal property, foresightedness, wealth and prosperity acquired through the wife or her relatives, affairs with courtesans or loose women,

profundity or seriousness, firmness, secrets, humility, good reporting of news, welfare, friendship, composition of Kavyas and Prabandhas (minor epic narratives), undertaking

some good work, stomach, Mantra, Upasana or worship with penance, splendour which is graceful and pleasing, distributing food, discrimination between virtue and vice, performing

japa of mantras, wisdom, deep thought, means of earning money, having the instrumental

music of mridanga (clay drum) and the like that give delight, scholarship in literature, and acquisition of the hereditary post of a minister.

6th HOUSE: Diseases, obstacles, fighting in war, maternal uncle, phlegm, tumour, cruel or

fierce activities, madness, smallpox, foes or enmity, miserliness, ill health, venereal boils, boiled rice, heavy breathing, debts, slanders, delight of the foes, tuberculosis, healed

constitution, wounds, mental agony or worry, many intense worries, hated by many, frequent diseases of the eyes, receiving alms, untimely food, fall or loss or destruction

brought about by foes who are collaterals, profits, wearisome, poison, peptic or duodenal ulcer, fetters, protecting one’s own fame, urinary ailment, dysentery, six flavours, reproach,

sorrows from servants and theft, imprisonment, quarrels from brothers and others.

7th HOUSE: marriage, loose sex life, victory in love or passion, hatred of a loose woman, deviation from the right or proper path, having perfumes, music and flowers, delicious food,

drinks and the like, chewing betel leaves, break in travels, curd, loss of memory, possessing clothes and the like, semen, husband’s or wife’s purity, a pair of wives, generative organ,

urinary track, anus, commerce or trade, milk, sweet or pleasant mansion, food with cereals

and ghee, charities, valour, destruction of enemies, victory, acquisition of money that is kept in a different or distant place, arguments, sexual union, adopted son, preparations with

ghee, own place, foreign or distant place, wife (or husband), all secret sex affairs, and theft.

8th HOUSE: Longevity, happiness, disgrace or defeat, money coming from the death of someone as in insurance or as in the case of dead distant relative, afflicted face, worry

about or arising from death, absence of quarrels, sorrow from an ailment of meha, worries arising from brother, enemy, wife or husband. The fortress of the enemy, misery or worry,

idleness, fear of punishment from the government, loss of money, debts, receiving the money of others out of ignorance, long awaited money, the arrival of a wicked person, sin,

killing a living being, loss of a limb, capital punishment, terrifying sorrows, a story that disturbs the mental peace, series of afflictions, attempting to do highly cruel acts, battle,

and utmost mental anguish.

9th HOUSE: Charity, virtuous acts, pilgrimages, penance, respectful devotion and service to the teachers and other elders, purity of mind, worship of the Gods, effort to learn,

splendour, travel or conveyance, fortune or prosperity, politics, valour, listening to pr

spreading good stories, travels, worshipping Shiva by pouring water on the Deity, nourishment, coming into contact with the virtuous, auspiciousness, paternal property, sons

and daughters, eight forms of wealth, horses, elephants and buffaloes, coronation, temple, establishing or consecrating Brahma, or firmly securing the Brahmanic culture, Vedic rituals

and sacrifices, and circulation and distribution of money.

10th HOUSE: Commerce, honour from the ruler, riding on horse, wrestling, work of or in the government, service, agriculture, doctoring, fame, buried or hidden treasure, sacrifices

and the like, pre-eminence or the position of the best merchant, teachers, religious Yantras or symbolic diagrams, chanting the sacred spells or Mantras, mother, wide spread or

extensive religious merit, medicine, thighs, Gods, acquisition of the full power of a Mantra, prosperity, adopter son, lordship, right path, good living with self-respect, honour, a prince,

fame, expert teaching ability and the like, authority using a seal, influence, self-control and

a mind that gives orders to be obeyed.

11th HOUSE: Gains in all possible ways, evil desires, all forms of income, dependence on

others, elder brother, paternal uncle, worship of the Gods, worship of the Sattvic Deities,

education, great skill in earning gold and money, ancestral property, knee, special position, love of or fondness for ornaments and precious stones, wealth, lost wealth, seeking to

possess ornaments made of gold for the sake of arts and women, wisdom, position of a minister, brother of the wife, profits, rise of fortune, achieving the desired goal, easy or

good returns, cooking, desires, longevity of mother, ears, shanks, skill in the art of painting.

12th HOUSE: disturbed sleep, mental worry or anguish, the two feet, fear from foes, imprisonment, freedom from suffering, relief from debts, elephants and horses, paternal

property, enemy, ascent into heaven, left eye, hated by the public, crippled limbs, loose sex life, break-down of marriage, giving up the sleeping bed, loss of power or authority, kept in

chains in an enemy’s house, mental imbalance, miserable condition, harm, wounded by the thought of the loss of happiness of the father and brothers, disputes, anger, physical

ailment, death, migrating to a different place, expenditure of all kinds, and loss of wife or

husband.

Methods of House Division

There are three methods of house division known and used in Jyotish: Equal Houses, Equal

Signs and Sripathi (Porphyrii) methods. In the Equal Houses system the cusp of the 1st house coincides with the Ascendant. The cusp of the 2nd house is at 30 degrees from it, the

3rd house cusp is 60 degrees, etc. The house cusps are always in the middle of the houses.

In the Equal Signs system, the houses coincide with the signs, and the house cusps are similar to those in the previous system, hence they will usually not fall into the middle of

the houses, only in case the Ascendant is at exact 15 degrees of a sign. In the Sripathi

system the 1st house cusp is the Lagna, and the 7th house cusp is the Descendant opposite it, the 10th house cusp is at the MC (Medium Coeli or Madhya Lagna), i.e. Zenith, and the

4th house cusp is at the IC (Imum Coeli or Patala Lagna) i.e. Nadir. The four quarters divided thus should be divided into three equal parts each, and thus we find the 12 house

cusps in Sripathi system. To find the Bhava Sandhis (meeting points of houses) we should

divide the distance between the house cusps into halves.

Today all three systems are in use, although in traditional Vedic astrology the Equal Signs system is preferred, as this can be used not only in the Rasi Chakra, but in all the divisional

charts also. Maharishi Parashara also makes mention of the Equal Houses system, but this is

used for specific purposes. The Bhava Chakra calculated with the Equal Houses system can be used for calculating the Sphuta Bala (residential strength) of the different planets. If a

planet’s position coincides the house cusp, then it will give 100% influence on the house’s significations. If it’s at 15° from it, then its influence is 0%. While occupying the degrees in

between the two, their influence changes proportionately. The influence of the planets falling into the first part of a house will increase by time, while of those placed in the second

half will decrease. Of course the phenomenon of Shputa Bala, if applied, could lead to strange situations. For example if a planet is at 29° in Capricorn Lagna, and the closest

house cusp to him is at 2° in Aquarius, then it will cause a strong influence on the

significations of the 2nd house, as he is only at 3° distance from it. Hence it follows that to be able to use the Equal Signs and Equal Houses systems correctly together would require a

good proficiency. The original presence of Sripathi’s system in the Jyotish tradition is not yet proven; most astrologers consider it to be of medieval Greek origin

The Nine Grahas (Planets)

Sanskrit Name English Name

Surya Sun

Chandra Moon

Mangala Mars

Budha Mercury

Guru Jupiter

Sukra Venus

Shani Saturn

Rahu Ascending Node

Ketu Descending Node

The Twelve Rashis (Signs) Number Sanskrit Name English Name 1 Mesha Aries 2 Vrishabha Taurus 3 Mithuna Gemini 4 Karka Cancer 5 Simha Leo 6 Kanya Virgo 7 Tula Libra 8 Vrishchika Scorpio 9 Dhanu Sagittarius 10 Makara Capricorn 11 Kumbha Aquarius 12 Meena Pisces

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