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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