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Vedic astrology basics Vedic astrology Basics Houses And Planets

The zodiac is divided into 12 signs and each sign has one house. So the whole lifehas been divided and contained in 12 houses which is explained as follows:

Signification of Houses

1st House: This is called Ascendant or Lagna, its lord is called Lagnesh. Thishouse signifies life, longevity, self, health, nature and appearance of native.Complexion, vitality, sorrows, gains and profits to younger brothers and hisfriends. It governs head and face.

2nd House: This house indicates inflow of finances, bank position, right eye,family, early age or boyhood, speech, sanyas, servants and friends. Self earnedwealth, loss or damage, worldly possessions, jewellery, grandfather and mother. Italso denotes family, eyesight, understanding with family members, inheritance,law suits, throat, right eye, domestic comforts in general.

3rd House: It denotes younger brothers and sisters and their relations. It signifiescourage, intelligence, education up to Higher Secondary level, taste for writing,ornaments, clothes, short journeys. Signing contracts and documents etc. Bodyparts are arms, right ear, shoulders, sports etc.

4rh House: This house signifies mother, property, conveyance, domesticsurroundings and happiness. Old age environments, private affairs, public,inheritance, false allegations, agriculture land and its produce. It representsbreasts, chest, lung, stomach, elbow joints etc.

5th House: Children, speculation, intellectual status and luck are gauged from thishouse. Pleasure, love affairs, lady love, legal or illegal amusements, kidnap, rapeetc. are also checked. Belly, heart, liver, spleen are the body covered by this house.

6th House: This house is responsible for enemies,, health, service, servants, uncle,aunts and relations on father’s side. Food, subordinates, debts, obstacles in life,mental worries, theft and calamity etc. The body parts denoted are kidney, largeintestine, uterus and anus.

7th House: Matters regarding wife, husband, partnership, external sex organs,conjugal happiness are checked from 7th house. This house also denotes marriage,married life, love, contracts, litigations, divorce, honour and reputation in foreigncountry. Body parts are private parts, uterus, glands etc.

8th House: Diseases, death finances through unfair means, internal sex organs,longevity, mental pain, obstacles, dowry of wife, gain from in­laws, mode of death,imprisonment, worries and privations are checked from 8th house. It indicatesbody parts as scrotum, pelvis, seminal vesicles, external genetalia, etc.

9th House: This house indicates religion,luck,father , foreign travel, publicity,preceptor, higher education, learnings, writing books, also faith, wisdom,prosperity, powers of foresight, religious institutions, providential help, etc. Hips,thighs are body parts.

10th House: This important house indicates father, profession, status in life,

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activities outside house, pleasures, honour, power and authority, Governmentfavour, trade, business, command, honour, occupation, adopted son. All questionsregarding worldly activities and moral responsibilities. Body parts are knees,joints, bones, hairs and back.

11th House: It accounts for accumulated wealth, elder brothers and sisters andrelations with them. Friends, fluctuating money gains, club or social activities,emotional attachments, love affairs and friends, honour, social success etc. Bodyparts are legs, left ear, ankle etc.

12th House: It signifies private enemies, pleasures of beds, law suits,imprisonments, secret works, moksha, hospitalisation, conjugal relations withopposite sex other than legitimate. Sorrows, debts, lost goods etc. are judged.Body parts are feet, left eye, teeth etc.

Planet Lord of house

Sun Leo

Moon Cancer

Mars Aries& Sagitarus

Mercury Virgo &Gemini

Jupiter Sagittarius&Pises

Venus Libra& taurus

Saturn Aquarius&capricon

Rahu or kethu havenot own any house but behave like the which planet that ownhis house and planet which joined with Rahu or Kethu

Planet Moolatrikona Own house highpower house low power house

Sun Upto 20 deg in Leo Last 10 deg in Leo Aries( 0­10dec) Libra

Moon From 3 to 30 deg in Taurus Cancer Tarurs(0­3) Sagitarus

Mars Upto 12 deg in Aries Rest of Aries& Sagitarus Capricon(0­28) Cancer

Mercury From 15 to 20 deg in Virgo Virgo &Gemini Virgo(0­15) Pises

Jupiter First 10 deg in Sagittarius Rest ofSagittarius&Pises Cancer Capricon

Venus First 5 deg in Libra Rest of Libra&taurus Pises Virgo

Saturn Upto 20 deg in Aquarius Last 10 deg inAquarius&capricon Libra Aries

Planets and its Significations

Sun:

(1)The soul (2)power (3)Father (4)fortress (5) good strength (6) heat (7)splendour(8)fire (9)worship of Siva (10)courage (11)thorned trees (12)being in royal favour(13)bitterness (14)old age (15)cattle (16)wickedness (17)land (18)father (19)taste(20)self­realisation (21)skyward look (22)one born of a timid woman (23)world ofmortals (24)square (25)bone (26)valour (27)grass (28)the belly (29)strenuouseffort (30)forest (31)half a year (32)eye (33)wandering over the mountains(34)quadruped (35)king (36)travelling (37)dealing (38)bite (39)scorch (40)circularshape

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Moon:

(1)Mother (2)flower (3)good perfune (40going to a fortress (5)disease (6)Brahmin(7)idleness (8)Phlegmatic humour (9)epilepsy (10)enlargement of the spleen(11)mental disposition (12)heart (13)woman (14)virtue or vice (15)sourness(16)sleep (17)happiness (18)any thing like water (19)silver (20)thick sugarcane(21)typhoid (22)travel (23)well (24)tank (25)mother (26)impartiality (27)mid­day(28)pearls (29) consumption (30)whiteness (31)waistband (32)bell­metal (33)salt(34)short stature (35)mind (36)ability (37)pond (38)diamond (39)winter season(40) a break of 48 minutes

Mars:

(1) SPORTS (2)land (3)strength (4)carrying arms for the battle (5)Kingship(6)loss of verility (7)thief (8)battle (9)hostility (10)enemy(11)generosity (12)lovefor deep red colour things ((13)owning a garden(14)sound of a trumpet (15)affection(16)quadruped (17)king (18)fool (19)anger (20)going to a foreign country(21)firmness (22)supporter (23)fire (24)controversy (25)bile (26)heat (27)wound(28)service under a ruler (29)day (30)sky (31)seeing (32)shortness (33)disease(34)fame (35)tin (36)sword (37)lance or spear (38)minister (39)fracture of a limb(40)jewel

Mercury:

(1)education (2)‘horses (3)treasury (4)mathematics (5)wisdom(6)speech(7)Brahmin (8)infantry (9)writing (10)new garment(11)palatial building(12)green colour (13)sculprure (14)astrology (15)pilgrimage to holy places(16)wiselectures (17)temple (18)trading (19)best ornaments (20)courteousspeech(21)Vedanta philosophy (22)maternal­grand­father (23)bad dreams(24eunuch (25)facing North (26)skin (27)wet (28)bell­metal (29)renunciation(30)Ritu (31)a beautiful house (32)doctor (33)neck (34)influencing throughrecitation of mantras (35)child (36)crooked look(37)heaven (38)modesty(39)paternal relation (40)fear

Jupiter:

(1)SON OR DAUGHTER (2)Guru (3)one’s duty(4)Chariot (5)cow (6)infantry(7)savings(8)Meemamsa (9)treasure (10)horse (11)curd, etc. (12)large body(13)Valour (14)reputation (15)logic (16)astrology (17)son (18)grandson(19)dropsy(20)wealth of elephants (21)philosophy (22)great grand­fathers(23)palacial house (24)gems (25)eldest brother (26)grand father (27)Lord Indra(28)cold season(29)wrath (30)jewel (31)merchant (32)physical health (33)abeautiful mansion (34)royal honour (35)thigh (36)Gods (37)penance(38)charity(39)religious duty (40)helping others

Venus:

(1)WIFE OR LOVER (2)a good chowrie (3)garment (4)marriage (5)income (6) abiped (7)woman (8)Brahmin (9)Subha (10)Whiteness (11)wife (12)sexualhappiness (13)short (14)sour (15)flower (16)command (17)fame (18)Youthfulvigour (19)Vehicle(20)silver(21)South­East quarter (22)saltish(23)ogling(24)scratching (25)half a month (26)the quality of passion (27)strong (28)pearl(29)Yajur Veda (30) Vaisya (31)beauty (32)buying and selling (33)love­making(34)watery resort (35)elephant (36)horse (37)variegated colour (38)poetry(39)dancing (40)middle age

Saturn:

(1)laziness, etc.(2)obstruction(3)OLDERPEOPLE(4)elephant(5)skin(6)gain7)proof ortness(8)distress(9)sickness(10)misunderstanding(11)misery(12)death(13)happinessthrough a woman(14)maid servant(15)asses and mules(16)outcaste (17)one withdisfigured limbs(18)haunting woods(19)handsome look(20)gift(21)a lord(22)aportion of life(23)eunuch(24)one born of the lowest caste(25)birds(26)the threesacred fires(27)a servile duty(28)unrighteous conduct(29)one withoutmanliness(30)telling lies(31)long lasting(32)wind (33)old age(34)tendons andmuscles(35)strong at the end of the day(36) Sisira Ritu or winter(37)great­anger(38)exertion(39)born of a very low mother (40)bastard

Rahu:

(1) Umbrella (2)Chowrie (3)kingdom (4)gathering (5)fellacious argument(6)hurting byspeech(7)downcast(8)wicked woman(9)decorated vehicle(10)an

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irreligious man(11)gambling(12)strong at twilight(13)intriguing with a wickedwoman(14)going abroad (15)impurity(16)bone(17)enlargement ofspleen(18)falsehood(19)downward look(20)perplexity(21)emerald(22)facing theSouthern quarter(23)shelter of outcaste or low people(24painfulswelling(25)a bigforest(26)wandering in rugged places(27)mountain(28)pain(29)stayingoutside(30)tending towards South­West(31)wind(32)phlegm(33)sorrow(34)serpent(35)nightbreeze(36)sharp(37)long(38)reptile(39)reading of dreams(40)travel

Ketu:

(1)Worship of God Chandeesa, God Ganesha and many othergods(2)doctor(3)dog(4)a cook(5)vulture(6)salvation(7)all kinds ofwealth(8)consumption (9)pain(10)fever(11)bathing in the Holy Ganges(12)greatpenance(13)wind(14)a Hunter(15)friendship(16)conferring ofprosperity(17)stone(18)wound(19)witchcraft(20)inconstancy(21)knowledge ofBrahma(22)belly(23)eye­sore(24)stupidity(25)thorn(26)deer(27)knowledge(28)observingsilence as a fast(29)philosophy(30)all sorts of luxuries(31)luck(32)trouble from enemies(33)loss ofappetite(34)indifference to the world (35)paternalgrandfather(36)hunger(37)severe stomachache(38)boil sand the like skintroubles(39)revoking the orders of arrest and (40)the association of Sudra.

Malefics and benefics: Planets are termed natural benefics and natural malefics.These are: Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and increasing Moon­natural benefics;Saturn, Mars, Rahu and Ketu­Natural malefics. If Mercury joins a naturalmalefic, he does not remain auspicious. As regards the Moon, she is auspiciousfrom 10th day of dark fortnight through the 5th day of bright fortnight.

Apart from the above, planets are classified as favourable and adverse based onbirths under the 12 different ascendants. These are narrated below:

Aries: Pure benefics are Jupiter and the Sun. Malefics are Saturn, Mercury andVenus. Venus is the prime killer. Jupiter will give inauspicious results if he isconjunct an adverse planet. However when with Saturn he is not wholly adverse.

Taurus: Saturn and the Sun are benefics and can cause Rajayoga. Jupiter, Venusand Moon are not auspicious and may prove death inflicting palnets. Mercury cancause some Yoga.

Gemini: Venus is the only benefic. Mars, Sun and Jupiter are inauspicious.Saturn and Jupiter together behave in the same manner as for Aries birth. TheMoon is the prime killer. (Some replace the Moon with Saturn).

Cancer: Mercury and Venus are malefics. Mars, Jupiter and Moon areauspicious. Mars is a supreme Rajayoga karaka. Saturn is capable of inflictingdeath and is Maraka lord.

Leo: Inauspicious planets are Mercury, Venus and Saturn. Mars, Jupiter and theSun are benefics. Jupiter with Venus cannot give fully benefic results. Saturn isMaraka and the Moon’s effects depend on her association.

Virgo: Mars, Jupiter and the Moon are adverse. Venus is the only favourableplanet. Mars is a Maraka lord.

Libra: Saturn and Mercury prove auspicious. The moon and Mercury andcapable of conferring great benefits and position. Jupiter, the Sun and Mars areinauspicious. Mars is a Maraka lord. Venus gives balanced results for thisascendant, if unafflicted by others.

Scorpio: Jupiter, as well as the Moon are benefics, the Moon and the Sun areRajayoga planets. Mercury and Venus give inauspicious effects. Saturn givesmixed results . Jupiter if illrelated will become a Maraka. Mars is of mixednature.

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Sagittarius: Venus is adverse. Mercury, Mars and the Sun are yogakaraakas. Ifthe Sun joins Mercury he will also become a Rajayoga Karaka. Saturn is a killerapart from Venus.

Capricorn: Mars, Jupiter and the Moon are inauspicious. Venus and Mercury arebenefical. Saturn is not a Maraka lord, while Mars etc. may prove as killers.

Aquarius: Jupiter, Moon and Mars produce adverse results. Venus and Saturnare exclusively benefics. Mars and Jupiter are killers. If others are related to oneof these two, they will also become adverse.

Pisces: Saturn, Venus, Mercurry and the Sun are classified as unfavourable. Marsand Moon are auspicious. Mars and Jupiter are Yogakarakas. Saturn andMercury are Marakas.

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