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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.
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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.
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