A Horoscope has 12 Houses. Each House signifies something important in your life. See below a list of important significations which one can check from each house:
1st House: Self, health, physical body, longevity, body appearance
2nd House: Accumulated wealth, kutumba(family one is born in), early childhood, speech, food you eat. It is also a maraka house.
3rd House: Art, co-born especially younger siblings, self-efforts, hobbies, courage, short travels, neighbors
In this article I am going to discuss from where to start a horoscope and how to read it and eventually predict.
Whenever you see a Horoscope always follow these steps instead of seeing all things at once and getting confused.
Remember the Desh, Kala, Patra before beginning.
Keep the following parameters in mind before judging any house:
House/Planets placed in the House.
Planets aspecting the house.
Lord of the House.
Planets Conjunct/aspecting the House Lord.
Significator/Karaka of the house.
LAGNA/ASCENDANT/FIRST HOUSE:
Always see the sign rising in lagna first. The personality, physique, nature of a person will resemble that sign.
It is also the First House: First House represents Self, physical body, health, longevity, head, hair, brain.
For e.g. If Taurus is rising in lagna then immediately think of qualities of a Taurus and those characteristics will be present in the person.
For learning the characteristics of any sign remember its image. Like Taurus is a Bull.
The person will be strongly built, will be full of energy, they are patient and steady, bulls are difficult to control once you provoke them but are mostly peaceful.
It is ruled by Venus so they love beauty, luxury and have refined taste.
Taurus is second sign of natural zodiac therefore they are materialistic and like to accumulate.
It is an earthy sign therefore making them practical.
It is a fixed sign making them rigid, and stubborn like a bull. They dislike change.
Like this you combine Sign and House characteristics for each house.
Planet placed in the First House
After studying the sign check the planets placed in the lagna/first house. The person will majorly take on the characteristics of the planet placed.
For e.g. In Taurus lagna, if Moon is placed in the ascendant i.e. first house. The person will have a cool temperament, will be good looking, will be creative, love music and art.
Combine characteristics of Moon and First House
Now Moon is in its exaltation sign, so all the good characteristics of Moon will be present in full effect.
Moon is the Third Lord for Taurus ascendant so he will be hardworking, will rise by self-efforts, courageous etc.
Now check what planets aspect Lagna/First House
See what planets aspect lagna, are they malefic or benefic and what lordships they have. It will influence the first house of a person to that effect.
Lagna Lord/ First House Lord
Only after checking all above parameters come to lagna lord i.e. Venus in this case.
Check where venus is placed, how is its strength in rasi chart and navamsa chart and concur accordingly. Then check the aspects on Venus and planets conjunct with venus.
For e.g. Venus is in Pisces that is its exaltation sign. Venus will be in 11th house of gains. The person will like to accumulate and will be born in a rich family and will have all the luxuries in life.
Check the above planets strength in Navamsa Chart.
Significactor/Karaka of first house: Sun
Always see the condition/strength of the significator a particular house, in this case SUN to come to a conclusion about health.
Similarly, check all other houses and have a basic idea in the back of your mind about each house and planet.
Now this was only the Static Promise, for timing and dynamic analysis see the dasha.
See what dasha the person is running and those results will be experienced according to planet’s strength and placement.
Last check the Transit. See which houses the slow moving planets aspect to come to a conclusion.
Let’s see an example to understand this:
This is a female chart. Born in 1966.
Aries rising: Energetic, active, full of energy.
No planet is placed in lagna/ first house.
Saturn aspects lagna: Saturn is a natural malefic and in this case functional malefic as well. Therefore, it afflicts lagna/ first house. The person will have health issues especially in the dasha of Saturn.
Lagna Lord: Mars in twelfth House in a friendly sign but a trik/bad house. Again, indicator of weak health.
Mars is conjunct with Sun and Mer(R).
Sun is the fifth lord. Rajayoga in twelfth House i.e. 5th and Lagna Lord combination. But it is an adverse house.
Mercury is the 3rd and 6th lord (functional malefic) debilited in twelfth house. Now, lagna lord is conjunct with 6th lord again indicating health troubles related to nerves, skin since mercury represents those significations.
Mars is also 8th lord. 6th 8th lords conjunction will give chronic disease.
Now in Navamsha Mars moves to scorpio which is its own sign but eighth house of horoscope showing some long lasting disease to body.
Mercury goes to virgo in navamsha which is its exaltation sign, showing Mercury is strong and has inherent strength of giving diseases.
She is always ill and frequently gets hospitalized. It has been a tendency throughout her life since her lagna lord is in twelfth and conjunct with 6th lord.
Other things to consider:
Budh Aditya Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Vipareeta Rajyoga
Amala Yoga
Similarly, check all other houses and see then see the dasha and transit and predict.
“If Birth Chart is a tree, Navamsa chart is the fruit in that tree.”
K.N.Rao
Navamsa is the ninth division of a horoscope and is one of the most important divisional chart to be studied along with the D-1/ main chart. In the Vimshopak Bala given by Parashara it is given 3 points after shastiamsha and the birth chart. Shastiamsha/D60 is given the highest weight-age of 4 points higher than the birth chart which has 3.5 points.
Clearly D60 is the most important chart but since it changes every two minutes the accuracy of its lagna is doubtful as in most of the charts, the timing is off by a few minutes.
The Birth Chart changes every two hours and so many children are born in the same state during those two hours, each having same lagna. Their fates will change according to the paatra but not all will have similar destiny. That is where navamsa and other divisional charts come into picture.
Navamsa Chart has to be read in following ways:
To check the strength of a planet: The most important use of the navamsa chart is to check if the planet is really strong. If a planet is exalted in the birth chart and debilitated in the navamsa then the planet’s inherent strength is not there. The planet will only give good results in the first half of its dasha and will give poor results in his next half and vice versa. This is the reason why we should also check the planet’s dignity and strength in navamsa before reading a chart.
Read it independently: Some astrologers read it as a mirror chart to the main chart and confirm the events. If D1 and D9 show the same event for eg: In a students chart, in D1 5th lord has connection with 12th house/lord and the dasha is also running then the education can be outside the home city(one of many things). If the same combination of the D9 lords repeats then it is a certainty.
Marriage Chart: This chart is read independently to know all the attributes of spouse and to time the marriage of an individual as well.
RasiTulya Navamsa: It is the super imposition of navamsa chart over rasi chart, i.e. keep the rasi chart lagna as it is and place the planets in the horoscope as per their positions in the rasi chart. It tells us how the lords have shifted in the navamsa and can be used to predict as well.
Therefore it is important to read the Navamsa Chart/D9 always along with D1.
Moon is the most important planet in Vedic Astrology. It is the seed of a horoscope. Moon represents the mind of a person, his subconscious,his mental inclinations; the reason why the moon chart is so important in astrology. Many a times the results come out more correctly from Moon chart rather than the Ascendant.
Persons dominated by a strong moon are dreamers, they are controlled by imagination,they are very creative and do not like the materialistic aspect of nature. They love Beauty and try to see the positive side of everything which also makes them very sensitive and caring. Travel is one thing which people with strong moon love to do, they seldom stay at one place. They are the one who build air castles, plan great things but seldom put them into operation because they have little practical value. Their world is full of imagination, they are very lazy and prefer to live in the dreamworld. They are restless and do not stay at one place because of which they love to travel. In the charts of musicians, singers, writers, travelers Moon is strong.
These people are driven by emotions, they are not practical which makes them romantic and loyal partners.
They have a strong bond with their Mother as Moon represents mother in one’s chart. The various aspects on moon along with the Fourth House tells one about the bonding they with their mother and the also well being of the mother.
Moon’s placement in various Houses further effects those houses in a lunar way and enhances the significations if the moon is well placed and well aspected.
Let’s consider Moon in Seventh House,
Seventh house is he house of romance, marital happiness, partnerships, foreign among many other things.
When strong moon is placed in the seventh house, the native gets a beautiful and charming partner. He is compassionate, gets easily influenced by the opposite sex, desires to live in a foreign country. Gains from foreign trade, water products, loves to travel.
Moon decides the dasha balance one gets in life which times all the events that takes place in life. It travels the entire zodiac in 28 days.
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The stars impel, they do not compel. Let’s find your path.
