Read horoscope without the help of an Astrologer : Part 3
What each of the 12 houses signifies in your life ?
1st house
The 1st house represents all the first matters in your life. The most important is your life, your health. To experience life you need to be alive. You are alive because of the 1st house. The 1st house is called the RISING Sign. What comes first is your body and your life force in this body. Since this house deals with the most precious thing in the world – your body it goes without saying that this is surely the most important house amongst the 12 houses. This house is directly related to your time of birth that makes your horoscope unique. It is from this house you start counting houses clockwise in the horoscope from house 1 to house 12. The Ascendant (Lagna) is like the 4 digit numbers on your number lock. If you don't know the number you can never open the lock. You just keep rotating the numbers continuously hoping to open the lock. In the same way the secrets about one's life can never truly be unlocked without knowing the 1st house in your horoscope. If the time of birth is unknown the person may never know the 1st house.
Obviously planets (graha) that occupy the 1st house has a great role to play because that planet is also rising with your Lagna. Let me give you an example so you may know what I am saying. If Jupiter is in the 1st house it means the Jupiter in you is rising. That means you will be a natural teacher, guide, consultant and Guru.
2nd house
The 2nd house represents what happens after taking birth (1st house). As soon as you are born the child gets connected to its family. So family is 2nd house. Then you want to possess everything. When a child is born, their hands are typically clenched in tight fists. The child wants to grasp everything saying it's mine. This possessiveness is very evident in children as they rarely part with their toys. This habit continues for a life time until death. Villains in comics and movies always say “I will rule this world or everything is mine”. The 2nd house is the house of wealth and possession. Human beings generally want to make everything “mine”. So the 2nd house is also the house of family and all that we are possessive about.
Usually a man is very possessive about his family more than anything else. Also he will not easily part with this money. 2nd house is family, wealth, speech etc. Speech is related to the 2nd house of income. If hot planets occupy the 2nd house hot and angry words flow out from the person quite often. The 2nd house is the house of vision (eyes). Good eyes and a good speech are essential for earning your livelihood. Mouth is 2nd house, Tongue is 2nd house etc. Food is also 2nd house. Anything that we are possessive about and never want to share with others is 2nd house. The politicians speak a lot and that is where the maximum money comes in. Good businessmen also speak well. You sell well when you speak well.
3rd house
We cannot do much with what we possess unless we have all the supports in place. We need help and assistance from various people. In the first part of our life we need to be helped by our siblings (brothers and sisters) in case there is a fight with your neighbors or other intruders. As you grow up you need servants, driver, maid, and a dog at home to assist you in safeguarding what you have earned and possessed. The 3rd house is the house of assistance. No businessman can do well without the “Employee Luck”. Examine the horoscope of a rich businessman and you will surely see that his 3rd house is beneficial and strong.
If the 3rd house lord is in the 6th house your brothers or sisters are likely to be of no use to you or may even give you lot of trouble and anxieties. The 6th house is the house of enemies. So your sibling may become your rival.
The 3rd house is the house of communication. It rules your hands, your neck, ear, nose, throat. If the 3rd house lord is in the house of profession then you may be a great TV show performer or a journalist, or very good with electronics and communications.
4th house
We cannot do much with what we possess unless we have all the supports in place. We need help and assistance from various people. In the first part of our life we need to be helped by our siblings (brothers and sisters) in case there is a fight with your neighbors or other intruders. As you grow up you need servants, driver, maid, and a dog at home to assist you in safeguarding what you have earned and possessed. The 3rd house is the house of assistance. No businessman can do well without the “Employee Luck”. Examine the horoscope of a rich businessman and you will surely see that his 3rd house is beneficial and strong.If the 3rd house lord is in the 6th house your brothers or sisters are likely to be of no use to you or may even give you lot of trouble and anxieties. The 6th house is the house of enemies. So your sibling may become your rival.
The 3rd house is the house of communication. It rules your hands, your neck, ear, nose, throat. If the 3rd house lord is in the house of profession then you may be a great TV show performer or a journalist, or very good with electronics and communications.
5th house
This house deals with what you create. The bestseller of all things that each one of us may create are our children. So the 5th house primarily means “what you create”. Entertainment, Cinema, Sports, Games, Gambling, Drinking, Drugs, Talents, Yantra, Mantras, Romance, Music, Arts, Design are 5th house matters. 5th house is connected to merits of past life.
If one has Rahu or Ketu in the 5th house this may indicate problems related to Children. The inability to produce children is considered as a great karmic defect. This shows up as a fault in the horoscope referred as Putra Dosha. All faults can be rectified. If you become an Astrologer later on and if you identify a putradosha in a horoscope do not forget to inform your client to do the following remedy: Perform Naga Prathishta (Installation of a snake idol, sponsor an orphan child etc. If your client does that surely the dosha will be reduced and there is a great chance for birth of healthy children in this birth itself (in some cases the effects will be felt only in the next birth though).
6th house
This house deals with all those that opposes you. Disease and ailments oppose your health and body. Loans oppose your wealth. Enemies give you trouble all the time. In fact nothing affects us as much as the matters of the 6th house. Of all the negative houses this one is the most challenging one. Planets placed in this house give unfavorable results during their ruling periods except planets like Rahu and Saturn. So if you have more planets in the 6th house more trouble in life is indicated. Saturn in the 6th house indicates victory over enemy but you still have the enemies. Luckier are the people who do not have enemies and therefore do not have to win at all. This combination shows a natural instinct to fight. If the 10th house lord is in the 6th house then you will surely have greater income through a foreign land.
7th house
This house deals with the other person. The reason is that the 1st house is you and the 7th house is bang opposite. 1st house is 0 degrees and 7th house is 180 degrees on the 360 degrees zodiac belt. The 7th house is in the opposite place on the horoscope. So if you are a man the 7th house deals with the woman in your life and vice versa.
If the 7th house is beneficially placed meaning good planets occupy the 7th house or if the 7th house lord is well placed and under the glance of good planets then you will have a happy marriage.
If the 7th house lord is in the 6th house then the person is prone to troubled marriage and this combination is often seen in cases of divorce or loss of money through court cases pertaining to marriage. The reason is 6th house means enemies and the 7th house means spouse, so if the 7th house lord is in the 6th house it means the spouse is your enemy. Of course it does not mean that such a person is destined to have a troubled marriage. Horoscope matching techniques will surely help the keep divorce away.
8th house
This house deals with surprises. May be good or bad. When a person inherits huge wealth due to the passing away of the owner it is an 8th house matters as the event is sudden. Death happens suddenly. Mrita-Dhana is the word used by Maharishi Parasara in BPHS book. Surgery is related to this house. During the ruling periods of planets placed in the 8th house a person may most probably have to be under the surgeons lights. Thanks to God that surgery is a usually successful these days. Battle in life is related to the 8th house. You may win or lose but there is a battle that you have to undergo. So matters of longevity are always related to the 8th house. It is called the Ayush Sthana or the house that deals with life span. When a person passes away they always say "it happened suddenly".
9th house
9th house deals with protection. Your first protection was your father. So all about one’s father is to be known from this house. Your father is your first teacher and Guru. This house deals with the divine grace of God, religion, philosophy and knowledge. This house is about obedience, listening and bowing down to people who have greater knowledge than you.
If this house is strong and good planets occupy this house the person rarely commits a crime. Even if he does, he repents soon and is prepared to face the consequences and rarely repeats the same crime. Also such a person will find good teachers in school and college. They will respect and obey parents and teachers.
If Rahu occupies the 9th house the person requires to meditate, reach out to a spiritual Guru to save himself from getting into the wrong activities and doing the adharmic activities - that which is not allowed by Sanatana Dharma.
10th house
This house deals with your profession. From the profession flows everything else. After the 1st house the most important house is the 10th house. The 1st house is you, your body, mind and soul put together. Without it there is no life. So the 1st house is important. But the 10th house is the purpose of this life.
If Venus occupies the 10th house for example the purpose of life will be related to entertainment, design, graphic, cinema, and creativity.
If Mars occupies the 10th house the person will be in something that requires guts, energy, force, physical, daring deeds. So such a person may be a policeman, sportsman, a car racer, martial arts expert, or a marketing person armed with an MBA degree.
11th house
This house deals with fulfillment of your desires. Whatever you desire is, it does not matter. So the 11th house means gain, money, your wish and everything related to your ambitions in life. More the planets in this house the better it gets.If the 4th house lord (related to property) occupies the 11th house your desires related to land and property will be fulfilled either in the planetary period of the 4th house lord or the during the dasha of a planet that is well related to the 4th house or its lord.
Similarly if the 7th house lord (marriage) occupies the 11t house your desires related to the opposite sex will also be fulfilled. You will have a happy life. However if you desire more than 1 spouse then multiple marriages or affairs are also indicated. That is because the 11th house is the house of fulfillment of desires and if you desire the 7th house matters then you will have more of it. In India where the formula 1 man 1 woman is adopted in family life, the combination of the 7th house lord in the 11t house is considered as a defect. However if the 1st marriage fails and if the person wants to know “Is there a 2nd marriage” then this combination means “Yes. There is a 2nd marriage in your life”.
12th house
The 12th house deals with going away. If your money goes away it means that you are losing money. So the 12th house is the house of loss. When you go away to another nation or city leaving behind your kith and kin even that is a form of losing your people. Hence the 12th house also deals with going away to foreign countries.
This house deals with imprisonment or hospital. It deals with isolation. If many natural malefic planets (Krura Grahas) occupy the 12th house the person will travel to many foreign places (almost wandering). In India this combination from ancient times was considered negative. Today some of the foreign countries are economically richer than India, we cannot consider it as a negative combination. But such people will not be happy in a foreign land and they run the risk of a unhappy life, imprisonment, high stress in a foreign land even though there is more wealth in foreign countries. So the effects of the planets is in someway fulfilled at all times.
The politicians having malefics in the 12th house especially Saturn should avoid bribes and corruption as such planetary positions indicate imprisonment and loss of wealth, name and fame.
Conclusion :
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One Word Description for each house.
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