Vedic astrology    Basics 

Houses And Planets

The zodiac is divided into 12 signs and each sign has one house. So the whole life has 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. This house signifies life, longevity, self,
health, nature and appearance of native. Complexion, vitality, sorrows, gains and profits to younger brothers
and his friends. 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 earned wealth, loss or damage, worldly possessions, jewellery,
grandfather and mother. It also 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 signifies courage, intelligence,
education up to Higher Secondary level, taste for writing, ornaments, clothes, short journeys. Signing contracts
and documents etc. Body parts are arms, right ear, shoulders, sports  etc.

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

5th House: Children, speculation, intellectual status and luck are gauged from this house. Pleasure, love affairs,
lady love, legal or illegal amusements, kidnap, rape etc. 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, large intestine, 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 foreign country. 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 in-laws, mode of death, imprisonment, worries and privations are checked
from 8th house. It indicates body 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, activities outside house, pleasures,
honour, power and authority, Government favour, trade, business, command, honour, occupation, adopted
son. All questions regarding 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 and relations with them. Friends,
fluctuating money gains, club or social activities, emotional attachments, love affairs and friends, honour,
social success etc. Body parts are legs, left ear, ankle etc.

12th House: It signifies private enemies, pleasures of beds, law suits, imprisonments, secret works, moksha,
hospitalisation, conjugal relations with opposite 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          

First house (Lagna-Ascendant) — the head Second house — the face 10 Third house — the breast Fourth house — the
heart Fifth house — the belly Sixth house — the waist Seventh house — the groins Eighth house — the private parts
(Sexual organs) Ninth house — the two thighs Tenth house — the two knees Eleventh house — the two calves Twelfth
house — the two feet

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

 
Planet                                  Moolatrikona                                  Own house          high power house      low power
house
Sun                                 Upto 20 deg in Leo                      Last 10 deg in Leo              Aries( 0-10dec)            Libra
Moon                         From 3 to 30 deg in Taurus                         Cancer                           Tarurs(0-3)             Sagitarus
Mars                         Upto 12 deg in Aries                    Rest of Aries& Sagitarus         Capricon(0-28)           Cancer
Mercury                From 15 to 20 deg in Virgo                 Virgo   &Gemini                        Virgo(0-15)               Pises
Jupiter                    First 10 deg in Sagittarius           Rest of Sagittarius&Pises               Cancer                   Capricon
Venus                      First 5 deg in Libra                            Rest of Libra& taurus                      Pises                  Virgo
Saturn                    Upto 20 deg in Aquarius              Last 10 deg in Aquarius&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)self-realisation (21)skyward look (22)one born of a timid woman (23)world of
mortals (24)square (25)bone (26)valour (27)grass (28)the belly (29)strenuous effort (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)circular shape

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)mid-day (28)pearls (29) consumption
(30)whiteness (31)waistband (32)bell-metal (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)love for 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)wise lectures (17)temple (18)trading (19)best ornaments (20)courteous speech(21)Vedanta
philosophy (22)maternal-grand-father (23)bad dreams (24eunuch (25)facing North (26)skin (27)wet (28)bell-
metal (29)renunciation (30)Ritu (31)a beautiful house (32)doctor (33)neck (34)influencing through recitation 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 grand-fathers (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)a beautiful 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) a biped (7)woman (8)Brahmin
(9)Subha (10)Whiteness (11)wife (12)sexual happiness (13)short (14)sour (15)flower (16)command (17)fame
(18)Youthful vigour (19)Vehicle(20)silver(21)South-East 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)love-making (34)watery resort (35)elephant (36)horse (37)variegated colour (38)poetry (39)dancing
(40)middle age

Saturn:

(1)laziness, etc.(2)obstruction(3)OLDER PEOPLE(4)elephant(5)skin(6)gain7)proof or

tness(8)distress(9)sickness(10)misunderstanding(11)misery(12)death(13)happiness through a woman(14)maid
servant(15)asses and mules(16)outcaste (17)one with disfigured limbs(18)haunting woods(19)handsome
look(20)gift(21)a lord(22)a portion of life(23)eunuch(24)one born of the lowest caste(25)birds(26)the three
sacred fires(27)a servile duty(28)unrighteous conduct(29)one without manliness(30)telling lies(31)long
lasting(32)wind (33)old age(34)tendons and muscles(35)strong at the end of the day(36) Sisira Ritu or
winter(37)great-anger(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 irreligious man(11)gambling(12)strong at
twilight(13)intriguing with a wicked woman(14)going abroad (15)impurity(16)bone(17)enlargement of
spleen(18)falsehood(19)downward look(20)perplexity(21)emerald(22)facing the Southern quarter(23)shelter
of outcaste or low people(24painfulswelling(25)a big forest(26)wandering in rugged
places(27)mountain(28)pain(29)staying outside(30)tending towards South-
West(31)wind(32)phlegm(33)sorrow(34)serpent(35)night breeze(36)sharp(37)long(38)reptile(39)reading of
dreams(40)travel

Ketu:

(1)Worship of God Chandeesa, God Ganesha and many other gods(2)doctor(3)dog(4)a

cook(5)vulture(6)salvation(7)all kinds of wealth(8)consumption (9)pain(10)fever(11)bathing in the Holy
Ganges(12)great penance(13)wind(14)a Hunter(15)friendship(16)conferring of
prosperity(17)stone(18)wound(19)witchcraft(20)inconstancy(21)knowledge of Brahma(22)belly(23)eye-
sore(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 of appetite(34)indifference to the world (35)paternal
grandfather(36)hunger(37)severe stomachache(38)boil sand the like skin troubles(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 Moon-natural benefics; Saturn, Mars, Rahu and Ketu-Natural malefics. If Mercury joins
a natural malefic, he does not remain auspicious. As regards the Moon, she is auspicious from 10thday of dark
fortnight through the 5th day of bright fortnight.

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

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

Taurus: Saturn and the Sun are benefics and can cause Rajayoga. Jupiter, Venus and Moon are not auspicious
and may prove death inflicting palnets. Mercury can cause 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. The Moon is the prime killer. (Some replace the Moon with Saturn).

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

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

Virgo: Mars, Jupiter and the Moon are adverse. Venus is the only favourable planet. Mars is a Maraka lord.
Libra: Saturn and Mercury prove auspicious. The moon and Mercury and capable of conferring great benefits
and position. Jupiter, the Sun and Mars are inauspicious. Mars is a Maraka lord. Venus gives balanced results
for this ascendant, if unafflicted by others.

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

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

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

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

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