Chapter 5: Sources of Livelihood

One ought to declare the acquisition of wealth by any person with reference to the predominance of the Lagna or the Moon as the case may be in his horoscope. The source of such an acquisition will be the father, mother, a foe, a friend, a brother, a wife or a servant, according as the Sun or any of the other planets taken in order occupies the 10th place from the Lagna or the Moon whichever is stronger. His profession will be that prescribed for the lord of the Navamsa occupied by the planet owning the 10th place from the Lagna, from the Moon and from the Sun (severally) whichever is strongest.

If the lord of the 10th house be posited in the Sun's Navamsa, the person born will earn his livelihood through fruit-trees, by the repetitions of Mantras, by fraud, by gambling, by uttering falsehood, through wool, medicine and the like, by working on metals or through service under a king or some respectable person.

If the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house be that of the Moon, the income of the person concerned will be through trade in water-products (pearls, corals, etc.,) through agriculture and cattle - farming, pilgrimage to holy shrines, service under a damsel or trading in clothes.

If the Navamsa in question be that of Mars, the sources of income may be through metals, fighting in battles, cooking, lands, gold, inflicting trouble to others, weapons, acts of adventure, association with wicked men, spying or through theft.

In the case of a person born with the lord of the 10th posited in a Navamsa owned by Mercury, the earning will be through composing poems, the study of sacred scriptures, by being a scribe or through some clerical work, or some trick, through a knowledge of astrology, through the study of the Vedas on other's behalf, by repetition of Mantras, or by playing the role of a priest or by some pretext.

If the planet concerned be in a Navamsa of Jupiter, the person born maintains himself through the help of Brahmins, Gods or through royal favor, by reciting Puranas, by the study of Sastras, by the preaching of morality, by religious instructions or by lending money (profession of usury).

The earnings of a person with the lord of the 10th house posited in a Navamsa owned by Venus will be through a woman, cows, buffaloes, elephants, horses, through triple symphony (i.e., dancing in accompaniment to vocal and instrumental music), through silver, scents, milk, ornaments and silken fineries, by virtue of being a companion (Aid-de-camp.) to a king, or by his poetic talents.

The person in whose nativity the lord of the 10th house is sheltered in Saturn's Navamsa lives by dealing in roots and fruits, by physical exertion, (sweating labour), through servants, rogues and through the earnings of men of low morality, through bad grains, by carrying burden, by resorting to base avocations, through sculpture, wooden materials and by functioning as an executioner or a butcher.

When the planet owning the Navamsa is strong, there will be acquisition of wealth without any exertion. If it should be weak, very little wealth accrues. The country of acquisition will be that signified by the sign representing the 10th house or the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house. But if this sign be occupied or aspected by its lord, he will earn in his own country. The same will be the result if the Navamsa occupied by the lord of the 10th house be an immoveable Rasi. And if the said sign be occupied or aspected by planets other than its lord, the native will earn in a place other than his own native country.