Chapter 8: The effects of the Sun and other planets in the 12 Bhavas from the Lagna onwards

If the Sun occupy the 1st house at a person's birth, he will have very little hair ; he will be most inactive to do any work ; he will be angry and impetuous, and tall in stature. He will be proud, will have soiled eyes and a lean body. He will be valiant, impatient and cruel-hearted. If the Lagna at birth be Cancer and the Sun occupy it, he will have a cataract in the eyes ; if it be Mesha, he will suffer from eye-disease. If the Sun be in Leo identical with the Lagna, the person concerned will be night-blind. If Libra be the Lagna and the Sun occupy it, he will suffer from poverty and loss of children.

When the Sun is in the 2nd house in a person's birth, he will be devoid of learning, modesty and riches and will be stammering. If the Sun should occupy the 3rd house, the person concerned will be strong, brave, wealthy and liberal, but inimical towards his relations. If the Sun be in the 4th house, the person born will have no happiness, no relations, no lands, no friends and no house. He will serve the State and spend away his paternal property.

If the Sun should occupy the 5th house from the Lagna, the person born will be bereft of happiness, riches and children and his life will be short. He will be intelligent and will travel over forest regions. If the Sun be in the 6th house, the person born will become a King, famous, of good qualities, wealthy and victorious. If the Sun occupy the 7th house at a birth, the person concerned will incur the displeasure of the sovereign, and will be deformed; he will be wandering, without a wife and suffer humiliation. If the Sun should be in the 8th house, the person born will lose his wealth, and friends ; he will not be long-lived and will have defective eye-sight or be blind.

If at the time of birth, the Sun should occupy the 9th house, the person concerned will lose his father; he will have children and relations and will revere Gods and Brahmins. If he occupies the 10th house, the person will have sons, vehicles, laudation, intelligence, wealth, strength and fame. He will be a King. The Sun in the 11th house will make the person born very wealthy and long-lived. He will be a King and will have no sorrow. If the Sun be in the 12th house, the person born will hate his father. His eyesight will be defective and he will be without wealth and children.

If at a person's birth, the Moon be waxing and happens to be in the first house, the person concerned will possess a strong constitution and a long lease of life. He will be free from fear, very powerful and wealthy. But if the Moon be waning, the effects stated above will be quite the reverse. If the Moon should occupy the 2nd house, the person born will be rich, very learned or soft-tongued ; he will be a sensualist but defective of some limb. If the Moon be in the 3rd house, the person born will have brothers, will be lascivious, strong and powerful but very miserly.

If at a birth the Moon be in the 4th house, the person concerned will be happy and indulging in sensual pleasures. He will be liberal in gifts, will have friends, vehicles and become renowned. If the Moon should occupy the 5th house, the person born will have good sons, will be very intelligent, will walk gently and will become a minister. If the Moon be in the 6th house, the person born will be short-lived, ignorant, will suffer from stomach-ache, etc., he will also suffer humiliation. If the Moon should occupy the 7th house, the person born will be agreeable to look at, will be loved by a beautiful damsel, and will be exceedingly lovely.

The person at whose birth the Moon is in the 8th house will suffer from diseases and will be short-lived. If the Moon should occupy the 9th house at a birth, the person concerned will be prosperous, virtuous and blessed with children. He will be victorious, and all his undertakings will be crowned with success at the beginning itself. If the Moon should occupy the 10th house at a birth, the person concerned will do good acts and will be helpful to the virtuous. If the Moon be in the 11th house, the person born will be high-minded, long-lived, and endowed with riches, children and servants. If the Moon be in the 12th house at a birth, the person concerned will be odious to others ; he will suffer misery, will be insulted and will be most indolent.

If Mars occupy the Lagna at a person's birth, he will have an injured limb ; he will be short-lived and will be very cruel and adventurous. If Mars be in the 2nd house, the person concerned will be adverse or ugly-faced, devoid of learning and wealth and will be dependent on bad people. If Mars occupy the 3rd house, the person born will be of good qualities, possess wealth, will be brave, unassailable, happy and will have no brothers. If at a birth Mars should occupy the 4th house, the person concerned will be without friends, mother, lands, happiness, house and vehicles.

If at a birth [Mars] be in the 5th house, the person concerned will be unhappy, without children, full of reverses, back-biting and weak-minded. If Mars occupy the 6th house, the person born will be exceedingly smitten with love, wealthy, and famous : he will be a King and victorious (in battle). Mars in the 7th house makes the person born do improper acts, suffer affliction through disease, wander in the roads and lose his wife. If Mars be in the 8th house, the person born will have a deformed body, will be poor, short-lived and cursed by the people.

If Mars occupy the 9th house at a person's birth; the native will, though a friend of the sovereign, be hated by others ; he will be fatherless and will commit homicide. Mars in the 10th house makes the person born a King cruel, liberal and praised by important people. If at a birth Mars should be in the 11th house, the person concerned will be endowed with riches and happiness. He will be brave, will have no sorrow and possessed of good character. When Mars occupies the 12th house at a birth, the person concerned will have deformed eyes ; he will be cruel, and without a wife. He will be a slanderer and a mean wretch.

If at a person's birth Mercury occupy the Lagna, he will be long-lived, speaking sweetly and cleverly. He will be sharp-witted, and learned in all Sastras. If Mercury be in the 2nd house, the person born will acquire wealth by his own talents, will be a poet, sincere and attractive in his speech, and will eat sumptuous food. If Mercury should occupy the 3rd house at a birth, the person concerned will be brave, of medium life, and have good brothers ; he will suffer fatigue and be dejected. Mercury occupying the 4th house at a birth makes the person concerned learned, witty in speech happy and possessed of friends, lands, corn, wealth and enjoyment.

If Mercury be in the 5th house at a birth, the person concerned, will be learned, happy and courageous. He will have a good number of children and will be conversant with charms or spells. Mercury in the 6th house makes the person born angry through disputes, harsh in speech and idle. The native will destroy the power of his enemies. When Mercury occupies the 7th house, the person born will be learned ; he will dress himself beautifully, will have all the greatness, and will have a rich lady as his wife. If Mercury should be posited in the 8th house at a birth, the person concerned will be widely renowned, and long-lived ; he will be the supporter of his family, a lord and a commander of the army.

If at a birth Mercury should occupy the 9th house from the Lagna, the person concerned will have learning and wealth ; he will be of good conduct ; he will be religious-minded, conversant with everything, and very eloquent in speech. If Mercury be in the 10th house, the person born will be successful in whatever he undertakes, will have good learning, strength, intelligence, and happiness. He will do good acts and be truthful. Mercury in the 11th house makes the person born long-lived, truthful, very rich, happy and possessed of servants. If Mercury be in the 12th house, the person born will be miserable, devoid of learning, suffer humiliation, will be cruel and inactive.

If at a birth Jupiter should be posited in the Lagna, the person concerned will be handsome, fortunate, long-lived, fearless, and blessed with children. If Jupiter occupy the 2nd house, the person born will be eloquent, and a good connoisseur in food. He will have a lovely face, will be wealthy and learned. If Jupiter be in the 3rd house at a birth, the person concerned will be treated with disrespect, will be miserly, will have a renowned brother, will commit sins, and will be wickedly-disposed. When Jupiter occupies the 4th house, the person born will live with his mother, friends, attendants, sons, wife, corn, etc. and be happy.

Jupiter in the 5th house at a birth makes the native suffer distress through sons. The person will be intelligent and will be a king's adviser. If Jupiter should occupy the 6th house at a birth, the person concerned will be very inactive, suffer disrespect, destroy his enemies, and clever in charms and exorcising. If Jupiter be in the 7th house, the person born will possess a good wife and sons. He will be very amiable, and more munificent than his father. If Jupiter be posited in the 8th house, the person born will be poor and earn his livelihood as a menial ; he will be sinful but long-lived.

If Jupiter occupy the 9th house at a person's birth, he will become a famous minister, will be endowed with wealth and children and will be anxious to do virtuous acts. If Jupiter should be in the 10th house, the person born will follow the right course of conduct, will be renowned for his virtues, will become very rich and a friend of the king. When Jupiter is posited in the 11th house, the person born will be wealthy, fearless, will have a few children, will be long-lived and will be going in vehicles. If Jupiter be in the 12th house, the person concerned will be hated by others, will be foul-mouthed, will have no children, will be sinful, idle and a menial.

If Venus should occupy the Lagna at a person's birth, he will have a healthy and beautiful body; he will be happy and endowed with long life. When Venus occupies the 2nd house, the person born, will become a poet and endowed with riches of various kinds. Venus in the 3rd house at birth makes the native wifeless, unhappy, poor, miserly and unpopular. If Venus should be in the 4th house at a birth, the native will have good vehicles, good house, jewels, clothes, scents, etc.

If Venus be in the 5th house at a birth, the person concerned will be the owner of immense wealth, will protect others, will be very wise and blessed with children. When Venus occupies the 6th house, the person born will have no enemies, no riches, will be corrupted by young females and affected by grief. If Venus should be posited in the 7th house at a birth, the person concerned will have a good wife but will have intrigues with bad women. He will lose a wife and will be wealthy. Venus in the 8th house makes the native long-lived, rich, and a ruler of the earth.

If Venus occupy the 9th house at a birth, the person concerned will be blessed with a wife, friends and children, and will become prosperous through royal favor. If Venus should be in the 10th house, the person born will become widely renowned, will have friends, and will be a lord happily employed. Venus in the 11th house makes the person born rich, fond of the company of other females and endowed with many comforts. When Venus occupies the 12th house, the person born will have sexual enjoyment, wealth and splendour.

If at a birth Saturn occupies his exaltation or own house identical with the Lagna, the person concerned will be on a par with the king, a chief or mayor of a city. If Saturn should be rising in any other Rasi, the person born will be afflicted with sorrow and misery from his very childhood and will suffer from indigence. He will be slovenly and indolent.

If Saturn should occupy the 2nd house at a person's birth, he will have an ugly face ; he will be without wealth, and following evil courses. At a later age he will live in a foreign country endowed with vehicles, wealth and other enjoyments. When Saturn is posited in the 3rd house at a birth, the person concerned will be very intelligent, liberal in gifts and happy with his wife. He will however be inactive and overcome with sorrow.

If at a birth Saturn should occupy the 4th house, the person concerned will be unhappy, houseless, without vehicles, deprived of his mother and sickly during his early years. If Saturn should be posited in the 5th house, the person born will be roaming about, will have lost his reason, will be bereft of children, wealth and happiness, will be perfidious and evil-minded. When Saturn occupies the 6th house, the person born will be a voracious eater, will be wealthy, subdued by his enemies, will be stubborn and possessed of self-respect. Saturn in the 7th house will cause the native to be wedded to a bad wife, to be poor, roaming and be distressed.

The person at whose birth Saturn is in the 8th house will be unclean and without wealth. He will suffer from piles, will be cruel-minded, will be pinched with hunger and will be despised by his friends.

The person at whose birth Saturn is in the 9th house will be bereft of fortune, wealth, children, father and religious merit. He will be wicked. If Saturn should occupy the 10th house, the person born will be a king or his minister, will devote himself to agriculture, will be brave, rich and renowned. The person who has Saturn in the 11th house in his nativity will have a long span of life, lasting wealth and good income, will be brave, free from disease and moneyed. Saturn in the 12th house makes the native impudent, indigent, without children, defective of some limb, stupid and driven out by his enemies.

If at a birth Rahu occupy the Lagna, the person concerned will have a short life, possess wealth and strength, and will suffer from diseases in the higher limbs of his body (head, face, etc). The person who has at his birth Rahu in the 2nd house will be dubious or insincere in his speech, will suffer from disease in the mouth or face, will be tender-hearted, will get wealth through his sovereign, will be wrathful and happy. Rahu in the 3rd house makes the person born proud, hostile to his brothers, strong-willed, long-lived and wealthy. If Rahu should occupy the 4th house, the person born will be a fool, will cause sorrow, will have friends, will be short-lived and happy at some time or other.

If at a person's birth Rahu should be posited in the 5th house, he will talk through the nose, will be childless, will be hard-hearted and suffer from belly-ache. If Rahu be in the 6th house, the person born will be troubled by his enemies, or oppressed by malefic planets (demons). He will suffer from a disease in the anus. He will be wealthy and long-lived. When Rahu occupies the 7th house, the person concerned will lose his wealth through intrigues with women, suffer separation from his beloved, lose his manhood, become self-willed and silly. If Rahu occupy the 8th house, the person born will be short-lived, will do impure acts, will be defective of a limb, will suffer from wind-disease and will have limited issue.

If Rahu happens to be in the 9th house at a birth, the person concerned will speak opposingly. He will be the head of his clan, the headman of a village or mayor of a city and will commit unrighteous deeds. Rahu in the 10th house makes the native famous; the man will have a limited number of issue, will engage himself in others' business, will not do any good act and will be fearless. If Rahu be in the 11th house; the person born will be prosperous, will not have many children, will be long-lived and will suffer from ear disease. If Rahu should occupy the 12th house, the person concerned will be intent on committing sinful acts secretly, will spend much and will suffer from a water-disease.

The person at whose birth Ketu occupies the Lagna will be ungrateful, unhappy and bearing tales against others. He will be an outcast, fallen from his position, will have a deformed body and associating with the wicked. Ketu in the 2nd house makes the native devoid of learning and riches. His speech will be very vile in quality, and he will have a sinister look. He will ever be eating at others' tables.

Ketu in the 3rd house confers on the native long life, strength, wealth and fame. The person will live happily with his wife and eat good food. He will lose a brother. If Ketu be in the 4th house, the person concerned will lose his lands, vehicles, mother and happiness. He will leave his native country and dwell in a foreign place and live at the bounty of another.

Ketu in the 5th house at a person's birth will cause loss of children, disease in the stomach and trouble from goblins. The native will become evil-minded and wicked. If Ketu should occupy the 6th house at a birth, the person concerned will be very magnanimous and possess the best qualities. He will attain everlasting fame, firmness and high authority, destroy his enemies and realise his wishes.

The person at whose birth Ketu is posited in the 7th house will suffer disrespect, seek the company of bad women, will be afflicted by a disease relating to the bowels and will suffer loss of wife and vital power. If Ketu be in the 8th house, the person born will be short-lived, will suffer the separation of his dear friends and engage in quarrels, will meet with injury from a weapon and disappointment in all his undertakings.

If Ketu should occupy the 9th house at a person's birth, he will follow a sinful course, will do unrighteous things and be deprived of his father, will be unlucky, indigent and will slander the good. When Ketu occupies the 10th house, the person born will experience obstacles to the performance of good acts, will be impure, and will be engaged in doing vile acts. He will be energetic, bold and widely renowned.

If Ketu be posited in the 11th house at a birth, the person concerned will hoard money, will have many good qualities, will enjoy himself well, will command all the facilities for getting good materials and will be successful in obtaining all his requirements. If Ketu occupy the 12th house, the person born will secretly commit sinful acts, spend money on vile things, will destroy wealth, will be of forbidden conduct, and will suffer from eye-diseases.

A planet produces the full effect of the Bhava in which it is when its distance (in Navamsas, degree etc.) from the commencement of the Rasi occupied is equal to that traversed by the Lagna-point in the Lagna Rasi. It is declared by the authorities that Rahu is similar to Saturn and Ketu to Mars in giving effects.

Planets produce the full effects of the Bhavas respectively occupied by them when they are exactly posited in the (Bhavamsa = Semi-bhava = in the middle or centre of the Bhava). If they should occupy a position less or greater than the semi-bhava, the effects are declared to be correspondingly increasing or decreasing as the case may be.