Chapter 20
Bhavadhyaya (planets in houses)
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When Sun is in lagna, the birth will be courageous, slow, short or defective in sight, and cruel. In Aries, Sun makes a man rich and diseased in the eyes, in Leo it makes a man night-blind. In debilitation, Sun gives defective sight. When Sun is in the 2nd house, the person will be very rich, pays heavy sums to rulers and has a diseased face |
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Sun in the 3rd produces intelligence and valor. In the 4th, he makes the native unhappy and worried. In the 5th, Sun makes a man poor and issueless. In the 6th, he produces strength and defeat by enemies |
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Sun in 7th – disgrace from women. In the 8th, fine children and defective sight. In the 9th – possessed of children, wealth and happiness, the 10th – happiness and courage. In the 11th ‑ very wealthy and in the 12th irreligious |
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Moon in ascendant makes a man dumb, deranged, stubborn, blind, base, deaf or servant. If that birth falls in Cancer, Aries or Taurus, he gets wealth, many children or rich respectively. In 2nd, Moon produces a big family. In the 3rd, it makes a man cruel. In the 4th or 5th, he’ll increase those significations. In 6th, he gives many enemies, tender body, weak digestion, weak sexual inclination, cruel mind and languor |
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Moon in the 7th makes a man envious and passionately fond of women. In 8th, Moon produces capriciousness and suffering constantly from physical ailments. In 9th, popularity, children, wealth, relations and friends. In the 10th, Moon gives success in all undertakings, charitable, rich, intelligent and courageous. In 11th, Moon produces fame, gains and all those items indicated by that house. In the 12th, he makes the person troublesome and defective in bodily organs |
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Mars in lagna – wounds or cuts in the body. In 2nd, dirty meals. In 9th, sinful. In other houses, his results are similar to that of Sun. Mercury in the first eight houses produces learning, wealth, baseness, wisdom, minister, foeless, versed in philosophy and endowed with good character respectively; in other houses, his results are similar to that of Sun |
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Jupiter in the 12 houses gives the following results – learned, good speech, miser, happy, intelligent, foeless, eclipsing father, debased, pious, wealthy, profitable work and unscrupulous respectively |
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Venus in lagna gives skill in sexual indulgence and happiness. In the 7th, he makes the native fond of quarreling and sexual intercourse. In 5th, he gives happiness and in other houses, the result will be similar to Jupiter and in the 12th, Venus gives wealth |
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Saturn in lagna gives poverty, disease, cupidity, uncleanliness, sickness in early life and indistinct speech. If Saturn occupies exaltation or houses of Jupiter or his own house, which happens to be lagna, he makes the person equal to a king, protector of villages or towns, learned and handsome organs. In other houses, his results are similar to that of Sun |
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Take the birth sign, and the body, etc. and predict results by the planets occupying friendly, inimical, neutral, own and exalted houses. Satyacharya declares that benefics and malefics in the houses produce good and bad results in them respectively. And the results are reversed in the 6th, 8th and 12th houses |
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Planets in exaltation, in moolatrikona, in own, friendly, inimical, debilitated houses, and in combustion with Sun give good in full, three-fourths, half, quarter, little and nil results respectively |