Houses in Jyotish from BPHS

Houses or Bhavas Chapter from BPHS

I have taken following info from Houses the translation of Brihat Parashar Hora of Maharishi Parashar translated to English by R Santhanam.

This book according to majority Indian Astrologers is the most important book on the Jyotish. As majority of the Jyotish books were written following the Parashari School of Thought.

It is thought to be written 3000 to 2500 years before. So its a primary source on Jyotish. So we have taken the chapter from this book which deals with the Significations of different houses in Jyotish according to most authoritative Jyotishis of Past.

Hope this knowledge will be helpful to some beginners student to understand the ocean of Jyotish.

Ch. 11. Judgment of Houses

O Maharishi Parashara,

I have come to know of the evils and antidotes thereof from you.

Please tell me, what is to be deduced from each House.

Indications of 1st House.

Maharishi Parashar replies. Physique, appearance, intellect (or the organ of intelligence, i.e. brain), complexion of the body, vigor, weakness, happiness, grief and innate nature are all to be guessed through the ascending Rasi or Ascendant or First house.

Indications of 2nd House.

Wealth, grains (food etc.), family, death, enemies, metals, precious stones etc. are to be understood through 2nd House.

Indications of 3rd House.

From 3rd House know of the following: valor, servants (attending etc.), brothers, sisters etc., initiatory instructions (Upadesha), journey and parents death.

Indications of 4th House.

Conveyances, relatives, mother, happiness, treasure, lands and buildings are to be consulted through 4th House.

Indications of 5th House.

The learned should deduce from 5th House amulets, sacred spells, learning, knowledge, sons, royalty (or authority), fall of position etc.

Indications of 6th House.

Maternal uncle, doubts about death, enemies, ulcers, step-mother etc. are to be estimated from 6th House.

Indications of 7th House.

Wife, travel, trade, loss of sight, death etc. be known from 7th House.

Indications of 8th House.

8th House indicates longevity, battle, enemies, forts, wealth of the dead and things, that have happened and are to happen (in the past and future births).

Indications of 9th House.

Fortunes, wife’s brother, religion, brothers wife, visits to shrines etc. be known from 9th House.

Indications of 10th House.

Royalty (authority), place, profession (livelihood), honour, father, living in foreign lands and debts are to be understood from 10th House.

Indications of 11th House.

All articles, sons wife, income, prosperity, quadrupeds etc. are to be understood from 11th House.

Indications of 12th House.

From 12th House, one can know about expenses, history of enemies, ones own death etc.

Difficulty in conception and Jyotish

Jataka Alankara gives following four simple yogas to see if the native will have difficulty in having children.

It doesn’t means that anyone having any of these yogas will not have children, but we must keep in mind that according to all masters in astrology and Jyotish at least three or more combinations should be there in a horoscope for any event to become  a possibility.

1. The Sun, the Ascendant lord and Saturn in the 7th,

2. The Sun and Saturn in the 7th and Moon in the 10th devoid of Jupiter’s aspect, the wife will never conceive.

3. If lord of the 6th, the Sun and Saturn be in the 6th and the Moon be aspected by Mercury posited in the 7th, the woman will be barren.

I will be adding many more Yogas to this articles

To be continued