The previous lesson set out what each house signifies. This one links houses to grahas in two ways: through lordship, because every house has a ruling graha, and through drishti, the aspects by which a graha is said to influence houses other than its own. Together they form the basic grammar astrologers use to read a chart.
Finding a house’s lord
Every house holds a sign, and every sign has a lord, so every house has a lord, its bhavesh. The method has two steps: find the sign on the house, then look up that sign’s lord from module 2. With whole-sign houses and a Leo lagna, the houses and their lords are:
- 1st Leo — Sun; 2nd Virgo — Mercury; 3rd Libra — Venus.
- 4th Scorpio — Mars; 5th Sagittarius — Jupiter; 6th Capricorn — Saturn.
- 7th Aquarius — Saturn; 8th Pisces — Jupiter; 9th Aries — Mars.
- 10th Taurus — Venus; 11th Gemini — Mercury; 12th Cancer — Moon.
Because five grahas rule two signs, each of them rules two houses for any lagna. For Leo lagna, Mars rules both the 4th, a kendra, and the 9th, a trikona. The tradition calls a graha that rules both a kendra and a trikona a yogakaraka and regards it as especially favourable for that lagna.
Lords placed in other houses
The texts read the lord of a house as carrying that house’s matters to wherever it sits. BPHS devotes a chapter to the lord of each house placed in each of the twelve houses, 144 combinations in all. Take Leo lagna again, with Venus, the 10th lord, placed in the 4th house, Scorpio. The tradition joins the 10th (work, status) with the 4th (home, mother, property). An astrologer would look for ways the two themes connect: work tied to property or done from home, or a career shaped by family.
This is a starting point, not a verdict. The same texts qualify every combination by the lord’s dignity, its conjunctions, the aspects it receives and the running dasha, and experienced readers often weigh these differently. Treat the 144 combinations as a vocabulary of themes rather than a list of outcomes.
None of these readings has been shown to forecast events. Module 10 describes the platform’s own back-test, which found no measurable timing signal; the house-lord combinations are taught here as part of the tradition.
Functional benefics and malefics
A graha’s natural nature, from module 2, is one layer. A second layer, its functional nature, depends on which houses it rules for a given lagna. The general rules in the classical texts: lords of the trikonas (1, 5, 9) are favourable; lords of the 3rd, 6th and 11th are unfavourable; natural benefics that rule kendras lose some of their beneficence, while natural malefics ruling kendras lose some of their harshness; the 8th lord is unfavourable unless it also rules the lagna; and the 2nd and 12th lords take their colour from the other house they rule and from their associations.
Example, Aries lagna. Jupiter rules the 9th (Sagittarius) and the 12th (Pisces); its 9th-house trikona lordship leads the texts to treat it as a functional benefic for Aries, even though it also owns the 12th. Mercury, a natural benefic, rules the 3rd (Gemini) and the 6th (Virgo), so it counts as a functional malefic here. Mars rules the 1st and the 8th, and lagna lordship outweighs the 8th. The Sun, lord of the 5th, is favourable, while Saturn, lord of the 10th and 11th, is mixed.
Authors disagree on details, for example on how far kendra lordship spoils a natural benefic. Because functional roles change with the lagna, an error in birth time that shifts the lagna changes every lordship in the chart.
Drishti: the aspects
Drishti, literally “sight”, is the idea that a graha influences houses other than the one it occupies. Houses are counted inclusively: the graha’s own house is the 1st from it. Every graha aspects the 7th house from itself, the one directly opposite. Three have extra full aspects:
- Mars: also the 4th and 8th from itself.
- Jupiter: also the 5th and 9th from itself.
- Saturn: also the 3rd and 10th from itself.
Worked examples. Saturn in the 2nd house aspects the 4th (3rd from it), the 8th (7th from it) and the 11th (10th from it). Jupiter in the 5th aspects the 9th, the 11th and, counting past the 12th, the 1st. Mars in the 1st aspects the 4th, 7th and 8th. With whole-sign houses, an aspect falls on the whole house and on every graha in it.
Rahu and Ketu are a tradition difference. Some astrologers give them special aspects like Jupiter’s (5th and 9th), others only the 7th, and some none at all; the site lets you choose in your profile settings. BPHS also describes partial aspects of every graha, and the Jaimini system uses sign-to-sign aspects instead; this lesson covers only the full planetary aspects listed above.
प्रयास गर्नुहोस्: भाव, स्वामी र तिनमा रहेका ग्रह
उदाहरण: अहिले कोही जन्मिएको भए जस्तो, यस घडी तपाईंको स्थानको आकाश। आफ्नै कुण्डली हेर्न साइन इन गरी आफ्नो जन्म विवरण सुरक्षित गर्नुहोस्।
| भाव | राशि | स्वामी | स्वामी रहेको भाव | त्यसमा रहेका ग्रह |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | मीन | बृहस्पति | 6 | शनि |
| 2 | मेष | मङ्गल | 5 | — |
| 3 | वृष | शुक्र | 8 | — |
| 4 | मिथुन | बुध | 8 | — |
| 5 | कर्कट | चन्द्र | 5 | चन्द्र, मङ्गल |
| 6 | सिंह | सूर्य | 8 | बृहस्पति, केतु |
| 7 | कन्या | बुध | 8 | — |
| 8 | तुला | शुक्र | 8 | सूर्य, बुध, शुक्र |
| 9 | वृश्चिक | मङ्गल | 5 | — |
| 10 | धनु | बृहस्पति | 6 | — |
| 11 | मकर | शनि | 1 | — |
| 12 | कुम्भ | शनि | 1 | राहु |
लग्न राशिबाट गनिएका पूर्ण राशि भाव।
The example shows the lord of each of your houses and the grahas in it. Try finding one lord yourself first: note the sign on a house, name its lord, then see where that lord sits and which houses it aspects. The positions are calculated; the meanings are the tradition’s.