GRAHAS AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS
So let us return back to the nine grahas. As we mentioned in Chapter I, each graha represents certain qualities of life. Here are the natural significations of each graha.
SURYA (the Sun) represents anything that embodies the center of a structure or which holds some power: it signifies your higher self, your true inner nature, your ego, it represents your father or teacher, a head of your state or the country.
CHANDRA ( the Moon) signifies your mind and emotions, your mother, females in your life, and the general public.
Moon has two phases: waxing and waning, and of course every time it is placed in the same sign that the Sun is in, it is considered to be New, while occupying a constellation directly opposite to the one occupied by the Sun, it becomes Full. Even though by nature Moon is a benefic planet, it becomes weak while being in a waning or new state, and therefore loses some of its benefic potencies. A strong, bright, waxing Moon well-placed in the chart is said to give a great boost to the overall conditions of one's life. Birth in the full Moon is considered to be highly auspicious in Vedic tradition.
MANGALA (Mars) signifies your courage, strength, energy, and your siblings, especially male siblings.
BUDHA (Mercury) signifies your intellect and mental capacity, as well as the quality of your verbal skills.
GURU (Jupiter) signifies wisdom, knowledge, fortune, and religion.
SHUKRA (Venus) signifies romance, material and sexual desires, pleasure, and comforts. It may also represent your beloved one.
SHANI ( Saturn) signifies grief, old age, separation, restrictions and delays, as well as maturity and perseverance.
According to an ancient legend, Rahu and Ketu are two halves of a dragon. Rahu is the head of the dragon and Ketu is the headless trunk of the dragon. According to the legend, Rahu and Ketu hate the Sun and the Moon and always pursuit them, trying to swallow the Luminaries. They succeed, but just for an instance (of course that is called an eclipse), then the luminaries escape, and the chase goes on. Rahu and Ketu are said to act in a chaotic, unpredictable manner and are capable of inflicting powerful suffering through their influences in the horoscope.
RAHU signifies obsession, foreign influences, unusual cravings, infections, strange occurrences, addictions, and so on.
KETU signifies detachment, occult knowledge, spiritual techniques, and untraditional healing methods.
Each day of the week corresponds to a particular graha. The influence of a corresponding graha become the dominating influence of that day.
The Lunar Nodes, Rahu and Ketu, do not get rulership over a day of the week.
Surya (Sun) rules over Sunday.
Chandra (Moon) rules over Monday.
Mangala (Mars) rules over Tuesday.
Budha (Mercury) rules over Wednesday.
Guru (Jupiter) rules over Thursday.
Shukra (Venus) rules over Friday.
Shani (Saturn) rules over Saturday.
Malefics and Benefics
The grahas (planets) are divided into two groups according to their basic qualities and energies: natural malefics and natural benefics. Malefic planets are capable of producing unfavorable effects on the areas of life represented by the bhavas (houses) that they affect by placement or aspects, while benefics influence the horoscope in a uplifting and positive manner. Please note that the functional nature of a planet may be different from its natural condition. Later on, we will explain what constitutes the functional nature of the planets.
Moon, Jupiter, and Venus are Natural Benefics.
Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu are Natural Malefics.
Mercury is Neutral.
RASHIS
Although, each rashi (sign) has its unique attributes and characteristics, it also has something common with some of the other rashis(signs). The twelfth rashis are divided into three categories, three modes of operation: Cardinal ( Movable, Fixed, and Dual) The type of the mode defines the way the rashi acts and the type of energy that it produces. The movable rashis are active, changeable, and direct. The fixed rashis are slow, and as the mode's name implies, resisting to change, and attached to particular fixed way of doing things. The dual rashis are always moving in different directions, exploring all the possibilities and sides to each matter.
Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn are Movable rashis.
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius are Fixed rashis.
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces are Dual rashis.
Besides being categorized in terms of 3 modes, rashis are also divided into 4 groups, each of them assigned to a Natural element : Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Each of the element groups contains all 3 modes of rashis, movable, fixed, and dual. For example, water rashis are Cancer ( movable), Scorpio (fixed), and Pisces ( dual). The same pattern applies to all four elements.
Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius are Fire rashis.
Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn are Earth rashis.
Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius are Air rashis.
Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces are Water rashis.
BHAVAS
Bhavas (houses) are categorized in several ways. Let us refer back to your chart and the blank chart that displays house numbers. This will help you visualize the concepts that we will be discussing.
So let us return back to the nine grahas. As we mentioned in Chapter I, each graha represents certain qualities of life. Here are the natural significations of each graha.
SURYA (the Sun) represents anything that embodies the center of a structure or which holds some power: it signifies your higher self, your true inner nature, your ego, it represents your father or teacher, a head of your state or the country.
CHANDRA ( the Moon) signifies your mind and emotions, your mother, females in your life, and the general public.
Moon has two phases: waxing and waning, and of course every time it is placed in the same sign that the Sun is in, it is considered to be New, while occupying a constellation directly opposite to the one occupied by the Sun, it becomes Full. Even though by nature Moon is a benefic planet, it becomes weak while being in a waning or new state, and therefore loses some of its benefic potencies. A strong, bright, waxing Moon well-placed in the chart is said to give a great boost to the overall conditions of one's life. Birth in the full Moon is considered to be highly auspicious in Vedic tradition.
MANGALA (Mars) signifies your courage, strength, energy, and your siblings, especially male siblings.
BUDHA (Mercury) signifies your intellect and mental capacity, as well as the quality of your verbal skills.
GURU (Jupiter) signifies wisdom, knowledge, fortune, and religion.
SHUKRA (Venus) signifies romance, material and sexual desires, pleasure, and comforts. It may also represent your beloved one.
SHANI ( Saturn) signifies grief, old age, separation, restrictions and delays, as well as maturity and perseverance.
According to an ancient legend, Rahu and Ketu are two halves of a dragon. Rahu is the head of the dragon and Ketu is the headless trunk of the dragon. According to the legend, Rahu and Ketu hate the Sun and the Moon and always pursuit them, trying to swallow the Luminaries. They succeed, but just for an instance (of course that is called an eclipse), then the luminaries escape, and the chase goes on. Rahu and Ketu are said to act in a chaotic, unpredictable manner and are capable of inflicting powerful suffering through their influences in the horoscope.
RAHU signifies obsession, foreign influences, unusual cravings, infections, strange occurrences, addictions, and so on.
KETU signifies detachment, occult knowledge, spiritual techniques, and untraditional healing methods.
Each day of the week corresponds to a particular graha. The influence of a corresponding graha become the dominating influence of that day.
The Lunar Nodes, Rahu and Ketu, do not get rulership over a day of the week.
Surya (Sun) rules over Sunday.
Chandra (Moon) rules over Monday.
Mangala (Mars) rules over Tuesday.
Budha (Mercury) rules over Wednesday.
Guru (Jupiter) rules over Thursday.
Shukra (Venus) rules over Friday.
Shani (Saturn) rules over Saturday.
Malefics and Benefics
The grahas (planets) are divided into two groups according to their basic qualities and energies: natural malefics and natural benefics. Malefic planets are capable of producing unfavorable effects on the areas of life represented by the bhavas (houses) that they affect by placement or aspects, while benefics influence the horoscope in a uplifting and positive manner. Please note that the functional nature of a planet may be different from its natural condition. Later on, we will explain what constitutes the functional nature of the planets.
Moon, Jupiter, and Venus are Natural Benefics.
Sun, Mars, Saturn, Rahu, and Ketu are Natural Malefics.
Mercury is Neutral.
RASHIS
Although, each rashi (sign) has its unique attributes and characteristics, it also has something common with some of the other rashis(signs). The twelfth rashis are divided into three categories, three modes of operation: Cardinal ( Movable, Fixed, and Dual) The type of the mode defines the way the rashi acts and the type of energy that it produces. The movable rashis are active, changeable, and direct. The fixed rashis are slow, and as the mode's name implies, resisting to change, and attached to particular fixed way of doing things. The dual rashis are always moving in different directions, exploring all the possibilities and sides to each matter.
Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn are Movable rashis.
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius are Fixed rashis.
Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces are Dual rashis.
Besides being categorized in terms of 3 modes, rashis are also divided into 4 groups, each of them assigned to a Natural element : Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Each of the element groups contains all 3 modes of rashis, movable, fixed, and dual. For example, water rashis are Cancer ( movable), Scorpio (fixed), and Pisces ( dual). The same pattern applies to all four elements.
Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius are Fire rashis.
Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn are Earth rashis.
Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius are Air rashis.
Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces are Water rashis.
BHAVAS
Bhavas (houses) are categorized in several ways. Let us refer back to your chart and the blank chart that displays house numbers. This will help you visualize the concepts that we will be discussing.
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The four diamond shaped houses in the middle (the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th houses) that constitute a large diamond in the center of the chart are called kendras (angular). The kendras produce very prominent and powerful influences.
In your chart all the kendras are occupied by the movable rashis (signs), which can be interpreted that you like changes and tend to change your opinions, ideas, residences, and possibly occupations frequently.
The 1st, 5th, and 9th houses are called trikona (trinal) houses. As you have noticed, the first house is both a kendra and trikona, which makes it's influences the most prominent and auspicious.
Your trikona houses are occupied by earth rashis (signs).
The 3rd, the 6th, the 10th and 11th houses are called upachaya (growing) houses. The conditions and effects of the grahas (planets) placed in the upachaya houses have a chance for gradual improvement throughout the course life.
The 6th, 8th, and 12 houses are called dusthanas. They are considered to be the most difficult houses.
The 12 bhavas (houses) are divided into four types: Dharma ("life mission or purpose"), Artha ("wealth or material acquisition"), Kama ("desire"), and Moksha ("spiritual liberation").
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Bhavas (houses) 1, 5, and 9 are Dharma houses.
Bhavas (houses) 2, 6, and 10 are Artha houses.
Bhavas (houses) 3, 7, and 11 are Kama houses.
Bhavas (houses) 4, 8, and 12 are Moksha houses.
You may have noticed that the Fire rashis (signs), Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius correlate to Dharma bhavas (1st, 5th, and 9th houses) in nature and qualities. In the same way the Earth rashis (signs) Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn can be related to the Artha bhavas (2nd, 6th, and 10th houses). The air rashis (signs) Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius correspond to Kama bhavas (3rd, 7th, and the 11th), and the water rashis (signs) Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces correspond to the Moskha bhavas (4th, 8th, and 12th houses).
SIGNIFICATIONS OF THE 12 BHAVAS
In the beginning of the tutorial we briefly mentioned the main signification of each house. Now you are going to become familiar with significations of each bhava in more detail.
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The First bhava (house) represents your birth, the inner and outer Self, appearance, well being, personality traits, and general inclinations. It is a Dharma bhava, and it is at the same time a kendra and a trikona. It is the most important and auspicious bhava in the horoscope.
The sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the time of your birth is your Ascendant or Rising sign. The rising sign fully occupies the First house of your horoscope. Your Ascendant is Capricorn.
The Second bhava (house) represents your family, status in life, wealth, oral knowledge, speech, mouth, face, right eye, and foods that you like to consume. It is an Artha bhava.
The Third bhava (house) represents your younger siblings, talents and skills, courage, energy level, means of communications, as well as short distance travels. It is a Kama bhava and an upachaya (growing).
The Fourth bhava (house) represents your mother, emotions, happiness, home, real estate, vehicles, and quality of early education. It is a Moksha bhava and a kendra.
The Fifth bhava (house) represents your children, good merits from the past lives, education, speculative activities, and leisurely past times. It is a Dharma bhava and a trikona.
The Ninth bhava (house) represents good fortune, prosperity, your father, devotional practices, foreign travel, higher knowledge, spiritual guide, and grandchildren. It is a Dharma bhava and trikona.
The Tenth house represents your career, social status, government, fame, and father (both the 9th and the 10th houses represent the father). It is an Artha Bhava and the most powerful kendra. It is also an upachaya bhava.
The Eleventh bhava (house) represents your desires and their fulfillment, money, plentitude, career income, gains, elder sibling, and friends. It is a Kama bhava and an upachaya.
The Twelfth bhava (house) represents foreign residency, immigration, imprisonment, confinement, losses, sexual pleasures, hospitals, sleep, dreams, death, and moksha (final liberation). It is a Moksha bhava and a dusthana.
Depending on the influences that the bhava (house) receives from the occupying sign, conditions of its ruler, planetary aspects or placement, the conditions of the matters signified by that house will either flourish or suffer. That will define how you will experience that particular facet of life.
GRAHAS IN BHAVAS
The natural benefics, like Jupiter, Moon, and Venus do better when placed in any of the trikona (trinal) houses. Those placements enable planetary significations to flourish, creating peaceful and harmonious conditions in a person's life. Also, benefics will do well when placed in any of the kendra houses. On the other hand, the natural malefics, Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu, and Sun are considered to be better off placed in upachaya (growing) houses, as the conditions of the upachaya houses improve as time goes by and the afflictions and hindrances created by the natural malefics will be slowly removed, at least partially.
As it has been emphasized before, the Moon's placement in the chart is of the utmost significance. Ruling the mind and emotions, Moon is responsible for your subjective perception of life. Your Moon is placed in the 3rd house which gives you a cheerful and active disposition. Your restless mind is always eager to learn and explore new subjects.
Your Sun is placed in the 4 house.
Your Mars is placed in the 7 house.
Your Mercury is placed in the 3 house.
Your Jupiter is placed in the 6 house.
Your Venus is placed in the 5 house.
Your Saturn is placed in the 8 house.
Your Rahu is placed in the 9 house.
Your Ketu is placed in the 3 house.
Directional strength
Each planets obtains Dig bala (directional strength) through its placement in a specific house of the horoscope. Directional strength is one of the components of the overall planetary strength evaluation formula.
Surya (Sun) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Tenth House.
Chandra (Moon) receives the full Dig Bala when placed in the Fourth House.
Mangala (Mars) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Tenth House.
Budha (Mercury) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the First House.
Guru (Jupiter) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the First House.
Shukra (Venus) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Fourth House.
Shani (Saturn) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Seventh House.
CHANDRA LAGNA
The Moon is the most essential and significant factor in Vedic Astrology. It is the natural significator of the mind and emotions and is ultimately responsible for the way one perceives and views the world. Therefore, besides evaluating the natal birth chart you must evaluate the planetary positions in relation to the Moon's placement in the chart. The Chandra (Moon) Lagna (ascendant) is created by superimposing the sign which the Moon occupies in the natal chart into the First house.
Naturally, your Chandra Lagna ( Moon rashi) is Pisces.
SURYA LAGNA
Alternatively, the same principle can be applied to Surya's (Sun's) position in the birth chart, and Surya (Sun) lagna (Ascendant) kundali (chart) can be made by placing the sign, which is occupied by the Sun in the natal chart, into the first house.
Your Surya lagna is Aries.
SUDARSHAN CHAKRA
Sudarshana Chakra is a circular composite chart that allows to view the birth chart conditions from all three lagnas (ascendants). The inner circle is your natal birth chart, the circle in the middle is the Chandra Lagna, and the outer circle is the Surya Lagna.
The houses are counted in the counterclockwise direction from the first one, that is marked As. in the case of the natal birth kundali, and respectively Moon in Chandra lagna and Sun in Surya lagna charts. By evaluating the various conditions of the graha placements, the houses, and their lords as counting from all three lagnas you can gain a more detailed insight into the horoscope. According to the sage Parashara, the renowned author of "Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra", analyzing the horoscope from all three lagnas is essential for accurate evaluation of the birth chart.
CHURNING THE HOROSCOPE
There is a technique that can be used to obtain additional information about the lives of your relatives, friends or spouse, as well as specific areas of life. It is called churning a horoscope. For example, if you desire to derive more information about your mother and details of her life, your natal chart can be rotated to superimpose the 4th house to become the Ascendant, so all of the positions and lordships can be evaluated in relation to the 4th house.
So the ascendant sign of your "mother's chart" is Aries.
In the derived "mother's chart" the actual 10th house of your natal chart would become the 7th house of the "mother's chart", and therefore can be used to analyze mother's marriage and/or business partnerships. The 7th house of the natal chart will be become "mother's" 4th house and can be looked at for the matters related to one's mother's real estate assets, her emotional nature, her home life, as well as her relationship with her mother (your maternal grandmother). In the same manner you can rotate the birth chart and superimpose any of the twelve houses into the first house.
DIVISIONAL CHARTS
As we know each sign of the zodiac takes up 30 degrees of celestial place. Each of these 30 degrees can be further subdivided into smaller portions. Each of these divisions will have its own zodiacal rulers. These divisions are called Vargas ( divisional charts). There are 16 divisional charts. Each of them corresponds to a particular area of life, and is used to explore the area of life that it governs in further detail. The natal chart, of course, provides plentiful information about all facets of life, but often an astrologer would choose to look at a specific varga ( divisional chart) to derive more clues about the area of life that it signifies.
16 VARGAS
1. Rashi or the Complete sign of 30º is the birth chart itself.
2. Hora or one-half of a sign (15º) is wealth varga.
3. Dreshkana or one-third of a sign (10º) is siblings varga.
4. Chaturthamsha or one-fourth of a sign (7º30') is destiny varga.
5. Saptamsha or one-seventh of a sign (4º17`8.5") is children varga.
6. Navamsha or one-ninth of a sign (3º20') is spouse and fortune varga.
7. Dashamsha or one-tenth of a sign (3º) is career varga.
8. Dwadashamsha or one-twelfth of a sign (2º30') is parents varga.
9. Shodashamsha or one-sixteenth of a sign (1º52'30") is conveyances varga.
10. Vimshamsha or one-twentieth of a sign (1º30') is spiritual progress varga.
11. Chaturvimshamsha or one-twenty fourth of a sign (1º15') is knowledge varga.
12. Saptavimshamsha or one-twenty seventh of a sign (1º6'40") is strength varga.
13. Trimshamsha or one-thirtieth of a sign (1º00') is misfortunes varga.
14. Khavedamsha or one-fortieth of a sign (0º45') is auspicious and inausp. effects varga.
15. Akshavedamsha or one-forty fifth of a sign (0º40') is all areas of life varga.
16.Shashtyamsha or one-sixtieth of a sign (0º30') is general life trends varga.
For example, if you want to obtain information regarding your career then you should evaluate the tenth house of the birth chart along with the first one. Then you can search for additional information by analyzing the conditions of the divisional chart called Dasamsha (great successes).
Here is your Dashamsha chart.
NAVAMSHA
Navamsha (spouse) is the most important divisional chart. It is the 9th division chart and is commonly used to evaluate the conditions and future of your married life, as well as general happiness, luck, and well-being. By using an analogy it can be said that the rashi chart is a tree and the navamsha chart is the fruit. The conditions of the navamsha chart can either promote or offset the indications of the natal chart, therefore, it should always be looked at before drawing the conclusion of whether the results promised by the natal chart will manifest in your life.
Let us take a look at your Navamsha chart.
You should pay attention to the planetary positions in the navamsha chart to see which rashis or dignities, and houses the planets occupy there. A graha which is debilitated or greatly weakened in the natal chart is still going to exert much positive influence, if it is occupying its exaltation or own sign in the navamsha, or placed in a friend's sign in an auspicious house and/or influenced by benefics. Naturally, the planet that is greatly placed in the natal chart, but severely afflicted in the navamsha will not be able to manifest its full potential as benefic influence, and will render mixed results.
Your Sun is placed in the sign of Aries in Exalted dignity in the natal chart, while in the Navamsha chart your Sun is in Virgo in Enemy dignity.
A planet which occupies the same rashi (sign) in both the natal chart and the navamsha is considered to be Vargottama ( the best division). This condition grants a lot of prominence and strength to the planet's influence. It is most favorable for a planet to be vargottama in its exaltation, or swakshetra dignity, while occupying its debilitation sign in both charts may seriously hinder the matters signified and influenced by that particular planet.
Vargottama condition can also be applied to any other divisional chart, but it is not going to have as much value as it does in the case of the navamsha chart.
Check to see if you have any vargottama planets in your chart. Compare the rashis which your planets occupy in the birth chart with the rashis that they occupy in the navamsha chart.
Your Moon is placed in Pisces in the rashi chart and in Scorpio in the navamsha.
Your Mars is placed in Cancer in the rashi chart and in Scorpio in the navamsha.
Your Mercury is placed in Pisces in the rashi chart and in Aquarius in the navamsha.
Your Jupiter is placed in Gemini in the rashi chart and in Capricorn in the navamsha.
Your Venus is placed in Taurus in the rashi chart and in Taurus in the navamsha.
Your Saturn is placed in Leo in the rashi chart and in Aries in the navamsha.
Your Rahu is placed in Virgo in the rashi chart and in Aries in the navamsha.
Your Ketu is placed in Pisces in the rashi chart and in Libra in the navamsha.
The sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the time of your birth is your Ascendant or Rising sign. The rising sign fully occupies the First house of your horoscope. Your Ascendant is Capricorn.
The Second bhava (house) represents your family, status in life, wealth, oral knowledge, speech, mouth, face, right eye, and foods that you like to consume. It is an Artha bhava.
The Third bhava (house) represents your younger siblings, talents and skills, courage, energy level, means of communications, as well as short distance travels. It is a Kama bhava and an upachaya (growing).
The Fourth bhava (house) represents your mother, emotions, happiness, home, real estate, vehicles, and quality of early education. It is a Moksha bhava and a kendra.
The Fifth bhava (house) represents your children, good merits from the past lives, education, speculative activities, and leisurely past times. It is a Dharma bhava and a trikona.
The Ninth bhava (house) represents good fortune, prosperity, your father, devotional practices, foreign travel, higher knowledge, spiritual guide, and grandchildren. It is a Dharma bhava and trikona.
The Tenth house represents your career, social status, government, fame, and father (both the 9th and the 10th houses represent the father). It is an Artha Bhava and the most powerful kendra. It is also an upachaya bhava.
The Eleventh bhava (house) represents your desires and their fulfillment, money, plentitude, career income, gains, elder sibling, and friends. It is a Kama bhava and an upachaya.
The Twelfth bhava (house) represents foreign residency, immigration, imprisonment, confinement, losses, sexual pleasures, hospitals, sleep, dreams, death, and moksha (final liberation). It is a Moksha bhava and a dusthana.
Depending on the influences that the bhava (house) receives from the occupying sign, conditions of its ruler, planetary aspects or placement, the conditions of the matters signified by that house will either flourish or suffer. That will define how you will experience that particular facet of life.
GRAHAS IN BHAVAS
The natural benefics, like Jupiter, Moon, and Venus do better when placed in any of the trikona (trinal) houses. Those placements enable planetary significations to flourish, creating peaceful and harmonious conditions in a person's life. Also, benefics will do well when placed in any of the kendra houses. On the other hand, the natural malefics, Saturn, Mars, Rahu, Ketu, and Sun are considered to be better off placed in upachaya (growing) houses, as the conditions of the upachaya houses improve as time goes by and the afflictions and hindrances created by the natural malefics will be slowly removed, at least partially.
As it has been emphasized before, the Moon's placement in the chart is of the utmost significance. Ruling the mind and emotions, Moon is responsible for your subjective perception of life. Your Moon is placed in the 3rd house which gives you a cheerful and active disposition. Your restless mind is always eager to learn and explore new subjects.
Your Sun is placed in the 4 house.
Your Mars is placed in the 7 house.
Your Mercury is placed in the 3 house.
Your Jupiter is placed in the 6 house.
Your Venus is placed in the 5 house.
Your Saturn is placed in the 8 house.
Your Rahu is placed in the 9 house.
Your Ketu is placed in the 3 house.
Directional strength
Each planets obtains Dig bala (directional strength) through its placement in a specific house of the horoscope. Directional strength is one of the components of the overall planetary strength evaluation formula.
Surya (Sun) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Tenth House.
Chandra (Moon) receives the full Dig Bala when placed in the Fourth House.
Mangala (Mars) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Tenth House.
Budha (Mercury) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the First House.
Guru (Jupiter) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the First House.
Shukra (Venus) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Fourth House.
Shani (Saturn) receives full Dig Bala when placed in the Seventh House.
CHANDRA LAGNA
The Moon is the most essential and significant factor in Vedic Astrology. It is the natural significator of the mind and emotions and is ultimately responsible for the way one perceives and views the world. Therefore, besides evaluating the natal birth chart you must evaluate the planetary positions in relation to the Moon's placement in the chart. The Chandra (Moon) Lagna (ascendant) is created by superimposing the sign which the Moon occupies in the natal chart into the First house.
Naturally, your Chandra Lagna ( Moon rashi) is Pisces.
SURYA LAGNA
Alternatively, the same principle can be applied to Surya's (Sun's) position in the birth chart, and Surya (Sun) lagna (Ascendant) kundali (chart) can be made by placing the sign, which is occupied by the Sun in the natal chart, into the first house.
Your Surya lagna is Aries.
SUDARSHAN CHAKRA
Sudarshana Chakra is a circular composite chart that allows to view the birth chart conditions from all three lagnas (ascendants). The inner circle is your natal birth chart, the circle in the middle is the Chandra Lagna, and the outer circle is the Surya Lagna.
The houses are counted in the counterclockwise direction from the first one, that is marked As. in the case of the natal birth kundali, and respectively Moon in Chandra lagna and Sun in Surya lagna charts. By evaluating the various conditions of the graha placements, the houses, and their lords as counting from all three lagnas you can gain a more detailed insight into the horoscope. According to the sage Parashara, the renowned author of "Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra", analyzing the horoscope from all three lagnas is essential for accurate evaluation of the birth chart.
CHURNING THE HOROSCOPE
There is a technique that can be used to obtain additional information about the lives of your relatives, friends or spouse, as well as specific areas of life. It is called churning a horoscope. For example, if you desire to derive more information about your mother and details of her life, your natal chart can be rotated to superimpose the 4th house to become the Ascendant, so all of the positions and lordships can be evaluated in relation to the 4th house.
So the ascendant sign of your "mother's chart" is Aries.
In the derived "mother's chart" the actual 10th house of your natal chart would become the 7th house of the "mother's chart", and therefore can be used to analyze mother's marriage and/or business partnerships. The 7th house of the natal chart will be become "mother's" 4th house and can be looked at for the matters related to one's mother's real estate assets, her emotional nature, her home life, as well as her relationship with her mother (your maternal grandmother). In the same manner you can rotate the birth chart and superimpose any of the twelve houses into the first house.
DIVISIONAL CHARTS
As we know each sign of the zodiac takes up 30 degrees of celestial place. Each of these 30 degrees can be further subdivided into smaller portions. Each of these divisions will have its own zodiacal rulers. These divisions are called Vargas ( divisional charts). There are 16 divisional charts. Each of them corresponds to a particular area of life, and is used to explore the area of life that it governs in further detail. The natal chart, of course, provides plentiful information about all facets of life, but often an astrologer would choose to look at a specific varga ( divisional chart) to derive more clues about the area of life that it signifies.
16 VARGAS
1. Rashi or the Complete sign of 30º is the birth chart itself.
2. Hora or one-half of a sign (15º) is wealth varga.
3. Dreshkana or one-third of a sign (10º) is siblings varga.
4. Chaturthamsha or one-fourth of a sign (7º30') is destiny varga.
5. Saptamsha or one-seventh of a sign (4º17`8.5") is children varga.
6. Navamsha or one-ninth of a sign (3º20') is spouse and fortune varga.
7. Dashamsha or one-tenth of a sign (3º) is career varga.
8. Dwadashamsha or one-twelfth of a sign (2º30') is parents varga.
9. Shodashamsha or one-sixteenth of a sign (1º52'30") is conveyances varga.
10. Vimshamsha or one-twentieth of a sign (1º30') is spiritual progress varga.
11. Chaturvimshamsha or one-twenty fourth of a sign (1º15') is knowledge varga.
12. Saptavimshamsha or one-twenty seventh of a sign (1º6'40") is strength varga.
13. Trimshamsha or one-thirtieth of a sign (1º00') is misfortunes varga.
14. Khavedamsha or one-fortieth of a sign (0º45') is auspicious and inausp. effects varga.
15. Akshavedamsha or one-forty fifth of a sign (0º40') is all areas of life varga.
16.Shashtyamsha or one-sixtieth of a sign (0º30') is general life trends varga.
For example, if you want to obtain information regarding your career then you should evaluate the tenth house of the birth chart along with the first one. Then you can search for additional information by analyzing the conditions of the divisional chart called Dasamsha (great successes).
Here is your Dashamsha chart.
NAVAMSHA
Navamsha (spouse) is the most important divisional chart. It is the 9th division chart and is commonly used to evaluate the conditions and future of your married life, as well as general happiness, luck, and well-being. By using an analogy it can be said that the rashi chart is a tree and the navamsha chart is the fruit. The conditions of the navamsha chart can either promote or offset the indications of the natal chart, therefore, it should always be looked at before drawing the conclusion of whether the results promised by the natal chart will manifest in your life.
Let us take a look at your Navamsha chart.
You should pay attention to the planetary positions in the navamsha chart to see which rashis or dignities, and houses the planets occupy there. A graha which is debilitated or greatly weakened in the natal chart is still going to exert much positive influence, if it is occupying its exaltation or own sign in the navamsha, or placed in a friend's sign in an auspicious house and/or influenced by benefics. Naturally, the planet that is greatly placed in the natal chart, but severely afflicted in the navamsha will not be able to manifest its full potential as benefic influence, and will render mixed results.
Your Sun is placed in the sign of Aries in Exalted dignity in the natal chart, while in the Navamsha chart your Sun is in Virgo in Enemy dignity.
A planet which occupies the same rashi (sign) in both the natal chart and the navamsha is considered to be Vargottama ( the best division). This condition grants a lot of prominence and strength to the planet's influence. It is most favorable for a planet to be vargottama in its exaltation, or swakshetra dignity, while occupying its debilitation sign in both charts may seriously hinder the matters signified and influenced by that particular planet.
Vargottama condition can also be applied to any other divisional chart, but it is not going to have as much value as it does in the case of the navamsha chart.
Check to see if you have any vargottama planets in your chart. Compare the rashis which your planets occupy in the birth chart with the rashis that they occupy in the navamsha chart.
Your Moon is placed in Pisces in the rashi chart and in Scorpio in the navamsha.
Your Mars is placed in Cancer in the rashi chart and in Scorpio in the navamsha.
Your Mercury is placed in Pisces in the rashi chart and in Aquarius in the navamsha.
Your Jupiter is placed in Gemini in the rashi chart and in Capricorn in the navamsha.
Your Venus is placed in Taurus in the rashi chart and in Taurus in the navamsha.
Your Saturn is placed in Leo in the rashi chart and in Aries in the navamsha.
Your Rahu is placed in Virgo in the rashi chart and in Aries in the navamsha.
Your Ketu is placed in Pisces in the rashi chart and in Libra in the navamsha.
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