Ascendant's (Lagna) Ashtakvarga: Basic Understanding

The benefic and malefic houses for Ascendant with respect to all the 8 references (7 planets and Lagna i.e. Ascendant) are given in the table below;

Basics about entries in each cell of the table:

As explained in one of the previous posts, an entry of 0 denotes a malefic position or a bindu (dot), and an entry of 1 denotes a benefic position or a rekha (line). A bindu (dot) is also called as a "karana", and a rekha (line) is also called as a "sthana".

How to read the table:

To get a quick and easy understanding of this ashtakvarga chart, let us take few examples.

Let us refer to the column titled “Sun” in the table. This column reveals the benefic and malefic houses for Ascendant (Lagna) to occupy, with respect to Sun.

The 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th, 8th and 9th houses have 0. So these house from Sun are malefic for Ascendant (Lagna) i.e. if Ascendant (Lagna) is placed in one of these houses (with respect to Sun), it would exert malefic influence.

Similarly for rest of the houses (3rd, 4th, 6th, 10th, 11th, 12th houses) 1 is placed, ensuring that if Ascendant (Lagna) is placed in these positions (3rd, 4th, 6th, 10th, 11th, 12th houses) from Sun, it would behave as a benefic influence due to its positional array in ashtakvarga chart. 

With this post, we have covered basic understanding of all 7 planets and Ascendant (Lagna). In the forthcoming posts, we would discuss various Ashtakvarga principles and their applications in making the best of the predictions. 

Namaskaar!