Friday, 9 May 2014

Moon's Ashtakvarga: Basic Understanding

The benefic and malefic houses for Moon 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 “Mars” in the table. This column reveals the benefic houses for Moon to occupy, with respect to Mars. The 1st and 2nd houses have 0 and 1. So the first house from Mars is malefic for Moon and the 2nd house is benefic for Moon. Similarly if we proceed ahead, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th houses have 1, ensuring that if Moon is placed in 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th house from Mars, it would behave as a benefic influence due to its positional array in ashtakvarga chart. On the same note, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th houses have 0, and hence if Moon is placed in one of these houses (with respect to Mars), it would exert malefic influence.

The similar principle applies for all the 7 planets and the Lagna (Ascendant), about which we would discuss in forthcoming, individual posts.


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