Saturday, 10 May 2014

Saturn's Ashtakvarga: Basic Understanding

The benefic and malefic houses for Saturn 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 Saturn to occupy, with respect to Sun.

The 3rd, 5th, 6th, 9th and 12th houses have 0. So these house from Sun are malefic for Saturn i.e. if Saturn is placed in one of these houses (with respect to Sun), it would exert malefic influence.

Similarly for rest of the houses (1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th houses) 1 is placed, ensuring that if Saturn is placed in these positions (1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th houses) from Sun, it would behave as a benefic influence due to its positional array in ashtakvarga chart. 

The similar principle applies for all the 7 planets and the Lagna (Ascendant).

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