Friday, 9 May 2014

Sun's Ashtakvarga: Basic Understanding

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


As explained in the previous post, 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 “Moon” in the table. This column reveals the benefic houses for Sun to occupy, with respect to Moon. The 1st and 2nd houses have 0 and the 3rd house has 1. So the first 2 houses from Moon are malefic for Sun and the 3rd house is benefic for Sun. Similarly if we proceed ahead, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 12th houses have 0, ensuring that if Sun is placed in 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th or 12th house from Moon, it would behave as a malefic influence due to its positional array in ashtakvarga chart.

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


No comments:

Post a Comment