1st House Traits: Key: Karaka: 2nd House Traits: Key: Karakas: 3rd House Traits: Key: Karakas: 4th House

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1 BHAVAS (houses) Our Earthly lives unfold through a physical body in a world of matter as shown through the Bhavas. The Sanskrit term for Bhava literally means, Coming into existence, Birth. It is through what is shown through the houses that our karma is born materially. It is here that Purusha is expressed as Prakriti in a world of consequence. Each house has many attributes, yet underneath there is a deeper concept key to that house. The Planet in parentheses is the Karaka (significator) of that house. The italics are literally from Brihat Parashara Hora Sastra 1 st House Body and appearance, cognizance and caste as well as strength and weakness, comfort, pain and one s own true state is looked at from the Lagna (intersecting) Bhava. Traits: Physical body and health in general, shows the head, the Self, general prosperity and wellbeing, basic self-expression, physical constitution, personality. Key: The Self. This is the place where the lower qualities of Self are transmuted into the higher ones. The more disconnected we feel from the higher Self the more we will act through our lower self as a separate personality, emphasizing the body and separate personality. This is the most important house in the chart and has the distinction of being both an angle as well as a trine. Karaka: Sun 2 nd House Wealth, grains, family, death, collections, friends and metal, minerals, gems, etc. are all looked at from the Dhanasthaana (place of wealth). Traits: The gathering and holding of resources, food, livelihood, speech, childhood and domestic tendencies, financial success through career, face. Key: Material security and what we value. Our values provide a paradigm of self-esteem and consistency that allows us to build a life of meaning. Lacking proper values and its accompanying esteem due to a poor childhood for example, we will seek validation through outer forms of value like wealth and luxuries and try to gain the approval of others by appearing successful or by having proper speech having good taste, etc. Karakas: Jupiter, Mercury 3 rd House Courage and servants maintained, siblings, etc. Upadesa (initiatory instructions), journey, deprivation of parents, death and discernment are looked at from the difficult place Traits: Siblings, self will, power and prowess, acquaintances, motivation, hobbies and interests, impulses and intentions that drives us, curiosity, rashness, displays of force, courage Key: Our individual efforts and desires. We must act with courage as an individual at times in order to grow and flourish, test our beliefs and experiment. Yet there is only so much we are able to accomplish by our own efforts. It takes God s grace to make all actions complete. The third house shows where we must learn and act yet let go of the fruit of our actions. Karakas: Mars, Mercury 4 th House Vehicles and other such, relatives, mother, happiness, etc. as well as other such yearning, and deposits, land and house are considered from the 4 th.

2 Traits: Mother, emotions and our feeling potential, peace and happiness, property, upbringing, education, popularity, vehicles, what is internal and private, where we are most sensitive. Key: Our inner emotional strength, and capacity for peace. Ourouter happiness and success is nothing but a reflection of our level of inner peace. In a chart, the 4 th house is the Nadir, the lowest point of the chart, what is most hidden from the world. As the 1 st Moksha house, the 4 th house shows the individual s need to retreat from the world and want total freedom from it. Karaka: Moon 5 th House Yantra (amulet), Mantra, knowledge and also intelligence, continuance, children and fall from royalty are seen from the child house. Traits: Children and all creative expressions, intelligence, education, speculation, romance, past life credit, spiritual practices, ability to give birth to our ideas Key: Individual creative intelligence. Each of us is unique and has the capacity to express that unique nature through the 5 th house. Through the function of our unique nature we can have children, become educated, do spiritual practices and develop the discrimination to discern the real from the unreal. As a Dharmic house the 5 th house shows our desire to evolve creatively to fulfill our destiny. 6 th House Maternal uncle, enemies, wounds and such, and also the step-mother are considered from the sixth Bhava. Traits: Health and disease, immune system, work and service, foreigners, Karma Yoga, effort, wild animals, our capacity to do hard labor, vanquish our enemies and overcome obstacles Key: Where we must work to improve conditions. Physical constitution and ability to fight disease, as well as the enemies and competitors with whom we do battle with, which all force us to purify and improve ourselves. As the 2 nd Artha house, it shows the work and drudgery of material life. The highest aim of the 6 th house and highest road to improvement is Karma Yoga, selfless service. Karakas: Mars, Saturn 7 th House Wife, distant journey, trade, lost sight and death of one s own body are looked at from the wife Bhava. Traits: Long term romantic relationships, general relations with others, business associates. As opposite the ascendant, it shows to what we are most drawn and the most challenged to learn. Key: Where we learn to compromise. Marriage partners and business associates are relationships where we enter into agreements with others. In them we must negotiate and play fairly and give up some of what we want in order to get something better. Our sense of Self is at its lowest and our desires are high in this second Kama house, thus we learn the value of compromise through the 7 th. Karaka: Venus, Jupiter 8 th House Longevity, battle, cheats, impassables /strongholds, wealth of the dead and the soul s course what begins and what after the wise see all from the cavity/flaw (Bhava). Traits: Transformation through difficulties, things breaking, destruction, dissolution, sex, death, the occult, dark / hidden side of life, longevity, research, confronting our mortality Key: Transforming our insecurities into strengths. Parashara calls this Bhava the cavity or flaw. It is where we are faced with our mortality and endings, our insecurities in the face of another and our neediness and fears. It is through the changes we undergo through the 8 th house that we realize and become more than

3 just a mind/body experience. Karaka: Saturn 9 th House Fortune, wife s brother, religious law, brother s wife, pilgrimages, etc. are all looked at from Dharmasthaana. Traits: Religious, philosophical or ethical principles, grace, Dharma, life purpose. Shows our highest principles operating in the world, shaping our life events, or their inability to do so. Key: Our capacity to be open to the flow of God s grace. Luck, wealth, spiritual values and teachers are all a part of God s grace flowing into our lives. Our receptivity to it is shown from this house. As the 3 rd Dharma house it shows our highest Dharma operating in the world and becoming universalized. 10 th House Empire, space, occupation, respect, father, absence from home and obligation are looked at from Vyomasthaana (sky house). Traits: Career, public status, material achievement, skill, success, our ability to affect the world. Politics. Can be even more influential than the 1 st house. Key: The power of our actions, our highest worldly actions. As following the Dharma Bhava, the 10 th house will show our ability to affect the world in a Dharmic way through our actions. Loosely considered as the house of career, the 10 th house shows how we will act, but this does not always translate into a career. Karaka: Sun, Mercury 11 th House Acquisition of various objects, son s wife, income, increase, advancement and domesticated animals are looked at from Bhavasthaana. Traits: Our highest aspirations and goals, financial and material gains, older siblings, large groups of people, our peers, impulse, abundance and excess. Where we expand in life. Key: Our highest ambitions for the world, including wanting to save it, are shown from this last Kama house. It reveals what we desire in the highest sense and what will be the results of our actions. It is here that the soul is becoming universalized. Through associations with large groups of people we compare ourselves, compelled to either serve them or defeat them depending on our level of awareness. 12 th House Loss /expense, the result of the enemy s actions, gain of last possession, all this should be known by the wise from Vyaya. Traits: Our subconscious and hidden nature. It is the house of loss, liberation, isolation and decrease. Wastage of energy is observed here. Foreign journeys. Isolated through sorrow or peace. Key: Where we must let go of things and learn to be alone. Following the house of increase is the house of loss. Everything is temporary in life, it will change and we will lose everything eventually. It is through the 12 th house that we lose things and must remain with the only thing that can never be taken away, our true eternal Self. In order to be with ourselves we must learn to be peaceful in solitude. Karaka: Saturn, Ketu The 4 Goals of life

4 Below is a chart that shows the 4 goals of life as played out through the houses in an astrology chart. The first group shows our individual attitudes and desires manifesting as we approach these goals. The second shows these goals as involving or being fulfilled through other people. The third shows our desire to universalize these goals and share them with the world.

Purusha = soul Artha = for the purpose of

the purusharthas Purusha = soul Artha = for the purpose of The 4 aims of life are called Purusharthas in Sanskrit. According to Tantric scholar and professor, Douglas Brooks, What the Rig Veda suggests