House/ Bhav Various Names Things Represented By Each Of The House/ Bhav

First House Lagnasthan, Tanusthan

This house signifies life, longevity, self, health, nature and appearance of native.
Complexion, vitality, sorrows, gains and profits to younger brothers and his
friends. It governs head and face.
Second House
Dhana-sthan, Kutumb-
sthan
This house indicates inflow of finances, bank position, right eye, family, early
age or boyhood, speech, sanyas, servants and friends. Self earned wealth, loss or
damage, worldly possessions, jewellery, grandfather and mother. It also denotes
family, eyesight, understanding with family members, inheritance, law suits,
throat, right eye, domestic comforts in general.
Third House
Bhatru-sthan, Parakram-
sthan
It denotes younger brothers and sisters and their relations. It signifies courage,
intelligence, education up to Higher Secondary level, taste for writing, ornaments,
clothes, short journeys. Signing contracts and documents etc. Body parts are
arms, right ear, shoulders etc.
Fourth House Matru-sthan, Sukha-sthan
This house signifies mother, property, conveyance, domestic surroundings and
happiness. Old age environments, private affairs, public, inheritance, false
allegations, agriculture land and its produce. It represents breasts, chest, lung,
stomach, elbow joints etc.
Fifth House Vidya-sthan, Putra-sthan
Children, speculation, intellectual status and luck are gauged from this house.
Pleasure, love affairs, lady love, legal or illegal amusements, kidnap, rape etc. are
also checked. Belly, heart, liver, spleen are the body parts covered by this house.
Sixth House Ripu-sthan, Rog-sthan
This house is responsible for enemies, health, service, servants, uncle, aunts and
relations on father's side. Food, subordinates, debts, obstacles in life, mental
worries, theft and calamity etc. The body parts denoted are kidney, large
intestine, uterus and anus.
Seventh House
Bharya-sthan, Maraka-
sthan
Matters regarding wife, husband, partnership, external sex organs, conjugal
happiness are checked from 7th house. This house also denotes marriage, married
life, love contracts, litigations, divorce, honour and reputation in foreign country.
Body parts are private parts, uterus, glands etc.
Eighth House Mrutyu-sthan
Diseases, death finances through unfair means, internal sex organs, longevity,
mental pain obstacles, dowry of wife, gain from in laws, mode of death,
imprisonment, worries and privations are checked from 8th house, It indicates
body parts as scrotum, pelvis, seminal vesicles, external genitalia, etc.
Ninth House Bhagya-sthan
This house indicates religion, father, foreign travel, publicity, preceptor, higher
education, learning, writing books, also faith, wisdom, prosperity, powers of
foresight, religious institutions, providential help, etc. Hips, thighs are body parts.
Tenth House Karma-sthan, Pitru-sthan
This important house indicates profession, status in life, activities outside house,
pleasures, honor, power and authority, Government favor, trade, business,
command, honor, occupation, adopted son. All questions regarding worldly
activities and moral responsibilities. Body parts are knees, joints, bones, hairs and
back.
Eleventh House Labha-sthan
It accounts for accumulated wealth, elder brothers and sisters and relations with
them. Friends, fluctuating money gains, club or social activities, emotional
attachments, love affairs and friends, honor, social success etc. Body parts are
legs, left ear, teeth, ankle etc.
Twelfth House Vyaya-sthan
It signifies private enemies, pleasures of beds, law suits, imprisonments, secret
works, moksha, hospitalization, conjugal relations with opposite sex other than
legitimate. Sorrows, debts, lost goods etc. are judged. Body parts are feet, left
eye, teeth etc.
'Houses', 'Bhavas'

The Birth Chart used in the Hindu Vedic Astrology is shown as above. This is the most common way of depicting the Kundali
especially in the Northern India. In Southern India the Chart is depicted in a Square format. However I will be using the above
mentioned Chart Format. In any Chart/ Kundali there are 12 compartments which are called 'Houses', 'Bhav', 'Sthan'. The
topmost house is counted as the first house. (Number 1 House in the figure.) Then subsequently all the other houses are counted
in anti-clockwise direction.
Planets, 'Grahas'
There are total 12 planets, 'grahas' considered in astrology.
Ancient Vedic Astrology only 9 planets are considered. The recently discovered 3 planets namely Uranus ('Harshal'), Neptune
and Pluto were obviously not considered. However it is wise to consider all 12 planets.
The 12 Planets are as follows.
Planets English Names Planets Hindu Names
Sun Ravi
Moon Chandra
Mercury Budha
Venus Shukra
Mars Mangal, Kuja, Kartikeya
Jupiter Guru
Saturn Shani
North Node Rahu
South Node Ketu
Uranus Harshal
Neptune Neptune
Pluto Pluto
They are revolving around the Sun in their respective orbits. Exception is the Moon, Rahu, Ketu. As you are all aware that the
Moon is a satellite of our Earth. Moon is revolving around the Earth and Earth in turn is revolving around the Sun in its orbit.
Rahu and Ketu are not the actual planets at all. They are actually only intersection points of the Earth and the Moon. However
since these cosmic points have considerable influence on the nature they are considered as planets in the astrology.


Signs, Rashis
There are twelve 12 Signs, Rashis as follows.

Sign No./ Name Sanskrit Name
Meaning of
Sanskrit Name
Type Sex Mobility Lord or Bhavesh
1/ Aries Mesha Ram Fire/ Agni M Movable/Chara Mars
2/ Taurus Vrushaba Bull Earth/ Bhumi F Fixed/ Sthir Venus
3/ Gemini Mithun Couple Air/ Vayu M Common/ Dwisabhavi Mercury
4/ Cancer Karka, Kataka Crab Water/ Jal F Movable/ Chara Moon
5/ Leo Simha Lion Fire/ Agni M Fixed/ Sthir Sun
6/ Virgo Kanya Virgin Earth/ Bhumi F Common/ Dwisabhavi Mercury
7/ Libra Tula Balance Air/ Vayu M Movable/ Chara Venus
8/ Scorpio Vrushchika Scorpion Water/ Jal F Fixed/ Sthir Mars
9/ Sagittarius Dhanu Bow Fire/ Agni M Common/ Dwisabhavi Jupiter
10/ Capricorn Makar Alligator & Shark Earth Bhumi F Movable/ Chara Saturn
11/ Aquarius Kumbha Jug Air/ Vayu M Fixed/ Sthir Saturn
12/ Pisces Meena Fishes Water/ Jal F Common/ Dwisabhavi Jupiter
The Signs or Rashis are imaginary divisions of the Zodiac. 360 degrees of a full circle are divided in 12 equal parts, each of 30
degrees, called a Rashi or Sign.
As the Earth is revolving around its own axis and takes 24 hours for that, we see the Signs, Rashis revolving around us.

Ascendant or the Lagna
The Sign, Rashi rising at the Eastern horizon at the time of the birth is the Ascendant or the Lagna. As you must have gathered
that at about every 2 hours (Division : 24 hours/12 signs) a new sign is going to rise, and hence the ascendant or the lagna the
starting point of the chart is going to change. Same way every 4 minutes the Ascendant or the Lagna degree is going to change.
The subsequent Signs, Rashis are written in the next - next houses in the anti-clockwise direction.
Fully Plotted Birth Chart, Janma-Kundali
Lastly all the precise positions of all the 12 planets at the time of the birth are plotted in the chart.
Hence the Birth Chart or the Janma Kundali is the diagrammatic representation of all the planets at the precise moment of time of
the birth.
Easy Example : Suppose the birth was at about 7:00 A.M. i.e. just after the sunrise. That means the Sun will be plotted in the first
house (Eastern Horizon). Further imagine that, the day was Full Moon Day i.e. Sun and Moon are 180 degrees from each other.
That means the Moon will be in the 7
th
house.
Now finally lets have a look at the following complete birth chart, Janma Kundali where all the planets and the signs are plotted.

As you can see that at the time of the birth Leo, Sinha Sign, Rashi was arising at the eastern horizon and the birth time must have
been near about the sunrise as the Sun is in the first house. A rough idea can be brought out about the time of the birth by looking
at the Sun's position in any chart.