Planetary Indications

1. Lord of Week-Day etc. The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter,
Venus and Saturn rule the week-days etc. Whichever planet becomes the
Lord of the first week-day in the month of Aswina in the year of Aswina, will
become the Lord of month and year.
2-3. The fourth planet counted from the Lord of the first year rules the
second year. Similar counting of fourth Lords for the subsequent years
should be made to know the Lords thereof. There are 24 Horas (planetary
hours) in each day (from one Sun-rise to the next). The first Hora is ruled
by the Lord of the week day, while the subsequent ones are ruled by the
Lords of the sixth week-days thereof. Thirty (Savana) days make one
(Savana) month. To know the Lord of the week-day in particular month, the
months past should be multiplied by 30, increased by one and divided by 7.
The remainder represents the Lord of the week-day counted from the
earlier week-day Lord.
4. A Savana month has 30 days and each month, viz. Chaitra, Vaisakha
etc., commences with the first day of Bright half and ends with the 30 th Thiti
(Amavasya).
5-6. Bhava Effects. The good effects relating to a Bhava can be better
reaped, if an enterprise relating to that Bhava is started in an Ascendant
ruled by the Lord of that Bhava, or, when the Lord thereof is in an
Upachaya House, or on the week-day, Hora, year, or month ruled by that
Bhava Lord. The good effects will be 25% by year Lord, 50% by month
Lord, 75% by Lord of week and 100% by Hora Lord.
7-13. Planet's Rulerships. The Sun rules snakes, wool, hills, gold,
weapons, poison, fire, medicines, kings, Aryas (foreigners in general), river
banks, forest, wood and Mantras. The Moon indicates poets, flowers,
eatables, beads, silver, conch, salt, water, arrow, robes, ornaments,
females, Gh, sesamum, oil and sleep. Mars rules blood, copper, Army, red
cloth. Mercury minerals, earth, king, destruction, swooning, bile and
thieves. Mercury rules Veda, writing, sculpture, medicines, expertise,

ministership, speech, jokes, birds, couples, fame, Vanaspathi (a large

forest tree, which bears fruit apparently without any blossoms) and gold.
Jupiter rules auspiciousness, virtue, physical stoutness, prowess,
preceptorship, deputation, city, state (province), gold, bed, conveyance,
position, grains, residence and sons. Venus rules diamonds, ornaments,
marriage, scents, friends, wreaths, females, cow dung, diagnosis (apart
from meaning diagnosis also indicates end, purity, rope to tying up a calf
etc.), education, sexual enjoyment and gold. Saturn is Karaka for lead,
zinc, black metals, inferior grains, dead relatives, fools, servants, mean
women, salable goods, poor people and self-restraint (apart from meaning
self-restraint also means investing with sacred thread, which is in vogue to
give second birth to Brahmins).