Bhāvas – the houses
In Vedic astrology, the natal chart is the bhāva chakra (Sanskrit: chakra, ‘wheel’.) The bhava chakra is the complete 360° circle of life, divided into houses, and represents our way of enacting the influences in the wheel. Each house has associated karaka (Sanskrit: karaka,’significator’) planets that can alter the interpretation of a particular
house.
| House | Name | Karakas | Meanings |
| 1 | Lagna | Sun | outer personality, physique, health/well-being, hair, appearance, taste |
| 2 | Dhana | Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Moon | wealth, family relationships, eating habits, speech, eyes, death |
| 3 | Sahaja | Mars | natural state, innate temperament, courage, valor, virility, younger siblings |
| 4 | Sukha | Moon | inner life, emotions, home, property, education, mother, open friends |
| 5 | Putra | Jupiter | creativity, children, spiritual practices, punya |
| 6 | Ari | Mars, Saturn | acute illness, injury, open enemies, litigation, daily work, service |
| 7 | Yuvati | Venus, Jupiter | business and personal relationships, marriage, spouse, war, fighting |
| 8 | Randhara | Saturn | length of life, physical death, chronic illness, deep and ancient traditions, transformations |
| 9 | Dharma | Jupiter, Sun | luck, fortune, spirituality, dharma, guru, father, touch |
| 10 | Karma | Mercury, Jupiter, Sun, Saturn | dream fulfillment, knees, karma, career, sky and organizations, eyesight |
| 11 | Labha | Jupiter | gains, profits from work, ability to earn money, social contexts, secret friends, hearing |
| 12 | Vyaya | Saturn | loss, intuition, imprisonment, foreign travel, mokṣa (emancipation), secret enemies, sleep, smell |
Slide Presentations
Understanding the effect of the Bhāva placement of a planet. Importance of the exact degree of longitude of the planet relative to the bhāva madhya. Understanding the effect of the 30° as thirty tithī with 15 preceding degrees being the śukla pakṣa and the 15 succeeding degrees being the kṛṣṇa pakṣa. Bhāva saṅdhi is like amāvāsya. Effect of Bhāva Lagna relative to lagna.
