What is the significance of Different Houses in Vedic Astrology?
There are 12 different houses in astrology and each of them symbolize distinct aspects of your life, including self, values, home, communication, partnerships, health, creativity, sprituality, transformation, career, aspirations, and community. These aspects reflect personal growth and cosmic influence.
It’s said that life is uncertain or unpredictable. Sometimes it makes you happy with a bundle of great joy, whereas, at times, it makes you clueless about the end of the darkest period in your life. Vedic Astrology helps you understand the 12 houses meaning in astrology in your horoscope and the reason behind dealing with certain phase in your life.
What Does Each House Say About You?
1st House
The first house in the chart is the crux of a detailed horoscope. It signifies the self, and the exact position to direct the path where your life begins.
- 1st house is the house of self, of your being, and also known as ascendant house. It speaks about your personality, emotions, thought, and reactions, and when it aspects or come in relation with other houses, behaves in a specific way.
- The 2nd house connects with your life, adding its influence to the 1st house, the effects of both the houses combine and flow into the next house, which shape your life journey.
- This is how every house, and the journey of life is predicted through the first house in Vedic Astrology. The entire chart exists because of the existence of the first house.
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2nd House
The second house represents your childhood, the quality of life as a child, care you get, and the teachings you imbibed.
- It shows the kind of family dynamics you share in your first home (parental home). Form this house, you can find out details about your upbringing, the expectations of your family.
- The current & future benefits (financial) from your family in later phase of your life can be gauged from this house.
- The support from your family in your life’s decisions can be seen from this house, as well as the traits of the first friends you will have.
- It also depicts your own personality and hobbies.
For example, Venus in Taurus in the second house reflects a strong interest in arts, music, dance, and literature. It may also depict hobbies like collecting gemstones. In addition to this, it influences your style of expression and speech, which is shaped by the sign and planet in this house.
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3rd House
The third house represents your mental courage, communications, strength, boldness, short travels, relations other than your parents such as siblings, neighbours, and acquaintances.
- The planet placed in this house depicts the quality of interaction and events related to these segments in your life.
- If you have siblings, they may have a significant planet in their chart that also appears in your second, or friends with similar placements. These individuals, the first to enter your life after your parents, are important to you.
- It also forms the part of your personality which is your mental courage and efforts you put in or the travels you took as a child. This usually forms a pattern of behavior regarding these areas of life. It helps you in gauging situations and your reactions in these areas.
4th House
The fourth house is the house of conveyance, the house you live in, the house you build, your mother, your general happiness, your relationship with family, with women, or all motherly figures such as aunts, mother-in-law, female teachers & mentors, your daughter, grandmother, and so on.
- The strength and dignity of planets in this house show your attitude towards them. A benefic planet here could mean you support the women in your life and see them in high regard or inspire them to do better in life.
- It also symbolizes the kind of household your mother comes from. The prosperity within the family can be gauged from this house.
- It also signifies the overall happiness, prosperity and peace of mind which you have, in general.
5th House
The next phase of your life from here is education. The quality of education you receive, your interests in certain subjects, level of creativity and how it expresses itself and speculations can be traced from this house. Recreation even during school can be placed through this house alone.
For example, Aries in this house or its lord in the chart suggests a person with an athletic nature and interest in sports. Mercury in this house indicates strong analytical abilities, while Scorpio in this house points to a passion for research, especially in fields like Chemistry, Biology or Psychology.
In the divisional charts, 5th house indicates your first child. This house also highlights your love relationships, and the potential to create a strong bond for long-term sucess. This house highlights your artistic skills and creativity.
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6th House
The 6th house is an important house. This house shows your enemies, the part of your life you struggle with, diseases, debts, competition, maternal relative and your relationship with them, and government jobs.
- The planet in this house is naturally a malefic for you, being placed in the evil house (dusht-sthan). If associated with malefic planets, it increases the effects.
- It also depicts your quality of thoughts regarding the above-mentioned things, or the planet placed here would show who you would have issues with – paternal figures and men, or maternal figures and women. Sun would show paternal figures. Mars would show men and brothers or male kins. Jupiter would show maternal figures, mentors or women, Venus would show female friends.
- The planet placed here would depict the area that you might struggle with in terms of enemies or rivals.
E.g. Mars placement here would mean issues with power dynamics. The placement of Venus would turns into issues with your Venusian qualities.
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7th House
The seventh house in your birth chart is situated at the juncture of your life with equal number of houses on either sides. This depicts your life where you start your phase of adulthood, and your basic education is completed. This is the part where partnerships take place, whether it is professional partnerships post education or your personal partnerships.
- In the birth chart, this house does not indicate the partnerships you will have, but instead, the partnerships you wish for in your life based upon your experiences from the prior houses.
- The fulfilment of this house is speculated from divisional charts, such as for professional partnerships, we would look at the chart of your fame and profession, whereas, for personal partnerships, we would look at the 9th division of your chart (Navamsa) depicting marriage as the most prominent personal relationship formed, and then derive whether you received what you wished for or you have something else in the store.
- The qualities of your partner are checked from the 7th house of the Navamsa (D9), along with several other house combinations and placements.
This house is prominent to depict all kinds of partnerships that you will form through life, and your expectations regarding them.
This house can be interpreted in different ways as well. It is also known as the ‘Makara’ or the destroyer, however, this is also the house of your possibilities of conception of the second child in other divisional charts.
8th House
The eight house is another important house that one should be careful of. It is the house of longevity, accidents, spontaneity and sudden changes along with transformations. This house naturally belongs to the sign of Scorpio, which carries transformational energy. This house indicates issues and events related to your longevity and the diseases you could get.
- The 12th house is fascinating because it represents disgrace, hidden actions, and occult sciences. Any unethical occult knowledge can be traced here, depending on the planet in this house.
- It reveals whether the sign is transformational, associated with disgrace, or connected to roles like spies or secret agents.
- This house also influences and is influenced by many other houses in the chart.
9th House
The 9th house is the house of your ‘luck-quotient’. It is also known as the house of ‘dharma’. It shares a trine relationship with your house of self and house of education.
- This house acts as a catalyst with the level of luck it can bestow upon you on the basis of your personal desires (first house), and things done for the progression of self (first house). It also represents your higher education (progression from the fifth house of education) and your rate of success in attaining higher knowledge.
- Depending upon the planet placed here, one can determine your prospects in higher education and the place you may receive it from.
- It is also the house which describes your philosophy in life, thinking patterns, relationship with father, wisdom and your personal stand when it comes to preserving “dharma”.
E.g.: Rahu is the most benefic planet placed here. It may depict a person who pursues higher education or wishes to pursue higher education in a foreign land, or learns from travelling in foreign places, or wishes to study in order to work in a foreign land. It may be the factor which leads you to work in a foreign land of your choice, which enhances your learning. You will get the favor of luck and achieve success in your exams or interviews.
10th House
10th House is your house of profession in your birth chart.
- The planet placed in this house is a direct reflection of your attitude towards your work, your discipline and commitment.
- It also describes your success quotient professionally and when and how you may attain it.
- It represents the dignity of your work, your potential for gaining fame, the desire and dedication for attaining an authoritative position, the quality of your job, and the promotions you may receive based on your efforts, all reflected in this house.
- It also shows who would be the person to help and guide you to get the recognition you need.
The placement of Saturn in this house reflects efforts made by Self. Saturn means discipline and hard-work which nobody else can do for you. Saturn will guide you here, which means you would be dependent on Self and will be a self-made individual.
The placement of Venus or any feminine planet would mean help from a woman, mother, or working in an area which is Venusian in nature – banking, business, arts, etc.
The Placement of Jupiter would depict getting to the position with the help of powerful mentors and intellectuals, or working in a capacity of mentorship teachers, or Gurus
The Sun’s placement highlights a person’s potential to acquire a profession through the help form father or a father figure.
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11th House
The eleventh house is considered as the one of the 5 evil houses. this is the house of gain, wish fulfilment, friends, elder siblings, and profits.
- This is a complex house with mixed results and is aspected by many other houses. The results depend upon the aspects upon this house.
- This is the house which indicates the results of your karma in this lifetime.
- This house depicts your efforts and ways in which you accumulate things in life depending upon the dignity of those planets in your chart, or areas of life where wishes may be fulfilled, depending upon how those planets are placed in your chart, conjunctions and aspects.
12th House
The 12th house is a beautiful house to trace a lot of life events from and can be looked into with a lot of depth. It is the last house in your chart. This is the house of letting go after living an entire life. This can be interpreted as the need to let go of assets, or letting go of materialism to gain higher consciousness.
- This is therefore known as the ‘Moksha-Sthan’ or the house of salvation.
- This house in divisional charts traces your past life karmas and the transcendence from this life to another and it is seen in your birth/Navamsa chart to trace the results of the karmas of this lifetime which will be reaped in this lifetime or next.
This is the house of secret enemies. You can get an in-depth knowledge of your past life karmas by analysing the planets in the divisional charts and birth chart.
Lord of Each House in Astrology
In a birth chart, every house has a particular sign in it. The lord (planet) of the sign governs that specific house in a horoscope. The placement/conjunction/aspect of any house, and the ruling master determines the fate of the house and its consequence.
One can refer to the houses and lords of the signs in the list above. One can find the astrological reason why a person is going through certain phases or problems in life from these houses.
In any birth chart, the 12 astrological houses are classified into four categories.
Trikona
The trikona refers to the houses which aspect each other and form the pursuit of wisdom, intelligence and growth in a person’s chart. These are 1st house (house of Self), 5th house (house of education) and 9th house (house of dharma), thereby making the trikona or triangle which helps a person gain education, balance within Self, consciousness, wisdom and philosophical bend in life.
Kendra
The kendra houses are the four houses which depict the 4 most important areas of life. These are 1st house (house of Self), 4th house (family and home), 7th house (partnerships, such as marriage), and 10th house (profession). Most of the beautiful and auspicious conjunctions/yogas (and some inauspicious conjunctions) are formed in the Kendras which impact the overall quality and prospects in life. The planets placed in these houses are said to be the results of past karmas and direct the life led in this one.
Dusht Sthans
The 5 houses considered as dusht sthans or evil houses are 6th, 8th and 12th whose results can be seen upon 3rd & 11th thereby bringing them under the impact of these dusht sthans.
The cumulation of these 3 houses represent risky affair, hidden works and unethical deeds whose results are seen in the two houses as mentioned above.
Marakas
The 2nd and the 7th houses are known as Marakas. The planets placed here are traced to check influences from past life. Malefics present in these houses show negative impact upon partnerships and relations. These planets require deep study in each chart to come to a final conclusion.
Astrological Significance of Houses for Crucial Life Problems
Trikona houses are regarded as ascension to higher consciousness, growth and self-journey towards the positive. When these come in contact through aspects with Kendras, they are considered as catalysts and benefics. Therefore, an association of trikona and kendra are considered auspicious.
However, the association or aspect of the Dusht Sthans with Kendras are considered malefics as these negative house placements can affect the auspiciousness and positivity of kendra houses.
Marriage/Relationship
For any issues related to partnership or marriage, an astrologer will examine the 7th house and the lord, analysing the potential challenges based on the planetary movements.
The placement of the planets and lord in the 7th house will explain key details that concern your marriage. If the house lord is posited in Kendra or Trikona, it will be favorable for the native. However, in association with any evil house or their lord, there can be threats to the prospects of your marriage.
The association of an evil house with the 10th house and its lord would create trouble in the marital paradise.
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Career/Professional Life
For those facing job-related issues in their professional life, a Vedic expert would closely look into the 10th house and its lord for a better understanding of the obstacles or unnecessary hurdles you are going through.
The placement/conjunction/aspect of different planets in the 10th house along with the lord or the master of the tenth house would give accurate predictions of the trouble in your profession or career.
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