Dr. Shanker
Adawal
Now let us
consider what is to be deduced from the various houses/bhava.
Effects of the First House
Indications of the First House: The First
house basically represents Physique, appearance, intellect, complexion, vigour,
weakness, joy and sorrow and innate nature. All these are to be considered from
it.
The first Brava
detailed significations and significations are: (1) Physical appearance or Body
image (2) limbs (3) happiness and misery (4) old age (5) knowledge (6) birth
potential (7) fame or constitution (8) dream (9) strength or natural vitality
(10) dignity (11) politics (12) longevity (13) tranquility or peace of mind
(14) age (15) hair (16) complexion (17) pride (18) livelihood (19) gambling as
profession (20) natural general state of health and stigma (21) honour (22)
Skin (23) sleep (24) proficiency (25) embezzlement (26) nature to insult and
take revenge (27) freedom from sickness (28) detachment or renunciation (29)
nature of individual (30) nature of work or agency (31) perseverance in cattle
breeding (32) loss of sense of decorum and (33) Defamation by his own people
i.e. clan or associates.
Significations- The body, its hue (colour
and skin texture of person’s face), its form, its characteristics, fame,
qualities, happiness or unhappiness, residence abroad, splendor, strength and
weakness are the main significations, so say the wise astrologers, of the 1st
house.
Rising sign- The more auspicious the
rising sign is, at a person’s birth, the longer will the native lives; the more
will be command the respect of the rulers and the happiness and satisfaction be
the result in his life time. And if the rising sign is also aspected by its
lord, he will be a master of riches, quite a genius and a great asset to his
family.
Rising Navamsa- An astrologer may declare
the nature and peculiar features f a person from the lord of the rising Navamsa
at his birth or from a powerful planet occupying the Ascendant. His hue should
be guessed from the lord of Navamsa occupied by the Moon.
(All good and
evil in the life of the person is to be ascertained through the Ascendant).
Size of Head –
Y-1- Sun conjunct Dragon’s Head in
Ascendant denotes that.
E- The size of head of the native
will be less than average, but his stature will be tall with long teeth and
horse-like neck or bent neck.
Y-2- If the sign in the Lagna is of
two hours duration, not when it is half of it.
E- The head of a native is big.
Physical well-being and comforts –
Y-1- If the Ascendant Lord is
together with a malefic or is situated in the 6th or 8th
or 12th house.
E- He deprives the native of
physical well-being and comforts.
Y-2- But if he is placed in a Kendra
or a trikona (angle or trine), it indicates that.
E- The native will always enjoy bodily
comforts.
Y-3- If the Ascendant lord were in
combustion, in enemy’s sign or in his sign of debilitation.
E- It causes diseases.
N- Benefic being placed in an angle
or trine from the Ascendant have been known to be destroyer of all diseases.
Ascendant’s angles i.e. 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th
house or trine 5th, 9th house containing a benefi, is a
powerful remedy for all problems related to health.
(The basic rule
of Predictive Astrology is that the Lord of any Bhava or House, when placed in
the 6th or 8th or 12th house, it destroys the
effects of the said house. The placement of the Ascendant Lord in these evil
houses does indicate suffering or losses pertaining to the individual’s body,
since the Ascendant is related to the whole body. When, the Ascendant is
combined with a malefic planet also, the losses will be two folded. The
Ascendant signifies the complete nativity in everyway and sense. Therefore
along with the body, the native will have to suffer losses in respect of
wealth, reputation, personality etc. The angles (1-4-7-10) and the Trines (5-9)
in a horoscope have been regarded as auspicious or best houses. Therefore, the
placement of the Ascendant Lord in these houses will be auspicious and
beneficial for the body and rest of things; also, the placement of a benefic in
an angle or a trine will be beneficial to the native.
If a planet is
in combustion, in enemy’s sign or in his debilitation sign, it will destroy the
effects pertaining to those houses which are his own houses and the house in
which he is placed, will also suffer loss of its effects. On the contrary, a
planet situated in his exaltation sign is considered beneficial and
auspicious).
