The First House

What the 1st house shows

The lagna tells you the personality and the physical body.

Listen to how people describe someone. "His personality never grew." "He is egoistic." "He is very timid." "He doesn't want to face anybody." "He is always finding faults in others." All of this is the 1st house. So is "He is always ill", "His body is weak", and "He never takes a stand for others".

Here is everything we read from it.

Remember the box and its colour. The 1st house is always the 1st house. What changes from person to person is the colour painted on it, the rashi.

The 1st house keeps you alive

Here is something you must never forget. Whoever owns the 1st house, the rashi there and its lord, keeps you alive. When does a person die? When the 1st house is destroyed.

So the energy of the lagna must be maintained. It must be given poshan, nourishment. And every rashi needs a different nourishment. Not every person is hurt by the same thing.

If you want to know what will keep a person alive, and what can kill him, the energy of his lagna becomes the most important thing in the chart.

When we stop watering the rashi of the lagna, the lagna dies.

Let me show you with people from my class.

4

Karka rising

Needs home, food, water and emotional safety

Karka represents the mother, the home, the comfort zone, food habits, water and emotions.

What starves it

• A toxic place where people are always envious and against you.
• When I asked a Karka student what would happen to her in such a place, she said: "Sir, I will disconnect. My lagna will feel weak." Exactly. The body starts to suffer, illness comes, the person stays troubled. Who was nourishing this lagna? Emotions. Karka is the rashi of emotions.
• A Karka girl marries, and her mother-in-law turns every comfort zone into hell. Slowly she goes into depression.

What it needs

• Another Karka student's mother-in-law had been kind, and she stayed healthy. But someone else cooking in her kitchen was "a little inconvenient", and someone using her bathroom and her personal space was fine for a few days and then not.
• She said something beautiful: "I can fight everywhere, but not in my room. In my room I need rest." That is Karka. She needs comfort, and no argument in her room.

1

Mesha rising

Needs to start things, again and again

Mesha lagna people take initiative regularly. They start new work, develop new things, and always have the enthusiasm to begin.

What starves it

• Mockery every time they begin: "Your drama has started again. You failed last time too. Everything went bad last time. That shut down last time too." They feel insulted.
• Guilt: "You study two days and skip three. You join a course and leave it. You join the gym and quit in two days." They live with that guilt all the time.

Why it hurts

In Mesha we start things, they die, we start again, and they die again. Starting is Mesha's basic nature. Shame attacks its food.

1st

A king's lagna

Needs position, respect and people to manage

A student told me about her husband, whose lagna has a king's energy.

What keeps him alive

• Authority and position. People must speak to him properly. Nobody may give him a wrong nickname. He must have prestige and never be insulted in society.
• "I will do less work, because I am the king. I am a little lazy, but say nothing to me."
• Managerial roles, ten people under him, two servants at home.

What kills it

"You are nothing. A number-one beggar. You never have money. You can't even bring the vegetables; I have to do it. You sit and watch TV like a maharaja." Make such a man work like a servant, and slowly he comes down and becomes depressed. Kill the energy of his lagna, and the problems begin.

9

Dhanu rising

Needs freedom of belief and learning

A student of mine has Dhanu lagna. She does not eat non-vegetarian food, she has her own temple and her own deity, and she wants higher education.

What starves it

• Forcing her to eat non-vegetarian food she does not eat.
• Taking her to a different temple from the one she wants, or stopping her from worshipping her deity.
• Blocking the higher education she wants, or forbidding her to learn astrology.

What happens

She slowly falls ill. Illness comes when the energy of the lagna becomes weak.

I have given you a few rashis here so that you understand nourishment. The rashis themselves I teach slowly and in depth, because the major predictions come from the rashi. For now, whenever you see a lagna, ask: what does this rashi need to stay alive, and is this person's life feeding it or starving it?

The lagna lord: the king of your chart

The graha that rules the rashi in your 1st house is your lagna lord. Treat him as the king of the chart.

To find him, read the number in the 1st house. Suppose it is 8. Eight is Vrischika, so the person is a Vrischika ascendant, and the lagna lord is the owner of Vrischika. Then look for that graha in the chart and see which house he has gone to.

Most books give only Mangala for Vrischika and only Shani for Kumbha. Add Ketu and Rahu in your notebook. In Vrischika we mainly take Ketu; in Kumbha, mainly Rahu. Every rashi has its lord; keep this table in front of you until you know it without looking.

The personality development manager

The lagna is personality, so its lord is the personality development manager. Suppose we hijack this manager and stop him from growing. Can the person grow? No. So the lagna lord's position tells you how the personality is being built, and on whom the person depends to build it.

Where the lagna lord goes

Wherever the lagna lord goes, the person puts most of his energy there. That is where he stays engaged, and where he solves the most important problems of his life.

With the lagna lord in the 3rd, he gets his work done through his younger siblings, and depends on his environment: the surroundings, the neighbour, the smaller brother or sister.

Alongside this, learn the lagna lord in each of the twelve houses, and after him the 2nd lord (the dhanesh), the 3rd lord, the 4th lord and the rest in sequence. They are the close companions of this chapter.

In his own house

"I am on my own. We are our own government; we need neither the BJP nor the Congress." He depends on no father, no mother, nobody but himself. He must take his own responsibility, and others may not help him as much as he helps them. There is some self-centredness, and a strong focus on health, personality development and keeping his respect.

Suppose 2 is written in the 1st house and Shukra sits right there. The master of the 1st house is in the 1st house. The master of the 1st house is the king of the chart, and here the king sits on his own seat. So:

• He looks after his own body himself. He can help others, but other people will not be able to help him.
• He is self-centred. He is very mindful of his personality, of his health and of his izzat, his honour.
• His personality develops on its own. He cannot remain dependent on others, and he cannot work jointly with others. He has to take his own responsibility.
• His health. When the lagna lord is in the lagna and in good condition, the body stays healthy, because the lord is in his own house and has little trouble. But if an inimical graha joins him there, health trouble begins.

Understand it like this: with the lagna lord in the lagna, the person does his work himself, another person is not able to help him, and he is dependent on himself alone.

Three students, three lives

11th

Lagna lord in the 11th

Money, salary, and the mother's old grudges

A student had his lagna lord in the 11th, in Kumbha. All day he thinks:

• How do I make money? When will the salary come? How do I build a regular income?
• How do I fulfil my desires?
• How do I remove my mother's grudges and insecurities?
• How do I take revenge on my chacha?

His personality is being built right there, in the 11th.

7th

Lagna lord in the 7th

Lives for the partner

• "You do this, bring me that, I will do this for you. For you I want to do this. You are everything. If you are there, everything is there. My life is from your life."
• "If I don't make money for my partner, what use am I?"
• He will work very hard for anyone who comes to him, because the lagna lord has gone to the 7th.

8th

Lagna lord in the 8th

Pulls everyone else out of crisis

She spends her life dealing with:

• Long illness, and the in-laws' problems.
• Someone in depression, someone unwell, someone in a long illness: she brings them out.
• Heavy financial losses.
• A father who cannot sleep.
• The spouse's family, and the spouse's wealth.

And when she is angry, or hurt, or there is a loss, she cries in the bathroom, washing her face again and again so nobody sees the tears. Or she hides under a blanket. She laughed in class and said yes. Predictions like this come on their own once you understand the chart.

Remember a sutra, not a prediction: wherever the lagna lord goes, there the person solves the most important problems of his life.

I made those predictions from a blank chart, nothing else. You could make a whole YouTube lecture from this one sutra. "For whom are you working?" "For whom did you do everything, only to be betrayed?" "Who is your last hope?" Look where the lagna lord goes, because he is the king.

A visitor brings only what he has

A graha physically sitting in the 1st, whatever rashi it rules, imprints strong physical and psychological traits. It has sat on the throne, the takht, the most important place of the chart, from where the whole chart is controlled.

When we visit someone, we take with us only what we have. So a house lord sitting in the 1st brings the contents of his own house to your body and personality.

Do not memorise the table. Remember the concept: the 6th lord holds disease, debt and enemies, so that is what he gives the lagna. The 8th lord holds insecurity, so that is what he gives.

Who chooses your clothes

This goes further than you would think. When the 7th lord sits in the lagna, people say: "Whose ghost rides his mind? Relationship! Partnership! 'Let's partner with him, it will work; alone it won't.'" And the partner tells you how to dress: "You don't look good like this. Why do you always wear black? Wear something pink, something colourful."

Which graha is the 7th lord matters:

• Budha: "Why do you dress like a child, in red, yellow and green? Be stylish. Be a man."
• Mangala: "Get ready like an office commander and go."
• 9th lord in the lagna: he dresses like a professor or a guru, and papa says, "What are you wearing? Come, I'll buy you clothes."
• 4th lord in the lagna: a student said this one would talk about emotions. No: the mother takes over: "What do you keep buying? Come with me, I'll buy for you." The mother's role dominates the lagna. If you want this person to do something, tell his mummy. As the papa says, "If mummy tells him, he'll do it. If mummy feeds him, he'll eat." The 4th house has a hold on his 2nd house and his Moon.

Source and destination: the delivery boy

Every lord is a delivery boy. The house he owns is the cloud kitchen, where the food is cooked. The house where he sits is the address it is delivered to. The lagna is the throne: the lagna lord fills his bag there and hands it over wherever he has gone.

Where will you meet your spouse?

This is exactly what they teach on YouTube. "Where will you find your life partner?" Wherever the 7th lord goes, from there the partner comes. Wherever he goes, from there he brings resources; that is where he searches.

• 7th lord in the 9th: the girl was found at a temple, or papa found her, or the guru introduced them.
• 7th lord in the 6th or the 10th: the spouse's energy goes to the workplace.
• 7th lord in the 11th: the wife gives her energy to her circle of close friends, so the possibility of an extramarital affair must be considered.

Before marriage, and after

This will confuse you, and you may lose sleep over it. Listen to it two or three times; I am teaching two concepts together. Do not be scared by it.

• 8th lord in the 7th (before marriage): where will the partner come from? From the 8th house. The partner arrives carrying the 8th.
• 7th lord in the 8th (after marriage): the package leaves the 7th and goes to the 8th. As soon as the marriage happens, the in-laws become heavy.
• 12th lord in the 7th: the partner comes from a foreign place.
• 7th lord in the 12th: after marriage, the relationship's resources go into 12th-house matters.

So: before marriage, see whose lord has come into the 7th. After marriage, see where the 7th lord delivers.

Damage travels along the route

• 10th lord in the 7th: "He never listens to me. He listens to my mother-in-law, to his boss." Because of the boss, there are problems in the marriage.
• 7th lord in the 10th: there is a fight with the wife, and the profession starts going bad. The power station, the source, has been damaged.

Let me draw it plainly. In the first case the source is the 10th and the delivery goes to the 7th: if the career collapses, the marriage collapses. In the second, the source is the 7th and the delivery goes to the 10th. Cut the power in the 7th, the husband and wife are not having sex, the sexual life is bad, and the career and workplace go bad.

The 7th lord in the 10th is not the same as the 10th lord in the 7th. Learn the difference between the source and the sink.

The grahas on the throne

A graha in the 1st stamps itself on your personality, your body, your appearance, your instincts and the way you handle people. Each graha comes from its own loka, its own world, and that is why it brings those qualities. Surya comes from Surya-loka, so he brings the traits of the Suryavansha.

Under each graha you will find the traits first, then the body and looks, the clothes and tastes, the family, and how you will hear it in a consultation. Exactly this way I will take the grahas through all twelve houses. Keep making notes; if you make notes, things become clear.

Su

Surya

Suryavanshi: authority and control

The traits

• Authoritative, a leader, highly practical, ego-driven. There is ego inside him, and he stays a little egoistic, because the king has come into the lagna.
• Often tries to manage or control others. Surya controls the nine grahas, so on the lagna he controls people. He becomes a manager.
• He gets his own work done through others, and does not do much work himself.
• A daanveer, a great giver, and nyaypriya, a lover of justice.
• He is "hot". When Surya was born, mother Aditi found him too hot to hold for long, and all the mothers took turns with him. So when Surya dominates the 1st, the person is difficult to bear and difficult to live with.

Body and looks

• Early hair thinning is possible: the hair goes early.
• The eyes are bhuri, light brown.

Marriage

• There is trouble in marriage. Husband and wife get along less.

Why

• The Sun keeps everyone on his axis in our saurmandal, the solar system. He is the centre and he is the king, so he manages everyone and tries to control.
• Whatever number is written with him, whatever the rashi, whether he is at 0 degrees or anywhere else, if he is not peedit, afflicted, you will see these lakshan, the signs of the Suryavanshi.

How you will hear it

• "My husband is very controlling. Everything is I, I, I." Look at the husband's lagna: Simha, or Surya, or some portion of the Sun.
• "My husband is very authoritative. He doesn't let me talk to anyone."
• "My husband manages a thousand people in his office. He looks after an entire state." The Sun has to be very prominent to drive a thousand people.

Ch

Chandra

Chandravanshi: emotion and intuition

Chandra is the karaka of the man, the mind. On the lagna, the mind has sat on the throne. We call such a person a Chandravanshi.

The traits

• Highly emotional, sensitive, moody, easily hurt. He feels bad quickly and takes offence quickly, in any rashi.
• Very intuitive, but prone to nazar, the evil eye, and to emotional swings. Nazar strikes him very quickly.
• A psychic nature.
• When he talks, he is always afraid that he may have gone astray somewhere.
• A problem of continuity. He cannot keep anything going for long: something new every day.
• Emotional problems, and bade shauk, big and costly fancies.
• He works for others, and wants praise in return: people should speak highly of him. He carries expectations.

Body and looks

• A milky white face. The face looks good.

Food

• When a problem comes into his life, he stops eating. His eating pattern gets disturbed.

With people

• He is abused when he distributes things. If he starts handing something out, people say, "You got more." Many accusations are put on him, regularly.
• He receives many shraap, curses. So he must stay careful never to receive a curse from women, from girls.

Family

• The married life of the bua (the father's sister), of the sister, of the women of the family, is spoiled. A marriage may happen through deception.

How it shows

Sometimes emotional, sometimes crying, sometimes fighting, sometimes complaining. You cannot tell what is running in their mind, when their day turns into night, or what will hurt them next. Their behaviour is unpredictable, and the mood swings are regular.

When this pattern does not match a chart, do not throw it away. Look at the karaka of that relative. In the first live reading below, the Moon was on the lagna and the bua's married life was very good, and Budha showed why.

Ma

Mangala

The commander

The traits

• Brave, short-tempered, passionate, logical. A senapati, a commander of the army.
• Takes on heavy responsibility.
• Always wants control. He wants power.
• He is also manglik, carrying the Mangala dosha.
• Very few people manage to stay friends with him. He makes few friends.
• He gets angry quickly: a short temper.

Body and looks

• Prone to minor injuries or scars on the face. He keeps getting injured, regularly.
• Lalima, redness, on the face: when he gets angry, the face goes completely red.
• Pitta, the fire dosha, is heavy.

Clothes

• He loves wearing a uniform: formal dress, the forces, an officer's dress, the army's.
• He likes tight clothes.

How it shows

At the smallest thing the mind flares and the face goes red. He keeps command and takes authority. And once he has fought, everything is wrecked: band, baaja and baaraat.

Keep making notes on Mangala. Understand him, and you will have learned more than half of your astrology.

Bu

Budha

The chatterbox and the connector

The traits

• Highly communicative: a number-one chatterbox, always talking, something always running. Badbola, one who talks big.
• A sharp intellect, very sharp in other people's problems, with a little knowledge of everything.
• Often a consultant, a diplomat, or the one who solves other people's problems and tells them the solution. He connects people.
• He memorises things very quickly.

Body and looks

• A youthful look: he looks very young, because the metabolism is good.
• Good cutting in the face: a V-cut face, not a round one.

Family

• The mama (the mother's brother), the bua, the sister and the behnoi (the sister's husband) all play a very big role in his personality development.

Gu

Brihaspati

The guide people come to hear

The traits

• Blessed, spiritual, wise, non-jealous, naturally magnetic. Guru on the lagna comes only after great difficulty.
• Non-jealous: he keeps no dvesh, no malice. He does not burn looking at others.
• He goes about giving blessings. There are people who give blessings wherever they go.
• Sharp in knowledge.
• Seen as a guide or adviser in society. He takes society in the right direction and shows it the way: a purohit, a pandit.
• Very magnetic. Wherever such people go, a circle forms around them, and they become the centre of attraction.

Looks

• An attractive personality, but not the Shukra kind. This is the attraction of knowledge. A familiar, common face: you feel, "I know this person. He is like my brother, some relative of mine."

Family and fortune

• A blessing for the father, and very lucky for the mother.
• Always celebrate his birthday. It is very auspicious. If parents have several children and one of them has Guru on the lagna, celebrate that child's birthday very well. Wealth comes from it, a sarthakta, a fruitfulness, enters the home, and the atmosphere of the house becomes good.
• Guru on the lagna is very good, and such a person should walk according to dharma. Then good things keep coming.

How you will hear it

• "This guruji has a thousand followers who sit and listen to him in a hall every day." That is Jupiter on the lagna.

Sk

Shukra

Beauty, luxury and charm

The traits

• Loves luxury, high-end fashion and fine dining.
• Usually beautiful eyes, charming speech, a soft nature and a refined aesthetic sense.
• Feel these qualities as you read them; do not read them like a classroom list. When you see them in a chart with Shukra on the lagna, I give them to you as predictions.
• Being Shukra, he knows sama, dama, danda, bheda: persuasion, inducement, punishment and division, every way of getting a thing done.
• Secretive by nature.

Body and looks

• Beautiful eyes, first of all.
• Gets ready very well and dresses very nicely.

Tastes

• Eats in expensive restaurants, travels business class, wears branded clothes.
• Good in the arts, good at selecting clothes, a good fashion sense.
• Loves diamonds and jewellery. These are the signs of Maa Lakshmi: with Shukra come all her things, beautiful flowers among them.
• Perfume: he always smells good.
• Likes curd, and South Indian food.

The two faces

• "He is a thousand-crore man. Whoever he touches becomes a billionaire." Shukra on the lagna.
• And yet you will meet someone with Shukra on the lagna who has no money at all. God gave him beautiful eyes and nothing else. There are more conditions, which I will teach you later.

Sa

Shani

Results after struggle

The traits

• Hard-working, very hard-working, but faces delays. He gets everything late.
• Life needs constant effort and discipline. He needs direction.
• Less support from bhagya, fortune.
• He trusts only himself.
• Results come only after significant struggle, or external validation. He keeps asking, "Brother, I'm doing well, no?" Some have to tell others, "Look, we have money. We have beautiful things."
• An inferiority complex. I have seen this come to people with Shani on the lagna regularly.
• He cannot enjoy luxury.
• Lazy, and slow, and that is exactly why things are delayed.
• He does not like change.
• He takes a lot of pressure, and when the pressure falls on him he panics.

Coal into diamond

Shani presses you and presses you, and keeps you under pressure. The journey from coal to diamond: that is the journey he makes you complete. He heats you so much, and gives things after such a long time, that when they come the person cannot believe it: "How did I get this on its own?"

Family

• In the nani ghar (the mother's mother's home), in the bua's house or in the mama's family, you will find one person, or two or three, whose life becomes very long after much suffering. They leave slowly, writhing in pain, while everyone prays that Shani Dev somehow lets them go.
• The children's bhagyoday, the rise of their fortune, comes a little late.
• The father has stomach problems: gas from eating at untimely hours, and a weak jathar agni, the digestive fire.
• The father does not easily get respect. In his office, wherever he works, he gets less value.
• He finds a lot of fault in his younger brother or sister, and picks out their shortcomings.
• He keeps guiding the younger siblings, regularly: "My eye is on you, on what you are doing." To make them work hard, he puts a lot of pressure on them.

Ra

Rahu

Massive desire, early success

The traits

• Massive desires and early success. "What will I get?" Crores, lakhs: it never goes below that.
• Speaks without boundaries.
• May feel like an outsider. Often has a better network outside his own state or family: he gets along better with outsiders than with his own family.
• Stubborn. Rahu is not aggressive like Mangala, but he wants his work done: "My work should happen at any cost."
• He creates hype.
• He trusts nobody. In childhood he trusts everyone, and everyone makes a fool of him; so slowly his virat roop, his enormous form, comes out.
• A good understanding pattern: he understands what has not been said, what is not written.
• He either cheats or gets cheated, thagna ya thagana. With Rahu on the lagna this is fixed.
• A strong belief in the occult. These people make predictions with their eyes closed. They sit and see everything: who is doing politics where, who is doing what, what mask each person is wearing. Rahu catches all of it.
• An interesting personality. You will wonder why there is so much inside this person. Rahu is a heavy graha; with Mangala, or in Mesha, he gives very heavy results.

Birth

• Birth comes with difficulty. Before you came, someone was given as a bali, a sacrifice: an abortion or a miscarriage. Or the birth was by surgery, or with blood.

Clothes

• Extremely different clothes, a very different kind of dressing.
• Grey, slate, fog, the colour of clouds; smoke colours, smoky eyes.
• Black, and dark shades.

Family

• A lot of chhal, deceit, has been done to the father. I mean it: many people do wrong with the father, and only then does a person get Rahu on the lagna.

We will see Rahu in great detail later.

Ke

Ketu

Few words that come true

The traits

• Introverted and spiritual.
• Speaks few words, but the words often come true.
• Feels detached from worldly gain and family wealth. Not interested in the world.
• May struggle with anxiety: anxiety about uncertainty.
• Minimalistic. He needs very few things.
• He does not like being among many people, and does not like social gatherings.
• Very good in research.

The mind

• A tendency towards self-harm.
• He abuses himself, curses himself.
• A blockage in the mind.

In love and partnership

• As big as Rahu makes everything look, Ketu is that giving. He sells himself for another.
• In a relationship, Ketu on the lagna sells himself; Rahu on the lagna sells the partner.

Family

• The father has a gut issue.
• The mother brings everything for the house very big, the kitchen utensils above all.

I have given you this capsule; use it when you predict.

An empty 1st house

A student asked: "Sir, if no graha sits in the 1st house, what do we read?" First of all, there is no problem. The grahas have gone somewhere else, and we read them there. And in the 1st we read the rashi. Take Kanya rising. What will a person with a Kanya lagna always do?

• Pick out small mistakes and correct them. "You are messing up here. Refine these four things. See which is working and which isn't, and drop what isn't."
• Keep the room, the house and the body clean.
• Insist on timing. "Everything has its time, babu. Eat breakfast in the morning, lunch at lunchtime, dinner on time. Learn to live like a human being."

With Kanya rising, the person always goes by rules, by SOP, a set procedure. The student said, "That's right, sir." No graha was needed.

Readings from the live class

Students often say to me: "Show us predictions using what you teach." So in the live class I take charts and predict in front of everyone, using only what we have just learned. In a live session I cannot tell everything, because there is a privacy issue: many people all over the world are watching, and you cannot open everything in front of the whole world.

A student with the Moon on the lagna

The chart, as I read it out. The Moon on the lagna, with Rahu ("Rahu is on the lagna, in rashi number 9"). Budha with Shukra in the 8th, in Kumbha. Shani, retrograde, with Mangala in the 5th. Ketu in the 3rd, in Kanya. Brihaspati in Mina. The dasha running is Ketu's, with Rahu now; Brihaspati's comes next, between 2025 and 2026, and after it Shani's mahadasha. She also wanted to know about settling abroad, and here the Moon is the karaka.

1. The Moon on the lagna. I asked everyone who had attended the class: what did I tell you about the Moon on the lagna? They answered, and I confirmed each one:

• Moody.
• Emotional.
• Working for others.
• Wants praise: people should speak highly of her. She has expectations.
• Regular mood swings.
• Quick to take offence.
• Unpredictable behaviour.
• Catches nazar quickly.

She confirmed all of it, and said the mood swings are very strong. Look: you are predicting from one thing I taught you today, and it is all coming out right.

2. The women's married life: a miss. I had also predicted that the married life of the bua, the sister and the women of the house would be troubled, because the Moon is on the lagna. She wrote: "Theirs is very good." Here the prediction went off.

So we look properly. What we studied is that with the Moon on the lagna there are problems in married life, and here there are none. So you have to check why the problem is not coming for the sisters or for the bua. This is how we have to look at things, slowly, slowly. Why is the bua's married life good? The karaka of the bua is Budha, and Budha sits with Shukra in the 8th. So it is all balle balle, all celebration: they enjoy themselves thoroughly, and there will be every luxury in their home. The bua's husband will be good-natured, and they will be happy in their marriage. She confirmed: yes, there is every luxury in their home.

Now the second sutra, the formula. We see the bua and the mama from Budha. Budha is with Shukra in Kumbha. Kumbha has two lords, Shani and Rahu, and Kumbha is the rashi of ichchha-purti, the fulfilment of desire. Two very beautiful grahas, Budha and Shukra, have gone into the house of desire-fulfilment. That is why the sister and the maternal family receive all the luxury. She confirmed this too.

Wherever a prediction goes off, look at the karakatva of that graha, what it signifies.

3. Shani and Mangala in the 5th: a slow start, pressure at school, a technical career. Wherever Shani sits, changes are not liked, and the person improves slowly. So I asked: were you slow in your studies at first, or did you start late? Shani is vakra, retrograde, and moves slowly, and here vakra means he gave a lot of pressure. The 5th is the house of education, and a Mangala-Shani combination has formed in it. Were you kept under heavy pressure at school? Did your teachers teach you by beating you? She confirmed: yes.

And learn this carefully: whenever Shani and Mangala are in the 5th, by conjunction (yuti) or by aspect (drishti), the person does good technical work. So I asked: are you in a technical field, corporate, engineering? She confirmed an engineering degree and work in an IT department. See how Shani works: at the start she was slow, and her mind did not want to study, because the 5th is education. Today she is doing very well. Because Shani is retrograde, she reached a very good place through very hard work.

So from the chart we can tell whether a technical degree will be good for a person or not. When parents ask, "Will my son do well in engineering, or in medicine, or in commerce?", this is one way we see it. The Mangala-Shani combination in the 5th makes a person technical.

4. Settling abroad: Ketu in the 3rd in Kanya. Her question was simple: "Will I be able to settle abroad?" With Ketu in the 3rd, in Kanya, I said the visa would get stuck again and again, and there would be a visa or passport issue. She first wrote yes. Then I said the passport must have been made before 2021, in the Budha dasha, so the visa issue had not yet arisen. She wrote clearly: there has been no visa problem. The passport was made in 2020, and she has not yet applied for a visa. So the visa prediction did not hold here, and we have to look in detail. Astrology has to be studied very properly.

5. The D10: Kanya and software development. For career we look at the detailed chart, the D10, the dashamsha. In her D10, Ketu is in the 2nd. Shani is in the 5th. Budha is the 10th lord. The Sun sits there, and the Sun, the 12th lord, has a connection with the 10th.

Here is one thing to learn today, and it is very important. The lagna of her dashamsha is Kanya. Kanya gives analytics, data management, finance and IT. In IT this person would regularly have to solve bugs and do development. So I asked: are you a software developer, a business analyst or a data analyst? She confirmed: a developer.

6. Timing the move abroad. The dasha running is Ketu's, with Rahu now; Brihaspati's comes next, between 2025 and 2026. Brihaspati is in Mina, and Mina represents a foreign country. He is also the lord of the 4th here, and the Ketu mahadasha is running, which is the karaka of the 4th or the 10th. So I said: yes, in this period, after the 8th month, your dream can come true. From tomorrow your nakshatras are set right, and by the grace of Ganpati Bappa, by the grace of God, you can go abroad. The yoga is formed in the chart. Make the effort and you will get it by next year. After this comes the Shani mahadasha too, so it is a good combination. The question you asked at this time is the right question: the yoga of foreign settlement is forming in your chart.

A student with a debilitated Brihaspati on the lagna

The chart. The most beautiful combination: Brihaspati on the lagna in rashi number 10, Makara, Shani's rashi, where he is debilitated (neech). Shani with Ketu in the 3rd. Surya with Budha in the 5th, connected with the 8th.

1. Brihaspati on the lagna. The student did not even know their own combination. I asked the class what Jupiter on the lagna gives, and the viewers answered: "Non-jealous people." "Should celebrate the birthday." Very beautiful. They do not burn with jealousy looking at others. When their birthday is celebrated at home, when someone is happy in their happiness, their bhagya uday, the rise of fortune, comes. A circle forms around them, and they become the centre of attraction. People take them as their own brother, sister or friend: "This one is my very own." And they guide others.

So I asked the student: do you work like a counsellor? Do you give people the right guidance? The student wrote: "Right." Look, I did not predict it. The people in the comment box predicted it, and predicted it exactly right. And remember, this Jupiter is debilitated.

2. Shani and Ketu in the 3rd: fear of driving. I said: while driving you will feel very afraid. While driving there is a high chance of a fight, or of getting lost. Many kinds of thoughts come, as if you have gone into another world; the hands are on the wheel but the mind has gone somewhere else. When you travel, too, you are lost somewhere. The student wrote: "I don't drive."

That is a very big prediction in itself. Whenever Shani and Ketu are in the 3rd, the person finds driving 110 percent difficult. Such a person always feels, "I will have an accident", or "I may fall asleep while driving". There is fear and anxiety, or driving feels like a jhamela, a hassle. The student confirmed: "It feels like a jhamela." Shani-Ketu always gives anxiety. The person feels sleepy: "Who will do so much magajmari, so much racking of the brain?"

3. A land dispute. I am seeing a land dispute here. With whom: the father? The student wrote: "With the uncle." A 110 percent confirmation of the land dispute. Those who think astrology is fake should watch this: I do not know this student at all.

4. Late conception: a miss. Were you conceived late, some time after the marriage? Were you born after many mannat, vows made at the temple? The student said no: "I was born within two years. There was no need to go to any hakim or doctor, no treatment. I was conceived naturally." This prediction went off.

5. Surya and Budha in the 5th: studies, astrology and status. With Surya and Budha in the 5th, the person is very good at studies, and because the combination connects with the 8th, there is an interest in astrology as well. Such a person wins many medals at school. I asked: were you good at studies? The student wrote: "I am in a government job." You see the honhaar, the capable person, in the chart.

The student then said: "I want to achieve more." When Surya and Budha are in the 5th, the person gets sky-rocketing things by the grace of Surya Narayana.

6. The exam. The question was: will the exam be cracked next year or not? Have you been preparing for something since 2021? The student answered: since 2020. Is it the IAS, UPSC? If it is UPSC, the result comes in 2027. The student said: the RBI. Here the effect of Rahu is coming, for a short time, six months. We do not know the RBI calendar, so I asked whether the result was wanted this year or next, and when the paper is held and when the result comes, and the student wrote: "Next year will also do."

Next year the yoga is forming, after the sixth month. The yoga is forming in all three of these; there is nothing to worry about. In '26 and '27 things are fine, and after that a change of place is also visible. In this period you will get success; you are running a good dasha.

A student with Shukra on the lagna

The chart. Shukra on the lagna. Rahu in the 4th, and the number 9 in the 4th. Ketu in the 10th. The Shani mahadasha has just started.

1. Shukra on the lagna. I asked the viewers who had been in the class from the start. The eyes are beautiful. She likes travelling business class very much. She likes a luxurious life and eating in good restaurants. Her beauty products at home will be branded. She likes to get ready well, and likes good perfume. She likes very beautiful clothes, properly made. Does everyone take you along to buy clothes, because "You choose so well"?

2. Rahu in the 4th: the lehenga. With Rahu in the 4th she can bring very good things at a low price, and get them for others too. Her choice is very good. Show her a lehenga worth 10,000 and she will get you one that matches it, uske takkar ka, for 2,000, with the same beauty. She confirmed in the live chat: "Yes, prabhu-ji."

This is the vardaan, the boon, of Shukra: restaurants, business class, a very good fashion sense, and the grace of Maa Lakshmi on the chart. Shukra on the lagna means personality.

3. The 9 in the 4th: everything king-size. Do you bring everything at home very big? If two people are eating, she will cook for ten. She simply cannot make less; let the food be wasted, she can never bring things in small amounts. And whatever is in her house will be king-size, from the utensils to the fridge. She confirmed: she easily cooks for ten people, and whatever she brings, she brings very big. In the live session there is no trickery, koi jhol nahin.

4. Ketu in the 10th: the career that must be unique. With Ketu in the 10th, the dasham bhava, you will always be troubled about your career. In her career she wants people to see her for her unique qualities. Those who say astrology is false, look how accurate this is. She confirmed: "Yes, prabhu-ji, I am always confused about my career decision. I want to do something unique, and I do not know what to do or how."

So her question was this: what should she do so that people know her for her bravery and her work?

5. The father's DNA. Let me show you the way a little, as an elder brother. One thing is very common: with Rahu in the 3rd and Mangala and Ketu here, the career problem is not only hers; her father will have it too. You and your father will always carry the tension: "In the work we are doing, will there be a problem?" Is your father always worried about his business? She confirmed: "Yes, prabhu-ji." This DNA has come from the father. The father wanted to do something unique, her brothers and any sibling would want to do something unique, and she wants to do something unique. And success is not coming.

6. The Shani mahadasha. Your Shani mahadasha has started. It will grind you, ragdega, but it will give you a good result. What you want, you will get. Many poor people will know you, and you will do a lot of work for them. Do not take tension; this is a good combination in the chart.

A student with Shani on the lagna, cheated everywhere

The chart. Shani on the lagna. He had his own business, in agriculture.

1. Cheating, and only cheating. As soon as the chart came up: you are in a lot of debt. Who cheated you in business: the younger brother? The partner? Did you get cheated in a partnership? Are you being ruined in business? I am seeing cheating, and only cheating, everywhere. Shani is on the lagna, and all the relatives in the family will ask you for money and cheat you.

I asked what work he did: construction, a factory, a ration shop, real estate? He wrote: "Where would it survive? I got so much cheating. I am of no use for any work anymore." That much we know: no work is left. It is his own brothers and sisters. He had been working well in agriculture, and someone finished the story, kahani khatam kar diya.

2. The timing. His time is running heavy, and up to '26 I see nothing. At the end of '26 things begin to improve, and he will take revenge on everyone, sabka badla nikaal loge. His worst time is these two periods; somehow he has to save himself and manage. In this period, too, not much work will happen. About four months of '25 are left; '26, '27 and '28 will be three years of trouble. From 2029 things come on track, and the financial condition becomes right after 2029.

Remember

• The 1st house is personality and the physical body. It is the throne, from where the whole chart is controlled.
• It keeps you alive. Each lagna rashi needs its own nourishment; starve it and illness and depression follow.
• The lagna lord is the king and the personality development manager. Where he goes, the person depends, spends his energy and solves his biggest problems. In his own house, the person stands on his own.
• A lord sitting in the 1st brings only what its own house holds.
• The owned house is the cloud kitchen; the occupied house is the delivery address. Never reverse them.
• Before marriage, see which lord comes into the 7th; after marriage, see where the 7th lord delivers.
• The 7th is the 4th from the 4th and the 10th from the 10th: sexual life, peace at home and career move together.
• A graha on the lagna brings the qualities of its own loka: Surya rules, Chandra feels, Mangala commands, Budha talks, Guru guides, Shukra adorns, Shani struggles, Rahu wants, Ketu withdraws.
• When a prediction goes off, look at the karaka of that relative, and at what that graha signifies.
• An empty 1st is read through its rashi.

Check yourself

1. A woman with Karka rising loses control of her kitchen, her room and her comfort after marriage, and slowly falls ill. Why?

• aKarka is always a weak lagna
• bThese attack exactly the nourishment of a Karka lagna: home, comfort, food, water and emotions
• cBecause of her mother's rashi

2. A Mesha-rising person keeps starting courses and dropping them, and his family keeps shaming him. What does he feel, and why?

• aPride, because he loves to be praised
• bInsult and guilt, because starting things is the basic nature of a Mesha lagna and they are attacking it
• cNothing, because such people do not care

3. The number 8 is written in the 1st house. Who is the lagna lord in this method?

• aShukra
• bMangala, with Ketu; mainly Ketu
• cShani

4. The lagna lord sits in the 8th house. What will this person keep doing in life?

• aCollecting medals and recognition
• bPulling others out of depression, long illness and financial loss, and handling the in-laws' problems
• cOnly working on his own career

5. The 4th lord sits in the 1st house. If you want this person to do something, whom do you approach?

• aThe father
• bThe mother
• cThe boss

6. A client says his career is ruined, and his 7th lord is in the 10th. What will you ask him?

• aAbout his younger siblings
• bAbout his sexual and married life, because the 10th is being fed from the 7th
• cAbout his grandfather's property

7. Before marriage, how do you see where the partner will come from?

• aSee which house's lord has come into the 7th
• bSee only the rashi in the 1st
• cSee where the lagna lord is

8. Which graha in the 1st makes a person ask others again and again, "I'm doing well, no?"

• aSurya
• bRahu
• cShani

9. There is no graha in the 1st and Kanya rises. How do you read it?

• aYou cannot read it
• bRead the rashi: correcting small mistakes, cleanliness, timing and set procedures
• cRead only the 7th house

10. One child in a family has Brihaspati on the lagna. What do I advise the parents?

• aKeep the child away from temples
• bCelebrate that child's birthday very well; it brings wealth and fruitfulness into the home
• cNever celebrate the child's birthday

11. In a relationship, how do Ketu and Rahu on the lagna differ?

• aBoth sell the partner
• bKetu on the lagna sells himself; Rahu on the lagna sells the partner
• cNeither affects relationships

12. The Moon is on the lagna, yet the bua's married life is very happy, and Budha sits with Shukra in Kumbha. What does this teach you?

• aThe Moon's results never work
• bIgnore the miss and move on
• cWhen a prediction goes off, look at the karaka of that relative: Budha for the bua, here with Shukra in the rashi of desire-fulfilment