The Method – Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam

Rule One: derive, do not memorise

Write this down as Rule One. I teach this course at the level of IIT, the level of JEE Advanced, and you have to work the same way so that you can actually predict. Whatever prediction we make, we will derive it from the basics. You are not going to do rattā, rote learning. You are going to understand things.

I studied at IIT Patna and worked at Amazon. Half of you are IT people, so I teach this the way an engineering class is taught, the way a topper teaches. That is what "advanced" means here: you question everything from the basics. That is why the course is called AstroIITians.

Students come to me who have studied for a year and a half in bits and pieces, reading from here and from there, and the threads never connect in the mind. One told me that in an earlier batch she was lost: "This went into the 4th, the 7th, the 8th, this is happening, that is happening," and nothing made sense. Another had taught three batches herself, and found that with so many stories in her head she could no longer predict. So I give you a way of thinking, from the basics, so that the whole thing syncs.

You will hear me say it again and again in class. "You are not remembering anything; you are making combinations." "Do not remember predictions; remember concepts." "I will not make you a rote astrologer." When I gave a student a long reading from her lagna lord alone, I said: this was just a blank chart. Remember a sutra, not a prediction.

Remember a sutra, not a prediction.

We do not want to mug up anything. We will remember concepts. What we see from each house, that much you remember. The predictions you should never have memorised; the remembering of them happens slowly, on its own.

There is a reason memorising fails. If someone starts memorising this document, he cannot use it, because the edges are gone. When you rub something too much, its fine tuning ends: the small corners and intricate points from which the real questions are made. So do not revise like a donkey. Process, spend time, and always make new questions for yourself. In Chapter B3 I tell you how this saturation once cost me dearly in an entrance exam.

First the house, then the rashi, then the graha

How do we predict? First comes the house. Then comes the rashi. Then comes the graha. House, then rashi, then graha.

The house decides what event will happen. It is like a coordinate: whose home is this, in which part of life is it happening? Head pain is the 1st house, food is the 2nd, the home is the 4th, the stomach is the 5th, the father is the 9th, the salary is the 11th, the feet are the 12th.
The rashi tells you how the event will be. Its nature, its style, the environment in which it is taking place. A rashi carries its own guna, dharma and dosha: qualities, nature and faults.
The graha is the one who arrives in that environment. What kind of king is coming? What kind of delivery boy? Who is going to rule there? Who is the messenger who delivers the result?

Take two girls fighting: "My papa is good, your papa is not good." The event is in the 9th house of both. One has Mesha there, so her father always has to start something new, wants to do many things in one day and keeps giving instructions. The other has Simha there, so her father is authoritative and always balanced. How each father talks, moves and deals with people comes from that house and its rashi. I have not looked at a single graha.

So first we learn the houses. Planets come much later.

The weight: 40, 40, 20

In my method, 40 percent of a prediction comes from the house, 40 percent from the rashi, and 20 percent from the graha. This is why I say: never start with the planet.

And I will tell you honestly where the major predictions come from: from the rashi. The houses are the basics, and basics you must know. So in my classes I go fast through the houses and very slow through the rashis. The main thing I have to teach you is the rashi, not the house.

A rashi is an environment, a graha is a character

A rashi is never a person. A rashi is a place, an environment: it tells you how the event will be, its flavour and its setting. A graha is the character who arrives there: what kind of king, what kind of delivery boy, what kind of messenger.

Think of one box. Sometimes we paint it red, sometimes brown. The box is the house. The colour is the rashi. The rashis are different forms of currency, each with its own energy: India has the rupee, America the dollar, Japan the yen.

There is always a flavour of the rashi and a flavour of the graha, and a good reading tastes both. Let me show you with two students in one class, both with Tula in the 2nd house, the house of speech, family and wealth.

Tula with Brihaspati in the 2nd

She will always talk gyan, wisdom, about the relationship: "As husband and wife, you need to understand how to behave with each other, how to talk to each other." She gives the husband guilt about moral values: "If you promised you would come home at 7, why are you coming at 8:30?" "You promised to get this next month; now you have to do it."

She will also take gyan about saving and finance from her husband, because with Jupiter in Tula the husband is also the guru. And Jupiter writes long: her notes will be big paragraphs in story form, like a granth. She laughed and said her notes from that day were already five or six pages. She confirmed the relationship gyan: "Yes, it should be time-bound." One point missed: when I said the husband had taught her half of what she knows, PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, she said no, she knew those already. Fine.

See what happened. The same rashi gave both of them the relationship. The graha decided what each one does with it.

A graha and its own rashi

A graha and the rashi it owns carry the same energy. When I teach the Sun in the 4th house, I tell you that the results work for both: either Surya Narayana sits in the 4th, or Simha, the number 5, is written in the 4th. Either way, the person wants authority at home and keeps giving orders to everyone there.

And the theme grows with company. The more grahas there are with the Sun in that 4th house, Mars, Venus, whoever it is, the more such a person keeps giving orders all the time.

When a house is empty

What if a house has no graha? Then there is a rashi there. Make the prediction from the rashi.

The effect comes, but in a smaller measure. The grahas are the delivery agents of results. Without a graha the environment exists, but there is no one to deliver the goods in a big way. When a graha is there, it adds its own character on top.

You can also take the lord of the rashi in that empty house and see where he has gone. I tell my students this in the 6th house: if the 6th is empty, take the lord of the rashi that is there. Do not be troubled; slowly I will tell you these things.

When a student asked about an empty 1st house, I said: there is no problem. The graha will go somewhere or other, and we will look at it there.

Two empty houses, read from the rashi alone

A student asked what happens if no graha sits in the lagna. I asked which lagna it was: Kanya. With Kanya on the lagna, the person always picks out small mistakes and corrects them. "Look, you are messing up here. This can be refined a bit. These four things you are doing, refine them; see which is working and which is not, and sideline what is not." Next: "Keep the room clean, keep the house clean, keep the body clean. Everything has its time, babu: breakfast in the morning, lunch at lunch, dinner at dinner. Learn to live like a human being." Always by rule, by SOP, a set of procedures. The student said, "Right, sir."

Another student had Simha in the 2nd and no graha there. This person speaks straightforwardly: "Look, what I say, I do. I like only people who do what they say. I do not like people who work behind the back."

How the condition of a graha changes its result

A graha brings its own nature wherever it sits. A student asked me which number has to be written with the Sun for the Sun's results in the 1st. Whatever number is written there, whatever the rashi, whether the Sun stands at 0 degrees or at any other degree: if the Sun is on the lagna and is not peedit, afflicted, you will see the Sun's results. These are the lakshan, the signs, of the Suryavanshi.

But the condition of the graha bends those results. Learn these few rules now; the details come in each house.

Debilitation turns the strength into a problem. The Sun gives independence: "We are enough in ourselves. We don't need you." In Tula, where the Sun is debilitated and Shukra rules, the same Sun says: "Come along with us." He works after asking. He is still a manager, but dependent on the partner; he needs a partner, he needs guidance, he cannot do it by himself, he doubts himself, and others get their work done through him. This is what debilitation does.
Exaltation refines it. Shani exalted in Tula will lie, but to save the relationship. Put the same Shani in Mesha and he lies in a hurry.
A vakri graha works very, very hard. Whenever a graha is retrograde, it pushes its themes much harder. Shukra vakri in the 9th loves decorating the temple and offering perfume to the deities even more.
Guru harms the house he sits in. Wherever Guru sits, he causes sthana-hani, harm to that house. He makes you very big there, and he teaches you many things through experience, struggle and sorrow. Yet he is still good, because he never lets your moral values fall.
An enemy graha spoils even a well-placed lord. When the lagna lord sits in the lagna in good condition, bodily health stays good, because he is in his own house. If an inimical graha joins him there, health trouble starts.
Some results need more than the placement. You will find Shukra on the lagna and no money: God gave only beautiful eyes and nothing else. I will teach you why later. For now learn the basic quality first.

How to combine two grahas

A student asked me in class: "Two planets in the same house: how do we understand this scenario?" It is a good question. Sometimes there will be two grahas, sometimes three.

Whenever there are two grahas, blend the two and take out a 50 to 60 percent result from each. This one's result will come, that one's result will also come, and the result comes as a mix of both. When you work this way, you will have no difficulty.

Suppose you ask what Mangala and Shukra will do together in the 4th house. Then you need a partner who loves you very strongly. Then look at the rashi there, and at the lord of that rashi. Its characteristics will also match those of the 4th house.

You have already seen many blends in my first round through the houses. Read them again as blends:

Shani with Shukra in the 3rd: Shani alone gives sad songs, Shukra gives romance, so together the person listens to romantic sad songs.
Ketu with Shukra, Ketu with Rahu, or Rahu with Shukra in the 3rd: the wife or girlfriend left, and now only heartbreak songs.
Mangala with Rahu: in the 7th, a very violent husband. In the 3rd, a younger sibling who was killed or never born.
Mangala with Ketu: the person donated land.
Budha with Shani in the 7th: it will not make the husband gay, but it gives sexual problems, and it can give tendencies.
Budha with Shani in the 10th: a chartered accountant.
Chandra with some graha in the 3rd: when he speaks, people go mad to listen.

And see how two grahas blend in speech. Budha alone gives full expressions: "You know what he was doing?" Shukra alone speaks softly. Budha and Shukra together say: "Can you please do this one?"

You are not remembering. You are making combinations.

First one graha, then the mix

In the practice sessions I keep stopping students who jump straight into the mix. Shukra and Budha sat together in Tula in the 8th, and a student kept bringing Budha in. I told him: leave Mercury for now. First handle one planet. Why are you going for a threesome? First satisfy one partner. Read Shukra fully in that house and that rashi; then mix in Budha and see what the second graha adds. With Budha added there, a third party enters the story.

Then layer it. Ask which houses each graha rules. With Tula in the 8th, Shukra is the lord of the 3rd and the 8th. The 3rd is any money or medal you gained through what you did, and Tula is marriage, so after marriage the person leaves the skills he used to practise: they go into loss, into the 8th. Budha there is the 4th lord, so the relationship gets spoiled because of the mother. It will not all come to you at once. Give two predictions, three, four, five: a little at a time.

See how one graha balances another, and how each takes a role in the blend. Mars, Venus and Saturn in the 7th: Saturn alone would delay the marriage, but Mars counterbalances it. When a student asked whether Saturn would make the husband mature early, I said no: Mars stays with Saturn, so it gets balanced. Mars and Saturn together make an engineer. Mars is the vehicle, Saturn is the road, and on it he carries Venus, the money, so the husband earns heaps.

It works like chemistry. In chemistry you ask what compound will form: a plus b gives ab; it can give a2b, a3b. You have to make it. Grahas combine the same way, and you build the result from the base.

And use what you have been given. When three grahas sit in the 7th, open the book: what have I written for Mars in the 7th? What for Venus? What for Saturn? Quote each one, then blend them. You do not realise how much I struggled when I was doing my own assignments. You have this in your hands. The full readings from these practice sessions are in Chapter B13.

The grahas through their stories

You know the twelve houses and the twelve rashis. Then come the nine grahas: first Surya Narayana, the Sun, then Chandra, Budha, Shukra, Mangala, Brihaspati, Shani, Rahu and Ketu. To understand them, you have to understand their svarupa, their true form. And their svarupa is their prakatya: how each of them appeared and was born. I teach you from the basics, the way an IIT student is taught, so you question everything back to its origin. The stories are where the grahas come from. Use the story.

Budha's birth. Chandra had a union with Mother Tara, the wife of Devaguru Brihaspati, and Budha was born from it, an illegitimate child. So if someone asks, "Is an illegitimate child born? Is this my son or not?", whose involvement is it? Budha's. And in the lineage, it is Chandra who commits that mistake.

So with Chandra in the 2nd, the house of the lineage, someone in the vansh produced an illegitimate child, with a brother's wife or a maternal uncle's wife, and varna-sankara entered the lineage. Brihaspati was the one who was wronged, so Jupiter in the 2nd says it happened to someone of this lineage. Budha in the 2nd says an illegitimate child was born in the lineage.

Surya's heat. When the Sun was born, his mother Aditi found him very hot. All the mothers took turns holding him, half an hour, forty-five minutes each. So when the Sun dominates the 1st house, the person is hot: hard to bear, hard to live with, because of the Sun's heat.

The dynasties. The kings of the Suryavansha had many wives, so the Sun in the 7th can give multiple relations: we come from lineages, and they carry their qualities. Chandra had twenty-seven wives, so the Moon in the 7th can give many partners. Brihaspati was attracted to his brother's wife and destroyed the embryo, so Jupiter in the 7th can bring entanglements inside the family's own relations.

I am not predicting yet. I am showing you that we always use the story. The Navagraha Purana carries the accounts of all the grahas, and I recommend it to my students. Planets come much later in my method, but when they come, they come with their stories.

Reading anyone in the chart: the rotation of the axis

This is the second great tool. Whenever the question is about another person or a derived subject, make the relevant house the temporary lagna and count from there.

If I want to see your father's chart, I make the 9th house the lagna. I keep the 9th at the centre and read everything from it. This is called the rotation of the axis.

Suppose you tell me your father wants to buy property. Your father is the 9th house. His property is the 4th from his lagna: count the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th. So your father's property is your 12th house.

Suppose someone tells me, "My bua, my father's sister, is troubling me a lot." Where will I look? Either at Budha, or at the 6th house: where is Budha creating problems?

Your younger sibling's married life is bad? The younger sibling is the 3rd, and his marriage is the 7th from there, which is your 9th.

Now one house, three readings. The 7th house is your spouse. It is also the 4th from the 4th, your mother's inner values and her emotional happiness. It is the 11th from the 9th, your father's income and his fulfilled or unfulfilled desires. And it is the 10th from the 10th, which is why a broken sexual life can pull a career down. That is the beauty of the rotation.

You can call it bhavat bhavam or whatever name you like. I will not throw names at you. I will lift you straight from the basics.

Who and what sits in which house

Here is every relative and derived matter I use in class, with the counting that puts it there. Learn the logic, not the table: whoever it is, make that house the first, and then count.

Person or matter	Your house	Counted as
You: body, personality, head	1st	the lagna
Family lineage, household, your speech	2nd
Your father's faults: his disease, debt and enemies	2nd	6th from the 9th
Your mother's desires	2nd	11th from the 4th
Your grandfather's karma	2nd	10th from the 5th
Younger siblings, neighbours	3rd
Mother, home, the mother's karma	4th
Children	5th
Grandfather (father's father)	5th	9th from the 9th
Mother's family, her face, speech and wealth	5th	2nd from the 4th
Maternal uncle (mama), father's sister (bua)	6th, and Budha
Your father's karma	6th	10th from the 9th
Grandfather's family: the father's siblings and kin	6th	2nd from the 5th
Spouse, business partner	7th
Mother's moral values, inner core and happiness	7th	4th from the 4th
Father's income and desires	7th	11th from the 9th
In-laws, the spouse's family	8th	2nd from the 7th
Father's bedroom, sleep and dreams	8th	12th from the 9th
Mother's fantasy	8th	5th from the 4th
Father, guru, acharya, boss	9th
Younger sibling's married life	9th	7th from the 3rd
Mother's death, disease and debts	9th	6th from the 4th
Children's education	9th	5th from the 5th
Father's financial condition, father's family	10th	2nd from the 9th
Mother-in-law	10th	4th from the 7th
Elder sibling	11th
Chacha, the father's brother; the father's subconscious	11th	3rd from the 9th
Mother's hidden matters and unfulfilled desires	11th	8th from the 4th
Grandfather's business or married life	11th	7th from the 5th
Spouse's disease, debt and enemies	12th	6th from the 7th
Father's property, happiness and peace	12th	4th from the 9th
Mother's fortune, mother's guru, nana (maternal grandfather)	12th	9th from the 4th

The lagna lord: the king of the chart

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

To find him, read the number written in the 1st house. That number is the rashi, and the owner of that rashi is the lagna lord. Suppose 8 is written in the 1st: that is Vrischika, a Vrischika ascendant, and its lord is Mangala.

Rashi	Lord
1 Mesha	Mangala
2 Vrishabha	Shukra
3 Mithuna	Budha
4 Karka	Chandra
5 Simha	Surya Narayana
6 Kanya	Budha
7 Tula	Shukra
8 Vrischika	Mangala, and Ketu; mainly Ketu
9 Dhanu	Brihaspati
10 Makara	Shani
11 Kumbha	Shani, and Rahu; mainly Rahu
12 Mina	Brihaspati

Vrischika has two adhipati, ruling lords. Most books write only Mangala; add Ketu in your notebook. Kumbha too is ruled by two, Shani and Rahu, and mainly we consider Rahu. When you are starting, take Mangala for Vrischika and Shani for Kumbha, and add the second lord as you grow.

The personality development manager

The lagna is personality, so its owner is the personality development manager. If we hijack this manager and do not let him grow, can the person grow? No.

Wherever the lagna lord goes, there he puts most of his energy. He gives that house importance, and that is where the person stays most engaged. There the person solves the most important problems of his life, and on that house he depends to build himself.

Lagna lord in	The person depends on
1st	Himself alone: "We are on our own"
2nd	The family
3rd	Younger siblings, neighbours, the surroundings; he gets his work done through them
4th	The mother
5th	Society, school
6th	The workplace; the maternal uncle
7th	The partner
8th	The in-laws
9th	The father
10th	His own career
11th	Elder siblings, his own groups
12th	Bhagwan bharose: in God's hands

The king on his own seat

When the lagna lord sits in the lagna, the person says: "We are our own government. We need neither the BJP nor the Congress." He is not dependent on his father or his mother, only on himself.

Such a person has to take care of his own body himself. He has to take his own responsibility. He can help others, but others will not be able to help him as much, and he cannot work jointly with others. He is self-centred in this sense: very mindful of his personality, his health and his izzat, his honour. Personality development happens on its own. If the lord is in good condition there, his bodily health also stays good; if an inimical graha joins him, health trouble starts.

Three students, three kings

I made those readings from a blank chart. You could make whole YouTube lectures from this one sutra. That is how they create hype: "For whom are you working?" "For whom did you do everything, only for him to turn out unfaithful?" "Who is your last hope?" Look where the lagna lord goes, because he is the king.

Chapter B1 takes the 1st house in full: what each lagna rashi needs to stay alive, and every graha on the throne.

The throne: a graha sitting in the 1st

The 1st house is a takht, a simhasan: the throne. It is the most important place in the chart, because the whole chart is controlled from here.

So a graha physically sitting in the 1st house, whichever rashi it rules, imprints strong physical and psychological traits on the person. The graha that sits on the lagna has sat on the throne.

Why does it bring those particular traits? Because each graha comes from its own loka, its own world, and carries that world's qualities. The Sun comes from Surya-loka, so the Sun on the lagna gives the traits of the Suryavanshis. The Sun on the lagna controls the nine grahas, so will he not control others?

"My husband is very controlling; always I, I, I, and ego." Look at the husband's lagna: Simha, or the Sun, or some portion of the Sun.
"My husband is very authoritative; he doesn't let me talk to anyone": the Sun.
"My husband is very good; he manages a thousand people in his office; he looks after the entire state": the Sun's quality. The Sun must be very prominent to drive a thousand people.
"This guruji is very good; a thousand followers listen to him daily in a hall": Jupiter on the lagna.
"A thousand-crore man; whomever he touches becomes a billionaire": Venus on the lagna.

Mangala on the throne makes a senapati, a commander. Chandra there makes a Chandravanshi, moody and quick to take offence. Every graha on the throne has its full portrait in Chapter B1.

When you read these portraits, feel them. Do not read them the way a classroom reads a textbook aloud. I give you that capsule so that you use it when you predict.

A visitor brings only what he has

Now a different case: not a graha sitting in the 1st for its own sake, but the lord of another house sitting in the 1st. When we visit someone's house, we take only what we have. So a house lord sitting on the lagna brings the contents of his own house to your body and personality.

Lord sitting in the 1st	What it brings to the lagna
2nd lord	Money, money, money; family, family, family
3rd lord	Medals, medals, medals; recognition: "Did my name come in the newspaper or not?"
4th lord	Home, home; and the mother's hold on him
5th lord	Education, education, education
6th lord	Disease, debt and enemies (roga, rina, shatru): it makes the lagna ill
7th lord	Relationship and partnership on the mind
8th lord	Fear and insecurity; people suppress him and call him dabbu, timid; it also gives molestation
9th lord	Very long-term thinking; the father's influence
10th lord	Career, career, career, career

Do not remember the predictions; 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

See how far one concept goes. With the 7th lord in the lagna, you will always talk about relationship, partnership, the spouse. People say: "Whose ghost rides his mind? Relationship! Partnership! 'Come, let's partner with him, it will work; alone it won't.'"

And the partner comes and tells you how to dress: "Wear this. You don't look good like this. Why do you always wear black? Wear some pink, something colourful." Which graha is that 7th lord? It shows in the words.

A Budha 7th lord: "Why do you wear clothes like a child? Be stylish. You are a man. You go out in red, yellow and green like a child. Be like a man."
A Mangala 7th lord will not say that. He will say: "Get ready like an office commander and go."
The 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. Wear this."
The 4th lord in the lagna: a student guessed "he talks of emotions". No: the mother says, "What do you keep buying? Come with me, I'll buy for you." The mother's role dominates the lagna. If you want to catch this person, tell his mummy. As the papa says, "If mummy says it, he'll do it; if mummy feeds him, he'll eat." The 4th house has its hold on his 2nd house and on his Moon.

Source and sink: the cloud kitchen and the delivery address

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 delivery address, where it arrives. This is the difference between the source and the sink.

The lagna works the same way. It is the throne: the lagna lord fills things from there and gives them to the house where he has gone.

Where will you find your life partner?

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

7th lord in the 9th: the girl was found in a temple; or papa searched and brought her; or the guru introduced them.
7th lord in the 6th: the wife gives her energy to the workplace.
7th lord in the 10th: the workplace again.
7th lord in the 11th: to whom does the wife give things? To her circle of close friends. So you must ask whether there is an extramarital affair or not.

Before marriage, and after

This will confuse you. You will not sleep at night, and I am not joking. Listen to it two or three times to get the depth, because I am teaching you two concepts together.

A student said: "The 7th lord in the 8th means the spouse leans towards their own family; the 8th lord in the 7th means the spouse has an occult interest and keeps secrets." Partially correct. Here is the rule.

Before marriage, see whose lord has come into the 7th. That tells you where the partner will come from. With the 8th lord in the 7th, the partner arrives carrying the 8th house. With the 12th lord in the 7th, the partner comes from a foreign land.
After marriage, see where the 7th lord goes. That is where the marriage delivers its results. With the 7th lord in the 8th, as soon as the marriage happens the package leaves and goes to the 8th, and the in-laws become heavy. With the 7th lord in the 12th, after marriage the resources go into the 12th house.

This is why, when I look for marriage, I read the 7th lord for what happens after the marriage: gains or losses, a career made, a promotion, a new house, living apart from the family, or a marriage that happens and breaks. Chapter B7 gives you the four things I look at for marriage.

Damage travels along the route

Now take two placements that look alike and are not.

The 10th lord in the 7th. "He never listens to me. He always listens to my mother-in-law, to his boss." The source is the 10th and the delivery goes to the 7th. Because of the boss, there are problems in the married life: if the career goes bad, the married life goes bad.

The 7th lord in the 10th. There is a fight with the wife, and the profession starts going bad. Why? The source, the power station, was damaged. Cut the power in the 7th, the relationship is in trouble, husband and wife are not having sex, the sexual life is bad, and the career and the workplace go bad.

A student restated it beautifully: "If the emotional balance with the partner is not right, the workplace environment will be bad, because the source from which the energy is derived is damaged." Very nice. These are the subtle things: this is how derivation happens.

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

The rashi in a house gives you the lagna

You know the forward rule from Chapter A3: write the rising rashi in the 1st and count up, and you have the rashi of every house. Now turn it round. Tell me the rashi in any one house, and I can tell you the lagna. If Mesha, number 1, is in the 10th house, then 4 is in the lagna: a Karka lagna.

This is why, in the house chapters, I keep speaking of the ascendant directly. When I teach Kanya in the 2nd, I am also teaching the Simha lagna, because every Simha lagna has Kanya in the 2nd. Count back from the house to the 1st:

Rashi sits in the	Lagna is
2nd	1 rashi back
3rd	2 rashis back
4th	3 rashis back
5th	4 rashis back
6th	5 rashis back
7th	the opposite rashi
8th	5 rashis forward
9th	4 rashis forward
10th	3 rashis forward
11th	2 rashis forward
12th	1 rashi forward

Here is how I use it in class, house by house:

Rashi and house	Lagna	What I said about that lagna
Mesha in the 2nd	Mina	Responsible from an early age; they start giving tuitions
Kanya in the 2nd	Simha	A king's instruction: "Mantri-ji, you have to see to this." When people with a Simha lagna get their salary, the EMI and everything is already fixed
Tula in the 2nd	Kanya	Very good at managing the family: who should get how much, who deserves how much
Vrischika in the 2nd	Tula	"You cannot imagine what these people always do to me." Their biggest problem is with the father
Dhanu in the 2nd	Vrischika	Talks a great deal in private, with dharma and scripture behind it
Makara in the 2nd	Dhanu	Cannot use anyone else's things, so buys and collects everything for his own home
Kumbha in the 2nd	Makara	Three or four SIM cards, and friends and groups turned into family
Mina in the 2nd	Kumbha	Respects the consultation and can carry very strong sadhana
Karka in the 3rd	Vrishabha	Many of them in the navy: the mind wants to collect, and the navy runs from a storehouse on the water
Mesha in the 10th	Karka	The first in the whole family to do that work
Vrishabha in the 10th	Simha	The treasurer: there is power in their pen and their signature
Mithuna in the 10th	Kanya	Coders, analysts, radio FM
Karka in the 10th	Tula	Dealing with the common public
Simha in the 10th	Vrischika	The chair, and fame through research
Mesha in the 12th	Vrishabha	Never gives up; rises from the ashes

You can combine this with the rotation. A Kanya lagna has Makara in the 5th, the child. The child's 2nd, his money, is your 6th, which holds Kumbha. So the child says: "Papa, money will come. Why do you always take tension?"

Why I teach the twelve houses before the rashis

I go fast through the houses and slowly through the rashis, and I want you to know why.

It is from the rashis that we make predictions; that is why I make you memorise the twelve of them from the first day. But a rashi always sits in a house. When I say "Mesha in the 5th, Mesha in the 7th, Mesha in the 8th", you must already know what we see from the 5th, the 7th and the 8th. And when I place the grahas, you should not get worried. So I first give you an idea of all twelve houses. That is why Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam is the first part of the course.

After the houses comes practice on charts, and after the practice come the twelve rashis. When I teach the rashis, I teach very slowly and calmly. Do not get worried then.

As the houses develop, I keep introducing the rashis along the way. Nobody should get depressed that there is too much content. I give you extra points now so that when you revise after a month or two, you will say, "Ah, he taught this there." Take the houses like a crash course: fast, but cut to cut. Then the practice will be fun.

What we leave out for now

Somebody always asks me: "Sir, what about aspects, and nakshatras? How much percentage do they carry?" In this book we take nothing from them. We are dealing with only the first 40 to 50 percent of prediction, and we will not mix.

When the time comes, we will learn aspects clearly: how the 4th aspect works, how the 7th aspect works, how pada drishti, dvipada and chatushpada drishti work, how a 75 percent aspect works. We will take that up when we go into the predictive part with the rashis. Retrograde grahas and aspects come later too. First study properly what I am teaching.

A student once noticed that I used the barsati nala, the monsoon drain, and asked me about Lal Kitab, because that image is a Lal Kitab concept. Yes, it is mixed in here and there. It is a valid book, and I do use it. But it is a thick book and its remedies are very heavy, so we will use it in a simple way.

And understand one more thing: it is not only the grahas that aspect. The rashis also aspect, and that is more important. The rashi aspects I replace with the padas of Jaimini. I am a Vedic plus Jaimini astrologer, and Jaimini will be used very heavily as we go forward.

A few more tools appear in this book only so that you know they exist. Sthana bala, positional strength, tells you, for example, what kind of family a person belongs to and whether money, land and everything else will come to him; note it in your diary, and I will teach you how to read it. And a few divisional charts, the D3, D7, D9 and D10, are mentioned where I use them, but they are taught later.

Practical astrology: predict, do not judge

I will not teach you astrology like a mahatma. I teach practical astrology. There is a difference between astrology and the Bhagavad Gita. We learn astrology so that we can deal with the practical things of life: the job, marriage, the love life, the partner, the sexual life and sexual compatibility, and today the questions of gender too, male, female, LGBTQ. All of this is seen in the kundali.

The kundali is not only for spiritual life. It is for the personality, for your life, for wealth: for knowing which way to go, how to come out of a problem, and when things will improve. So when I discuss something like the sexual partner a person aspires to, and you wonder why it is being discussed, understand that it is part of the learning. Until you can tell a client, "You aspire to this kind of partner; you like this kind of people," you cannot do matchmaking. That is why there are so many divorces. Under family pressure the person does get married, but one partner's sexual life is very low and the other's very high. Or the person likes someone older than himself, and the marriage happens with someone of the same age. There the compatibility does not sit. When people come to you for consultations, these will be their questions.

A reader predicts; a reader does not judge. If a chart shows an affair, you do not say "he is a bad man." You say what you see. What is wrong is wrong, and what is right is right. Keep your own bias outside the room. I tell you clearly: some people are good despite having had many affairs. You cannot directly say that an affair means he cannot be a sadhaka. These are different urges, different vegas. Some people's libido is high, some low. You will understand this slowly.

No bias: the 8th extracts, the 9th judges

There should be no bias. What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right, but right and wrong should not be your parameters. You are there to predict the chart. You have been given the work of prediction, not of judgement. Judgement is the 9th house. The 8th house is about secrets, so you bring the secrets out without judging.

It is like extracting oil from inside the ground. The 8th house extracts the data, and it extracts it from the chart, not from the client. The refining happens in the 9th house. There you can tell him: "Please do not do all this. This has this implication, that has that implication. This is the remedy. It should not be done like this." That is a 9th-house thing.

Say something that only this chart says

And be specific. The word "aggressive" says nothing, because every relationship has aggression. What kind of aggression? From which graha? How does it show up? In a consultation you give short, exact, one-by-one predictions, not a flood of words.

The same goes for every word that fits everyone. "He will be comfortable": what is comfortable? Everyone is comfortable. That prediction is nothing. "The partner will be good-looking": everyone is good-looking; tell me the characteristics. "A little quarrelsome, a little angry": quarrels happen in every relationship, and every man slowly turns to stone, because maya beats the emotions out of him. Tell me something different.

A point that is true of most people cannot even be validated. A student told me that Shukra in the 8th shows intercourse during the pregnancy. But seventy to eighty percent of couples have sex during pregnancy. How will you validate that? It became a useless point.

When you sit with a client, match his rhythm, taal se taal. Learn how he thinks and how he talks, and speak to him in that rhythm. If I unmute one student after another, I can talk like each of them.

And remember for whom all this is. Prediction is not for me to do; it is for you. That is why we learn. Everyone should have the knowledge of jyotish: at the very least, enough to read his own chart himself.

A sutra for your own grahas

Never spoil two grahas: Devaguru Brihaspati and Shani. They react very slowly, so once you have messed things up with them, correcting it becomes very tough.

How do we spoil Jupiter? When we do not give money to the person whose money it is. Whosever money it is, give it to them. What you have promised by a date, give by that date. And of the money you earn, always give some portion to Bhagavan, because you are earning it through bhagya. People who do wrong outside the moral compass spoil their Guru, and many curses come from that. There are curses of Shukra too; those I will show you when I discuss the rashis with you.

And as an astrologer: if Guru is bent on killing in a client's chart, just say "Hare Krishna" to the client and step away. Otherwise you will spoil a lot of your own grahas in the process.

Reading a chart cut to cut

When the twelve houses are done, we practise them on charts. Before you practise, take these rules.

Predict on a blank chart

Do not set tricky questions so that the client tells you everything, and then predict that same thing back to him. That happens: we ask exactly the question that makes him tell all, and after getting it out of him we say, "Yes, yes, this shows like this in the 3rd house." Not like that. Go to the blank chart, make the prediction, and see how much accuracy you are getting. You predict, and then the client confirms.

And predict clear-cut, down to the year.

When you predict like that, you see for yourself: "This is the actual prediction I am making. Here this much is wrong, and here this much is right."

A sniper, not a philosopher

You do not have to become a philosopher. You have to become a sniper.

Become a philosopher in the 9th house: take a little Gita class, and become one then. During a consultation, be cut to cut in prediction. Theory is needed sometimes, and you should learn it that way too, because some people will come to you just to talk. But when you teach, teach exactly the same way: cut to cut, without telling stories.

Logic, not intuition

A student began, "I have seen that whoever has Ketu in the 5th house..." I stopped her. You don't have to "see". Use your brain. Do not use your intuition. Do not use your experience. Use the logic.

This is actual astrology. You do not use intuition and you do not use guesswork. You understand it, you feel it, you deliver it. You see the house, the rashi and the graha, and you predict cut to cut. Whether it is going right or wrong, you think it through and put it in your prediction. That's it.

Then it will never be: "Today is Monday, so the prediction won't come. Today is Tuesday, so it won't come." You are not relying on your intuition. The way you solve questions in mathematics, the way you solve numericals in physics, I will make you solve charts the same way. Question everything from the base.

Walk the list of the house

Every house I teach in two parts. First comes what we see from that house: the list. Then come the grahas in that house, applied to your charts. Read a chart the same way. Take the list of what we see from the house, one signification at a time, and give khat-khat predictions, one, two, three.

With the Moon and Ketu in the 5th, I made a student walk the list: relationships, creativity, education, mantra siddhi, punya karma, chair and position, the grandfather. When I ask about chair and position, tell me chair and position. When she drifted into "it will become spiritual later on", I said: leave that for now; stay on this. With Mars, Venus and Saturn in the 7th, I told a newer student: first take marriage only. Leave everything else.

Keep the book and a notebook beside you while you practise. You have the Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam book: open the house, look at its list, and derive. That is why the material was given to you. If you do not use it, you will be drained.

The D1 is a two-hour chart

Right now we are only on the D1, and from the D1 alone not much is known. The D1 is a two-hour chart: everyone born within those two hours gets the same rashi chart (Chapter A1). In two hours, how many children will be born autistic? But with the two-hour chart you will at least throw your hands and legs about: you will make an attempt. Where you finally have to go is the divisional charts.

The culture around a chart

The same combination plays out differently in different places. In the charts of one community I have seen Mercury in the 7th and extramarital affairs, and still the relationship goes on. The wife knows, the husband knows, that the other is involved with someone or likes someone, and they laugh it off as a joke, because that is the culture there. There is a fragment of Mercury and Mars in it. Things are different. We will understand these dynamics slowly, as we grow in prediction.

How you should study

One rule that all of you must follow: every day, when you wake up, give the first fifteen minutes to jyotish. Keep the book beside your bed. Read it in the washroom if you have to. Read wherever you get time. Fifteen minutes of jyotish, every morning. Come to the extra classes and the Q&A sessions, and always practise.

Make notes, at least of this first part. Print the material on one side and keep the other side blank, and bind it with a big spiral so that it folds back easily and you can write your own points beside the text. Keep a blank page behind each chapter and space at the end. Refer to it a lot, especially the predictions part, and write your own realisations and your own predictions in it. From here your work increases. My work is that of a guide.

Listen to each lecture two or three times; the depth opens up only then. And do not get scared. If something bounces over your head today, do not worry. In one batch, two or three students went into depression at the end, thinking, "I cannot do jyotish, it is not for me." That is not the right way. If you can predict even 20 percent right now, that is a very good achievement, because this is a long course and we go a little fast.

I want dedicated students, who can run like a horse, who have given themselves to jyotish and are ready to make sacrifices for it, because the syllabus is large. I teach by grilling you, because this is AstroIITians, but I grill you so that you learn. And I give you small bits of extra content along the way to keep it interesting. If I call on you by name in class, do not mind. I have to hold the class, as a teacher does in school, or I cannot teach. It is never disrespect.

Do not look for shortcuts. The guru always gives us instructions, and the more we follow them, the more our life goes up. But sometimes we like Rahu more than Jupiter. Rahu says: "Learn jyotish in three hours. Complete jyotish in three hours." That is not possible. It is like a science, and you have to give it time. Jupiter says: "It will take two years. It will take four years." Because Jupiter builds the foundation.

Practise questions, like an engineer

When I teach you, you will very quickly stop understanding unless you practise. This is what happens in the IIT batches: as the water level rises, half the people start dragging themselves towards the back bench. If you do not want that to happen to you, quietly practise questions.

Question practice means: pick up a chart and start predicting. Rahu in the 1st house: predict. Rahu in the 7th house: predict. Ketu in the 4th house: predict. Go round the twelve houses and take three or four predictions from each. Twelve times four is forty-eight: make 48 to 50 predictions. Your assignment will be done, and you will understand it too.

You have to practise blank charts daily: Tula in the 7th house, Tula in the 4th, Tula in the 3rd. Draw your chart by hand, and beside it write the predictions for all twelve houses. Prediction grows slowly; it gets fine-tuned. But you will have to make the effort, and then you will become a very good astrologer.

Test every sutra on real charts. When I give you a sutra, apply it to the charts you have. If you have 101 charts at home, look at those charts and confirm it. Pick up five charts, ten charts, and you will see that the divorces you predict are not happening everywhere. Then you understand how the dynamics are actually set.

Do the assignments properly, and do not copy, not even mine. The energy keeps draining as you go: one student made 212 predictions on her first two charts, then the number kept falling to fifteen, and she was stuck on the third chart for ten days. Do it slowly. Sit, sit and do it. It will come only by doing the assignments. A full assignment is like a research paper: one of mine takes seventeen or eighteen hours, because I write it and fine-tune it. Chapter B13 shows you how one is built.

And I am not that sincere myself. When I teach, I teach very fast. When I study, I study slowly, at leisure: half an hour, then I get distracted, then ten minutes of Instagram, then I study again. I need time to process. That is why I build my lectures slowly, and why I never used to teach live: I always recorded my classes, so that it did not matter if I wandered off a little or got up to drink water.

Why the work feels light

A student told me that after office she joins the class and four hours simply pass, while she cannot sit that long with technical study. There is a reason. The Gita explains that what has a soul is not jada, inert matter. What we study in material subjects is jada, and its nature is very different from yours, so you do not enjoy it. What we study here has atma, consciousness, in it, and you are a living being too, so you are able to connect.

You can use a coffee machine, but you cannot love it. Spiritual knowledge is conscious: it can embrace you, and you can embrace it.

Why I grill you

It is very easy to judge someone: "He does not get it." "Sir did not teach well." Fine, say I did not teach well. But when you do it yourself, your condition becomes bad, because when you do not practise, nothing will happen from you. So be humble, and practise.

I do not want praise from you: "Very good teacher, this, that." I do not want to make you a khoji astrologer, the kind who digs the facts out of the client. I will beat you very hard, because I know how deep in the water I really am. I get beaten very hard myself when my friends from IIT take predictions from me.

Scaring you is my job, because the client will do exactly this to you. I will not put lollipops in front of you. The scenarios that come in front of me are the ones I put in front of you: the client will say, "How has my married life been?", and you will have to predict exactly that. When pressure comes and you have thirty minutes to read a chart cut to cut, you have to see it exactly like this. The older students give cut-to-cut predictions because they are being trained this way. You are under training. If I do not chop you into shape, you will come out of here as donkeys.

Do not become insecure

You must not become insecure. I have seen this problem with many of my students: two or three in the last batch were doing well, then said, "Sir, I am fed up with you," and ended up in courses where they learnt nothing. Go slowly. Do not get upset. Stay on the ship, and slowly you will reach that level.

Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprashnena sevaya, upadekshyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva-darshinah. Go to the guru; ask him questions, with humility and service; those who have seen the thing will show it to you too.

So do not overthink: "It is not happening for me; I am hopeless." Everyone is like that at the start. Every time the correction comes: "Here you left out the 4th house; here you left out this." It has to become inbuilt. Many people stop submitting assignments because after three or four attempts they get frustrated. Start predicting. Keep hammering, and you will reach there. Many joined just for fun, and in the beginning I used to read their charts for them. Now they are good astrologers, making great predictions in their own consultations.

We should keep this inside us: we have to learn. We do not have to prove that we are very good. We are donkeys only, and we know it, because maya is very powerful. Slowly we sync our energy.

Your diet while you are learning

While I am teaching you, shift your diet.

Eat very simple food, like khichdi, or anything simple that you can digest easily.
Increase your fibre, like cucumber with two or three things mixed in.
Increase the quality of Jupiter: sweets and fruits, the mango and guava of the season.
Keep 90 percent of your diet uncooked and normal, and become 90 percent plant-based, for as long as you are learning.
Eat something in the breaks of a class so that you do not get drained. Drink ORS in between if you like, so that nutrients are not flushed out.
Do not overeat. Stay light and keep the gut clean.
Do the Muladhara chakra exercises I have given you in the morning, and do deep breathing.

Remember

Rule One: derive every prediction from the basics. Remember sutras, not predictions.
House first, rashi second, graha third, weighed 40, 40 and 20. The major predictions come from the rashi.
A rashi is an environment; a graha is a character, and a graha and its own rashi carry the same energy. An empty house is read from its rashi, in smaller measure, or through the lord of that rashi.
Debilitation turns a graha's strength into a problem; a vakri graha works harder; Guru harms the house he sits in.
Two grahas together: read one first, then blend them, 50 to 60 percent of each.
Predict on a blank chart, cut to cut, with logic and no bias: a sniper, not a philosopher. The client confirms afterwards.
Rotate the axis: make any person's house the lagna and count.
The lagna lord is the king and the personality development manager; where he goes, you pour your energy.
A lord brings the contents of his own house. The house he owns is the cloud kitchen; the house he sits in is the delivery address.
The rashi in any house tells you the lagna. Houses first, then practice, then the rashis, slowly.

Check yourself

1. What is the order of prediction in this method?

2. In the 40-40-20 weighting, which gets 20 percent?

3. Where do you read your father's property?

4. How do you test your reading of a client's chart?

5. The 7th house is empty. What do you do?

6. The lagna lord sits in the 7th. What is the person's life built around?

7. The 6th lord sits in the lagna. What does it bring?

8. A client's career is collapsing and his 7th lord sits in the 10th. What do you ask first?

9. Before marriage, where does the partner come from?

10. Mesha is written in the 10th house. What is the lagna?

11. Two grahas sit together in a house. How do you read them?

12. What replaces the aspects of rashis in this method, later in the course?