Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam

Part B · The Twelve Houses · House 9

The Ninth House

Bhagya Bhava · the navam bhava of Devaguru Brihaspati

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The 9th house shows how much fortune and divine support you receive, what kind of father, gurus and bosses you get, and how high you can rise. It never lets you settle: whatever graha sits here pushes you out of your comfort zone, and as the 6th from the 4th and the 5th from the 5th it also holds your mother's troubles and your children's education.

In one minute

  • Fortune: bhagya, divine support, and the blessings of your guru, of Bhagavan and of the deities you worship.
  • Guides: the father, the guru, the acharya and the boss: what kind you will get and how they shape you.
  • Height: your long-term goals, how big your vision is, how high you can rise, higher studies, long journeys and pilgrimage.
  • Discomfort: whatever graha sits here makes you uncomfortable, and the dasha of the 9th is never a comfortable one.
  • Counted from others: the 6th from the 4th (your mother's debts, diseases and problems) and the 5th from the 5th (your children's education).

Quick facts

Natural sign
Dhanu (9), ruled by Devaguru Brihaspati
From the 4th
6th: the mother's debts, diseases and problems
From the 5th
5th: the children's education
For the father
his lagna: read him from here
Its dasha
never comfortable; it builds character
Key words
bhagya, guru, pita, dharma, yatra, higher studies

What the 9th house shows

The 9th house is our bhagya, our fortune, and fortune is something every person needs. How long a journey we can make, how big our goals can be, how big our vision can be: the 9th house shows all of this.

It is the house of fortune, of the gurus, of the father and of the higher purpose. It represents the highest ideals of your life, your moral compass, and how much luck you have.

So this is the chapter where we see the blessings of the guru in the chart. Here is everything we read from the 9th house.

  • Bhagya. How fortunate you are: the level of luck and divine support you receive in this lifetime. Whenever we have to see fortune, we see it from the 9th house.
  • The blessings of the guru, Bhagavan and the deities. The spiritual protection and guidance you receive from higher powers, from your spiritual masters, and from the deities who are your vigraha, the deity forms you worship.
  • The father, the guru, the acharya and the boss. The nature, teachings and influence of your father and your spiritual guides. It tells you what kind of bosses, what kind of teachers and what kind of spiritual guides you will get.
  • Long-term goals and higher vision. How big your goals are, how far ahead you can think, and your capacity to dream long-term. How big a vision a person can carry forward, we see from here.
  • How high you can go. How far up you can rise in life. That is why the 9th also shows higher studies: universities, degrees, the PhD and all deep philosophical study. The PhD we see from the 8th house too, because in the 8th you actually do the research.
  • Long-distance journeys. The long yatra: foreign travel, long trips, shifting from one city to another, and pilgrimage, to Vaidyanath, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Vrindavan, Mathura.
  • The discomfort zone. It breaks your peace of mind; it challenges your everyday peace. It puts such problems in front of you that you cannot settle into whatever comfort you are building, and it pushes you towards higher goals and spiritual realisation.
  • Guidelines for moral principles. The rule book of your life, given to you broadly (mota-mota): wake up early, eat after bathing, eat sattvic bhojan (pure food), respect elders, go to the temple, do yoga daily, make a timetable. "This and this you have to do." The 9th is the house of boundaries.
  • Your temple. The 9th house is your temple. How you serve it, protect it, or clash with it shows here.
  • Theory and philosophy. Logic runs in the 5th house and in the 10th; the 9th is the house of theory, the house of philosophy.
  • Your mother's debts, diseases and problems. The 9th is the 6th from the 4th, so it shows your mother's rog, rin, shatru (diseases, debts, enemies) and her troubles.
  • Your children's education. The 9th is the 5th from the 5th, so it shows how much your children will study and the path their education takes.
  • The thighs. For every graha in this house I also read the thighs.

Fortune always comes from the 9th house. Karma is assigned from the 10th house.

Why it is called the house of bhagya

The navam bhava is called the house of bhagya because it is ruled by Devaguru Brihaspati. And whichever grahas sit here have a very great impact on your guidelines and your moral values.

In the whole kundli, if someone's 9th house is very good, that person gets a lot of support from fortune. That is why understanding the 9th house, and living life according to the 9th house, matters so much.

What makes it very good? Good grahas sitting there, sattvic grahas, and the lord of the 9th sitting in the lagna or in a kendra. That is a very good yoga.

What does Guru always think about? He thinks beyond birth and death. So of all the grahas in the chart, he is actually the biggest elephant: the projection he sets, he sets very big. That is why his house shows how big you can think, how far ahead you can think, and how high you can go.

Mare Krishna rakhe ke, rakhe Krishna mare ke

Mare Krishna rakhe ke, rakhe Krishna mare ke. If Bhagavan Sri Krishna is bent on killing someone, who can save him? And if Bhagavan is bent on saving someone, who can kill him?

That is why we always stay sharanagata, surrendered to Bhagavan. The power and the guidance we receive in the 9th house come from the higher power, from specific deities, and from our gurus.

A sutra: never spoil Brihaspati and Shani

I will give you a sutra: never spoil two grahas, Devaguru Brihaspati and Shani. Why? Because they react very slowly. If you have messed things up with them, correcting them becomes very tough.

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

People who do wrong here and there, things that are not within the moral compass, spoil their Guru, and then things go wrong for them. There are many curses of this kind. Shukra has curses too; we will see those when I teach the rashis. For now hold one point: we never spoil Jupiter and Saturn.

How do we spoil Jupiter? 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.

Rahu's shortcut and Jupiter's foundation

The guru always gives us instructions. If we follow the instructions, our life goes up, and the more we follow them, the higher it goes.

But sometimes we like Rahu; we do not like Jupiter. Rahu says: "Learn jyotish in three hours. Complete jyotish in three hours." That is not possible. Jyotish is like a science; you have to give it your time. And Jupiter says: "It will take two years. It will take four years." Because Jupiter builds the foundation.

Sometimes we like Rahu; we do not like Jupiter. But Jupiter builds the foundation.

The house that will not let you rest

Whichever graha sits in the 9th will make you uncomfortable. It gives your mother's diseases and problems, it lays down your moral principles, and alongside fortune, the guru's blessings, the father, long-term goals, higher studies and the long journey, it shows you the discomfort zone. Why? Because the 9th always inspires you to move forward. That is why it is such an important house.

So whenever the dasha of the 9th house runs, the person is pulled out of the comfort zone. The dasha of the 9th house is never a comfortable one. It is always building your ribs, your character. It tries to make you stand up.

Guidelines, not rules

The 9th house gives you moral guidelines: wake up early, eat sattvic food, respect elders, attend the temple. These are guidelines. They are not rules.

There is a difference between Jupiter and Saturn. With Jupiter you have free will. You express, you breathe. That is why deep breathing is associated with the 9th house and with Jupiter: how openly you breathe.

Counting the 9th from other houses

The 6th from the 4th: your mother's troubles

The 4th house is your mother, and the 6th from any house is its rog, rin, shatru: disease, debt and enemies. So the 9th, being the 6th from the 4th, shows your mother's diseases, debts and problems. Whatever a graha gives in the 6th house, it gives to your mother from your 9th.

It works for her strength too. A graha that destroys enemies in the 6th makes the mother strong against hers. You will see this with Mangala and Ketu below, and with Surya, who makes her a very good problem solver.

The 5th from the 5th: your children's education

The 5th house is your children, and the 5th from it is their education. So the 9th shows how much your children will study, how fast they learn, and where breaks or troubles come into their studies.

The father's lagna

The 9th house is your father's lagna. Whatever graha sits in your 9th has sat on the father's lagna. So take everything you learnt about that graha in the 1st house and apply it to the 9th: to your father, or your guru.

To read the father, make the 9th the lagna and keep it at the centre. This is the rotation of the axis. If your father wants to buy property, for example, look at the 4th from the 9th, which is your 12th.

The lord of the 9th

We take to someone's house what we have: a lord carries his own house's matters wherever he goes, and wherever the lagna lord goes, the person puts most of his energy. These are the placements touching the 9th that I have given you so far.

Placement What it gives
9th lord in the lagna or in a kendra A very good yoga, especially with good, sattvic grahas in the 9th
9th lord in the lagna The person thinks very long-term. He dresses like a professor or a guru, and the father says: "What do you wear? Come, I will buy you clothes. Wear this."
Lagna lord in the 9th The person depends on the father, and puts his energy there
7th lord in the 9th The spouse is found in a temple, or the father searches and brings her, or the guru introduces her

The rashi in the 9th

The rashi sets the environment of the house; the graha is the character who delivers. So even with no graha in the 9th, its rashi colours your father: how he talks, how he moves, how he interacts.

Two girls are fighting: "My papa is good; yours is not." Which house is this? The 9th house of both of them. One has Mesha in the 9th and the other has Simha, and so their fathers are completely different people.

Rashi Lagna In one line
Mesha Simha A father who starts many new things in a day and keeps giving instructions
Simha Dhanu An authoritative, always balanced father; education at the best centres
Kumbha Mithuna Deva dosha by default, and the fight with the father over property

Mesha in the 9th

Simha lagna · a father who starts everything at once

  • The father is always starting new things, many things in a single day, and he keeps giving instructions.
  • When a person is very egoistic and fanatic about his religion, look for Mesha in the 9th, for example Brihaspati sitting in Mesha in the 9th.

Simha in the 9th

Dhanu lagna · an authoritative, balanced father

  • The father is authoritative and always balanced.
  • Simha is Surya's rashi. Even when only the Sun's rashi is in the 9th, without the Sun himself, the person takes his education from very good centres, and his name and fame spread everywhere.

Kumbha in the 9th

Mithuna lagna · deva dosha by default

Kumbha is ruled by two, Shani and Rahu, and mainly we consider Rahu. And Rahu in the 9th is deva dosha (see Rahu below). So when I taught Rahu in the 9th, a student asked: "Then by default, Mithuna ascendants would have deva dosha?"

Yes. And whom do they fight with most? Their own father. If people with a Mithuna lagna won't fight over property, who will?

The grahas in the 9th house

The graha placed in the 9th house dictates your relationship with your gurus and your father, your religious inclination, and how your fortune manifests.

For every graha I go through the same list, so that you can compare them: your fortune, your belief and the blessings you receive; your father, guru and boss; your long-term goals; your morality and the stand you take for higher goals; your long journeys; your thighs; your children's education; your mother's debts, diseases and problems; how the graha destroys your comfort zone; and how it makes you leave home for higher knowledge. I take the grahas in the order I teach them in class.

Mangala

The senapati who protects the temple

Mangala is the senapati, the commander-in-chief, the karaka of command. Mangala has no dharma of its own. Mangala has only one dharma: to protect.

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • He brings the kshatriya quality: the person is always ready (tatpar) to fight a war, always ready to pick up the shastra (weapon).
  • Mangala is the karaka of logic, so he wants to understand the dharmashastra (the scriptures of dharma) through logic. That gives trouble here, because logic runs in the 5th and the 10th, while the 9th is the house of theory and philosophy.
  • Whenever Mangala's logic runs into dharma, the person wants a practical religion: protecting the country, building suvyavastha (good order) in society, making sure that everyone gets security and everyone gets anna (food).
  • Practicality is what someone is doing at the border. He is serving the country, protecting the social order, feeding people, protecting cows. All these works belong to Mangala in the 9th.
  • For the temple, he protects it, because the 9th house is your temple.
  • His aradhya, his main deities: Bajrangbali (Hanuman ji), Narasimha Bhagavan and Kartikeya ji.
  • He is also attached to Bhagavan Rama, Maryada Purushottam, and to Bhagavan Shiva. Rama comes along with Hanuman ji anyway, and Shiva comes along with Kartikeya, so I include them; it is always inclusive. But the first three are his main deities.

Father, guru and boss

  • The father is very strict, authoritative and aggressive, and he speaks little.
  • You find the same nature in the guru, and in the boss as well. All the big gurus you get will be strict and authoritative, and will talk less.
  • A lot of responsibility is carried: either you take on much of the father's responsibility, or the father takes on much of yours. The father and the gurus take heavy responsibility.

Long-term goals

  • He makes an IPS officer. He takes you into defence or the police, gets you medals, makes you a running athlete.
  • The long-term goals lie in raksha, protection.
  • He wants a managerial or command position, so that he can put everything in good order (suvyavasthit), whether it is a temple or anywhere else.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • For Mangala, morality and higher achievement are one and the same: that good order remains in society and everyone keeps getting food. So his goals are practical.

Long journeys

  • To places where the heat is high: Dubai and the Middle East.
  • Many times I have seen it take people to Delhi and Haryana.
  • Journeys for defence and police work.

The thighs

  • Very good thighs, with little flesh, the way a horse's thighs are.

The children's education

  • Very fast learners, of kushagra buddhi (sharp intellect). They are logical, and they study well and very quickly.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • This is the 6th from the mother, so Mangala gives her the problems the 6th house gives: blood-related issues, pain in the physical body, and many times stomach trouble or problems in the urinary tract. Her pitta (bodily heat) runs high. Pay attention to these things.
  • In the 6th house Mangala also destroys enemies, so the mother is very brave. Mummy can even give you a chamaat (slap) if you do something wrong. It is a very powerful combination.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • Always make goals. Mangala always needs a clear goal, a practical goal, so set clear goals.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • For higher knowledge and wisdom, for a job, for defence, you may have to leave home.

Shukra

The artist who adorns the deity

Shukra is a very elegant graha. In the 9th he is devoted to the aesthetic side of religion.

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • He gives devotion, and shringar (adornment). Decorating and adorning (sajna-sanvarna) are very much liked: decorating the temple, cleaning the temple, dressing the deities, doing the shringar.
  • Deity worship is very much liked: doing the seva (service) of the vigraha. This is the Pancharatra vidhi, the Pancharatra method of worship: decorating the temple, dressing the deities, singing bhajans, offering perfumes and food, serving Bhagavan completely, the way Maa Lakshmi, Srimati Radharani, Rukmini or Gauri serve.
  • Feeding (bhojan karana) is very much liked. It is the combination of Maa Lakshmi: we cook food and offer it to Bhagavan.
  • Shukra also represents perfumes. The person likes applying perfume, and offering fine food and perfume, and donating shringar to the deities.
  • Bhajan: singing, dancing, and doing stuti (hymns of praise) of Bhagavan.
  • He serves the guru by feeding him, giving him clothes, cleaning, and serving his vigrahas.
  • If Shukra is vakri (retrograde), all of this increases a great deal. Whenever any graha is vakri, it works very, very hard.

Father, guru and boss

  • The first thing you see in the father, very prominently: a beautiful face, with a glow (chamak) on it.
  • He speaks very calmly and softly.
  • Wherever Shukra is, there is luxury. If Shukra is well placed, the father enjoys a luxurious, clean and well-dressed lifestyle. He likes perfume a lot and likes cleanliness very much, and he is fond of designer clothes.
  • He uses very few things, and only selective ones.
  • He holds a higher position, and he is very skilled.
  • In the guru you see the same. The aura of the guru is very beautiful; his tej (radiance) attracts you. Just as some people's faces shine a great deal, and when a face shines like that we are drawn to it: that is what Shukra in the 9th gives you.
  • The gurus are highly charismatic and very skilled, very well trained in the Pancharatra vidhi and in mantra sadhana.
  • Shukra is the karaka of refinement, so whatever gives an absolutely clean solution is 9th-house Shukra. The guru gives you a very refined, very particular, pin-pointed skill set.

Long-term goals

  • His long-term goal goes towards material prosperity. Fortune is tied to material prosperity and the arts, and Shukra in the 9th makes the fortune good.
  • If Shukra is in Meena, then besides material prosperity he makes the person a singer, a dancer or an artist: he gives things related to kala (art).
  • In his long-term goals the person wants to reach a higher position.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • He needs the grace of the female deities, the Mothers: Ma Lakshmi, Srimati Radharani, Mata Gauri. As one viewer wrote in the comments, they are worshippers of the Devi. From there the person receives a very great deal.

Long journeys

  • In business class, or in highly comfortable settings: in AC, in good vehicles, to a big, far-off city.

The thighs

  • Attractive. There is no problem here, because Shukra gives good things.

The children's education

  • Very wise, and quite good in extracurricular activities.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • Her problems are related to Shukra. Shukra in the 6th, if afflicted, gives diarrhoea and kidney stones, and the mother may face water retention and digestive trouble.
  • So take care that she drinks water properly.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • For a higher position, the wife always inspires you to rise in life. Perform yajna together with your dharmapatni, and you will receive a great deal: unnati (progress) comes into life.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • Generally it gives foreign travel, and regular travel for business or for a job.

Shani

Fortune after toil, and a name that outlives death

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • Bhagyoday, the rising of fortune, comes only after a very great deal of parishram (toil), very late in life, and with a lot of delay.
  • The person moves forward by his own labour, and then many vighna (obstacles) come. That is why Shani in the navam bhava, in anyone's chart, creates a great many problems.
  • He believes in extreme hard work and in traditional, orthodox practice. Their rules and regulations stay exactly as they are; they never change.
  • He often works for the upliftment of the poor and the common people.

Go into the Vaishnava sampradayas, into the Sri sampradaya, the sampradaya of Ramanujacharya or the sampradaya of Madhvacharya, and you will see that they still follow very strong, traditional, orthodox practices. Go to Udupi and see how they do their Gayatri and how they keep their rules and regulations. If you go to Udupi, visit the birthplace of Madhvacharya; there is a very beautiful pond behind it, and many places to see. Go at five o'clock, and behind the Udupi Krishna temple, at the lake, you will see many people doing sandhya vandana. That is Shani in the 9th: very traditional, very orthodox, and they never change.

Father, guru and boss

  • The father is extremely hard-working.
  • He delays everything, and a lot of problems come from that.
  • He resists change. Whatever change you make, he will not like it: "Why are you making changes again and again?"
  • He is traditional, rudhivadi (orthodox), and holds to tradition.
  • Wherever Shani sits there are dhansi hui aankhen, sunken eyes; and the hair is prominent and thick.
  • The 9th house is the father's lagna, and Shani has sat on it. So the father shows all the qualities of a Shani lagna: he resists change, he is hard-working, he generally does not want to come out into the public, and he needs validation. Take everything you learnt about Shani in the 1st house and apply it here, to the father or the guru.
  • The guru, and the boss, make you do a great deal of hard work and a great deal of sadhana. The guru comes from a very humble background and emphasises intense sadhana. He is sadhana-siddha: he has perfected (siddh) his sadhana.

Long-term goals

  • The goal runs from life until death: "My name should remain even after I die." He aims to leave a legacy that outlasts his death.
  • Very parishrami (hard-working). He likes to collect things and to gather things together.
  • He dislikes change, and he actually enjoys exactly this kind of life. He goes into the kind of industry that is very strict and very heavy.

Long journeys

  • Regular long journeys related to work.
  • Journeys for preaching. If he wants to carry the message of the Bhagavad Gita to everyone, he works for the jan-sadharan, the common people. He does his work for the poor.

The children's education

  • The children do not listen, and become good in studies only slowly; in childhood they are not good.
  • The father creates a great amount of pressure: "You have to get through. Tie yourselves to the clock."

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • What Shani gives in the 6th: gas-related problems, indigestion, joint pain, and pain in the bones. Basically, a vata disorder.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • He makes the person a workaholic. He does not let him rest, and makes him work very, very hard.

Brihaspati

A father with the Midas touch

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • Highly moral. He cannot cheat others.
  • He has a deep understanding of the scriptures.
  • He deeply respects wise, sattvic and fair-minded gurus.
  • It is a highly auspicious placement: here fortune and the blessings of the guru always come.

Father, guru and boss

  • The father is very noble, a blessed person. Whomever he touches, he makes gold: he has a Midas touch, and blesses whatever he touches. Even if he has nothing himself, through his blessing a great many things get done.
  • The father is well known, and the head of the family.
  • There is a good amount of fat in his body, good fat.
  • He has knowledge of dharma, gyan (spiritual knowledge) and the Puranas. He is wise and takes stable decisions.

Long-term goals

  • Guru has a very big vision.
  • The gurus he likes are well known, like the famous guru of a big spiritual foundation whom people are eager to hear. Very sattvik; excellent in the art of speaking; one who keeps everyone prasanna (happy); one who always does nyaya (justice). You see all these qualities in the father too.
  • The person acts as a guide or a counsellor.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • He cannot cheat. He can never betray anyone. On moral grounds the person is very good.

Long journeys

  • Air travel.
  • Long journeys that involve diplomatic and ministerial work. Jupiter here can actually make a minister, an official head.

The thighs

  • Very prominent and fat. No doubt.

The children's education

  • Very wise and fast learners. They learn things very quickly.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • Liver issues.
  • A problem of happiness: she struggles with inner happiness and is not able to stay happy. It gives this trouble because it sits in her 6th.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • Your authorities, your gurus and your acharyas will always inspire you to take up even more seva (service).

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • Higher knowledge, and higher degrees. It is a very good combination for the chart.

Understand this point: Guru in the 9th house is not given to everybody. People who get a 9th-house Jupiter are actually blessed, because there, if you act properly, you get a great deal of support from bhagya. Especially if he is exalted.

A student asked: "Sir, retrograde Jupiter in the 9th house, please."

Whenever any graha becomes vakri (retrograde), you have a lot of difficulty in trusting. So with a retrograde Jupiter in the 9th there will be a lot of difficulty in trusting. That is the one problem. Otherwise the graha is very good: it will not give you trouble, and apart from trust you will see it give very good results.

Budha

The seeker who will not sit in one place

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • New ideas of religion always come to his mind. He always wants to bring something new into dharma.
  • He reads three or four religions, reads extensively across faiths, and listens to gurus, counsellors, everyone. He loves to read a lot of books.
  • Great debating skills; he loves debating religious concepts. Analytically he is sound. He can reason (tark) very well, and he can frame niyam (rules) very well.
  • He loves experience. He believes in what you can experience and understand, because Budha's work is to work on data points. So he tries new things, brings new things, mixes two or three things, and then tries to understand them in depth.
  • He always changes the procedures and challenges the procedures, because Budha always wants some change or other. Budha is like a child.
  • For this he gets abused by the pauranik, rudhivadi people, the old-school and orthodox. He does not get along with them; you will always see a clash or a debate. Ask him whether a person becomes a Brahmin by birth or by karma, and the debate starts right there.
  • So he gets thrown out of the group. The religious people say: "This is a man who has gone astray. He goes off everywhere."
  • Budha constantly hops from one place to another, and the 9th house is where you build a base. So Budha here needs Surya's support, so that he can stay in one place and learn properly and completely.

Father, guru and boss

  • Humorous, of a joking nature. They love doing stuti (singing praises).
  • Very knowledgeable. A chatterbox who loves to talk, and an expert speaker.
  • A very good middleman: transport, counselling, consultation, business consulting.
  • It makes the baniya (merchant) combination: quite good in business, business-minded.
  • They look very young.
  • You see these qualities in the father, in the guru and in the boss.

Long-term goals

  • "I should learn everything." He wants a master's degree and higher education.
  • Multiple things, multiple disciplines: he wants to make them all his own.
  • He always wants to come first, in anything at all, and to run very fast. Budha is the prince, so he is always ready to become the king: "Even if I go into higher education, or do anything at all, I should come first in it." So it gives a highly competitive nature.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • He always asks questions. He is helping by nature, but he makes money out of other people's problems. He sees money even in the temple.

Long journeys

  • Business travel, travel for his own work, long yatras, travelling the country.
  • Frequent travel for competitive exams.

The thighs

  • He loves walking very much.

The children's education

  • Very skilled. Whenever Budha is in the 5th house, the children are very good at reading and writing.
  • There is a Brahmin quality: very, very wise, very skilled at studies. They have a strong ratta memory (memory by rote); things get memorised very quickly.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • For the mother, Budha in her 6th is actually a good combination, generally a good placement.
  • With malefics it can give her skin issues.
  • It can make her manipulative; many times she manipulates things.
  • Many times it makes her dependent on her brother. She always praises her brothers and her sasural paksh (her in-laws' side) a great deal.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • You will always keep running after your competitors.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • Budha represents competitive exams. When the person prepares for the IAS, the IPS or a bank exam, he has to leave home. He goes to another city and starts living there.

Chandra

Goes to learn meditation, comes back with something else

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • Devotees of Bhagavan Shiva, of Sri Krishna, and of Mata Gauri.
  • They like meditation and listening to bhajans. They like the bansuri (flute) very much, and listening to ragas.
  • In dharma they like organising a bhandara (a community feast), feeding people, and kirtan that everyone can enjoy. The Moon will always do the work of feeding people, if it is well placed.
  • They have difficulty following rules, and struggle with strict ones.
  • When Chandra went to Devaguru Brihaspati, Chandra was very, very good, because he is the son of Atri. But the problem with a 9th-house guru and a 9th-house Moon is this: he goes to learn meditation and comes back having learnt something else. His love affair starts right there, in the 9th house. That is why the Moon in the 9th is a difficult combination.
  • Fortune is tied to peace and comfort.
  • Fame and limelight. Whatever work he does related to art, or to a hobby, brings him fame. He writes shayari (poetry).
  • From the 9th the Moon aspects the 3rd house, and whenever the Moon aspects anything, it gives fame. Understand this point and remember it.

Father, guru and boss

  • The father has the characteristics of a Chandravanshi, one of the Moon's dynasty.
  • The father always receives a curse, a curse from women. The women who live in the house are the very ones who keep casting nazar (the evil eye) on him.
  • His health fluctuates. He is moody, and a highly emotional person.
  • He is not strict. He goes by the mother; he runs according to her and follows her lead.
  • He loves resting a lot; he is comfort-loving.
  • The Moon gives travel, so he travels regularly too. And he loves listening to songs.
  • The father never corrects the child. It is the combination where the father sits down beside the son and pours him a drink. So the sons, or whoever's chart it is, generally turn out spoilt. You will see that after a time the father stops saying anything at all. He gives no correction.

Long-term goals

  • Luxury, peace and comfort. To attain exactly these, the person works very hard.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • There will be a lot of blame game.

Long journeys

  • The sea and the ocean, and deep-sea diving: he likes going into the ocean, into the sea.
  • Late-night drives, and journeys for the darshan of Kailash.
  • He doesn't need a plan. Whenever he feels like travelling, he picks up his bag, books a ticket and off he goes. He says: "We will buy all the clothes and things during the journey itself. No problem."

The thighs

  • The thighs are okay.

The children's education

  • Breaks come in the children's education. The house keeps changing, or a transfer comes, and so a gap comes into their studies.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • The women in the family, the mother included, face frequent health fluctuations and are highly prone to the evil eye, because this is the mother's 6th house.
  • The mother always stays troubled.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • He is always thinking of others.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • The career it gives is the medical field, music, and everything related to herbs and medicine. If the person works in such a field, he gets good glory in higher education.

Surya

The commander of the temple

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • Surya is the karaka of getting up every day and working hard.
  • He becomes the commander of the temple: very responsible about temple duties. Whoever I have seen with the Sun in the 9th does a great deal of seva in the temple.
  • A devotee of Bhagavan Rama. But it is not necessary that he worships only Rama.
  • He listens to everyone, because here the king has gone into the 9th.
  • He follows strict rules, yama and niyama, and he is very strict in yajna too. Look at the followers of Shankaracharya and you will find the Sun in their 9th house, because they do a lot of Gayatri japa.

Father, guru and boss

  • Your father, your guru and your boss are all very famous, all in very high positions. Your guru too is famous, and a great many people know him.
  • They do everything on time, and they always give very clear instructions about what is to be done.
  • They think very big and do things on a grand scale. The father will talk very big.
  • All of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana and samadhi are explained very well here by Surya Narayan.
  • The father speaks little. Generally you will see that the father does not have hair.
  • The father holds a position for one part of his life. What happens after that is that the father falls from the position, and after the fall it goes down and down, absolutely down. Gradually he either deteriorates in health very fast, or goes into debt very fast. This is actually also a curse on the father in the 9th house; I will teach it to you later.

Long-term goals

  • Surya always inspires you to prepare to become a king: in whatever organisation you go into, to reach its very top level. Surya ensures this.
  • For this the person makes a great many sacrifices, massive sacrifices for higher goals.
  • There will be a strong raj yoga, a very big raj (rule). The person thinks very big.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • The moral grounds are very good.

Long journeys

  • He travels through work and through shasan (governance). You will see this in ministers' charts, and in the charts of MLAs.

The thighs

  • The thighs are good.

The children's education

  • Very good. The children have very kushagra buddhi (sharp intellect). It is a good combination.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • The Sun in her 6th makes the mother a very good problem solver. She can solve every person's problem very well, and in situations of great pressure. It is a very good combination.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • It will not give you comfort; it takes the comfort zone away from you. It will always demand balidan (sacrifice). It will burn you, always. It gives no rest.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • A very good combination. The person studies at very good universities, and his naam and khyati (name and fame) spread everywhere.
  • Even if only the Sun's rashi is in the 9th, the person takes his education from very good centres.
  • The Sun in the 9th house is a very powerful (prabal) rajayoga. The rashi will make its difference, but still the Sun in the 9th is very digbali (directionally strong), and gives the person very good results.
  • Overall it is a very good combination, because the Sun is a very sattvic graha.

Ketu

Headless, and looking for a guru

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • His one finest art is abhas, an intuition, a sensing. He always senses things. He catches energy very easily, and instantly senses the atmosphere of a room.
  • He is always wandering: in the forest (van), in sadhana, in the tirthas (places of pilgrimage).
  • Trekking, high jumps, going to the mountains and to the mountain temples: Vaishno Devi, a Narasimha kshetra (a holy site of Narasimha). The temple that stands on a mountain, he loves going there.
  • He is drawn to deep, isolated sadhana, and his sadhana is very strong. He practises breathing exercises, or meditation, a lot; this is very good for Ketu.
  • He is very original.
  • Ketu never accepts the qualities of Shukra, so this person will not believe in marriage. He will believe in sadhana. And if Ketu is in the 7th house as well, the same problem goes with him.
  • If Ketu gets Jupiter's blessing, that is the most important thing Ketu can have in the 9th, because he is headless. He needs a head, and that head is Jupiter's. So the person always needs an authority, a guru who can actually guide him.

Father, guru and boss

  • With the father, it gives sannyas (renunciation). You meet sannyasis a lot; there is a lot of meeting and mixing with them. If the effect of Ketu is in the 9th, it makes a sannyasi.
  • The father or the guru has very little to do with the world. They are beyond the world, detached from it, and keep very little connection with it.
  • Introverts, who speak little. They become panicky. They never like meeting and mixing with people, and crowds irritate them (chidh).

Long-term goals

  • Ketu always takes the person after unique things: unique, original businesses. Whatever he does, he does in a very unique way.
  • He is detached from material outcomes.

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • Ketu is the karaka of the atma (soul). So if he is not afflicted, the person can never do wrong to anyone.

Long journeys

  • The big journeys (badi yatra) take him to the mountains, and to other countries. He gets visas easily, from one country to another, so he travels in many countries.

The thighs

  • Good; there is no problem. Ketu actually shrinks anything he touches, but here there is no problem.

The children's education

  • The children are absent-minded in class and cannot study along with everyone. They are introverts. Slowly things improve.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • Ketu sits in her 6th, so he gives her loneliness, anxiety and panic attacks.
  • In the 6th Ketu works as shatru-hanta, the slayer of enemies. Whoever speaks ill of the mother, whoever takes up enmity with her, his bad time starts automatically.

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • Anxiety and uncertainty, breaks in the career, deaths. Because of all this the person has a very great deal of trouble.
  • Highly spiritual, but he can suffer anxiety or panic attacks when forced into crowded situations.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • As I have told you, it actually gives the yoga of sannyas.

Rahu

No boundaries, in the house of boundaries

Bhagya, belief and the blessings of the guru

  • The problem with Rahu is that he always thinks in reverse (ulta).
  • He is rebellious towards traditional religion, and very rebellious towards other people's religion. He explores other religions, multiple faiths.
  • No boundaries: he is very aggressive towards other faiths and opposing beliefs.
  • Pomp and show are always there with Rahu. Whatever he likes, only that is right; everything else is wrong.
  • In the extreme case you will find all the deities sitting side by side in his house: a Christian one too, and he becomes a little Punjabi too. He says: "Whoever gets my work done, that one is my God." He looks at every deity like an agent. I have seen this, because my sister has it, and her philosophy was exactly this.
  • He becomes very famous online.
  • He is highly drawn to the occult, astrology and hidden knowledge. Rahu here is very good for the occult, for astrology, and for hidden treasures.
  • But in general it causes clashes with the temple or with authorities.

Father, guru and boss

  • With the father there is a habit of regularly taking from him.
  • There is a lot of cheating, and a lot of fraud happens around this person, fraud in spirituality too. Pay a lot of attention here. The father may face deceit, or may cheat others.
  • The father has trouble in his married life, a highly troubled married life. These traits come onto the father's lagna itself.

Long-term goals

  • Settlement in another country: "I should get out of this country."

Morality and the stand for higher goals

  • Yena kena prakarena, by any means whatsoever. "I want this. In whatever way, I want this. But I want this." He will use any means, even fraud or manipulation, to reach his higher goals.
  • The moral principle of the 9th house is that knowledge is received within a guru parampara, an unbroken line of teachers. But Rahu never follows a parampara. In the samudra manthan (the churning of the ocean) too, he went and sat among the devatas to drink the amrit (nectar). So here the person wants to take knowledge by any means, through chhal (deceit).
  • So you see leaked university papers, online frauds, books downloaded from here and there, someone's ID and password taken to get an education through it. With Rahu here, controlling this is very important.

The children's education

  • Very focused. Rahu does not give trouble in studies here. I have noticed that if Rahu is in anyone's 5th house, it gives addiction, but the person stays good at studies and brings marks.
  • The problem here is addiction: to daru (alcohol), to wine, to intoxication. With Rahu in the 9th, they must be saved from this; keep away from it.

The mother's debts, diseases and problems

  • The maternal side creates a lot of problems: the mother's brother, and the brother's wife, in the nanihal paksh (the mother's family).

Destroyer of the comfort zone

  • The aatatai, the aggressors. In earlier times it was said that if Rahu is in the 9th house of any king, he has to fight a great many wars against aggressors, and those wars are filled with deceit.
  • Rahu in the 9th also gives birth to online propaganda. These people are very good at creating it, "This is right, this is wrong", and at taking many people's support for it. Excellent at online marketing.

Leaving home for higher knowledge

  • Higher education from a foreign country, in material subjects.
  • Very good for marketing and sales, for selling anything at all, and for getting a position.
  • But if you hope that Rahu will make you follow rules, that is not how it is. Rahu gives his effect no matter what. Wherever he sits, you do not like to follow rules; you create your own.

Readings from the live class

A student with no graha in the 9th and many grahas in the 4th

The chart. There is no graha in the 9th house; it holds a rashi of Guru. The Moon's dasha is running, and Mangala's dasha is running too. Mangala is the 10th lord and sits in the 4th, joined with many grahas: Surya, Brihaspati, Budha and Mangala are together there. Tula is damaged, and Shukra sits debilitated (neech) in the 3rd house. Shani is now in the 7th, and Shani's drishti (aspect) is also coming. Rahu is in the 5th. There are many malefics in the 4th, and ego issues show in the lagna of the Navamsa as well.

What I read, in order.

  1. With no graha in the 9th, a rashi of Guru there, and the Moon's dasha running: your problem will be solved.
  2. Mangala is in the 4th, so you will have to do Mangala's sadhana regularly. Mangala's dasha is running, and he is the 10th lord: a very good time, a very good time for career.
  3. Mangala is joined with many grahas here. Give fewer orders at home. You are always getting your work done by others, and this is not a good quality. Surya, Brihaspati, Budha and Mangala together do appear in the charts of officers too. But do not keep getting your work done by others all the time.
  4. The student wrote back about what to wear and about marriage. Yes, wear anything you like. But marriage is not happening for this very reason: you are always getting your work done by others, so the Sun's energy is not right. You are making Jupiter work for you, making Mercury work, making Mars work. And look at your Tula, the rashi of marriage: it is completely damaged by ego issues. With Shani in the 7th now, whatever you wear you will have trouble anyway, because of the direction your grahas are in. Shani's drishti is also coming here.
  5. Work on yourself. You need a guru. You will get an authority position, but the problem is the ego issues. Do sadhana regularly. You will have to become a little humble, because there are many planets in the 4th house.
  6. Do your own work yourself. Whatever work you do, do it yourself, and do not give orders to others. Any household work: if water has to be fetched, fetch the water yourself. Your 4th house is very damaged; there are many grahas in it. And when many planets sit in the 4th, they also make the person lazy.
  7. You will have to do the aradhana (worship) of some female deity. Worship a female deity regularly.
  8. The chart is good; there is no problem as such. But your Tula is completely damaged, and Shukra too sits debilitated in the 3rd. Is there trouble in your marriage? Start doing stuti (hymns of praise) of Bhagavan regularly, and you will see things change. A lot of work is needed. Go into the shelter of some guru. Whatever parivartan yoga (exchange of signs) there may be, there are a great many problems, and you will have to work on them.
  9. Go to some math (monastery), or go under some guru, and do seva in the temple. Take your mother's blessings regularly, because there are many malefics in the 4th. Rahu is in the 5th too, so you will have to work on that. Because you come to class regularly, I am telling you plainly: you will have to work on the chart, and on yourself, a great deal.
  10. For now, start doing sadhana regularly, Mangala's sadhana. Recite the Hanuman Chalisa at least 11 to 21 times. The planets are all in disorder at this age, and that is why the trouble is happening.
  11. Regularly do shringar daan (the offering of adornments) to Bhagavan Rama and Mata Sita. Go to the temple and offer garlands. That is where the work will get done.
  12. This is a troubled chart. Here I see you as aggressive. I have not met you, but from the chart I can see there are problems. Look here too: there are ego issues in the lagna of the Navamsa as well, so a lot of ego shows in the chart.
  13. The student is Jain. If you do not follow Sanatana dharma, then follow whatever dharma guru (religious teacher) you have; there is no problem. Follow him, and you will see things. But you will have to work here; you need blessings.
  14. For now, go and take shelter of some saint, some mahatma, and start serving him regularly. From there you will see things.

To all of you I said the same thing that closes this reading: take the blessings of your guru, whoever your guru is. Do seva regularly, go and take diksha, and you will see improvement.

Remember

  • The 9th is bhagya: divine support and the blessings of the guru, of Bhagavan and of the deities; and the father, the guru, the acharya and the boss.
  • It shows your long-term goals, how high you can rise, higher studies, long journeys and pilgrimage.
  • Whatever graha sits here makes you uncomfortable; the dasha of the 9th is never comfortable, because it builds your character.
  • Fortune always comes from the 9th; karma is assigned from the 10th.
  • Never spoil Brihaspati and Shani: give money to whom it belongs, on the date you promised; give a portion to Bhagavan; follow the guru's instructions and give learning its years.
  • Jupiter gives guidelines with free will, not rules. Deep breathing belongs to the 9th.
  • The 9th is the 6th from the 4th (the mother's debts, diseases and problems), the 5th from the 5th (the children's education), and the father's lagna.
  • Rahu here is deva dosha: no boundaries in the house of boundaries. Ketu here needs a guru for a head. Budha here needs Surya's support to stay in one place.
  • With Jupiter in the 9th, keep your guru's photo at home to keep the 9th active.

Check yourself

1. Why do we read the mother's debts, diseases and problems from the 9th house?

2. Fortune comes from the 9th house. From which house is karma assigned?

3. Why should you never spoil Brihaspati and Shani?

4. How do we spoil Jupiter?

5. What does the dasha of the 9th house do?

6. Which kind of religion does Mangala in the 9th want?

7. Which graha in the 9th loves the Pancharatra vidhi: decorating the temple, dressing the deities, offering perfume and food?

8. Budha keeps hopping from one path to another. What does he need in the 9th?

9. What is the most important thing Ketu can get in the 9th?

10. Why is Rahu in the 9th called deva dosha?

11. With the Moon in the 9th, how does the father behave?

12. What happens to the father with the Sun in the 9th?