Preface

Welcome. I am Ujjwal Tarway, and this is the book of Dwadash Bhav Rahasyam, the secret of the twelve houses.

This book came out of my live classes. I sat with students, chart after chart, and explained each house the way I would explain it to you if you were sitting in front of me. Later we turned those lectures into this book. I have tried to keep the way I speak. If a sentence sounds like me talking, that is on purpose.

Who this book is for

Level zero. That means you may not know what a rashi is. You may not know how many houses a chart has. You may have only heard the word "kundli" at home. Good. Start at Chapter A1. By the end of Part A you will know what a chart is, what the twelve houses are, what the twelve rashis are, what the nine grahas are, and how to open a North Indian chart and read it.

If you already know the basics, you can jump to Chapter B0 and read the method. But please do not skip it. How you think matters more than what you memorise.

How I teach

I teach in one order only. House first. Then rashi. Then graha.

• The house tells you what area of life we are talking about.
• The rashi tells you the environment in which it happens.
• The graha is the character who acts in that environment.

I give 40 percent weight to the house, 40 percent to the rashi, and 20 percent to the graha. Many beginners do the opposite. They see a planet and start shouting a result. Do not do that. A planet is only the delivery boy. First find out what is being delivered, and where.

And one more thing: do not memorise predictions. Memorise concepts, such as what the 4th house shows. Predictions you can derive from the concept. If I ask you, "Ketu in the 4th, what happens?", you should not be searching your memory. You should be thinking: the 4th is home and heart and mother; Ketu cuts and detaches; so what will detach from home? Derive it. Clear?

Predict, do not judge

Your job as a reader is to see and to say what you see. It is not to decide who is good or bad. What is wrong is wrong, what is right is right. Keep your own preferences outside the reading.

A word about strong statements

In this book you will find things that are not comfortable. We talk about affairs, about sexual life, about illness, about depression, about the tendency of suicidal thinking, about epilepsy. I will not hide these from you, because a chart does not hide them. A reader who skips the uncomfortable houses is not a reader. Only dedicated students stay for these chapters, and those are the students I teach.

But please read these statements properly:

• They are tendencies shown by a chart, as I have seen them in my years of reading. They are not final judgements about any real person.
• Medical remarks are not medical advice. If a person is unwell, they need a doctor first.
• Never use a prediction to frighten or shame anyone. A good reader is a sniper, not a preacher: exact, brief, and kind.
• If you ever read about someone close to you in these pages, breathe, and remember that a tendency can be understood, handled and often softened.

How to use this book

1. Read a chapter slowly. Keep a notebook beside you.
2. Do the Check yourself questions at the end of every chapter. They are not there to trick you. They are there so that the concept sits in your head.
3. After each house, draw your own chart on a blank sheet. Write three or four predictions beside every house. That is the real exam.
4. If your first predictions are wrong, do not be disheartened. Study five to ten charts and you will see that not every chart gives a divorce. A beginner always predicts too much trouble. That corrects itself.

What this book does not do yet

To keep your mind clear, in this book I deliberately leave out some tools: aspects, nakshatras, the fine rules of the divisional charts and the timing system (dasha). They are important, and they come later. At this stage we use only about forty to fifty percent of the full method, because if you mix too many variables too early you will understand nothing. Learn the house, the rashi and the graha properly first.

Certification

This course is free to read. If you want to be examined, there is a quiz after every chapter, and later we will run quarterly batches in which I take a live viva myself. A student who passes gets a printed certificate, which I send by post. Certificates are not issued directly on this website. You may offer a voluntary sponsorship if the course has helped you, but it is never required.

Let us begin.

Ujjwal Tarway, AstroIITians