The Third House

If someone has Mesha in the 3rd house, the children around are playing thief-and-police. They are playing fighting games.

What is the 3rd house? Children, yes, and communication. In what way? Basically, how the person thinks. With Mesha in the 3rd, he thinks very fast. There is no patience in him. He wants to do things immediately.

And what can be right next door? A police station. A fire alarm system.

Take someone who works in the navy. What will always be in his environment? Water. So which lagna can he have? Number 2, Vrishabha. Then the 3rd house gets sign number 4, Karka: naturally a water sign.

So many Vrishabha lagna people can be in the navy. Why so many? Because their mind already wants to collect things. When you go into the navy, you get no food or water outside. You have to run everything from the storehouse. And the kitchen there is very big: eat whatever you like.

These are the things we have to see from the 3rd house: who are the neighbours, and what is the environment.

Driving style is also seen from the 3rd house. With Kanya in the 3rd, the person drives well, meaning thoughtfully. And he gives abuses while he drives, because with Kanya in the 3rd his mind is always making corrections: "Brother, don't you know how to drive? How did you cut in from the side?" That is the quality Kanya brings to the 3rd.

Second, he always follows the SOP, the set procedure. He feels fear on the road.

A student once asked me which graha sits in my own 3rd house. None. But my 3rd house holds Kumbha. So tell me, what is made on my gate?

When I built my house, the symbol of Kumbha was put on the gate: a lady pouring water from a pot. Kumbha is in the 3rd house, so the gate became that.

Now, Kumbha represents Rahu. So near the gate there should be a Rahu element, something very addictive or obsessive. And outside there will be a Budha-Rahu element, because the 3rd is Budha's natural house and Rahu's energy is coming into it. So there are children who play and jump about a lot. There can also be boys who have affairs, though that is more Shukra with Rahu; with Budha, the children will surely be there.

And they keep doing some khurafat (mischief) or other. The children jump into my house: sometimes to get their ball out, sometimes because they are playing hide-and-seek next door. They are always doing that, because that is the energy.

"Whatever happens, God will see. I am in God's hands. Keep doing your karma, keep singing the glories of Hari." When you hear a person speak like this, that is Mina and Brihaspati in the 3rd.

With Surya in the 3rd, the person lives among authority and thinks like a manager.

Neighbours and surroundings

• The neighbours are people with authority, people in government jobs, people who are well known. Many good people live around you.
• Surya gives the government department, so next door there can be a government quarter, a headquarters, a government building or a government school. Government officers live nearby.
• A temple can be there, because Surya represents the temple.
• There will be a garden too, because the person lives in a good, posh area.

How the mind works

• "Nine to five" is in his brain: doing everything on time, starting in the morning. His mindset is routine-oriented.
• This is a manager's brain. He can manage anything very well, and he does well in a nine-to-five job.
• Surya in the 3rd can make a manager. It can make a school principal, a teacher: the one who guides everyone, who guides children.
• In the subconscious space there is no chhal-kapat (deceit and cunning). There is dridhta (firmness) and self-confidence. He is strict and morally correct.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• He loves doing the jap (chanting) of the Gayatri mantra.
• He listens to the news regularly, and likes reading the paper.
• The thyroid gland stays in good condition. There is no problem.

Younger siblings

• They are good, and they are egoistic.
• He always gets his work done through his younger brothers and sisters: "Bring water, brother, bring me water. Give me water, then I'll do your work."

Hobbies

• Going to the temple, reading, watching the news, debate.
• "Whose government will be formed?" stays on his mind. He enjoys politics.

Reading, response and driving

• Intellectual capability is very good. With him, book reading means he does all his things on time.
• His response is good, and his driving is also good.

Teaching and writing

• He teaches very well, like a principal.
• His notes and his handwriting are very good.

Sadhana, medals and travel

• Very good in sadhana.
• He always gets medals and recognition.
• He does short travel regularly, and his self-awareness is very good.

Chandra in the 3rd brings water and peace around the home, and an emotional, moody mind inside.

Neighbours and surroundings

• The person is troubled by the neighbours. He is moody, yet he works to establish peace in society.
• Outside the house: a tap, water, a pond, peaceful spots. A place where people get happiness.
• A vaidya (traditional physician), a ration shop, a medicine shop, milk.
• You will also find a lot of restaurants around.

How the mind works

• Moody, inconsistent, no routine, bhavuk (emotional). The subconscious is highly emotional.
• He believes without seeing. He is marzi ka malik, the master of his own whim: "If my mind feels like it, I will do this."
• He believes unheard things that have no head or tail. "Someone saw your man with someone else." He accepts it and starts suspecting. In the 3rd house Chandra actually has no eyes; he is only hearing. That is why Chandra is troubled there.
• He lives in illusion. He heard from somewhere that his wife is having an affair, and does not even know from whom he heard it. That is Chandra in the 3rd, attending to rumours.
• "I fell asleep, I could not study." That is Chandra in the 3rd too.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• Very sweet singing.
• He loves listening to songs full of love: love, music, films, singing.
• The thyroid depends on his mood. That is why we advise such a person not to talk to just anyone, here and there. He talks to very few people anyway, because Chandra is choosy.

Hobbies

• He always likes hobbies, and he becomes famous for a hobby: singing, dancing, whatever he does, people know him for it.
• He can even be a shayar (poet), one who writes poetry, or an artist. He enjoys the arts, singing and romantic literature, and through them he gets fame.
• He loves flowers and garlands. In a devotee's chart, he makes beautiful garlands for God.
• Beaches, mountains, always travelling: he enjoys being on the move all the time.

Reading, response and driving

• He is not that good at book reading. But I have seen that he reads love stories and novels.
• He also enjoys reading finance, because in the 3rd house the Chandra-Budha combination comes in.
• He is fond of good cars. He drives manmauji (at his own whim), and goes for long drives at night.

Teaching and writing

• His handwriting tells you his mood. If he feels like writing, he writes; if he doesn't, he doesn't.

Sadhana, medals and travel

• He is inconsistent in sadhana, but whatever he does, he does from the heart.
• He loves to dress God, to do God's shringar (adornment), to feed God and offer bhog (food offered to the Deity), and to put garlands on God. Chandra is the queen's planet.
• He gets recognition for what he does for society. People know him.
• He loves roaming around.

Third-house Brihaspati I have seen in many people's charts, and it is very beautiful. Brihaspati in the 3rd is a good combination.

Neighbours and surroundings

• The neighbours are religious. There is a dharm sthal (religious place) nearby.
• The neighbours talk a lot, and many times, with Brihaspati, talking too much becomes the problem.
• Brihaspati represents the temple, the anathalaya (orphanage) and the bank: the Reserve Bank, the RBI, PNB, SBI. These should be nearby. An NGO can be there too. All of this is Brihaspati's work: wanting to serve society.
• Brihaspati makes banks especially when he is in Vrishabha, or in any of Shukra's rashis.
• Educational centres and schools. Many trees and plants: Brihaspati is very good there.
• An astrologer lives nearby, and priests, professors and teachers. It may be that you are living in a Brahmin community; Brihaspati does represent Brahmins. If you belong to another culture, then the saints and the people of your own religion live around you.

How the mind works

• The processing unit is good, because Brihaspati in the 3rd is processing things. But it is slow, because Brihaspati is the karaka of kapha.
• A slow processor, but highly spiritual and wise.
• He is the best salesman. He can sell anything.
• The subconscious is adhyatmik (spiritual). He loves listening to bhajans, ragas, mantras and kathas (sacred narrations). He goes to kathas regularly, and likes to hear anything connected with knowledge.
• In such a home the Bhagavatam is always playing.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• He is siddh (perfected) in mantra-japa. He does Vedic chanting beautifully.
• The thyroid brings a problem of kapha. You will see that the kapha problem stays, regularly.

Younger siblings

• Knowledgeable and lucky. The younger brother is very, very lucky for you.

Hobbies

• Intellectual: reading books.

Reading, response and driving

• Great reading skills. He reads lots of books, and he is always learning something or other.
• Very safe driving.
• In the car you will always see God, 110 percent. And when God is in the 3rd house, it becomes Mata Rani: the person keeps Mata Rani, or the image of some goddess, in the car. "Sherawali Mata ki jai!"

Teaching and writing

• He enjoys teaching, and when he becomes a teacher he explains the core concepts very well. He gives material knowledge very well: what you read in books, what you study in coaching.
• His handwriting is large, with lots of gaps. He uses capital letters in between.

Sadhana, medals and travel

• Very good in sadhana. No problem.
• Recognition comes. No problem.

The one weakness

• He makes very small goals. He has a great deal of capability inside him, but he uses very little of it.
• So such a person should try to think very big. When he thinks big, things become clear to him.

Rahu is called a royal planet, and in the royal planet's house everything is big. In the 3rd he gives a showy world outside and a hustler's mind inside.

Neighbours and surroundings

• The neighbour is chaalbaaz (a schemer), dikhawati (showy), very wealthy, and has great connections.
• You will see Muslims around. Schemers, showy people, very wealthy people, and bearded people whose beards are very heavy.
• Clubs, party halls, pubs, boards.
• Rahu also represents smoke, so you may find shops of smoke-related intoxication and alcohol around the house: a place where everyone is puffing cigarettes and drinking daaru (liquor).
• Rahu represents great luxury, and his energy represents very big buildings, so a corporate office may be near your house. The neighbourhood is wealthy, showy, near corporate hubs.

The gate and parking

• The entrance of the house is very big.
• The car parking space is very big too: they have to fit the biggest car there.

How the mind works

• He is always trying to steal, to cheat and to get others confused. Rahu does nothing in a straight way. There is obsession inside him.
• A hustler mindset, focused on quick money and on outsmarting others. Why quick money? Because the 3rd house is your way of thinking, and Rahu thinks exactly that way, like Budha with Rahu.
• In the subconscious there is always a khurapati dimaag (a mischief-making mind).
• He likes to study and to talk online. Everything should become online.
• He gets someone's papers lost, arranges forgery, tells lies and spreads false rumours.
• You will find Rahu in the 3rd of consultants, dealers and advocates. They talk a great deal.
• Rahu also gives a lot of interest in the occult.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• Rahu's energy is very intense, so here the energy has to be controlled. A hundred thoughts come into his mind.
• He is very focused on making money, and he wants it very quickly.

Younger siblings

• The younger brother or sister is very stubborn, and needs everything right now, this very moment.
• Watch for fraud: he will do something or other such that either people cheat him, or he cheats.
• There is bleeding at his birth. When this younger sibling is born, the mother goes through a great deal of pain.

Hobbies

• Gaming, satta (betting), poker, Dream 11, the lottery, and dealership.
• These are brilliant coders. Bitcoin and cyber security interest them: how to bypass any system.

Reading, response and driving

• Rahu is mayavi (a master of illusion), so the intellectual capability is very good.
• He reads like a madman. If he picks up a novel or a book, it is finished in two nights.
• He never gives a straight answer.
• He always takes unknown routes, drives without a licence, and drives a very big vehicle. He is a reckless driver.

Sadhana, medals and travel

• In medals and recognition there is a problem for him.
• His sadhana is like madness, done with great focus. Once he learns, "This sadhana I have to do," he does it a lot, khoob ragad ke (grinding at it hard).
• Self-awareness is less, because Rahu is mayavi; it takes him a little time.
• He travels a great deal: without a ticket, without a plan, at any time.

Ketu in the 3rd blocks the way in, and turns the person inward.

Neighbours and surroundings

• As neighbours you will find Christians: some Christian or other, a missionary.
• You will find parati zameen (fallow land), where no construction has happened.
• The neighbourhood feels isolated and blocked.
• A temple of Shiva, a Shivalaya, or a temple of Ganapati is nearby: "Ganpati Bappa Morya!" Old temples, and spiritual things.
• He has nothing to do with the neighbourhood, nothing to do with the people around him.

The gate and parking

• Stairs with the entrance, and a very small gate. There is difficulty in getting in.
• There is trouble with parking.

How the mind works

• He does not want to talk. He does not want to talk with anyone easily. He is an introvert.
• The pattern of the subconscious is slow. There is inner consciousness: he stays lost in himself, and has little to do with his surroundings.
• Because it is the 3rd house, his interest goes to the occult. Rahu and Ketu both keep the person interested in the occult.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• He talks with breaks: a very small part of a sentence, very few lines.
• He gets irritated easily (jhalla jaate hain). Start asking him questions, or chatter around him, and he is irritated.
• He wants to use his mind less, and this reduces his power of analysis.
• The thyroid gives hormone problems: the hormones are secreted less.

Younger siblings

• The younger sibling is confused, and later you will see him become spiritual. A very complaining attitude.
• Ketu also creates a blockage here. Many times there is no younger brother or sister at all.

Hobbies

• Listening to bhajans and stotras (hymns of praise).
• He likes raw music, in which there is hardly any music: the song is carried by the voice, or covered with only a guitar, one instrument. In class I sang a few lines of the pranam to Srimati Radharani, "tapta-kanchana gaurangi radhe vrindavaneshvari, vrishabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye", without any instrument. That is raw music.
• He likes to sit alone by himself and sing.
• Trekking and climbing mountains. You will find them in Rishikesh, on the mountains; they are regularly going on treks.

Reading, response and driving

• The intellectual capability is good.
• He always reads three books at a time.
• His response is slow, always in five words.
• He does not like driving. Most of the time he does not want to drive.

Teaching and writing

• He is good at spiritual teaching. He teaches the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavatam well.
• His writing keeps changing. He writes in code words, not in full.

Shukra in the 3rd puts you among beautiful, classy, rich people, and makes you a refined communicator. That is why this is a good combination.

Neighbours and surroundings

• The neighbour is beautiful, and luxurious.
• The person himself has an affair in the neighbourhood. With Shukra in the 3rd, the affair is in the surroundings, in the neighbourhood itself. If Shukra in the 3rd comes under the influence of Rahu, the marriage itself happens in the neighbourhood.
• There can be a temple of Maa Lakshmi, a Devi temple, nearby.
• Shukra gives you a house in the market, a place where the revenue is very good: cotton, garments and jewellery all around you, all the big stores. It gives you a good society.
• Shukra also represents Annapurna, so you will actually find restaurants near such a house.
• A park, a spa, luxurious spots. You will see beautiful, very classy, rich people around you.

How the mind works

• Very refined. He speaks only after thinking it over carefully. His communication is highly refined.
• These people are very good communicators, with a very good fashion sense. They are the first to upgrade their fashion.
• They are regularly going out and roaming about. It is a brilliant combination.
• The subconscious is good. Relationships run in the mind: he constantly thinks about aesthetics and relationships.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• It makes great singers. A friend of mine has it, and he sings very well.
• Singers, dancers, artists: it works according to whichever rashi Shukra is in, but it makes very good singers and dancers.
• The thyroid has no problem.

Younger siblings

• The younger sibling is beautiful and good-looking, with beautiful eyes. Rich, and very clean.

Hobbies

• Singing, dancing and art. You will find all of this very beautiful in them.
• He always uses perfume. He is parfume ka deewana, mad about perfume. Perfume, flowers, every kind of cosmetic: he spends a great deal of money on these, always branded and of good quality. When new brands come out, he tries them.

Reading, response and driving

• The intellectual capability is very good, and book reading is very good.
• Tantra, mantra, whatever siddhi (accomplished power) there is, all of it is with Shukracharya. So there is no difficulty here.
• The response is very good. The driving is very good, and done with perfection.

Teaching and writing

• Very good in teaching, and very professional.
• Very beautiful, very clean handwriting. He uses multiple pens.

Mangala in the 3rd is parakrami (valiant, full of daring). Mangala sitting in the 3rd is very, very heavy, and it is a very good combination.

Neighbours and surroundings

• Around the house there are guards: police, army, fire fighters. The neighbourhood is near security or police quarters.
• If Mangala's component is in the 3rd, there is some restricted area nearby, or the army.
• He may live in a private area that always has guards around it, a place where you have to make an entry to go inside.
• He seldom lives in an independent house. He always lives with a lot of people.

How the mind works

• A very fast thinker. A highly technical, fast-processing brain.
• Because the technical brain is so good, he can work with groups and teams. He is the captain: all the qualities of the captains you see, Captain America and the rest, are in him.
• You will see Mangala in the 3rd of motivational speakers, badminton players, cricketers, and in every sport you watch.
• He is sarcastic. He will make fun of you, and he will do it with sarcasm. He can be aggressive.

Body, voice and thyroid

• Very, very good in sports. The metabolism is very good, the dole-shole (biceps and muscles) are good.
• A pitta body, a fiery constitution, very fast. He is very brave.
• The thyroid gland is very active. That is why he has a thin body and a high metabolism.
• He sings heavy, like a Punjabi singer.

Younger siblings

• Aggressive. You will always find the younger brother aggressive, and abusive in nature too: he swears a lot (gaali deta hai).
• The person whose chart you are reading will also swear. The nature stays abusive.

Hobbies

• Sports and swimming.
• Khatron ke khiladi: daredevil stunts. That is the 3rd house.

Reading, response and driving

• The intellectual capability is very good.
• Give him a book and he finishes it in a flash (phat se). Book reading is very fast.
• The response is very fast.
• He enjoys fast driving.

Teaching and writing

• Teaching skills are very good. He can become a maths teacher, and he can teach maths and engineering easily.
• His writing speed is very fast.

Medals and career

• If such a person goes into the army, he gets a very good position there. He gets a very good position in sport, a good position in the police, in the BSF.
• In all these people you will see Mangala very prominent in the 3rd house, and especially in the D3 also.

Shani in the 3rd brings old, cluttered surroundings, delay, and a mind that resists change. But he gives hands that work like magic.

Neighbours and surroundings

• You will see kabaad (junk, scrap), the scrap industry, a factory. The neighbourhood is industrial, older and cluttered.
• A lot of old people around. Rubbish, kooda-karkat. Chawls and poor people.
• An old city, an old mohalla (locality), or an old road.
• A broken house next door. Cloth, steel or tin sheets put up.
• Either you are abusing the neighbours, or the neighbour is abusing you.

The gate

• A lot of steel and rubbish at the entrance of the house. What that does to your opportunities and your paperwork, and how to remove Shani from there, is in "Opportunity enters through the gate" above.

How the mind works

• He does not want to change. He restricts change.
• He is always finding fault.
• Wherever Shani is, there either you abuse or you get abused. His communication is harsh at times.
• In the subconscious space, he does not want to learn. He has to be taught with a lot of beating (maar maar ke). Ask about his childhood, and you will hear that the mother beat him a lot: "You won't go to school? You won't go to school? We will send you anyway!"
• Shani in the 3rd makes all of Budha's qualities grow old early.
• He experiences delays in life.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• He listens to sad songs.
• Shani in the 3rd gives the thyroid problem: under-thyroid, an underactive thyroid. And because of this you will see delay in pregnancy.

Younger siblings

• Born under Shani's delay: the younger sibling is born late.
• The younger sibling's eyes are sunken (dhansi hui).
• With the younger siblings, either you are abusing them, or you are hearing abuse from them.

The hands

• Look at the hands: the fingers become thin, completely sunken and hollowed (dhansa dhansa).
• But he does a lot of work with his hands. He works very, very hard by hand. There is magic in his hands: he can wash a huge amount of utensils, he can cook for a lot of people.

Hobbies

• He stays a workaholic. He always keeps studying, reading, writing, working. His hobby is also his work.
• There are some people who say in the office, "I enjoy only working; I don't want anything else." That is exactly the workaholic situation.
• Regular travel for work.

Reading, response and driving

• The intellectual capability stays good, and slowly he becomes very mature.
• Book reading is slow, and he feels very sleepy in it: he regularly falls asleep at study time.
• The response is slow.
• He drives very slowly.

Teaching and writing

• He teaches, but with a lot of pressure.
• He takes a lot of pressure in homework, in writing, in making notes. He delays a lot, and he writes a lot.
• The writing speed stays slow. But like Shani, he keeps working very hard.

Sadhana

• Such a person either becomes siddha (accomplished) in sadhana, or...

Budha is, normally, the lord of this very 3rd house, so here he sits in his own house. Budha in the 3rd gives good results. It is always very good.

Neighbours and surroundings

• Plenty of children around you, a ranglok.
• An academy, a school, a yoga class, a park. All the hobby things you can do, you will find around you.
• If this Budha is with Shani, you will also find an anathalaya (orphanage) nearby.

How the mind works

• The processing unit is very good. The subconscious space is also very good, and very active.
• Great, brilliant debate skills.
• He is a catalyst. Nobody asks about him, yet he is always getting other people's work done.

Voice, throat and thyroid

• The lungs and the vocal cord are very good.
• He writes very well.
• The thyroid gland is very good. No difficulty there.

Younger siblings

• Generally you see three siblings: three younger brothers and sisters. These days, of course, the times are different.
• The younger siblings are quite good.

Hobbies

• He loves writing, singing and roaming.
• He loves trying multiple hobbies. He tries everything in himself. In his hobbies you will see sushil (well-mannered, cultured) things.

Reading, response and driving

• Very good at book reading. The intellectual capability is good, the response is good, the driving is good.
• He loves travelling.