Dreams & Horoscopes

------------------------------------ Table A: House meanings

Note: I have deliberately omitted many of meanings of the houses that are shared by both Vedic and Western astrology, such as the 7th house indicating marriage and the 5th house indicating children. (Note that there is some variation about where to place various themes among Jyotishis.)

First House: You. Your vital force and longevity. Your personality, body, health, complexion, and appearance. Your ability to cope with life’s challenges. How your life works out. Fame and likeability. Pragmatic, innate intelligence. The most important house by far (including its ruler, see below).

Second House: Your mouth, eating and drinking. Speaking truth or lies, sweet or harsh voice tones. Singing and eloquence. Your accumulated wealth or lack thereof, jewels, and other movable assets you accumulate. Your family life (and family members). The eyes and sight. Traditional knowledge (like scriptures).

Third House: Your prowess, courage, valor, personal skills, and efforts. Your arms and all manual activity including writing, giving massages, artistic expression. Younger siblings and your relationship with them. Hearing. Signing contracts. Moving (being 12th from the 4th, it represents loss of home).

Fourth House: Your car (or elephants!). Your peace of mind, comfort, and happiness. Immovable property and the land (and cattle) that you own. Private affairs. Ancestral property. Education. The heart. Water.

Fifth House: Your good karma from past lives. Your abstract mind, discernment, and intelligence. Your ability to advise and counsel. Memory. Foreknowledge. Mantra and spiritual practices. Stomach and intestines. Fertility and pregnancy.

Sixth House: Your ability (or lack thereof) to overcome both illness and enemies. The strength of your enemies and illnesses. Servants. Onset of illnesses. Acute illnesses, wounds, and losses. Anxiety and anguish. Theft. Accidents. Family feuds.

Seventh House: Your influence and reputation in foreign lands. Your sexual attractiveness, compatibility, and enjoyment. Adultery. Moral conduct. Litigation. The quality of and number of your spouses.

Eighth House: Life span. Obstacles, strife, and delays in your life. Wandering aimlessly. Chronic and genetic illnesses and large losses. Disgrace and scandal. Black magic. Manipulation and intrigue. Sudden catastrophic events.

Ninth House: Your father and his property. Your fortune. Preceptors. Communication with spirits, visions, and intuition. Teaching. Respect for elders. Purity of mind. Initiations. Charity and spiritual deeds. Spiritual renunciation.

Tenth House: Honor, public esteem, and disgrace. Success and great achievements. Good and bad deeds. Appointments and promotions. Rank and position. The sky and sky professions (e.g. astronomer and astrologer).

Eleventh House: Income, easy money, things that come to you without much effort. Older siblings. Fulfillment of desires. Luxuries. Relief from duress and illness. Honors and commendations.

Twelfth House: Moksha (enlightenment), afterlife, pleasures of the bed, distant travel and residing in foreign lands, pilgrimages, charity and donations, all losses, expenditures, addictions, and extravagances, convalescence.

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