Houses or Bhavas
Besides Nakshatra Significations, Astrology is about the houses / bhavas.Â
A planet gives its results based on the bhava / house it owns, conjunct with. Below are the significations of each house.Â
House / Bhava Significations
Lagna
Self:
(1) Body, (2) Appearance, (3) Fame, (4) Strength, (5) Honour, (6) Knowledge, (7) Wealth, (8) Livelihood, (9) Unhappiness, (10) Peace, (11) Limbs, (12) Ability to do work, (13) Longevity, (14) Self-respect, (15) Nature to insult and to avenge, (16) Dreams, (17) Happiness, (18) Sleep, (19) Age, (20) Political life, (21) Stigma, (22) Endeavouring to preserve live-stock, (23) Hair, (24) Wisdom, (25) Old age, (26) Defamation from one’s own kinsmen or persons of the same caste, (27) Dignity, (28) Loss of decency, (29) Birth place, (30) Freedom from ill health, (31) Gambling for others, (32) Skin, (33) Nature to renounce.
2nd
Family:
(1) Speech, (2) Wealth, (3) Family, (4) Determination or control, (5) Eyes, (6) Efforts to acquire money, (7) Splendour or grace, (8) Fine silver, (9) Tongue, (10) Pearl, (11) Humility, (12) Firmness or steadiness of mind, (13) Clothes, (14) Artificial products, (15) Great eloquence, (16) Generous or charitable nature, (17) Helping others, (18) Faith in the sacred texts, (19) Diamond, copper and precious stones, (20) Enjoyment of pleasures, (21) Maintaining others, (22) Close follower or neighbour, (23) Friends, (24) Nose, (25) Sale and purchase, (26) Corn, (27) Truth and falsehood, (28) Soft speech, (29) Gold, (30) Nails, (31) Powerful or prosperous living, (32) Following the rules of going and arriving, (33) Miserliness in giving money.
3rd House
Siblings:
(1) Courage, (2) Brothers, (3) Valour, (4) Ears, (5) Feet, (6) Road, (7) Soldier, (8) Power, (9) Friends, (10) Ornaments, (11) Mental instability, (12) Dream, (13) Pilgrimages, (14) Wandering, (15) Strength, (16) Education, (17) Partitioning of inheritance, (18) Descent from a good family, (19) Maid servants, (20) Land or place, (21) Causing sorrow, (22) Taking clean food and the like, (23) Servants, (24) Performing personal religious duties, (25) Physical growth or development, (26) The part of the hand between the thumb and the index finger, (27) Good qualities, (28) Great undertakings, (29) Small good vehicles or short good journeys, (30) Abode of the gods, (31) Pastime or hobby, (32) Throat, (33) Profits, (34) Near relations, (35) War, (36) Ability or fitness.
4th House
Mother:
(1) Education, (2) National or governmental / public work, (3) House, (4) Travels, (5) Vehicles drawn by men, boats and similar conveyances, (6) Oil-bath, (7) Mother, (8) Relatives, (9) Friends, (10) Caste, (11) Clothes, (12) Small well, (13) Drink, (14) Milk, (15) Spices or perfumes, (16) One having happiness, (17) A good name, (18) Miraculously efficient medicine, (19) Faith or trust, (20) False allegations, (21) Mandapa or auspicious pavilion, (22) Victory, (23) Works that give sorrow or suffering, (24) Agriculture, (25) Land, (26) Garden or pleasurable place, (27) Digging tanks and wells, (28) The several sacred installations, (29) Relatives on the mother's side, (30) Pure or steady intellect, (31) Father, (32) Wife, (33) Securing and keeping safe one’s earnings, (34) Palace, (35) Sculpture, (36) Entering into one’s own new house, (37) Character, (38) Loss of one’s house, (39) Paternal property, (40) Food like that of the gods, (41) Art of giving mentally clues to the places where stolen property is hidden, (42) Ant-hill, (43) Developing or contributing to the extensive spread of the Vedic texts and Shastras, (44) Buffaloes, cows, bulls, horses, and elephants in an intoxicated state, (45) Abundance of crops from wet lands, (46) Wealth.
5th House
Children:
(1) Children, (2) Virtuous deeds of the father, (3) King, (4) Minister, (5) Good character, (6) Sculpture, (7) Mind, (8) Education, (9) Pregnancy, (10) Discretion, (11) Umbrella, (12) Listening to or spreading good stories, (13) Auspicious documents or parchments, (14) Clothes, (15) Employing great prayogas or mantras for achieving varied desired ends, (16) Paternal property, (17) Foresightedness, (18) Wealth and prosperity acquired through the wife or her relatives, (19) Affairs with courtesans or loose women, (20) Profundity or seriousness, (21) Firmness, (22) Secrets, (23) Humility, (24) Good reporting of news, (25) Welfare, (26) Friendship, (27) Composition of kavyas and prabandhas, (28) Undertaking some good work, (29) Stomach, (30) Mantra, (31) Upasana or worship with penance, (32) Splendour which is graceful and pleasing, (33) Distributing food, (34) Discrimination between virtue and vice, (35) Performing the japa of mantras, (36) Wisdom, (37) Deep thought, (38) Means of earning money, (39) Having the instrumental music of mridanga and the like that give delight, (40) Scholarship in literature, (41) Acquisition of the hereditary post of a minister.
6th House
Servitude:
(1) Diseases, (2) Obstacles, (3) Fighting in war, (4) Maternal uncle, (5) Phlegm, (6) Tumor, (7) Cruel or fierce activities, (8) Madness, (9) Smallpox, (10) Foes and enmity, (11) Miserliness, (12) Ill-health, (13) Venereal boils, (14) Boiled rice, (15) Heavy breathing, (16) Debts, (17) Slanders, (18) Delight of the foes, (19) Tuberculosis, (20) Healed constitution, (21) Wounds, (22) Mental agony or worry, (23) Many intense worries, (24) Hated by many, (25) Frequent diseases of the eyes, (26) Receiving alms, (27) Untimely food, (28) Fall or loss or destruction brought about by foes who are collaterals, (29) Profits, (30) Wearisomeness, (31) Poison, (32) Peptic or duodenal ulcer, (33) Fetters, (34) Protecting one’s own fame, (35) Urinary ailment, (36) Dysentery, (37) Six flavours (tastes in food like hot, sweet, bitter etc.), (38) Reproach, (39) Sorrows from servants and theft, (40) Imprisonment, (41) Quarrels from brothers and others.
7th House
Wife:
(1) Marriage, (2) Loose sex life, (3) Victory in love or passion, (4) Hatred of a loose woman, (5) Deviation from the right or proper path, (6) Having perfumes, music and flowers, (7) Delicious food, drinks and the like, (8) Chewing betal leaves (tambula), (9) Break in travels, (10) Curd, (11) Loss of memory, (12) Possessing clothes and the like, (13) Semen, (14) Husband's (or wife's) purity, (15) A pair of wives, (16) Generative organ, (17) Urinary track, (18) Anus, (19) Commerce or trade, (20) Milk, (21) Sweet or pleasant mansion, (22) Food with cereals and ghee, (23) Charities, (24) Valour, (25) Destruction of enemies, (26) Victory, (27) Acquisition of money that is kept at a different or distant place, (28) Arguments, (29) Sexual union, (30) Adopted son, (31) Preparations with ghee, (32) Own place, (33) Foreign or distant place, (34) Wife (or husband), (35) All secret sex affairs, (36) Theft.
8th House
Transformations:
(1) Longevity, (2) Happiness, (3) Disgrace or defeat, (4) Money coming from the death of someone as in insurance or from a dead distant relative, (5) Afflicted face, (6) Worry about or arising from death, (7) Absence of quarrels, (8) Sorrow from an ailment of meha, (9) Worries arising from brother, enemy, wife (or husband), (10) The ‘fortress of the enemy, (11) Misery or worry, (12) Idleness, (13) Fear of punishment from the government, (14) Loss of money, (15) Debts, (16) Receiving the money of others out of ignorance, (17) Long awaited money, (18) The arrival of a wicked person, (19) Sin, (20) Killing a live being, (21) Loss of a limb, (22) Capital punishment, (23) Terrifying sorrows, (24) A story that disturbs the mental peace, (25) Series of afflictions, (26) Attempting to do highly cruel acts, (27) Battle, (28) Utmost mental anguish.
9th House
Father:
(1) Charity, (2) Virtuous acts, (3) Pilgrimages, (4) Penance, (5) Respectful devotion and service to the teachers and other elders, (6) Purity of mind, (7) Worship of the gods, (8) Effort to learn, (9) Splendour, (10) Travel or conveyance, (11) Fortune or prosperity, (12) Polity, (13) Valour, (14) Listening to or spreading good stories, (15) Travels, (16) Worshipping Shiva linga by pouring water, (17) Nourishment, (18) Coming into contact with the virtuous, (19) Auspiciousness, (20) Paternal property, (21) Sons and daughters, (22) Eight forms of wealth, (23) Horses, elephants, and buffaloes, (24) Coronation, (25) Temple, (26) Establishing or consecrating Brahma, or firmly securing the Brahmanic faith, (27) Vedic rituals and sacrifices, (28) Circulation or distribution of money.
10th House
Career:
(1) Commerce, (2) Honour from the ruler, (3) Riding on a horse, (4) Wrestling, (5) Work of or in the Government, (6) Service, (7) Agriculture, (8) Doctoring, (9) Fame, (10) Buried or hidden treasure, (11) Sacrifices and the like, (12) Pre-eminence or the position of the best merchant, (13) Teachers, (14) Religious yantras or symbolic diagrams, (15) Chanting of sacred spells or mantras, (16) Mother, (17) Wide spread or extensive religious merit, (18) Medicine, (19) Thighs, (20) Gods, (21) Acquisition of the full power of a mantra, (22) Prosperity, (23) Adopted son, (24) Lordship, (25) Right path, (26) Good living with self-respect, (27) Honour, (28) A prince, (29) Fame, (30) Expert teaching ability and the like, (31) Authority using a seal, (32) Influence, self-control, and (33) A mind that gives orders to be obeyed.
11th House
Gains:
(1) Gains in all possible ways, (2) Evil desires, (3) All forms of income, (4) Dependence on others, (5) Elder brother, (6) Paternal uncle, (7) Worship of the gods, (8) Worship of the sattvic deities, (9) Education, (10) Great skill in earning gold and money, (11) Ancestral property, (12) Knee, (13) Special position, (14) Love of or fondness for ornaments and precious stones, (15) Wealth, (16) Lost wealth, (17) Seeking to possess ornaments made of gold for the sake of arts and women, (18) Wisdom, (19) Position of a minister, (20) Brother of the wife, (21) Profits, (22) Rise of fortune, (23) Achieving the desired goal, (24) Easy or good returns, (25) Cooking, (26) Desires, (27) Longevity of mother, (28) Ears, (29) Shanks, and (30) Skill in the art of painting.
12th House
Losses:
(1) Disturbed sleep, (2) Mental worry or anguish, (3) The two feet, (4) Fear from foes, (5) Imprisonment, (6) Freedom from suffering, (7) Relief from debts, (8) Elephants and horses, (9) Paternal property, (10) Enemy, (11) Ascent into heaven, (12) Left eye, (13) Hated by the public, (14) Crippled limbs, (15) Loose sex life, (16) Breakdown of marriage, (17) Giving up the sleeping bed, (18) Loss of power or authority, (19) Kept in chains in an enemy's house, (20) Mental imbalance, (21) Miserable condition, (22) Harm, (23) Wounded by the thought of the loss of happiness of the father and brothers, (24) Disputes, (25) Anger, (26) Physical ailment, (27) Death, (28) Migrating to a different place, (29) Expenditure of all kinds, (30) Loss of wife or husband.